
Mexican president elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador believes that mass migration to the United States is the right of all North Americans and all people throughout the world. Further, he promised to defend that right. So where did Lopez Obrador get such a strange idea? From the teachings of the Roman Church-State, of course.
“As much as I respect Cardinal (Timothy) Dolan and the bishops on doctrine, this is not doctrine. This is not doctrine at all. I totally respect the Pope and I totally respect the Catholic bishops and cardinals on doctrine. This is not about doctrine. This is about the sovereignty of a nation.”
These are the words spoken by former Trump administration Chief Strategist Steve Bannon in a 60 Minutes interview from September 2017.
Bannon continued, adding “And in that regard [concerning immigration]they’re [the bishops, cardinals and pope] just another guy with an opinion.
From his comments, we can gather that Steve Bannon makes a sharp distinction between the authority of the Roman Church-State on matters of doctrine, on the one hand, and its authority when it comes to immigration, on the other hand. According to Bannon, bishops, cardinals and popes speak with authority on doctrine. But in political matters, at least as far as immigration is concerned, they are confined to merely giving their opinion, which carries no more weight than that of any other Tom, Dick or Harry.
This is a fairly common opinion among Americanized Roman Catholics, particularly ones who favor limited government and free markets, but at the same time wish to be seen as remaining loyal to a Church that despises both.
But is it true that the pronouncements of the Roman Church-State on matters of immigration, migration and refugee resettlement are merely the opinions of private men?
Better yet, let’s put the question another way. Let us ask, In the eyes of the bishops, cardinals and popes of the Roman Church-State, are their pronouncements on immigration merely their private opinions, as Steve Bannon says, or are they official teachings of the Church which are binding on all?
So far in this series, we have looked at two enormous lies promulgated by Rome in the 1952 Apostolic Constitution Exsul Familia. In Part 5, we looked at how Rome’s doctrine of the universal destination of goods – the universal destination of good is Rome’s false teaching that God gave the world to men collectively; in other words, Rome teaches that communism, not private property, was the original economic order of creation – and how Rome used that false teaching to justify not only its push for the mass migration of individuals from poor nations into rich nations, but its assertion that the taxpayers of the rich receiving nations have an obligation to absorb the costs associated with this mass migration.
In Part 6, we looked at another implication of the universal destination of goods, the destruction of national sovereignty. In Exsul Familia, Pope Pius XII claims that although the sovereignty of the state must be respected, “[it] cannot be exaggerated to the point” where migrants are denied access to land within its territory. Left unstated but implied is the idea that migrants also have a claim on the host nations’ social welfare system.
This means, in effect, that no matter how much the citizens, legal residents and taxpayers of the host nation may complain to their government officials about the financial and social hardships created by mass migration, government officials have an obligation to ignore them and proceed full speed ahead with the migration program.
Who decides when enough is enough? Who is it that has the final say in whether a nation is exaggerating its sovereignty or not? The pope, of course. After all he’s the father of kings, the governor of the world and the vicar of Christ.
Today, we shall consider a third enormous lie of Exsul Familia, the megalomaniacal claim of the popes to have the right to impose their unscriptural economic and political ideas on the nations of the world.