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A man accused of causing a deadly crash on a Colorado highway was in the U.S. illegally, ICE confirmed. The Mexican national had been deported multiple times before the crash.
— Read on www.foxnews.com/us/semi-driver-deadly-colorado-highway-crash-illegal-immigrant-who-deported-from-us-multiple-times-ice

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, greets Pope Francis ahead of a working session on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Energy, Africa-Mediterranean, on day two of the 50th G7 summit at Borgo Egnazia, southern Italy, June 14, 2024.

Many Christians entirely miss the political and cultural influence of the Vatican, even when it’s reported publicly, even when it’s held up right in front of their faces. 

Consider how many influential Americans the pope has met with just recently.

Note well that the papal audiences described above are just with Americans and held over the past month. If you follow the news at all, you’ll know that these are not just ordinary Americans but individuals at the very top of the political and cultural pyramid. 

In recent days, the Pope has also addressed the G7 and met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, center, and other Catholic clergy from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso take part in a binational Mass on Nov. 5, 2022, in memory of migrants who died crossing the border as a result of the Roman Church-State’s irredentist immigration policies. (CNS photo/Gabriel Barraza, Reuters)

Once again, Mark Seitz, Bishop of El Paso and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’s (USCCB) Committee on Migration, is out there whining because the Biden Regime has put some minor restrictions on the flood of illegal aliens pouring across our nation’s southern border. 

In this case, the Biden Regime’s new proclamation “would bar migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials deem that the southern border is overwhelmed.”[1] It’s all nonsense.  As the AP states, the measure is designed “to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections.”  Put differently, the Biden Regime is making a weak attempt to fool voters into forgetting its border treason by putting in place a rule that will do very little to change the disastrous, Jesuit-run illegal alien disaster on our southern border.

But Treason Bishop Mark Seitz’s press release on the USCCB’s website paints it as a humanitarian disaster. Here’s his whine in full.

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Once again, the month formerly known as June has rolled around on the calendar. 

I took last week off work, and it can be easy to lose track of days when you’re not in your usual routine.  But not this time of year.  Everything is festooned in rainbow colors, so if nothing else, you know for certain that the month formerly known as June has arrived. 

Even my computer screen declares the onset of the annual festivities.  In the lower right corner of my screen where the system tray is located, I noticed yesterday that a rainbow-colored icon for Copilot, Microsoft’s AI tool, is now showing up.  Oh, the joy. 

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Pope Francis sits down with “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell at the Vatican April 24, 2024, for an interview ahead of the Vatican’s inaugural World Children’s Day. 

Last week, Antichrist Pope Francis gave an interview on 60 Minutes touching on several topics, one of which is a focus of this blog, immigration. 

Below are excerpts of Francis’ interview with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell.  My comments are interspersed. 

Norah O’Donnell:

In St. Peter’s Square sits this monument to migrants. On top of a boat, a young boy fleeing the Irish famine, a Jewish man escaping Nazi Germany, a woman departing the Syrian Civil War, unveiled by the Pope in 2019, calling on the faithful to welcome, protect, promote, and integrate. This is a big story in the United States because there have been so many migrants this year. I’ve been to the border and many times it is mothers with children who are fleeing violence and they walk thousands of miles with their families for a better life, and yet there is a discussion about closing the border, limiting migration.

My Comments: The Popes of Rome have seen mass immigration as a weapon to crack Protestant nations and bring them under the thumb of their Antichrist system since at least the mid-19th century, and probably much earlier.  An entire body of literature by 19th-century American Protestants, now largely forgotten, was produced to warn Americans of the threat Rome posed to American liberty.  Those warnings went largely unheeded. Now, in the early 21st century, we are reaping the effects of Rome’s longstanding war on America with, by some estimates, over 10 million illegal aliens, a large percentage of them Roman Catholic, having been allowed to enter the United States under Jesuit influenced, Roman Catholic President Joe Biden. 

In various places in America, these illegals have been rewarded with food, shelter, schooling for their children, driver’s licenses and other government IDs, and in-state college tuition benefits, all paid for by American citizens.

The illegal aliens also form a huge and easily exploitable labor pool that serves to drive down wages for blue-collar Americans, who, after inflation, haven’t had a pay raise in over 50 years, in part due to the mass importation of foreign labor supported by the welfare state.  This amounts to a massive government subsidy for industries that use the labor of illegal aliens to reduce their labor costs while offloading the social costs on the public.  This is called privatizing profits and socializing the costs.  This is not free market economics but a system of exploitation that forces lower and middle-class Americans to foot the social costs via direct taxation and indirect taxation – by indirect taxation, I mean things such as price inflation in food, housing, and other necessities as well as lower wages – so business owners can have an endless supply of cheap labor.     

Norah O’Donnell talks about mothers with children to evoke a sense of pity, but the report from the border and supporting videos and pictures show that the illegal alien flow is comprised heavily of military-aged men.

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US Rep. Elise Stefanik speaks at a Knesset caucus meeting on May 19, 2024 (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

“The U.S. government is manipulated by foreign interests.  Both Israel and the Vatican see the United States as their proxy in this religious war.”

  • John W. Robbins, “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century”

As long-time readers of this blog know, John Robbins has done more to shape my thinking on a whole range of topics than any other writer. 

Dr. Robbins was blessed with extraordinary insight into theology, philosophy, politics, and economics.  I doubt there is a sentence that I’ve written in the 15 years of writing the Lux Lucet blog that has not been shaped by his influence.

And just to prove the remarkable insight that he had, I’m going to once again refer to Robbins’ Trinity Review published in 2006, “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century.” The whole essay is well worth reading and commenting on.  But for the sake of time, I’m going to restrict myself to just the two sentences quoted at the top of this post. 

Robbins’ insight in these lines is both brilliant and simple at the same time.  Note that he understands, correctly, that both Israel and the Vatican manipulate the U.S. government for their own ends.  It’s not just one or the other.  It is both. This is a great danger to our republic in that neither Judaism nor Roman Catholicism has the necessary ideas to create or sustain a free society.  The greater their influence on our government, the more liberty Americans lose. 

Here are a few examples of why I say this.

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Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Dec. 26, following Israeli bombardments. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

I’ve written a great deal over the years in the space criticizing Roman Catholicism, but I’ve not had much to say about Dispensationalism.  But both of them seem to have this in common: they are deeply superstitious. 

Now Romanism and Dispensationalism are not superstitious in the same way. Romanism with its worship of Mary and the saints,[1] its doctrine of transubstantiation, and its cult of relics is thoroughly imbued with superstition.  Dispensationalism, on the other hand, is a superstition that has taken over large parts of the professing Evangelical church in the United States, its chief superstition being the worship, or something close to it, of the modern nation-state of Israel.

Pastor Greg Locke, a Baptist preacher, is one of many examples of Israel worshipping American Evangelicals on the scene today.  In a post on X dated 5/11/2024, Locke spent 588 words expressing his thoughts on Israel, even threatening to dismiss congregants whose views did not conform to his. Locke wrote, “In the last days there will be ONE dividing factor in the Body of Christ.”  Locke enumerated several things that were not dividing factors: who kept their church open or closed (apparently a reference to Covid), cessationists vs. those who operate “in the gifts,” traditional vs. contemporary worship, or Bible versions.  Interestingly, Locke did not mention those who believe in sovereign grace or free will or those who hold to justification by belief alone vs. those who hold that one is saved by faith plus something else.  No, these are all minor issues.  The big dividing line for Pastor Locke is what one believes about the nation-state of Israel. 

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