Lux Lucet

But despite the Church-State’s best efforts, some truth does manage to leak out to the public.  One example of this is from Trump Administration official Stephen K. Bannon’s comments to The Washington Post in September 2017, shortly after he resigned from the Trump White House.  The Washington Post reported the following in an article dated September 7, 2017, titled “Bannon: Catholic Church needs ‘illegal aliens to fill the churches,’”[1]:

Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, lashed out at leaders of the Catholic Church in the United States who condemned the president’s recent decision to phase out an Obama-era program that has allowed nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children to gain temporary legal status.

Bannon, who is Catholic, accused the church of wanting a steady flow of illegal immigrants coming into the country to fill its church pews and make money.

“Unable to really come to grips with the problems in the Church, they need illegal aliens, they need illegal aliens to fill the churches,” Bannon said in an interview with Charlie Rose that will air on “60 Minutes” on CBS on Sunday. “It’s obvious on the face of it.”

Bannon added: “They have an economic interest. They have an economic interest in unlimited immigration, unlimited illegal immigration.”

The Washington Post, September 7, 2017.

A Newsmax piece dated June 17, 2018[2] reports Bannon making a similar statement,

“The pope, more than anybody else, has driven the migrant crisis in Europe,” declared Bannon, who is Catholic. “The Catholic church. I have gone after [New York Archbishop] Cardinal [Timothy] Dolan. The Catholic church is one of the worst instigators of this open borders policy.”

Newmax, June 17, 2018.

Steve Bannon is not the only well-known Roman Catholic to criticize the Church-States for its destructive immigration practices.  Noted conservative author Michelle Malkin was sharply critical of Rome in her book Open Borders Inc. Who’s Funding America’s Destruction?. (Malkin, 2019) In a chapter titled “Unholy Alliance: The Pope, Catholic Bishops, and Amnesty Profiteers,” Malkin exposes the immigration hypocrisy of Pope Francis and the American Catholic Church’s grifting off the taxpayer.  For example, Malkin notes Pope Francis’ remarks following his appearance in Juarez, Mexico – Juarez lies directly across the Rio Grande from El Paso, TX, about which I will have more to say below.  She reports how Pope Francis famously threw shade at then-candidate Donald Trump for wanting to build a wall along the U.S./Mexico border and quotes the Pope saying, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be located, and not building bridges, is not a Christian.  This is not in the gospel, the Pope told journalists who asked his opinion on Trump’s proposals to halt illegal immigration.” (Malkin, 2019) But this same Pope Francis who so unctuously lectures the nations of the West on their duty to take in every migrant that comes their way, himself does not practice what he preaches.  Reports Malkin,

Pope Francis further counsels every other sovereign nation to implement a program of open-ended hospitality for “welcoming the stranger” in the spirit of Saint Benedict.  To date, however, the pontiff has not instituted such a policy in his own nation-state and thrown open the gates of Vatican City to any and all strangers seeking refuge…Pope Francis himself – the loudest preacher of “welcoming the stranger” – has yet to resettle a single refugee inside the walls of the Vatican. A few families brought by the pope to Rome from a Greek detention center for a widely disseminated photo op in 2016 were dumped in the community of Sant’Egidio outside the Vatican walls and are given living expenses “every now and then.” 

Malkin, 86.

In my own research, I have found over two dozen Catholic organizations openly working to assist the breaking of American immigration law.  One of the most egregious examples in this regard is Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV).  Headed by a nun named Norma Pimentel, this organization has recently attracted scrutiny from two outside groups, Judicial Watch and CatholicVote Civic Action, that have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit requesting all communications between the U.S Customs and Border Patrol and, among others, CCRGV and Sister Norma Pimentel in her capacity as the Executive Director of CCRGV. In classic cry bully fashion, the Jesuit publication America published an article “Two nuns have a message for Catholics angry about their ministry to immigrants: ‘We don’t have any intention of stopping.’”[3]  The article goes on to complain about how the “sisters” have been receiving harassing phone calls as a result of the FOIA lawsuit but will persevere in doing what they’ve been doing all along.  Now as a Christian, I don’t advocate making harassing phone calls to people – that is, if there really were any harassing phone calls; after all, we’re dealing with the Jesuits here – but these nuns and CCRGV are not the victims.  They are the perpetrators, guilty of working to subvert American immigration law for the benefit of the Roman Church-State and to the harm of the American people. 

To give you some sense of how grossly inappropriate CCRGV’s activities are, it was reported in August 2021 – this was while the so-called “pandemic” was raging, many Americans were dealing with job losses due to Covid lockdowns and the hated mask mandates, and Joe Biden was lecturing Americans who refused to take the experimental Covid shot – that CCRGV was paying to house Covid-19 positive illegal aliens in Weslaco, Texas hotels.  When confronted with this by Bill Melugin of Fox News and asked how many Covid positive migrants CCRGV was housing in local hotels, Pimentel’s response was, “I have been advised not to comment.”[4] 

That answer is really all you need to know about Norma Pimentel and CCRGV.

To drive home how serious things are on America’s southwest border, I’d like to add a personal note from a friend of mine and someone familiar to many who follow the Trinity Foundation, Tim Shaughnessy.

Tim lives in El Paso, Texas, which is in the extreme western tip of the state, right on the Rio Grande, across the border from Juarez, Mexico.  Tim pastors a reformed Baptist church in El Paso that’s been meeting at a local mission and sent me a text message a few weeks back.  It turned out that he received a call on Saturday from a chaplain at the mission telling him that his church wouldn’t be able to use the facility the next day for services because the city was dropping off migrants at the homeless shelter and the place was packed.  As Tim put it to me, “Our city is overwhelmed right now.” 

In another message, Tim told me that one of his firefighter colleagues in El Paso told him that the city is processing 600-1000 people a day and bussing them to Chicago and New York City.  Every day, El Paso is sending 7-9 busses filled with migrants to these destinations and each bus is costing $30,000.

This is madness, and it must stop.

Before moving on to address the economic and political theory that undergirds the disastrous Roman Catholic immigration practice being implemented by the Biden Administration, I first would like to clarify the term Antichrist used in the title of the paper.  When I use the term “Antichrist,” I am using it in the sense as defined historically, if not presently, by the Westminster Confession of Faith.  The original 1647 Westminster Confession had a clear definition of Antichrist found in Chapter 25.6. It reads, “There is no other Head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God.”  

This definition, once known to all reformed believers, has largely been forgotten and relegated to the dustbin of theological history.  To the degree it is remembered, it is generally scorned as nasty and unfair, a bit of embarrassing church history best not mentioned. 

But the identification of the papacy as Antichrist is not some isolated doctrine, but part of a larger school of eschatological thought known as Historicism or the Protestant view of prophetic interpretation.  In the Historicist system, not only is the papacy the Antichrist but the Roman Catholic Church-State is identified with Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.  If the Historicists are right, and I am persuaded that they are, then it is Antichrist and his satanic, false church that are attacking America with their destructive doctrine of immigration.  This makes it all the more imperative to understand and refute the ideas that support the current disastrous immigration practice we see being implemented by Joe  Biden and his handlers in the Church of Rome.[5]  

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[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/07/bannon-catholic-church-needs-illegal-aliens-to-fill-the-churches/ accessed 10/23/2022.

[2] https://www.newsmax.com/politics/bannon-immigration-family-separation-law/2018/06/17/id/866627/ accessed 10/23/2022.

[3] https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2022/02/16/catholic-charities-catholic-vote-migrants-242408 accessed 10/23/2022.

[4] https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1422247796715970562?s=20 accessed 10/23/2022.

[5] Joe Biden has significant Jesuits connections.  The Jesuit publication America ran a story in June 2021 noting that Joe Biden attends Holy Trinity Church, a Jesuit-run parish in Washington D.C.  https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/06/30/joe-biden-communion-holy-trinity-240955, accessed 9/4/2022.  The Jesuit priest Kevin O’Brien spoke at Biden’s inauguration in January 2021.

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