USCCB clarifies after birthright citizenship brief stirs controversy

"[T]he brief does not urge the Court to decide the case on the basis of Catholic doctrine."

The U.S. bishops’ conference told its members this week that a legal brief on birthright citizenship did not claim that “that every democratic polity must adopt” a birthright citizenship policy “to satisfy moral standards.”

The clarification came in a March 2 memo issued to bishops, after controversy over a February amicus brief filed by the USCCB in a l…