I dissented from the Pope's comments myself. But stripping away the tax exemption, as retribution, is anti speech. The nexus between church and state and speech is a difficult one. But for me, let a thousand flowers bloom, if only to point out the flaws of some. In any event, my vague impression of some of the Biblical comments, is that they were rife with public policy political implications. There is no inseperable wall between the sacred and the secular on this mortal coil, and cannot be. It is not what the human experience is about. To get it right, is more complex, and requires more heavy lifting, and we have been struggling with that issue for centuries. But we have it more right on the fruited plain, than in most of history, and in most places. As I say, I'm an optimist.
“But stripping away the tax exemption, as retribution, is anti speech.”
Ours is a nation of laws, I did not write them but they are there. Saying that stripping away the tax exemption of any entity that violated the law that was written for the tax exempt status is like the people who are violating our laws by crossing the borders, and in turn we as a nation want to enforce our law against the illegal crossing being called a nation of racist by those who have violated our laws makes about as much sense as your argument that enforcing our laws are in some way a retribution.
If we as a nation were to begin to check the legal status of those at the marches, and when finding them to be in violation of our law against illegal immigration and then enforcing that law would be a violation of their right to free speech would be just as baseless as you saying that enforcing the law would be an act of anti speech against an entity that violated the law.