Pope Francis stands on an altar facing the U.S. before celebrating Mass during a February 2016 trip to Juarez. A mere five years later, America’s second Roman Catholic president unleashed a border invasion the likes of which America had never seen. Photo: Robin Zielinski/Las Cruces Sun-News.
It was just recently that I was surprised to hear about a growing crisis in Springfield, Ohio, surrounding the large population of Haitians who had taken up residence there. I was surprised because I have spent much time studying and writing about America’s long-running immigration crisis. Further, Springfield is more or less in my backyard, just an hour’s drive away. However, I was unaware of the situation until it burst onto the national scene in the late summer of 2024.
After President Biden’s announcements on social media on Sunday, a crowd gathered at the White House gates. Credit…Al Drago for The New York Times
The news this afternoon was hardly unexpected: Joe Biden will not run for president in 2024.
The buzzards have been circling almost since Biden was rigged into office in 2020. Actually, they started before that. There was lots of talk leading up to the election in 2020 about how Biden would get in and resign within a year of taking office. Now, the rumors are the reality.
There was much debate among pundits about whether Biden would hang on, with Jill Biden’s role in Joe’s tenacious hold on the Democratic nomination over the past several weeks coming into focus. In the end, behind-the-scenes pressure, probably mostly donor pressure [1], proved too much.
I’m not sorry to see Biden go. He’s an evil man who has done enormous damage to the United States during his term in office, his signature work of destruction being the 10 million or more illegal aliens he allowed into America on behalf of the Vatican in support of Antichrist’s long-term goal of bringing America under the thumb of Rome.
Biden has always been the Vatican/Deep State candidate and he served his masters well. The American people, not so much.
Donald Trump being ushered off stage by the Secret Service after an assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump yesterday was shocking but certainly not surprising. While they’ve been careful not to directly demand it, since at least 2015, many in America’s ruling class have invited such an attack with their repeated denunciations of Donald Trump and his supporters.
Early in the Biden Regime, someone – I don’t have the quote handy – commented that, historically, presidential candidates and presidents would attack their political opponents but not their opponents’ supporters. That’s not the case anymore.
Obama started it with his comments about the “bitter clingers,” which was the term he used to put down impoverished small-town and rural whites, who he dismissively described as bitter and clinging to their guns and religion.
U.S. President Joe Biden attends the first presidential debate hosted by CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., June 27, 2024.
Last December, I had lunch with a friend. We both talked about the upcoming 2024 presidential election and kicked around possible outcomes. One thing we both agreed on is that, come the fall of 2024, we could find ourselves living in a very different world.
Now, here we are, over six months since our lunch, and things are still as much up in the air as they were last December. Biden has locked up the Democratic nomination, and Trump the Republican. So we’re headed for a rematch of the 2020 election, right?
Well, if you’ve followed the news, you already know things aren’t nearly that certain. Donald Trump has been convicted in a New York court of some felony or other and may end up getting tossed in jail. His sentencing date is July 11, a mere 4 days before the Republican National Convention starts in Milwaukee. What if he does receive jail time? Will it affect his nomination? What if Trump wins the White House while in prison?
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.
In May 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul met with the Pope while attending a client change conference. The New York Post reports that Francis “presented her with a rosary.”
Jesuit-educated California Governor Gavin Newsom met with Pope Francis in May 2024. According to this article in Politico, “When the pope calls, Newsom answers.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Israel blows up Gaza, then wants to send the refugees to America.
One of the tired, stock lies of the Israel Lobby is the canard that “God blesses those who bless [the nation-state] of Israel.” And when they say “bless Israel,” they mean harm America for the benefit of the Zionist state.
Well, get ready get ready for another blessing from our greatest ally!
According this story from CBS, the “White House considers welcoming some Palestinians from war-torn Gaza as refugees.”
Bibi Netanyahu doesn’t want them hanging around his neck of the woods, but our greatest ally thinks sending them to your neighborhood and forcing you to support them with your tax dollars is an awesome idea. Our wonderful president agrees. So don’t even think about complaining about this wonderful blessing or so much as ask a question about why America should take these people in. No sir. Why, that would be antisemitic. And you don’t want to be antisemitic, do you?
This is all very predictable. Israel began the campaign to offload its Gaza problem on America at least as far back as November 2023. In an op-ed titled “The West Should Welcome Gaza Refugees: Europe and the U.S. accepted millions who fled eaerlier wars” in the Wall Street Journal dated Nov. 13, 2023, Danny Danon (a sitting member of the Israeli Knesset) and Ram Ben-Barak (another sitting member of the Knesset and former deputy director of the Mossad) could hardly contain their eagerness to bless Europe and America with millions more refugees. “The international community has a moral imperative…to…help the people of Gaza move toward a more prosperous future.”
For some unexplained reason, “the international community,” by which these two Israelis mean Europe and the U.S., have this “moral responsibility,” but not Israel.
The proper response to them is “Get thee behind me, Satan!”
Terrace Park Cemetery in Holtville, CA, where the remains of numerous, unidentified illegal aliens are buried. These individuals died in the desert attempting to avoid detection by U.S. border authorities.
If you read Roman Catholic immigration material long enough, you’ll eventually come across a story about commemorating migrants who die while attempting to illegally enter the United States.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) posted another such story on their X feed last week titled “At burial ground for unidentified migrants, sisters pray for the dead.” Apart from the obvious doctrinal error of praying for the dead, there is another problem that takes a bit more work to unravel. I’m referring to the problem of the migrant deaths themselves.
The implicit intent of these stories is to shift the blame for the death of the migrants from the treasonous activities of the Roman Catholic Church-State (RCCS) to the American people and their elected representatives.