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.
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.
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.
Pope Francis stands on an altar facing the U.S. before celebrating Mass during a February 2016 trip to Juarez. The papal visit was one of the El Paso Times’ top stories of 2016. Robin Zielinski/Las Cruces Sun-News
There are a few items I’d like to address before wrapping up this treatment of Exsul Familia Nazarethana (EFN), the Apostolic Constitution that provides the theoretical framework for the Roman Church-State’s massive and ongoing illegal alien assault on the United States of America.[1] The first of these is Rome’s “welcome the stranger” argument.
Pope Francis stands on an altar facing the U.S. before celebrating Mass during a February 2016 trip to Juarez. The papal visit was one of the El Paso Times’ top stories of 2016. Robin Zielinski/Las Cruces Sun-News
While Pius XII chose to build his case for mass welfare migration on the flight of Joseph and his family to Egypt recorded in Matthew 2:13-15, this is not the only passage in Scripture on which to build a doctrine of immigration. One could argue that, in fact, it is not even the best passage of Scripture to cite for that purpose.
There are several important differences between the situation with Joseph’s family and the sort of mass border rush that’s taking place in America under the current presidential administration. One of these we’ve already mentioned: Joseph and his family were truly asylees according to the modern definition of the term, but many of those pouring across America’s southwest border are economic migrants.[1] Certainly, one can sympathize with those seeking a better life, but their situation is not the same as those fleeing for their lives due to persecution.
But the problems with Pius XII’s argument don’t end there. One minor point worth noting is that both Judea and Egypt were constituent parts of the Roman Empire at the time of Christ’s birth. Fleeing from Judea to Egypt was simply going from one Roman province to another. Even Pius XII pretends to acknowledge that national borders matter, yet he builds his immigration case on an example where notional borders did not come into play.
Pope Francis stands on an altar facing the U.S. before celebrating Mass during a February 2016 trip to Juarez. The papal visit was one of the El Paso Times’ top stories of 2016. Robin Zielinski/Las Cruces Sun-News
Your land, strangers devour it in your presence.
Isaiah 1:9
“It’s a total free for all in Eagle Pass right now. Mass illegal crossing taking place for over an hour and a half. Almost 2 years to the day we saw 15,000+ Haitians under the bridge in Del Rio, we now have thousands of predominantly Venezuelans gathering under Eagle Pass bridge.”
That was a recent post on X[1] (formerly Twitter) from Fox News’ Bill Melugin, one of the few, perhaps the only, legacy media reporters who has consistently covered the illegal alien disaster taking plan on America’s southwest border. A disaster, the proximate cause of which is the policies of the current presidential administration.
A New York Times article[2]written the same day as Melugin’s post, September 20, 2023, reported that “Thousands of migrants crossed into the small city of Eagle Pass, Texas, from Mexico on Wednesday, crowding onto the bank of the Rio Grande and under an international bridge in what officials describe as an unfolding crisis.”
In a town hall on September 6, 2023,[3] New York mayor Eric Adams caused quite a stir when ripped the Biden Administration for providing “no support” to the city for the burgeoning illegal alien crisis and said, “This issue [the illegal alien crisis] will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City.” Given the scale of the illegal alien crisis in his city, it’s hard to argue with Mayor Adams’ assessment.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to reporters after taking a Pilates class in South Lake Tahoe, California, U.S., August 25, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Is scamdemic 2.0 upon us?
If the Biden Regime gets its way, the answer is yes.
And it’s not just a new vax that Jesuit Joe wants to foist upon us. Oh, no. That would be too small a thing. Jesuit Joe and the powers that shouldn’t be are positively giddy at the thought of bringing back all the joys of Covid 1.0: forced masking, social distancing, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates. In other words, the Covid tyranny full monty.
Will the Biden Regime get its way? I don’t know. I pray that that’s not the case. I’d like to believe that people are done with the fear-mongering and the tyranny.
“What freedom could the Pope be talking about,” I wondered. Freedom not to have my nation overrun by welfare migrants? Freedom not to be forced to pay for the housing, medical care, schooling, food, and a thousand other things for foreigners and illegal aliens? Freedom not to have children born in my country to illegal aliens declared instant American citizens with all the benefits thereof? Freedom not to have a replacement migration scheme run on the American people? Freedom not to be lectured by His Holiness (sic) and his lackeys about how I’m a bad person because I oppose having my land, as Isaiah put it, devoured by strangers?
No. Very obviously, the Papal Antichrist meant none of those things. The job of Antichrist is the to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. That’s how he rolls and he cannot do otherwise.
What Pope Francis meant by freedom is that migrants should be “free to choose whether to migrate or to stay.”
Those of us who are a bit older may remember a series on PBS some 40-odd years ago called “Free to Choose.” It was a series put out by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Freidman in defense of capitalism.
But Pope Francis, good socialist that he is, does not much care for capitalism, the system of free enterprise and private property found in the Bible. By “free to choose,” the Pope means that migrants are free to barge into your country and force you to pay to support them. And in Rome’s twisted way of thinking, it is your bounden duty to support them. Your “obligation” as various Roman Catholic prelates like to put it.
This supposed obligation to support migrants is a lie promoted by Rome to subvert independent nation-states and to further its own interests, chief among them the promotion of New World Order globalism. Although it may surprise some people to hear this, the Vatican, not the World Economic Forum, not the Bilderbergers, and not Bill Gates, is the beating heart of globalism. The Vatican has long used migration as a battering ram to undermine the relatively free and prosperous societies of the West – the relative freedom and prosperity of the West is the remnant of the 16th century Christian Reformation – and to bring them back under its sway, sway that was lost at the time of the Reformation and the ensuing Thirty Years’ War.
According to the article, “Pope Francis pointed out that the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt was not a free decision. This is the case with many migrants.”
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