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When reading Roman Catholic welfare migration propaganda, you won’t get very far before you encounter the “Holy Family’s flight into Egypt” argument.  As has been noted in this space many times – see here for starters – Rome has built an entire doctrine of migration on the account found in Matthew chapter 2 of Joseph being warned by an angel in a dream to take his family to Egypt to escape the persecution of Herod. This inapt attempt to associate modern mass welfare migration with the flight to Egypt began in earnest with the publication of Pope Pius XII’s (aka Hitler’s Pope) 1952 Apostolic Constitution Exsul Familia Nazarethana (EFN).     

EFN seems plausible on the surface in that that Joseph and his family were truly refugees in any fair definition of that term.  But the flight to Egypt, their stay there, and return to Judea do not support Rome’s calls for the sort of migration we see today where migrants have a “right” to migrate and the citizens of host nations have a concomitant “obligation” to pay for their own dispossession by the infinite waves of welfare migrant hordes who cannot be refused according to Church teaching.   

According to Pope Francis, “persecutions, wars, atmospheric phenomena, and extreme poverty are some of the main causes of forces migrations today. “

As to persecution, no doubt there are persecuted individuals who need to flee their homeland.  But persecution gives no one a claim on another’s property as the Pope believes. 

Francis mentions “atmospheric phenomena.”  I’m not sure exactly what is meant by this odd turn of phrase but given that Francis has pushed the “climate migration” hoax for years, I assume it’s another way of saying that people are forced to flee their homelands because of man-made climate change.  Not that Francis or others who push this line ever offer any proof that “climate migration” is an actual thing. It’s enough just to assert it, and the billions of people who have been brainwashed by the climate change hoax will nod in agreement. 

Antichrist also cites “extreme poverty” as a reason for migration.  But “extreme poverty” is not the fault of Western nations, and it is not the obligation of their citizens to solve the problem.  The only way to lift large numbers of people out of poverty is by applying the Biblical principles of limited government and private property, what John Robbins called “constitutional capitalism.”  But the economic and political thought of the Roman Catholic Church-State is dead set against these ideas and has spent centuries fighting against them.    The reason for the primitiveness of the economies of much of what we call the third world is the evil influence of Roman Catholic political and economic teaching.  Rome has been the dominant institution in Central and South America for over 500 years and the economies of many of those nations are in shambles. 

One article titled “The Invasion Is Not About Asylum, It’s About Welfare” relates the story of Ricardo Marquez, a 30-year-old man from Venezuela, who arrived at a shelter in Brownsville, TX.  “I was confronted with the decision to either stay there or risk it all for my daughter [who needed surgery].” Now one can have sympathy for a man in his position without agreeing with his violating American immigration law and offloading the cost of this daughter’s surgery on the American people.  Americans have sons and daughters of their own, some of whom need surgery.  And many families are taking on crippling debt to pay medical expenses while foreigners receive free treatment, contrary to the Scriptures and the Constitution, at their expense.

Here’s another question, why does the fabulously wealthy Roman Catholic Church not provide for its own people?  I assume that Mr. Marquez is Roman Catholic.  Why doesn’t Rome help his family with their medical bills? Rome’s always lecturing us about our “obligation” to pay for everyone’s needs on the entire face of the globe.  Doesn’t Rome have an obligation to help its own people?  Why does Rome believe it has the right to offload these expenses on Americans?   

Pope Francis goes on to reveal his own Marxist economic thought in the article.

Eliminating these causes and thus putting an end to forced migration calls for shared commitment on the part of all, in accordance with the responsibilities of each…

In order to make migration a truly free choice, “efforts must be made to ensure to everyone an equal share in the common good, respect for his or her fundamental rights, and access to an integral human development,” the pope emphasized.

In his book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John Robbins noted that the notorious 1891 papal encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII was quite Marxist in its language.  Rerum Novarum (New Things), is the foundational text for Roman Catholic social teaching, including its teaching on immigration, as can be seen by Pope Pius XII’s reference to it in EFN sixty-one years later.

In his words, “Eliminating these causes and thus putting an end to forced migration calls for shared commitment on the part of all, in accordance with the responsibilities of each,” Francis almost quotes Marx’s famous dictum “from each according to his ability; to each according to his need.” 

Francis also states, “efforts must be made to ensure to everyone an equal share in the common good.”  In what text of Scripture is this communistic nonsense found?  One servant received five talents, the other one.  God loved Jacob and hated Esau.  The common good, as John Robbins has noted, “is the great fiction used by the Roman Catholic Church-State to justify government control of society and economy” (Ecclesiastical Megalomania, 187).    

This author has asserted on many occasions that Rome seeks to use welfare migration as a means of promoting world government, and this article provides further proof of that.

 He encouraged countries and the international community to work together to ensure that all people “enjoy the right not to be forced to emigrate” and are able to live in peace within one’s own country.

“This right has yet to be codified, but it is one of fundamental importance, and its protection must be seen as a shared responsibility on the part of all states with respect to a common good that transcends national borders,” Pope Francis added.

“Indeed, since the world’s resources are not unlimited, the development of the economically poorer countries depends on the capacity for sharing that we can manage to generate among all countries. Until this right is guaranteed — and here we are speaking of a long process — many people will still have to emigrate in order to seek a better life.”

Note that it’s the “international community” that is called upon to “work together” so people do not have to migrate and that this is a “shared responsibility” “that transcends national borders.”  Antichrist continues by claiming that “sharing” is needed for economically poorer countries to develop.  But what the Pope calls sharing is really the forceable taking of the goods of the citizens of one nation and the giving of them to another.  There’s no room for thought in the mind of the Pope that the pie could be grown through greater personal liberty and private property.  Poor nations can become rich only by stealing from those that are rich.  This is international socialism, which interestingly is another name for communism.

The Pope seems hopeful that “we” “can manage to generate” this sharing among nations.  So, who is the “we” and what is the mechanism under which this “sharing” is to take place?  As is often the case with pronouncements from Rome, the details are left out.

One can assume by “we” that the Pope doesn’t mean himself or the Church.  Their property is “corban” and not open to being used for the “common good.”  The most reasonable assumption for the meaning of “we” in the Pope’s statement is the citizens of the West, who have the “obligation” as richer nations to foot the bill for the rest of the world’s “needs”. 

The Pope holds out the possibility that the current wave of migration may someday come to an end.  But “we are speaking about a long process.”  In the meantime, you deplorables in America and the West just need to sit down, shut up, and fork over your patrimony to foreigners with a smile. This is your reasonable service according to Antichrist.

One organization that seems to be at the forefront of this international socialism is the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, or as it was originally called at the time of its founding in 2020, The Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican.  This nefarious collection of Bond-villain types states that “The work of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism and its members is grounded in the moral and market imperative to pursue profit in ways that lead to a more inclusive and sustainable economy.”  This flowery language is a cover for pushing the kind of destructive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies that one sees in nations such as Indonesia and the Netherlands where climate change is used as an excuse to attack the ability of the nation’s farmers to produce food.  The Council on Inclusive Capitalism is one of the major organizations pushing ESG today, using it as cover to speak of high-minded goals such as equality of opportunity, equitable outcomes, etc.  This sounds great until you realize that medieval serfs were all equal in their poverty and misery.  If the Council on Inclusive Capitalism gets its way, this is the equality that we all will share. 

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