Posted on 12/17/2018 10:34:39 AM PST by dennisw
The West has no moral obligation to commit suicide. Where is the church in condemning the political corruption that the Pope mentions, so much of it in Catholic Latin American countries?
At this point, until the Church comes clean about why Benedict actually stepped down, I can’t accept anything from the Vatican or their global hierarchy as truth.
Any one honest poor person who applies for entry to the US has a case.OTOH anyone who demands that the US admit and grant voting rights to ten times as many people as the current US population does not wish us well.
We can wish them all well without being willing to allow them to cause us to become like them - which would do little good to any well-intended person.
This actually doesn’t bother me. This is just normal, garden variety religious leader talk. Religious leaders always lobby for the poor, the displaced, etc.
I’ll just ignore him.
This actually doesn’t bother me. This is just normal, garden variety religious leader talk. Religious leaders always lobby for the poor, the displaced, etc.
I’ll just ignore him.
Why did the Vatican reject Assi Bibi’s request for asylum then? Her entire family is in grave danger!
Maybe the Vatican wall is to keep the perverts in.
That Frankie is a real Space Cadet
“What Did Thomas Aquinas Say About Citizenship & Immigration?”
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/07/thomas-aqui
nas-summa-theologica-citizenship-immigration-jerry-salyer.html
“During most of the history of the West, citizenship was understood to be a jealously guarded privilege and honor, not a universal entitlement entailing access to a plethora of welfare benefits. In the Aristotelian scheme, the most legitimate republican form of government is a polity, yet even in said polity, citizenship would be restricted to able-bodied men who bear arms; to have a vote, one would have to be one of those who stands in harm’s way to protect the community. Even in more recent times, with the ascendance of classical liberalism, it was taken for granted that the franchise would be restricted according to a variety of criteria, such as property ownership. While I may not be numbered among the classical liberals, I can see their point here: It is difficult to imagine how we might prevent a large-scale egalitarian democracy from degenerating into a “race to the bottom,” whereby a demagogic system confiscates middle-class wealth to fund bread and circuses.”
Those who find this last claim objectionable are advised to look to Summa Theologica I – II, Q. 105, Art. 3, wherein St. Thomas Aquinas discusses citizenship by way of ancient Israel. Under the Law, says Aquinas, whenever foreigners wished to be admitted into complete fellowship with the Israelites, “a certain order was observed:”
The reason for this was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.’
See the link for the entire article.
WHEN 100,000 illegals are inside the Vatican walls for the duration until THEY DIE, then I might believe this Pope. I think he is NOT a very good Pope.
How many can you put up in the Vatican, Frank?
Catholics have become useless. Just left wing libs and gays.
The Pope has it wrong, I think. The migrants are owed a responsibility from their home countries. The U.S. can’t support the whole world because other country’s leaders have abdicated their responsibilities in some cases for many years.
As soon as the Vatican opens its doors we can talk.
All of the liberals who pushed independence/self-determination for colonized peoples should admit their errors and concede that independence failed; the non-whites who revolted/rebelled against white rule are now storming the gates to have whites “administer” them again.
The Pope should simply state publicly that colonization should be re-instituted; then whites can deal with these hordes in their own homelands. Now we have the worst of both worlds; we provide everything for them “over there”, and we provide everything for them here.
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