Lux Lucet

As has been discussed numerous times in this space, the notion of the independent nation-state – independent or sovereign in the sense that that the people of a nation and their representatives in the national government can make decisions on who to run their country without the permission of the pope or other outside forces – was put into practice on a wide scale following the Peace of Westphalia that settled the Thirty Years’ War in 1648. 

Up until that time, the popes of Rome were the rulers of the nations of Europe.  When the pope said jump, the only proper response from mere kings was “How high your Holiness?”  But the Peace of Westphalia brought an end to all that, at least among the nations of the victorious Allies. 

What did the popes think of the idea that sovereign nations now could govern themselves without reference to his dictates?  They hated it.

And hate may be an understatement.

Here’s what Pope Innocent X had to say about the Peace of Westphalia.  He called it, “null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane, empty of meaning and effect for all time” in his bull “Zelo Domus Dei.”

Does Innocent X sound to you like a guy who would respect a sovereign nation’s decision about its immigration policy?  Semper Eadem (always the same) is the motto of Rome.  If Innocent X hated the idea of national sovereignty, it stands to reason that so do his successors.  And this they have made clear by their continuous calls for world government.

Of course, Rome is the great master of subtlety.  Note that in the bishop’s statement quoted above, he says that Rome does too teach that “a sovereign nation has the right to admit those whom it chooses.” That’s all well and good.  It even sounds like the Church has softened its stance since the bad old days of Innocent X.  But as we mentioned, Rome is big on the semper eadem thing. Thus, the bishop does not stop with saying that sovereign nations have a right to admit whom they choose.  Rather, he continues, “but it must be based on the common good – not only of the receiving nation but also of the migrants.”

This raises the question, just what does the bishop mean by “the common good” and who’s to say whether a sovereign nation’s immigration policy serves this common good?

In his book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John Robbins wrote, “The common good, as we shall see in our discussion of the political thought of the Roman Church-State, is the fiction by which the public authorities justify whatever they please to do.” (42) 

And who is it that decides when public authorities are acting for “the common good”? Ultimately, in the political thought of the Roman Church-State, all judgment lies with the Pope, who, as Robbins notes, “is judged by no one.” (154)  It’s the popes who have the final say on whether a nation’s immigration laws are “based on the common good…not only of the receiving nation but also of the migrants.”

In the eyes of Pope Francis, America’s immigration laws have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. 

Therefore, since America’s immigration laws do not measure up to Rome’s standards, there’s nothing wrong with the Church-State’s helping migrants to pour into the United States and impose their enormous costs on the American people.  Further, the Church is righteous in helping them to do so, as it is promoting the “common good.”

Having studied the Roman Church-State’s role in America’s immigration disaster for many years, I can tell you that not once, in the many hundreds of articles and press releases I’ve seen from Rome, has Rome ever supported any immigration policy that benefits the American people.  Not even once.   Now I don’t claim to have read every statement of Rome on immigration.  But Rome’s consistent defense of even the most absurd abuses of American immigration law is all the proof you need that Rome’s pretend support of national sovereignty is just that, a ruse meant to sow confusion.

To give you a sense of just absurd Rome’s view of “the common good” is when it comes to immigration, consider the hue and cry that went up from Rome when the Trump administration tried to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Salvadorans who had been living in America since 2001.  For some odd reason, Trump thought that it was high time the 263,000 Salvadorans who had been living in the US under TPS – TPS is a program that shields foreigners from deportation, even if they arrived in the US illegally, if there are extreme conditions in their homeland – since the nation experience severe earthquakes…wait for it…in 2001!  The deportation was to take place in 2018, meaning these Salvadorans had been living in the US under “Temporary” Protected Status for the better part of 20 years. 

But according to Rome, they couldn’t possibly be sent back home.  Why, that would be inhumane! 

According to a press release from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),

The decision to terminate TPS for El Salvador is heartbreaking. As detailed in our recent delegation trip report to the region, El Salvador is currently not in a position to adequately handle the return of the roughly 200,000 Salvadoran TPS recipients. Today’s decision will fragment American families, leaving over 192,000 U.S. citizen children of Salvadoran TPS recipients with uncertain futures. Families will be needlessly separated because of this decision.

Imagine that!  A full seventeen years after the earthquakes that prompted the granting of TPA to the Salvadorans, El Salvador is just not ready to accept them back.  The cruelty of the Trump administration is just “heartbreaking.”   

Also, note the bishops’ reference to the “over 192,000 U.S. citizen children of Salvadoran TPS recipients.”  What’s that, you ask?  Where did all these 192,000 U.S. citizen children of Salvadoran TPS recipients come from? 

The press release doesn’t say. And that’s no accident.  You see, while the bishops are evil and treasonous, they’re not stupid.  They don’t want you to know that the reason there are “over 192,000 U.S. citizen children of Salvadoran TPS recipients” is the treasonous and destructive policy our government follows, at the behest of Rome, in contradiction of the Scriptures and of the Constitution, of granting full American citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil, regardless of the immigration status of the parents.

Rome whines, “Families will be needlessly separated because of this decision.”  Well, no.  The families can always reunite in El Salvador.  But you’re not supposed to think about that. 

This is why children born to illegal immigrants, birth tourists, etc. are called “anchor babies.”  They serve as an anchor making it difficult, if not impossible, to deport the parents, regardless of their having committed the felony of illegally entering the US, or whether they have abused the generosity of the American people by refusing to go home nearly 2 decades after the earthquake that was the pretext for their remaining in the US in the first place.

And, you probably guessed it, Rome is opposed to ending birthright citizenship for the children of non-US citizen parents.

According to Rome, “the common good” demands that Americans continue to allow 200,000 Salvadorans and their 192,000 children not only to remain in the US but eventually to become citizens.

You should ask yourself if Rome won’t support returning Salvadorans to their homeland after nearly 2 decades, under what circumstances would Rome ever support the deportation of foreigners? Remember, these people agreed to temporary protected status.  Temporary means “lasting for a limited time.”  Sending them back is not abuse.  It is holding them to the terms to which they agreed.         

Don’t be fooled by statements such as that of Bishop DiMarzio, who claims to respect national sovereignty. Rome hates, detests, and despises any government and any institution that does not bow the knee to the Antichrist popes of Rome.  And Rome shows this by its unwillingness to back the deportation of even the most obvious cases.  Rome’s appeal to “the common good” is both dishonest and without support in the Scriptures.  Governments are not tasked with looking after “the common good” but with punishing those who practice evil, among whom are those that would steal private property. This is exactly what happens when governments redistribute the wealth of the American people and give it to foreigners who violate our immigration laws.  Rome thinks this is great.  But God hates it.      

P.S. According to this website, the temporary protected status of Salvadorans is currently “Subject to Court Proceedings.” I take this to mean that the Salvadorans will be sent home sometime around the twelfth of never.  

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