The Catholic Church recognizes a nation's right to protect its borders for the common good of its citizens, which naturally means having recourse to deportation for those who reside there illegaly.
Pope Francis however has muddied the water by claiming such deportations are a violation of human dignity, despite the fact his own Vatican severely punishes those who enter it illegaly.
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Pope Francis recently attacked J.D. Vance’s comments on the “ordo amoris”, translated from Latin to mean “order of love”.
This refers to the justice we owe first to those closest to us, fulfilling their rights before we bestow alms and charity on those further away from us.
Rebuking Vance's position, Pope Francis said “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.”
However, as St. Paul tells us, “If any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel” (1 Timothy 5:8).
St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, and other prominent saints and Doctors of the Church have interpreted this verse the same way as described above, as a responsibility to love those closest to us first, which is how Vance interpreted it.
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St. John, too, tells us, “If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?” (John 4:20).
How can we say we love our brothers – our countrymen, whom we see around us everyday – if we deprive them of what we owe them, and give it instead to those we don’t see, on the other side of the world?
Pope Francis talks about how the true “ordo amoris” must be understood in light of the parable of the Good Samaritan. He’s right, but is applying it incorrectly.
The Good Samaritan saw the man on the way to Jericho and helped him in spite of their national rivalries. He didn’t start telling the Jews they need to import hundereds of thousands of Samaritans into Jerusalem. Christ’s parable didn’t say the Samaritan depived his own children of what he owed them in order to help this man.
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Furthermore, Pope Francis even goes so far as to cite a document from Pius XII; yet this exact document explicitly states that while we have duties to help migrants and especially genuine refugees, this is only provided “that the public wealth, considered very carefully, does not forbid this.”
As Pope Francis himself is well aware, many Americans are living in poverty. Even Americans who are not in obvious, abject poverty are still depived of what Catholic Social Teaching says are their rights – rights to a salary sufficient to support a family, to own property, to live decently rather than in squalor, to eat proper food rather than unhealthy fast food, and so on.
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Pope Francis is unfortunately condemning Trump and Vance for trying to balance the books, eradicate crime and fix social problems in their own nation. He is saying that they should instead give what they owe Americans to people from other nations, which is directly contrary to the idea of ordo amoris held up by centuries of Church teaching.
Unchecked migration, which the pope seems to be advocating, is one of the most cherished ideas of globalist ideology. It allows the market to be flooded with cheap labor, driving down wages to even more unjst levels and destroying the individual characters of the nations.
Pope Francis' denial of Catholic social teaching works towards blending the people of the world into a great big mix, inadvertently turning everyone into atomised economic units. Then, we can all be better exploited by big businesses and more controlled by a satanic Deep State which hates God and his Christ.
The Church, in contrast, recognizes the sovereignty of nations and their duty to uphold the common good of their citizens.
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We must take a stand to defend authentic Church teaching. Pope Francis, in his striving after a globalist agenda, has rejected it in his comments on Trump’s immigration policies. We owe our charity to our neighbors first.
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