Lux Lucet

About twenty years ago, there was a lot of talk about “la Reconquista,” the reconquest of the southwest United States by Mexico.  There was actual talk about an actual retaking of the southwest by Mexico, where the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and perhaps some others, would be reunited with Mexico.

One way those inclined to pursue irredentist policies can strengthen their case is to flood the territory in question with their own people.  It’s one thing to say that such and such a territory belonged to our nation three hundred years ago.  It’s something else to have large numbers of your people currently living on that territory. 

In his article “Romanizing America Through Illegal Immigration,” Ralph Ovadal quoted Catholic Priest Paul Marx’s comments from an article in the Catholic paper The Wanderer.  Said Marx, “America is a dying nation.  I tell Mexicans when I am down in Mexico to keep on having children, and then to take back what we took from them: California, Texas, Arizona, and then to take the rest of the country as well.”  This is the dictionary definition of irredentism in action.  For what it’s worth, that quotation was from the May 6, 1987 issue of the Wanderer, showing that this type of thinking is not new in 2024. 

In his 1887 book Romanism and Politics: Tammany Hall The Stronghold of Rome, Protestant minister Joseph Hartwell foresaw the possibility of “Protestant Americans” being “taxed to death,” “kicked around like foot-balls,” and “driven into the dark corners of obscurity in so far as any controlling influence is concerned.” Roman Catholic irredentism has been going on in America since at least the 1850s.  In his book Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Charles Chiniquy described a congratulatory letter he received from the Jesuit Bishop of Chicago – this was when Chiniquy, who later became a Presbyterian minister, was still a Catholic priest – thanking Chiniquy for his work of bringing in large numbers of Roman Catholics to the United States, what the Bishop called “a glorious scheme” designed to “secure” America “to our holy church.”[1] 

But while Romanist irredentism has been present in America for a long time, it was never the actual policy of the federal government until Roman Catholic politicians pushed through the 1965 Immigration Act.  More recently, the Jesuit Biden Regime has turbocharged Rome’s irredentism in America by flooding our southern border with literally millions of illegal aliens from nations all over the world to the point where the nation is facing an existential crisis. 

The historic Protestant American nation faces, if not total extinction, certainly dispossession from the country founded by their forefathers.  We are at the point where we are being “taxed to death, kicked around like footballs, and driven into the dark corners of obscurity in so far as any controlling influence is concerned.”   Many Christians in the 19^th century warned Americans about this specter, but those warnings went substantially unheeded.  Now in 2024, we find ourselves with an illegitimate, Roman Catholic, Jesuit-influenced president who again and again has not only expressed his open hatred of the Protestant American nation but is openly making war on it with his irredentist and illegal immigration policy. 

The only hope that America has of defeating Rome’s irredentism is repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ.  For too long, Americans have turned their back on the Lord.  Will we hear him before there is no remedy left?

[1] Chiniquy, 554.

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