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The Message of Messiah’s Birth and Rome’s Myth of Mass Migration

Posted in Immigration, tagged Antichrist, Immigration, John Robbins, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Roman Church-State on December 31, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Image taken from rock star Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ tweet depicting, apparently, Central American migrants as Joseph and his family fleeing to Egypt to escape the murderous King Herod.

“It is repugnant to me and astonishing to me that during Christmas…a time in which we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a Jesus Christ who had to flee for his life with Mary and Joseph…Thank God there wasn’t a wall that stopped him [Jesus] from seeking refuge in Egypt. Thank God that wall wasn’t there, and thank God there wasn’t an administration like this or he would too have perished.”

– Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D, Ill.)

Would it be too much to ask to get through the Christmas season without some SJW lecturing me, and in the most strident terms, about my supposed Christian duty to welcome with open arms every single migrant who wants to come to the US for whatever reason? As the above quote from the Rep Gutierrez makes quite clear, yes it is.

The occasion for Rep. Gutierrez’ charming rant was a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee where Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was giving testimony. Gutierrez’ was in rare form in this hearing, calling Nielsen a “liar” and then proceeding to get up and walk out in high dudgeon during Nielsen’s response. If you have a strong stomach, you can watch Gutierrez’ whole sorry performance here.

On Christmas day, incoming Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a tweet depicting, apparently, central American migrants as Joseph and his family fleeing to Egypt to escape Herod. In her tweet she wrote, “True love is radical because it requires us to see ourselves in all people. Otherwise, it isn’t love. Love is revolutionary because it has us treat ALL people as we would ourselves – not because we are charitable, but because we are one. That is love’s radical conclusion.”

The Hill also notes that on Christmas, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “Merry Christmas everyone – here’s to a holiday filled with happiness, family, and love for all people. (Including refugee babies in mangers + their parents.).”

But wait, there’s more.

Employing the rhetoric of Rome, this nominally Protestant congregation in Oklahoma recently gained nation attention with its display of a nativity scene surrounded by a chain link fence.

“Oklahoma Church Erects Fence Around Nativity scene to Protest Trump Border Policies” ran the New York Times headline from 12/21. A quick glance at the church’s Facebook page reveals a header that reads, “Love One Another. Every.Single.Other.” On the same page is the picture above

In another incident, St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Mass. displayed a statue of the baby Jesus in a cage with three wise men gazing at him behind a barrier. The parish priest, Stephen Josoma, is quoted as saying, “Jesus was about taking care of one another. This is not the way to take care of one another.”

In case you were wondering, we’re not done yet.

Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis got in on the Christmas in July act this year when it set up a nativity scene behind a chain-link fence in protest of the Trump Administration’s migrant policies. According to an article in the Indianapolis Star, the cathedral’s dean and rector, the Rev. Stephen Carlsen, defended the unusual set up by saying, “I know what the Bible said, we’re supposed to love our neighbors as ourselves.”

“All you need is love,” sang the Beatles, and, it would seem, this group of politicians and theologians has taken them to heart. Their case can seem pretty daunting, too. After all, the Bible does command Christians to love their neighbors as themselves. How is that compatible with migrant detention centers and border walls? Are Christians who advocate border security, especially those deplorable types in flyover country, sinning when they seek to limit immigration in its various forms?

The short answer to that question is no, they are not sinning when they reject the unbiblical impositions laid upon them by confused clergymen and perplexed politicians. Let’s take a look at some of the fallacies in their thinking exhibited in the stories above.

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Catholic Extension: Apologists for Antichrist’s Migrant Invasion

Posted in Immigration, Politics, Roman Catholicism, tagged Antichrist, Catholic Extension, Migrant Caravan, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Rome and Immigration, US Migrant Crisis, USCCB on November 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses Part 13: Strangers No Longer, Odds and Ends (B)

Posted in Immigration, Politics, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Church World Service, Mexico Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Strangers No Longer, Universal Destination of Goods on November 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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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Invasion USA: Pueblo Sin Fronteras Endorses Petulant Asylum Demands

Posted in Immigration, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Migrant Caravan, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Rome and Immigration, US Migrant Crisis on November 23, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses Part 12: Strangers No Longer, Odds and Ends (A)

Posted in Immigration, Politics, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Exsul Familia, Roman Catholic Economics, Roman Catholic Politics, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Roman Church-State, Strangers No Longer, Universal Destination of Goods on November 18, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses Part 11: Strangers No Longer, the USCCB’s Subversive Pastoral Letter

Posted in Immigration, Roman Catholicism, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Mexico Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, Politics, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Rome and Immigration, Strangers No Longer on November 11, 2018| 4 Comments »

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.”

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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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses Part 10: Strangers No Longer, the USCCB’s Subversive Pastoral Letter

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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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