Press Release

 

The Evangelical Catholic Diocese of the Northwest

Office of the Bishop

11045 South Avenue G

Chicago IL 60617

(P) 773-721-5383

 

www.evcathchurch.org

 

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Please find attached a personal letter from Bishop Wilkowski to Donald Trump dated October 27, 2025 regarding the suspension of SNAP Benefits currently covering over 41 Million Americans

 

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Evangelical Catholic Diocese of the Northwest

 

Office of the Bishop

11045 South Avenue G

Chicago Illinois 60617-6747

773-721-5383

 

 

 

 

October 27, 2025

 

RE: Politics of Starvation and Denial of Social Support Benefits

 

Donald J. Trump

Office of the President

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,

Washington, DC 20500

 

Dear Sir:

 

I am writing this letter as a private citizen and not on behalf of my church community.

 

I am a 71 year old citizen burdened with advancing coronary heart disease and partial blindness resulting from a stroke. My illness is irreversible.

 

I am also dependent upon the SNAP program for survival.

 

Because of the current political machination of the Republican Party, of which you control, all of my benefits and the benefits of 41.7 million other Americans will be suspended on November 1st as we are being held hostage by you and your party of political devotees.

 

In Sacred Scripture, the lesson of Matthew 14:13-21 tells of the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000 when he and his disciples had only five loaves and two fish. Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, Jesus gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve baskets full of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

 

Sir, is there an ethical, moral or humanistic reason why YOU and the Republic Party are embracing an agenda of starvation and genocide aimed at

a segment of the American society which You and the Republican Party are anxious to cull?

 

If I and others are to die due to your agenda could you please give us some justification for our deaths? We victims of your policies deserve to know how the needs of the United States will be advanced by your Project 2025 sponsored genocide.

 

As a person of faith, I have asked God to spare us from your political agenda. In this particular journey in prayer I have come to a deeper understanding of the fears and horrors of the Jewish peoples who were under the Nazi terror in the last century. I sincerely hope that your campaign of genocide will not rack up a body count equal to the Nazis.

 

I am also praying for you.

 

I am praying that you will experience the gift of conversion akin to Saint Paul. The conversion of Saint Paul, also known as Saul, was a pivotal event in Christianity that occurred around A.D. 35 on the road to Damascus. While on his way to arrest Christians, he was struck by a blinding light and heard the voice of Jesus, which led to his dramatic transformation from a persecutor of Christianity to one of its most influential apostles.

 

I am praying that you will be freed from the evils of vengeance and retribution and enabled to embraced the power and hope of the Constitution of the United States and become one of its influential apostles.

 

I invite you to begin your journey of conversion by cancelling the November 1st death warrant and continuing caring for the needs of the 41.7 million.

 

I remain,

 

 

Hopeful in Faith