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A little over 20 years ago I read Chuck Colson’s Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT). Doing so proved to be quite a turning point in my life, just not in the way that was intended by the author.
You see, when I sat down to read ECT, I didn’t know very much in the way of doctrine, but I was eager to learn. As I went through the book, it became more and more evident with each passing page that this was not a partnership between Evangelicals and Catholics. Rather, it appeared to be something of a hostile takeover by Rome, albeit one in disguise.
I was so appalled by ECT that I immediately began to look for answers as why, exactly, it was wrong for Evangelicals to unite in ministry with Romanists. It was through this process that God led me to Reformed theology and later to the work of Gordon Clark and John Robbins. Were it not for Chuck Colson, I might never have become a Scripturalist! That’s a rather odd thought when you consider it. If nothing else, it just underscores that fact that God can use the most unexpected things to save and to teach his people.
I mention all this by way of introducing the topic of today’s post, The Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT) and the extraordinary error it makes on the topic of immigration, a subject on which it claims to speak with Scriptural authority.
When one reads statements by the group’s leaders, one finds little difference between their words and those of the prelates of the Roman Church-State, or, for that matter, your average Social Justice Warrior fresh out of college, degree in gender studies firmly in hand.
Apparently, Chuck Colson did his work well. So well, in fact, that on the subjects of immigration, migration and refugee resettlement, there is little difference between the statements made by prominent, supposedly conservative, Evangelical leaders and the press releases of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
To put it bluntly, many of today’s best known Evangelical leaders really are Antichrist’s useful idiots.
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Migrants storm San Ysidro, California, November 25, 2018. The prelates of the Roman Church-State call such persons “Christ in our midst.” Others may call them something else.
“Another papal society, Catholic Extension, has poured more than $12 million dollars into ministries along our southern border over the past five years ‘to ensure that those who are on a journey are protected by the Church and that we advocate on their behalf,’ according the (sic) Catholic News Agency (“Caravans, Churches and Criminal Sanctuaries,” Michelle Malkin, April 4, 2018).
I hadn’t intended to post tonight, but in doing research on a group called Catholic Extension, what I found was interesting to the point that I just had to say something.
A few quick facts about Catholic Extension:
- According to the “Our History” page of Catholic Extension’s website, the organizations was founded in 1905 and originally headquartered in Lapeer, Michigan, then moved to Chicago in 1907 where it’s headquarters have remained to this day. Question, Does anything good ever come out of Chicago?
- On the same “Our History” page, the group boasts about being a “papal society,” which means, as the “Our History” page notes, that, “Catholic Extension’s president is appointed by the Pope himself.” Catholic Extension’s website confirms its close relationship with the papal Antichrist. In an article dated November 8, 2017 it reported,”In a letter to Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich received in early October, the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, confirmed the reappointment of Father Jack Wall for a third five-year term as president of Catholic Extension. After Pope Francis, Cardinal Parolin is the highest-ranking Vatican official….” Worth noting, the article describes Jack Wall as “A lifelong Chicagoan” who “served for 24 years as as pastor of Old St. Patrick’s Church, the second oldest parish founded in the city of Chicago.” It’s remarkable how much immigration treason blows out of the Windy City. I ask again, Does anything good come from Chicago?
- Catholic Extension not only does not try to downplay the amount of money it spends on the US-Mexico border, it actually brags about it. As the group’s website notes, “Adjusted for inflation, Catholic Extension has provided a total of more than $122 million to help U.S. dioceses along the U.S.-Mexico border with the building and repair of churches, the education and formation of priests and other leaders, and various ministries. In the El Paso Diocese alone, Catholic Extension has funded projects totaling more than $18 million.
- The groups chancellor, Cardinal Blasé Cupich of Chicago, openly compares migrants violating US immigration law to “The Holy Family” who fled to Egypt to escape the persecution of King Herod. I’ve dealt with this false comparison a number of times on this blog. See, for example, here.
- Quotes the Prayer for Migrant Families, a blasphemous invocation by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops calling for the help of “Mary our Mother” and St. Joseph” on behalf of the migrants. The “prayer” appears to throw shade on American officials who enforce immigration laws by calling for comfort for migrants whose “families have been torn apart by violence and injustice.”
- As the Catholic New Agency reports without blushing, Catholic Extension openly aids migrants who violate American immigration law. “In McAllen Texas, parishioners of Sacred Heart Catholic Church have utilized their parish hall to aid 74,000 women and children entering the U.S. since the Central American child refugee crisis in June 2017. A $100,000 grant from Catholic Extension funded the construction of a new facility for their Humanitarian Respite Center.”
To sum up, we have an organization with direct ties to the highest levels of the Vatican, whose president is appointed by the pope himself, that openly admits to spending large sums of money in Texas, at least some of which is specifically designated thwarting the enforcement of US immigration law and that invokes God’s name to help migrants to this end.
In the opinion of this writer, the migrant crisis in both the US and Europe is first and foremost a problem originating in the evil theology, politics and economics of the Antichrist Roman Church-State.
Many Americans, influenced as they are by Dispensationalism, scan the horizons for the coming of some future, mysterious Antichrist. All the while they miss the work the real and present papal Antichrist is doing right under their noses, right on the border of their own country. How is it that people can be so blind?
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Migrants attempting to rush the US-Mexico border at San Ysidro, November 25, 2018.
Compassion For Whom?
When it comes to writing about migrant issues, most authors write sympathetically about the migrants, while showing almost complete disregard for the populations called upon to support them.
While I can have compassion for migrants, immigrants and refugees, what about my fellow Americans? Are they not much more my neighbors than someone from Guatemala? Do they not deserve my consideration and compassion?
What about Americans who lose their jobs or have their wages lowered because of increased competition from illegal immigrations? Am I not to be concerned about them?
What about Americans who are raped, killed, and murdered, by those who have no legal standing to be in the United States? Am I to turn a blind eye to the suffering of the victims and of their families?
It’s amazing how little concern the Roman Church-State and the political, intellectual, and business establishments have for the serious plight of large swaths of the American population, some of whose problems are the direct result of the failure of government officials to provide even a minimum level of enforcement of American immigration law, while at the same time presuming to lecture Americans about their lack of compassion for foreigners.
News flash for those concerned about foreign migrants. Americans are real people too, and they have real problems and legitimate concerns that deserve real attention.
Charity, as they say, starts at home.
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This is the masthead photo from the Facebook page of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the principal group organizing the migrant caravan. Fists raised in the air, these guys want to be your new neighbors. Apparently, no one explained to them the concept of bad optics.
There is general agreement among those who have studied the migrant caravan issue that the principal organizing force behind it is a rather obscure group known as Pueblo Sin Fronteras (PSF).
As proof, consider this article from the LA Times, which has the following paragraph buried near the end of the story, “Denis Omar Contera, an organizer with Pueblo Sin Fronteras, which is helping the group [migrant caravan], said the caravan plans to rest Monday before setting out again.” When the article says Mr. Contera is “helping” the caravan, it means he’s an organizer.
In an article from April 4, 2018 about a previous caravan, CNBC makes PSF’s involvement very clear when it reports here that, “Abeja is one of the lead organizers of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, which for over 15 years has led migrants to the U.S. via caravans to help them to seek asylum in other countries” (emphasis mine).
As CNBC notes, PSF has been at the caravan business for 15 years, so the latest caravan is not the first time around the block for them.
Worth noting too, is what CNBC says about the close connection between the caravans and the Roman Catholic Church.
The caravans are referred to in Spanish as Via Crucis Migrantes, or Migrant’s Way of the Cross. They are fashioned after the Stations of the Cross processions celebrated by Latin American and Latino Catholics to mark and “re-enact” the final days of Jesus from prosecution to his burial in a tomb.
In such processions, someone plays Christ carrying a wooden cross and people from the congregation or community follow him. Similarly, the volunteers from Pueblos (sic) Sin Fronteras and other groups accompany migrants in a caravan that travels in buses, on trains and on foot.
Clicking on the “Caravans” tab of the PSF website makes the connection between the caravans and the Roman Church-State clear. For example, one finds on this page a photo with the headline “Viacrucis de Refugiados” (Refugees’ Way of the Cross) from 2017.
A second photo shows migrants in a van with the headline Viacrucis Guadalupano (Guadalupine Way of the Cross) accompanied by an icon with what appears to be a VW Bus superimposed on an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Want more proof that the Roman Church-State is neck-deep in the caravan movement? In an article from April 2018, columnist Michelle Malkin reported that, “The Vatican itself donated at least $20,000 in 2009 to erect a shelter for Central American illegal aliens through Ixtepec, Mexico, where they hopped on freight trains into our country. Another papal society, Catholic Extension, has poured more than $12 million dollars into ministries along our southern border over the past five years ‘to ensure that those who are on a journey are protected by the Church and that we advocate on their behalf,’ according [to] the Catholic News Agency.”
The logo of PSF’s parent group. Notice the familiar pattern of invoking the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in connection with migration from Central America.
Worth noting, is that there is an interesting Chicago connection to all this. As Influence Watch reports, Pueblo Sin Fronteras is itself, “a project of La Familia Latina Unida, a Chicago, Illinois-based 501(c)(4) illegal immigration advocacy organization.” Also, the Catholic News Agency article mentioned above quotes Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago as saying, “It is at the core of who we are to ensure that those who are on a journey are protected by the Church and that we advocate on their behalf.”
In short, when it comes to human trafficking and the violation of the immigration laws of the United States, Cardinal Cupich is down with it. His own treasonous words condemn him.
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We seek to measure the interests of all parties in the migration phenomenon against the guidelines of Catholic social teaching and to offer a moral framework for embracing, not rejecting, the reality of migration between our two nations.
– USCCB and the Catholic Bishops of Mexico in Strangers No Longer
Over the past three weeks (please see here, here and here), this author has examined in some detail the document Strangers No Longer
(SNL), authored jointly by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and their counterparts in Mexico. The main purpose of SNL, as the quote at the top of the page indicates, is to bring to bear the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church on the issue of migration between Mexico and the United States.
The three preceding posts on SNL represent my attempt to demonstrate some of the serious, antichristian ideas in the document. To that end, I have analyzed the errors in three broad categories, noting that SNL is 1) a Marian document, 2) a socialist document, and 3) a globalist document.
After considering the express and implied propositions found in SNL, it is this author’s conclusion that the ideas put forth by the bishops in SNL are not only harmful to the people of the United States, but destructive to the point that they imply the end of the United States as an independent nation. Further, it is this author’s contention that the implied collapse of the US is not some accidental by-product of the ideas found in SNL, but actually one of the bishops’ intended effects.
That said, today I would like to turn my attention to a few additional issues in SNL. These are issues that may not fit neatly into one of the three categories listed above – Marian, socialist, and globalist – but which nevertheless are worthy of commentary.
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Protesters at US-Mexico border. Bill Wechter/Getty Images
The Vatican called on Monday for sweeping reforms of the world economy and the creation of a ethical, global authority to regulate financial markets…The Vatican called for the establishment of a “supranational authority” with worldwide scope and “universal jurisdiction” to guide economic policies and decisions. Such an authority should start with the United Nations as its reference point but later become independent and be endowed with the power to see to it that developed countries were not allowed to wield “excessive power over weaker countries. “Vatican urges economic reforms, condemns collective greed” – Reuters, 10/24/2011
One of the great frustrations this author has with the way news is covered is the abject failure of the press – and by the press, I mean both the mainstream legacy news organizations as well as the alternate, independent journalists who do their work on blogs, YouTube channels and podcasts – to relate the various political activities of the Roman Church-State to its overarching goal of establishing a new version of the Holy Roman Empire, this time one worldwide in scope.
Now when one begins talking about the push for world government, it’s not uncommon to be charged with “fear mongering” and “pushing conspiracy theories.” But Rome’s lust for world government, while certainly a conspiracy, is perhaps the least secret, most openly admitted conspiracy in history. Many people suppose that, if the Vatican really did want world government, you’d have to go looking for proof in some musty, dusty ancient codex buried deep in a monastic library in some exotic location.
The truth is that proving Rome’s desire for world government is, as they say, like shooting fish in a barrel.
Take, for example, the passage quoted at the top of this post. It’s from a 2011 Reuters article about a new document issued by the Pontifical Council For Justice And Peace, the full title of which is Towards Reforming The International Financial And Monetary Systems In The Context Of Global Public Authority (emphasis mine).
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Migrant caravan departs Ciudad Hildalgo, October 21, 2018.
In last week’s post, we began our look at Strangers No Longer (SNL), a 2003 document issued jointly by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Bishops of Mexico.
As the title to last week’s and this week’s post indicate, SNL is a subversive document. It is subversive in at least three ways. First, in that it is a Marian document, it is subversive of the faith once delivered to the saints. Several times in SNL, the bishops proudly reveal that the satanic Marian cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a key reason for their call for mass migration from Mexico, and by implication, from other places into the US.
Second, in that SNL is a clarion call for international socialism, it is subversive of capitalism, the economic system of the Bible. As the Bible clearly teaches throughout the pages of the Old and New Testaments, the ownership of capital goods, that is to say, the means of production, are to remain in private hands. Further, the Bible teaches that title to property, apart from punishment for a crime, is absolute. “Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things,” said the vineyard owner in Jesus’ parable. Rome, on the other hand, takes a far different view.
Finally, in that it is a globalist document, SNL is subversive of good government. SNL is part of the Babylonian Harlot’s multipronged, centuries long attempt to reinstate the Holy Roman Empire, this time on a worldwide scale rather than the regional scale she achieved during the middle ages.
Last week, we looked at the Marian aspect of SNL. In today’s installment, I shall discuss the document’s socialist subversions.
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The migrant caravan on its way to the United States. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops calls them missionaries. Others may use a different term.
One of the mains goals of this blog is to bring a Scripturalist analysis to bear on the events of the day. That is, it is my aim to apply the Scripturalist axiom that the Bible has a systematic monopoly on truth to current events.
As Christians, it can be easy to fall into the trap of supposing that, while the Bible is good for learning about how to be saved, when it comes to the important political and economic questions of the day, we need to look for answers elsewhere rather than in the Word of God.
For a number of years now, the related issues of immigration, migration and refugee resettlement have been at the forefront of the news in Europe, the United States and other areas of the world.
Because of its prominence in the news and because the subject, for the most part, is treated incompetently by the mainstream media, liberals, conservatives, and even Evangelical Christians, I had long wanted to write about immigration but felt somewhat inadequate for the task.
My first systematic foray into the topic was with my series Immigration, Citizenship and the Bible, which I wrote on this blog over a period of about a year and a half from September 2016 through the spring of 2018.
I guess I just can’t leave well enough alone. For it was a just a few months later that I started a second immigration series, this time called Mexico, Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, of which this post is the ninth installment.
This new immigration series was prompted by an extraordinary statement made last summer by then Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO as he is known in Mexico). Said AMLO, “And soon, very soon – after the victory of our movement – we will defend migrants all over the American continent and migrants of the world who, by necessity, must abandon their towns to find life in the United States…It’s a human right we will defend.” That was in June 2018.
I have to admit that I didn’t plan it this way, but just a few months later it appears that, with the Honduran migrant caravan getting a free pass through Mexico as I write, the Mexican government appears to be attempting to make good on AMLO’s promise, and he isn’t even scheduled to take office until December 1st!
If nothing else, the caravan certainly makes the timing of this series propitious. But it gets even better.
As part of the Mexico, Mass Migration and Moses series, it was my intention from the start to write about one of the key documents supplying the intellectual foundation of the caravan, a 2003 pastoral letter by the Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States titled Strangers No longer Together on the Journey of Hope (hereafter SNL).
John Robbins often made the point that the things men do, their practices, always are based on some prior theory. As practical Americans, we tend to disdain theory and focus only on actions. But if it’s true that man’s actions always represent the practice of some prior theory, and it is, then it is theory that is primary and actions that are secondary. Further, it is theory that should interest us the most.
If a man’s ideas about the way the world should work are sound, his practice likewise will tend to be sound. If his world view is based upon false ideas, his practice will tend to be corrupt.
In my review of SNL, I would like once again to focus on the Roman Church-State’s theory of migration – in two earlier installments of this series I focused on the most important Roman Catholic migration document of all, Pope Pius XII’s 1952 apostolic constitution Exsul Familia; you may read these installments here and here – by comparing the words of the bishops who wrote it with the Word of God. If their ideas – that is, the intellectual foundation of their calls for mass, taxpayer subsidized migration – do not hold up under the light of Scripture, then likewise their proposals for mass migration, immigration and refugee resettlement – including their defense of the caravan – fall too.
And not only does a refutation of SNL devastate the Roman Church-State’s theory of migration and nullify its petulant demands that nations pay it heed, it also exposes AMLO’s proclamation – which is nothing other than a restatement of Exsul Familia and SNL in his own words – to defend the right of all migrants to come and live in the US as the dangerous absurdity it truly is.
The truth is, refuting SNL from the Scriptures is not all that difficult. In short, SNL is a very Marian document, it is a very socialist document and it is a very globalist document, all which ideas are antithetical to Biblical Christianity. In my following remarks, I shall take on each of these ideas in order.
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While a candidate, Mexican president elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) promised to defend the right of everyone in the world to migrate to the United States. The migrant caravan making its way through Mexico appears to be a down payment on that promise…and AMLO hasn’t even taken office!
The pope, more than anybody else, has driven the migrant crisis in Europe…The Catholic Church is one of the worst instigators of this open borders policy.
– Steve Bannon, Former White House Strategist, June 2018
We interrupt this program…
When thinking about what to write for this week’s post, it was my intention to continue with my series on the 2008 financial crisis. But with the embarrassment of riches in the news just begging for a Scripturalist commentary, sometimes I find myself, as did the dog in the movie Up, saying “Squirrel!”
The squirrel, in this case, is the news of the Honduran migrant caravan slowly wending its way through Central America with the goal of arriving in El Norte. the United States.
Many commentators have speculated about the origins of the caravan. While it appears to have mysteriously sprung up almost overnight, given its size and the apparent organization, not to mention its timing near the November mid-term elections, it is difficult to believe that the caravan is a spontaneous uprising.
Among conservatives, it is fairly common to blame the United Nations and George Soros for instigating this latest attack on the United State’s southern border.
Donald Trump has tweeted that the fault lies with the Democrats and their lax approach to border security.
One financial commentator I follow has suggested, if I understand him correctly, that the migrant caravan was organized by financial interests in the federal government to give the Trump administration the excuse to borrow more money to fund the construction of the proposed southern border wall with Mexico. In the opinion of this financial commentator, the federal government must borrow cash into existence in order to pay the interest on the existing government debt. Deficit spending on the wall is one way of doing this.
While this suggestion is not as off the wall (pun intended) as it may seem, it is not my intention to explore it here today.
In fact, it’s not my intention to do a deep dive consideration of any of the popular theories about the source of the caravan’s organization and funding. It may well be that some, or even all, of the above suggestions are correct. It is not my purpose here to rule out any of them. But what I will say is that, even if they are true, none of them are adequate, for they fail to identify what is almost certainly the single most important sponsor of the caravan: The Roman Church-State.
It is the studied opinion of this author that the principal cause of the migrant crisis in Europe and in the United States, what Pope Francis has called a ‘sign of the times,’ is the Social Teaching and political activism of the Roman Church-State under the direction of its Antichrist popes.
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