Lux Lucet

As was already noted, the saying is from a speech made during the 1884 presidential campaign.  But what did it refer to?  Just what was “the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion?” 

Here’s the answer.

Dr. Burchard was talking about the Democrats. 

For well over a century now, the Democratic party has been the political home of the RCCS in the United States.  And it shows.

And now that the RCCS has one of its own in the White House, you can expect to see a much closer alignment between the policy goals of the White House and those of the USCCB and the Vatican. 

If you doubt this, please note that Joe Biden’s campaign website openly and approvingly referenced Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, which can be thought of as the Vatican’s version of the Green New Deal.    In 1960, John F. Kennedy would never have dared so openly to reference a papal encyclical.  But in 2020 America, Biden’s doing so passed without so much as a mention or a raised eyebrow. 

My, how far Protestants have fallen in just 60 years.

But without further ado, let us now turn to the main subject of this post, the USCCB’s recent press releases on immigration.  Following the “victory” of their candidate in the 2020 presidential election, both items seem to be a great big spike of the football in the face of the American people.  A victory dance, as it were.

The fist to consider is the following item from 1/20/2021, “USCCB Chairmen Welcome End of Ban Prohibiting Immigrants and Refugees from Certain Muslim Majority and African Countries Entering the United States.”

The article quotes Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s and Bishop Mario Dorsonville’s statement, “We welcome yesterday’s Proclamation, which will help ensure that those fleeing persecution and seeking refuge or seeking to reunify with family in the United States will not be turned away because of what country they are from or what religion they practice.” 

But while the statement goes on to tout how Biden’s act ties in with America’s traditional commitment to the vulnerable and persecuted, it says nothing about how importing large numbers of people whose culture and religion are radically different from our own benefits the American people, nothing, that is, apart from vague references to diversity and prosperity that are the supposed blessings of all refugee resettlement.

Further, the statement says nothing about the cost of the refugee program and fails to tell the American people that each and every one of these refugees will be eligible for the full panoply of the American welfare state.  That’s right.  You the American taxpayer not only get the unalloyed blessing of a huge wave of alien refugees, but you also get to pay for it as well. 

Another thing the statement fails to mention:  the potential windfall that will be realized by Catholic Charities for their part in resettling the refugees in America.  You see, not only do you get to pay for the cost of resettling refugees and picking up their welfare bill, some of that money goes straight to Catholic Charites, which is the largest refugee resettlement agency in America. 

One of Catholic Charities’ fine upstanding refugees was a fellow from Somalia – Somalia was on the list of countries affected by Trump’s travel ban which has now been overturned – named Abdul Razak Ali Artan.  Mr. Artan and his family were resettled by Catholic Charities in Dallas, Texas in June 2014.  Mr. Artan eventually found his way to Columbus, Ohio, where he became a business major at Ohio State. 

On November 28, 2016, Mr. Artan rammed his car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State then began stabbing people with a butcher knife.  An Ohio State police officer shot and killed him.  See the Breitbart News story, “Catholic Charities Resettled Ohio State’s Somali Attacker.” 

Another press release from the USCCB celebrates the Biden administration’s decision to preserve and fortify DACA.  DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – is a program created by an Obama executive order in 2012, which President Trump tried to end but unable to do so as a result of court challenges.  Essentially, DACA allows people who were brought to America illegally as children to remain in the country.  Biden’s hope is to not only allow these non-citizen’s to remain in the country, but to provide them with a pathway to citizenship.  Essentially, it’s another way for the Democrats to import a constituency. 

Given that these people were brought to America as children, one can have some sympathy for them.  But given the history of leftist militancy displayed by DACA advocacy groups, and given that nearly 80% of the DACA recipients are from Mexico, a heavily Roman Catholic country, and about another 10% come from other heavily Roman Catholic countries, one suspects the USCCB’s advocacy for DACA, cloaked as it is in altruistic rhetoric, is really a part of their plan to Romanize America through illegal immigration. 

Worth noting, the USCCB’s DACA release makes no attempt to argue that DACA is good for the American people.  As is nearly always the case with immigration advocates, they write from the perspective that foreigners have a divine right to immigrate, which under no circumstances can be interfered with, regardless of how much damage said immigration does to the receiving country. The cost of immigration, as the USCCB sees it, is simply America’s cross to bear, now and forevermore, world without end, amen.

It’s almost as if the USCCB and the newly installed Biden administration see mass, taxpayer subsidized immigration, migration and refugee resettlement as a tool for subverting America and instituting world government.   

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