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Pope Francis and Old Joe Biden are two of the towering figures of our times, and that says more about our times than it does about them. The two actually have a lot in common. Both are Roman Catholics, although both have sparked considerable speculation as to whether they are really believers at all. Both have a tendency to say outrageous things that are left to their handlers to do their best to “clarify.” And both are about as far to the left as it is possible to go, as the pontiff affirmed again Sunday with the latest guilt trip he attempted to bestow upon those who don’t think the United States should have open borders.
Appearing on “60 Minutes,” the pope claimed that “migration is something that makes a country grow,” and really, there’s no arguing with that. Just look at how the ranks of criminals, people on welfare, and the homeless have grown since Old Joe and his henchmen decided to erase the Southern border. Above all, look at how the ranks of Democrat voters have grown, and that’s what it has been all about.
As far as Pope Frank was concerned, however, opposition to open borders was just — you guessed it! — bigotry against the new arrivals. He recalled what Americans said in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries about the new migrants of the day: “They say that you Irish migrated and brought the whiskey, and that the Italians migrated and brought the mafia. Migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.”
Stop it, Your Holiness, I’m gonna weep. But he has said worse. Back in April 2022, he stated that it was really all about — you guessed it again! — racism. “It is true,” the pope said, “refugees are subdivided. There’s first class, second class, skin color, [if] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed. We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad.”
On Sunday, the pope referred to the accusations of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) against Annunciation House, a Roman Catholic charity where migrants arriving across what used to be the border can stay for a while before they move into our major cities and the fun really begins. Paxton accused Annunciation House of “alien harboring, human smuggling, and operating a stash house.”
These charges appalled the pope, who responded, “That is madness. Sheer madness.” And it wasn’t just that he didn’t like what was being said about Annunciation House. Pope Francis made it clear that he didn’t like any criticism of open borders: “To close the border and leave them there, that is madness.”
For the U.S. to have a secure Southern border would, apparently, be un-Christian. “The migrant has to be received,” he proclaimed. “Thereafter, you see how you are going to deal with him. Maybe you have to send him back, I don’t know, but each case ought to be considered humanely.” Well, of course. That much was obvious already. But does the United States really have an obligation to welcome the entire world?
It looks like it. Francis has consistently framed the acceptance of mass migration policies, with no regard for the cultural identity or integrity, much less the security, of the host nation, as a core aspect of the Christian commitment. In his 2018 apostolic exhortation “Gaudete et Exsultate” (Rejoice and Exult), he asked rhetorically whether welcoming migrants was “exactly what Jesus demands of us, when he tells us that in welcoming the stranger we welcome him (cf. Mt 25:35)? Saint Benedict did so readily, and though it might have ‘complicated’ the life of his monks, he ordered that all guests who knocked at the monastery door be welcomed ‘like Christ,’ with a gesture of veneration; the poor and pilgrims were to be met with ‘the greatest care and solicitude.’”
Guests at a monastery are one thing. Millions of illegal arrivals, among whom are an unknown number of criminals and terrorists, are quite another. The pope cannot conceive of the possibility that Americans want a secure Southern border because they want economic and physical security for themselves and their loved ones, and racism and bigotry have nothing to do with it. He cannot even consider the idea that some deeply committed Christians, including Roman Catholics, might not equate the obligation to welcome the stranger with any movement to weaken the nation, dilute its national character, and manipulate its political scene. As far as the Pope is concerned, if we oppose open borders, we are racists, and racists are bad. That’s the depth of this man’s analysis.
The Roman Catholic doctrine of ‘magisterium authority’ of professional clergy over congregants is an insult to intelligence. That might work in a nation of subservient illiterates, but not where I live.
… and G-d gave us free to tell apostate “professional clergy” to pound sand.
Of all those who have sat in the chair of St. Peter, Francis is the one who has invented his own theology. He ridicules Church tradition and vilifies traditionalists while espousing apostasy and heresy. He may be perfect for the Vatican 2 Church, and organization that creates a wasteland and calls it progress.
Some traditions are bad. That was Jesus’ point. Who does Frank serve?
You asked, ” Who does Frank serve?
INSIDE THE POPE’S REPTILIAN AUDIENCE HALL IN VATICAN CITY
https://newagora.ca/inside-popes-reptilian-audience-hall-vatican-city/
How about Vatican City open its borders to all immigrants – they have a 5hit ton of money and can afford housing and feeding them for all of Italy???
Oh yeah, rules for thee and not for me.
And funny, the US seems to have the most pressure applied by Pope Frank to open our borders to all manner of the worst kind of people coming in. Just wait, a serious internal attack on this country is just a matter of time in happening.
This is what you get when you go all Commie.
Any guy surrounded by a concrete wall and an elite Swiss guard has no right to talk about borderless society.
The Catholic church has indeed become apostasy. They represent none of the teachings of Jesus Christ, the True Lord and Savior. They honor rituals, not Godly teachings. The One World Church is going to produce the False Prophet who is the Right Hand man to the Antichrist through the False Religion.
Ritualism is the church of the dead.
Every religion has ritual. Ritual is not necessarily dead or bad.
It’s an aphorism. Jesus brought the new, (LIVING) covenant and God’s eternal Kingdom. We must always be about reformING and conformING. Consider a crucifix – the center of Roman Catholic worship. Jesus appears DEAD in the crucifix. Jesus brought LIFE eternal.
“Ritualism” is the church of the dead – not ritual.
Jesus upheld the entire Old Testament as Holy Writ. Which means that He approved of the expectation that, whilst Israel might welcome peaceable Gentiles, they were required to conform to Israel’s laws. And His encounter with the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:22-26), in which He needed to assess whether her daughter would be raised in a sufficiently wholesome environment to avoid worse demonisation (Mt 12:43-45), because Canaanites were noted for occult involvement, makes it very clear that He was not a multi-culturalist.
Jesus upheld the Scriptures without qualification. He did not expect gentiles to conform to the laws of the covenants with Israel, but was introducing the covenant based upon faith – the faith that justified Abraham, who believed God and it was reckoned / accounted to him as righteousness.
https://biblehub.com/genesis/15-6.htm
Jesus did not need to assess the sufficiency of anyone’s environment. He is God. Matthew 15 is a glimpse into the fulfillment of the promises of blessing to all the nations who would share the faith of Abraham. Jesus first REJECTED her because He came FIRST to the Jews. When she persisted, Jesus honored her faith and rescued her daughter.
Jesus was and is a multiculturalist in the sense that all nations will be in His kingdom, but in that kingdom, there will be unity of mind, heart and faith. Rather than causing tension and lack of social trust, heavenly multiculturalism will reveal the many varied ways God was pleased to create those who worship Him in unity and truth.
True, but the RCC remains the church of the dead.
Pope Frank should open up the gates of the Vatican for the migrants.
He also should debate intelligently, giving specifics/examples. He says it’s “madness” and that the “migrant” must be accepted — just name-calling and authoritarian impulses, but no reasoning for why we should open the border when the country’s founding documents have protecting our borders as one of the main reasons for the federal government. So toss the Constitution and listen to the Pope — who can’t explain WHY we should do what he recommends to others, but does not follow himself? No.
Francis is the first pope in recent history who has achieved a less-than-zero respect from a growing number of Catholics.
Somewhat like Martin Luther, you mean. *smile*
“his holiness” equates Christ’s commands to Christians and the church to national policy. Jesus was speaking to His followers, not countries.
If Francis had a true Christian conscience, he would be calling out those who are attempting pogroms against the Jews and crying for a Jewish genocide.
Liberation Theology (LT), a mostly Humanist doctrine, started in South America during the turbulent 1950s as an attempt to interpret Scripture through the plight of the poor, and as a theological model became mired in Marxist revolutionary dogma and causes. After all, its emphasis focused upon Marxism’s redistribution of wealth and property allowing poor peasant farmers and workers there to share in the wealth of the colonial elites, and thus upgrade their status in life. As a theology, LT has very strong Roman Catholic roots.
Liberation Theology was bolstered at the 1968 Second Latin American Bishops Conference which met in Medellin Columbia and as a theological model was practiced by bishops and priests in S.A. until the 1980s, when the Catholic hierarchy from Pope John Paul on down criticized and put a stop to it, due to liberation theologians actually supporting violent revolutions and outright Marxist class struggles. It appears that Francis never got the message!
Pope Stalin II is an absolute, in the word of the leftist jihadis, NAKBA.
You can have a white society or you can have White Guilt. You cannot have both.
What was it thy said about False Prophets?
. FTA~~Both are Roman Catholics,…LOL…:-)))))))
They are about as Catholic is Hitler was.
Both will burn…..BOth are amoral…both need to be replaced…….
Send a couple thousand unvetted illegal aliens to the Vatican. Let frank practice what he preaches. And what’s with those big assed walls surrounding Vatican City?