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 illegally.
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.
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 hundreds of thousands of Samaritans into Jerusalem. Christ’s parable didn’t say the Samaritan deprived his own children of what he owed them in order to help this man.
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 deprived 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.
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.
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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PETITION TO
President Donald Trump
We, the undersigned, would like to extend a clarification of Catholic Church teaching on immigration. Pope Francis’ recent comments in response to Vice President J.D. Vance were in violation of authentic Catholic social teaching.
Mr. Vance correctly asserted the Church’s teaching of ordo amoris, namely, that we owe charity to those closest to us first and foremost before we are able to extend it to those further away.
At present, your immigration policies seem to uphold this common sense teaching that focuses on serving the common good of Americans and addressing the problems at hand in our own country.
We are grateful for your support and courageous leadership of the United States of America. We will be praying that you choose what is best for our country and the world.
Thank you.
