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Irredentist

Irredentist is the adjectival form of the noun Irredentism. Christian J. Pinto has described irredentism as Jesuit immigration warfare.

Encyclopedia Britannia defines “irredentism” as “the process by which a part of an existing state breaks away and merges with another.”

By way of example, one of the most obviously irredentist movements in the United States was called La Reconquista, Spanish for “the reconquest.” This term was quite popular in the first decade of the 2000s.  It was described in the Washington Times as “a radical movement calling for Mexico to ‘reconquer” America’s Southwest.”[3] The idea was that Mexico would retake the territory it lost to the United States due to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, which ended the Mexican-American War (1846-48).

One wonders about the recent disappearance of the term “la reconquista” in the popular press. Given the flood of aliens, both legal and illegal, pouring into the United States under the Biden Administration, perhaps the Roman Church-State feared using the term would make what’s going on a bit too obvious.

Immigration

I use this term in the general sense of “entrance into a country for the purpose of settling there.” There are several different ways foreigners can enter the United States. Some individuals come here intending to permanently settle in the United States either as resident aliens or citizens. Others come here on work visas or student visas with the understanding that they will return to their home countries once their studies are completed or their work arrangements end.  Others are here under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which means they are supposed to go home when the emergency in their home country has passed. In practice, there are few things more permanent than the presence of individuals with TPS.[4] In this talk, I use “immigration” as a non-technical term to cover how foreigners come to settle in America in the long term.

Assault

The United States has been under attack by the Roman Church-State for most of its history. I mentioned some of these attacks in my Reformation Day livestream last year and will not repeat them in this talk.[5] The millions of aliens pouring across America’s borders during the current presidential administration is no accident but rather an orchestrated assault, an attack, a war being conducted against the American republic. The principal agent of this assault is the Church-State working through the Roman Catholic, Jesuit-connected Biden Administration.

America

I use the terms “America” and “United States” interchangeably.

Exsul Familia Nazarethana and Strangers No Longer

In last year’s Reformation Day talk, I discussed Pope Pius XII’s 1952 Apostolic Constitution Exsul Familia Nazarethana (EFN). This document formalized the principles of Rome’s irredentist immigration practice.

One of the noteworthy features of this apostolic constitution was how it specifically targeted the United States. In 1952, the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act still governed America’s immigration policy. This Act prevented Rome from flooding America with Roman Catholic immigrants as it had in the latter half of the 19^th century. Reading between the lines, one gets the sense that EFN was written, at least in part, to overturn the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act and allow Rome to restart the process of inundating America with its foot soldiers.

The Vatican got its wish with the 1965 Immigration Act, championed in the Senate by Edward Kennedy.[6] This Act was a legacy achievement of President John F. Kennedy, whose posthumous book A Nation of Immigrants was published in 1964, calling for an end to the national origins immigration quotas that had been in place since 1924.[7]

The topic of today’s talk is another important Roman Catholic document on immigration titled Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope.[8] Strangers No Longer (SNL) can be viewed as applying the general Roman Catholic migration principles found in EFN to the specific situation of the United States and Mexico.

It is to our analysis of SNL that we will now turn.

(To be continued)

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[1] Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 26.6. From the time it was first published in 1646 through 1902, the Westminster Confession, following the Historicist school of prophetic interpretation, identified the “Pope of Rome” as the Antichrist of Scripture. This changed with the 1903 edition that removed this reference.

[2] The Protestant system of Historicism has been so thoroughly replaced in Protestant churches by Jesuit Preterism and Futurism that noted church historian Robert Godfrey commented, “That church historical approach [Historicism] was very popular, almost all Protestants held to it in the 16th century, and ironically today, it’s almost disappeared altogether. I don’t know offhand anyone who still holds to the church historical approach to The Book of the Revelation.” See Godfrey’s lecture series on the Ligonier Ministries website, Blessed Hope: The Book of Revelation, Lecture 1, “A Book of Blessing” at 6:14.  

[3] In his article “Romanizing America through Illegal Immigration,” Ralph Ovadal quotes Catholic priest Paul Marx saying, “America is a dying nation. I tell the 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 quote is from the May 6, 1987 edition of The Wanderer. It would be hard to find a more explicit irredentist statement.

[4] Tucker Carlson once said of the TPS program, “This isn’t about providing short-term refuge; it’s elites in Washington using a legal loophole to let hundreds of thousands of people come here permanently without going through any of the ordinary immigration channels. Now you can tell that nobody ever expected for them to return home because the suggestion that they do return home is being treated as a massive crisis for some reason.” The video of Carlson’s comments can be found here.

[5] “Antichrist’s Illegal Alien Assault on America.” The audio version can be found here, and the print version can be found here and here.

[6] One commentator on X suggested that Edward Kennedy’s championing of the 1965 Immigration Act may have been motivated by “an ancestral grievance” and that he was “Still waging a Catholic Vs Protestant battle/turf war from the 19^th Century.” In this author’s opinion, this is precisely what Sen. Kennedy was doing.

[7] John F. Kennedy, famously America’s first Roman Catholic president, had written a booklet in 1958 for the One Nation Library series of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, a Jewish organization. He later expanded this booklet into A Nation of Immigrants. It is not uncommon to find Roman Catholic and Jewish organizations teaming up against America’s historic Protestant nation on any number of issues, immigration being one of them. This is unsurprising. As John Robbins noted in his Trinity Review “The Religious Wars of the 21^st Century,” both Romanism and Judaism are “forms of unbelief, are destroyers of the West and causes of the collapse [of the West].” Romanism and Judaism find common ground in their opposition to Biblical Christianity. Kennedy’s book is an extended finger-wag in the face of the Historic Protestant American nation, attempting to shame the nation into falling in line with the Vatican’s immigration demands and allowing the country to be flooded with millions of unbelievers. Unfortunately, the ploy worked.

[8] Strangers No Longer” Together on the Journey of Hope” was issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on January 22, 2003. Here is the link to the article on the USCCB website: https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration/strangers-no-longer-together-on-the-journey-of-hope, accessed 9/22/2024.

 

 

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