Lux Lucet

The Welcome the Stranger Argument

The Bible contains several statements and commands regarding hospitality, which the Vatican twists to bolster the case for its program of international migration socialism.[2] A favorite passage of Pope Francis is Matthew 25:35, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”[3] Another passage cited by Francis and other immigration socialists is Leviticus 19:34, “The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt:  I am the LORD you God.”[4] 

Now, no one would argue that these passages have no bearing on the issue of immigration.  But there is a vast gulf between what the Bible means by these passages and what the Vatican means by them.  The difference is that between private charity – the Biblical model – and government welfare – the Roman Catholic socialist model. 

To see an example of Biblical, private charity, consider the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:30-36.  There, we read that the Samaritan bandaged the man’s wounds, “pouring on oil and wine,” that he set the man “on his own animal,” that he “brought him to an inn, and took care of him,” and that when he departed, he gave the innkeeper two denarii to care for the injured man and promised to pay any additional expenses upon his return.  The Samaritan gave of his own things, of his own time, and of his own money.

This is a far cry from Rome’s petulant demands that the government force the American people to foot the enormous bill for the migrant flood Rome has unleashed on our nation.  Government welfare is not Christian charity, it is theft, a violation of the Eighth Commandment.  And not only is it theft, but Rome is also demanding that the government rob American people to pay for their own replacement, as millions upon millions of illegal aliens pour across our southwest border in numbers greater than the population of many states.  The demands of Antichrist remind one of Jesus’s comment about the Pharisees, saying of them, “For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.” While the cost for the illegal alien invasion is laid on the shoulders of the American people, Rome reaps the benefits and adds more and more demands as time goes by. 

The popes, cardinals, and bishops of Rome are generally too clever to ever directly mention who foots the bill for their immigration socialism. They prefer to make broad, pious-sounding statements that mask the enormous cost of the burdens they intend to impose on the American people. In “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope,” ^[5] a 2003 pastoral letter by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Mexican Conference of Catholic Bishops, we read, “Pope John XXIII placed limits on immigration, however, when there are ‘just reasons for it.’ Nevertheless, he stressed the obligation of sovereign states to promote the universal good where possible, including an obligation to accommodate migration flows.  For more powerful nations, a stronger obligation exists.”  When the bishops talk about the “obligation of sovereign states,” what they mean is the government is to forcibly extract money from you and me to pay for Rome’s perverse, unconstitutional, and unbiblical illegal alien socialism.  This is not Christian charity.  It is theft. 

In my research, the most honest statement I found from a Roman Catholic source on the cost of Rome’s immigration socialism came from Giulivo Tessarolo, a priest and editor of a 1962 English language edition of EFN.  In the Editor’s Remarks section, Tessarolo made the following comment, “[D]ue to enormous financial implications, the phenomenon of emigration will find some relief only in English-speaking countries.”[6]

The communistic nature of Rome’s immigration policy is made obvious in the 2003 pastoral letter “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope.”  There, we read,

Pope John XII placed limits on immigration, however, when there are “just reasons for it.” Nevertheless, he stressed the obligation of sovereign states to promote the universal good where possible, including an obligation to accommodate migration flows. For more powerful nations, a stronger obligation exists. [7]

“For more powerful nations, a stronger obligation exists,” is just a restatement of Marx’s dictum “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” applied to immigration. 

Communism is not Christian charity. And welcoming the stranger is not a call for immigration socialism.

What About Legal Immigration?

While the focus of this paper has been on the damage illegal immigration is causing to America, America’s policies of legal immigration and refugee resettlement have been at least as damaging as the illegal variety, and for the same reasons.  In the first place, the historic demographic shifts that they have caused in the nation’s population and, secondly, the enormous costs that they have imposed on the American people. 

In his book Alien Nation, Peter Brimelow stated, “Today, U.S. government policy is literally dissolving the people and electing a new one.”[8] By “U.S. government policy,” Brimelow mainly was referring to the 1965 Immigration Act, which overturned the Immigration Act of 1924.  The Immigration Act of 1924 set up a system of limited immigration quotas based on national origin.  Nations with large immigrant populations in the U.S. were allotted a larger number of immigration visas.  Those with smaller populations were allotted fewer.  The 1965 Immigration Act changed all that. “The current wave [current in 1995 when the book was written] – and therefore America’s shifting ethnic balance – is wholly and entirely the result of government policy.  Specifically, it is the result of the Immigration Act of 1965, and the further legislation of 1986 and 1990.”[9]  

In a chapter titled “Immigration Has Consequences: The War Against the Nation State,” Brimelow noted, “But all over the world in the twentieth century, nations and nation-states have been under intense attack. And to the attackers, immigration is a potential ally.”[10] Brimelow is right about immigration being a weapon in the hands of those opposed to the nation-state.  As we have discussed in this paper and in my address last year, the Roman Catholic Church-State, as the ultimate globalist organization, is also the greatest enemy of the nation-state.[11] This raises the question, did Rome have anything to do with the passing of the Immigration Act of 1965 that opened the immigration floodgates and brought about the astonishing demographic shift in the American population since that time?  The answer, in my opinion, is overwhelmingly yes.  Let us consider the evidence.

In EFN, Pius XII wrote,

Therefore, when Senators from the United States, who were members of a Committee on Immigration, visited Rome a few years ago, we again urged them to try to administer as liberally as possible the overly restrictive provisions of their immigration laws.[12]

Though he doesn’t say it directly, Pius must be directing his complaint against the Immigration Act of 1924.

Pius also noted in EFN that he had written to the American bishops on December 24, 1948.  In his letter, Pius congratulated the bishops on their success in helping get a law passed “to allow many refugees to enter your land.  Through your persistence, a provident law was enacted, a law that we hope will be followed by others of broader scope” (emphasis mine).

Giulivo Tessarolo’s edition of EFN was mentioned above.  Worth noting is that it was published by St. Charles Seminary on Staten Island in 1962, during the term of America’s first Roman Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, and just three years before the passing of the Immigration Act of 1965. 

And speaking of John Kennedy, the future president published a book titled A Nation of Immigrants in 1959 in which he decried “isolationism” and called for liberalization of American immigration law, much like what Pius XII had called for a few years earlier in his 1952 Apostolic Constitution. 

The 1965 Immigration Act was also known as the Hart-Celler Act after its principal sponsors in the Senate and the House of Representatives. So, who were Hart and Celler?  According to his Wikipedia page, Senator Philip Hart (D-MI) graduated from West Philadelphia Catholic High School and studied at Jesuit Georgetown University.   Emanuel Celler was a Democratic Congressman from New York of both Jewish and Catholic descent first elected to Congress as a Tammany Hall Democrat.[13] Although Celler apparently was a practicing Jew, his Wikipedia biography notes the following interesting item.  “In July 1939, a strongly worded letter from Celler to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull helped set in motion an extremely prolonged process of 45 years that finally led in 1984, three years after Celler’s death, to full, formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See.”[14] So we see that both sponsors of the Hart-Celler Act had significant ties to the Roman Catholic Church.

One final Roman Catholic tie to the 1965 Immigration Act is that the bill’s floor manager and Senate Immigration Subcommittee chairman was Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA).  Said Kennedy during a Senate debate on the bill, “The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission.  It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”[15] As a general rule, Americans should understand that the truth is almost always the exact opposite of what their politicians tell them.  The 1965 Immigration Act was no exception to this rule.  The effects of this bill have been all the things that Kennedy said would not take place.   

In conclusion, Antichrist’s and Mystery Babylon’s fingerprints are all over the 1965 Immigration Act.  The Church-State managed to ram through Congress a weaponized immigration bill destructive of the American nation and beneficial to itself.

Closing Remarks

In his book Geese in Their Hoods, author Timothy F. Kauffman wrote of Charles Spurgeon,

Spurgeon was much like today’s ecumenists who lament the passing of a “God-fearing, westernized, culture” and charge Christians daily to take back what is being lost to the secular world.  But Spurgeon was different than today’s ecumenists in one important way.  He recognized that Rome was as much to blame for the cultural decay as were the ungodly desires of natural men.  Where Rome prospered, there ignorance, technological backwardness and poverty flourished as well.  Spurgeon – again, noting the exceptions where they were plain – never forgot that Rome was a cause of the cultural decay, and the Gospel alone was the cure.[16]

While much ink has been spilled by those who see the danger that current American immigration policy – both legal and illegal – poses to the liberty and continuing prosperity of the American people, almost no one recognizes, or is willing to admit that he recognizes, the outsized role the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church-State has played in bringing about this immigration disaster.   

The blame for this enormous blind spot lies not so much with the journalists who do their best to report on America’s ongoing immigration crisis, but on the American Protestant Church which has forgotten its first love and become like the salt Jesus spoke of that lost its savor.  If we are to have any chance of reversing the awful destruction wrought by Antichrist’s immigration assault on America, American Christians must first repent of their sinful and inexcusable blindness as to the identity of Antichrist. 

I’ll close by quoting Spurgeon again.

It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. If there were to be issued a hue and cry for Antichrist, we should certainly take up this church on suspicion, and it would certainly not be let loose again, for it so exactly answers the description.[17]

May the Lord grant his people eyes to see the work of Antichrist done right in front of their noses.

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[1] While the focus of this paper is on the flood of migrants unleashed by the papal Antichrist on America, the analysis applies to the other nations of the West currently being overrun by the Vatican’s migrant invasion. 

[2] International socialism is another term for communism.  By pushing international socialism via mass welfare migration, the Roman Church-State shows its support for the well-known communist aphorism “From each according to his ability, to each according to this need.”

[3][3] “To welcome the stranger is to welcome Christ, Pope Francis says,” by Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency, 10/26/2016, https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/34813/to-welcome-the-stranger-is-to-welcome-christ-pope-francis-says, accessed 10/21/2023.

[4] “Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 104^th World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2018, ” https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/migration/documents/papa-francesco_20170815_world-migrants-day-2018.html, accessed 10/21/2023.  As proof of the continuing importance of EFN in shaping the Church-State’s immigration socialism, Francis cites it in his statement.

[5] “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope,” https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration/strangers-no-longer-together-on-the-journey-of-hope, accessed 10/21/2023.

[6] Giulivo Tessarolo, ed., The Church’s Magna Charta for Migrants (Staten Island: St. Charles Seminary, 1962), 13.

[7] United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano, “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope” (Issued by USCCB, 2003), 30. https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration/strangers-no-longer-together-on-the-journey-of-hope, accessed 10/21/2023.  It is worth noting that “Strangers No Longer” quotes from EFN.  The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and their colleagues in Mexico took the ideas from EFN and applied them specifically to the United States and Mexico. 

[8] Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation (New York, Random House, 1995; Harper Collins 1996), xvii.

[9] Ibid., 75.

[10] Ibid., 222.

[11] Brimelow defines a nation as “the interlacing of ethnicity and culture.”  “And the nation-state,” he tells us, “is its political expression.” Ibid., 222.

[12] I have not yet determined the names of the senators Pius refers to. Here is a link to a speech titled “Address of His Holiness Pius XII to Members of the United States Senate of the Committee on Immigration” dated Friday, 31 October 1947 https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1947/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19471031_senatori-usa.html, accessed 10/21/2023.  My supposition is that this is the occasion that Pius refers to in EFN.

[13] Tammany Hall was the famously corrupt, Roman Catholic-run, Democrat political machine that dominated New York City politics in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.  In his 1887 book Romanism and Politics. Tammany Hall the Stronghold of Rome, Protestant minister Joseph Hartwell had this to say, “Tammany Hall is simply the political organization of the Roman Catholic Church, with a Bishop Hughes or a Cardinal McCloskey or Archbishop Corrigan at its head and a Fernando Wood, a William Tweed, or a John Kelly for his fugleman [mouthpiece]. The proper name for it is Jesuit Hall.  By this name it should be called, and by none other; for name and nature should correspond, so that when the one is called the other should be understood, and that would help to guide both the mind and the action of the American people” (9).  The book can be downloaded for free here https://app.box.com/s/wsfefmgxb3oh6ac7bheqeh0fzuc9cf3d. 

[14] Emanuel Celler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Celler accessed 10/21/2023.

[15] “How the Immigration Act of 1965 Changed the Face of America” by Lesley Kennedy, History.com, 8/12/2019, https://www.history.com/news/immigration-act-1965-changes, accessed 10/21/2023. This article called Sen. Kennedy the bill’s “lead supporter.”

[16] Timothy F. Kauffman, ed., Geese in their Hoods: Selected Writings on Roman Catholicism by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Huntsville: White Horse Publications), 17.

[17] Sermon Index.net https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5345&forum=35 accessed 10/21/2023.

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