Idol of Our Lady of Guadalupe on America’s southern border
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Ephesians 5:11
Is it logically possible to hold to Rome’s theology while at the same time rejecting her politics and economics? Many American Roman Catholics, some of whom may be more Protestant in their thinking than they realize, would answer yes.
Writing in his 1999 book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John Robbins gave the opposite answer. In the Introduction of his book, Robbins noted that Rome’s pronouncements on politics and economics were not, “disjointed statements, but the logical conclusions of premises accepted in Roman theology.” Put another way, if someone accepts Rome’s theology, he logically must also accept Rome’s politics and economics.
Rome’s theology, politics, and economics are part of a “package deal” as Robbins put it, and one does not have the option of following Rome in its theology while at the same time rejecting its political and economic philosophy. “This,” Robbins commented, “flies in the face not only of the claims of the Church-State itself but of reason as well.
I bring up this point as today, December 12, marks the date on which the Church-State celebrates the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. According to one article in the America Magazine, a Jesuit publication, Our Lady of Guadalupe (OLG) “remains a cherished part of Mexican national identity.” Another piece in America magazine gives several other titles OLG is known by: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Empress of the Americas, and Our Lady of Tepeyac.
Here’s one interesting item of OLG trivia from one of the America Magazine articles. Juan Diego, the fellow to whom the demon in the form of Mary is said to have first revealed herself, may never have existed. Despite his possible non-existence, he was canonized anyway in 2002, “as part of a strategy to retain indigenous Catholics in Mexico and across Latin America who have been defecting in droves to Protestantism, especially Pentecostalism.”
In one way, this really isn’t surprising. Rome makes up stuff all the time and has done so for centuries. Still, to come right out and say that “there is no hard evidence St. Juan Diego ever existed” while at the same time canonizing him is a bit shocking. Apparently, the Church-State really is running scared that it’s losing its centuries-long grip on “indigenous Catholics in Mexico and across Latin America.”
“We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion. We are loyal to our flag.”
It’s very late on a Friday night, or more accurately, very early on a Saturday morning, and I seriously should be in bed right now. But for all that, I just can’t sleep after something I just read on Twitter. It’s this article here, “Border bishops honor dead migrants at Mass Juarez.”
It’s funny how the bishops can go out of their way to honor those who willfully, knowingly break American immigration law but have nothing to say when Americans are harmed or killed by these same people. Take for example the case in Florida where Yery Noel Medina Ulloa stands accused of murdering Francisco Javier Cuellar. As it turns out, Ulloa lied to get into the US earlier this year, claiming to be a teenager named Reynel Alexander Hernandez. And since the Biden regime is not deporting unaccompanied minors, but instead is releasing them into the nation, uniting them with sponsors, Ulloa was given the opportunity to murder a man. Apparently, the man he murdered was his sponsor.
Or how about this case. Do you think the cardinals, bishops, priests, and nuns of the Roman Catholic Church-State are concerned about the man Jose Omar Bello Reyes murdered? Reyes, twice detained by ICE and bailed out by two NFL players is facing other felony charges as well.
Wilton Cardinal Gregory, Archbishop of Washington D.C., is extraordinarily generous with other peoples’ money.
“We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion. We are loyal to our flag.”
Dr. Samuel D. Burchard, Presbyterian Minister and Union Civil War Veteran
As a blogger in the Year of Our Lord 2021, it’s hard sometimes to know what to focus on. Not for lack of topics, mind you. Not at all. Rather, it’s because there are just so many things that that demand attention it’s can be hard to know where to begin.
We have anti-Christian and anti-white Critical Race Theory running rampant, taking over governments at all levels, corporations, schools, universities, and the media. The illegitimate Biden regime has declared war on the deplorables, seeking to brand them all as white supremacist insurrectionists for the crime of political disagreement. Covid vaccine tyranny threatens our civil liberties in a way that was unimaginable just two years ago. Our economy is in free fall. The federal government is spending money like a drunken sailor. The Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is printing money at a fantastic pace to finance that spending and to keep the financial system from imploding. Oh, and then there’s climate change and the Green New Deal. I can’t neglect to mention these frauds.
There’s all that.
And then there’s the illegal immigration crisis at our southern border, a crisis deliberately brought about by the treasonous policies of the Biden regime. A crisis that serves several purposes. At a time when millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed due to the tyrannical Covid lockdown polices favored by the Democrats, this is a gift to the cheap labor lobby. A second purpose is that of importing Democrats, diluting the votes of the historic American nation, and setting up permanent, single-party Democratic rule. The party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism and rebellion wants to do to the whole nation what it did to California. But a third purpose, and perhaps really the first purpose, is to continue Romanizing America Through Illegal Immigration.
Joseph R. Biden is a Roman Catholic and openly carries out the Vatican’s immigration policy designed to subvert the United States of America by turning it into an ungovernable Tower of Babel, to overthrow the Biblical and Protestant Westphalian World Order (WWO), and to institute the New World Order (NWO), an anti-Christian, technocratic, Satanic form of world government.
But while the Roman Catholic Church-State (RCCS) has openly, loudly, and constantly worked to undermine the WWO through mass migration, hardly anyone seems to notice this. Yet once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
A recent example of Rome’s open assault on the United States – I write here of American, because I’m and American and know the situation here better than I do other places, but make no mistake, what Rome is doing to America, it’s doing to European nations and other nations throughout the world – came from archbishop of Washington D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory. In an article titled “D.C. Archbishop: American Must ‘Share Our Abundance” With Illegal Aliens,” the archbishop openly argued that Congress has an obligation to commit treason against the American people by granting amnesty to the approximately 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States.
Said Gregory,
Catholic social teaching upholds the principle that every person has the right to live in his or her own homeland in security and dignity. However, when loss of work forces migration, we must welcome them, protect them and share our abundance with them.
Standing in solidarity with our migrant brothers and sisters means once again raising the question, will we care for our neighbor? After years of delay, the 117th Congress now has an opportunity to be courageous by addressing immigration in a comprehensive and productive way.
Note well Gregory’s use of the term “must.” According to the archbishop, Congress has a moral obligation to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. The granting of amnesty to those who violated American immigration law is not merely a matter of policy, says the archbishop, but an ethical imperative.
The basis for this moral imperative, says Gregory, is that people have a right to migrate or to immigrate. Now it’s important to understand what the RCCS means by this. Rome doesn’t simply mean that people have a right to move from one nation to another, but that the citizens of the receiving state have a moral obligation to shower the newcomers with fabulous cash and prizes in the form of goodies from the welfare state. This is what Wilton means when he says, “we must…share our abundance with them.”
One of the most offensives aspects of Rome’s calls for immigration treason is its coyness when it comes to who bears the cost for its pharisaical moralizing. Just as the pharisees of old tied up burdens heavy to bear on men’s backs but would not themselves so much as lift a finger to bear them, so too does the RCCS hold itself out as some great force for moral goodness while dumping the cost of its pronouncements off on others. In this case, it’s the citizens of the United States who will bear the cost of Wilton’s nonsense. Wilton, like Rome generally, is quite generous with other peoples’ money.
But while Rome usually hides behind the fog of generalities when it comes to who pays for its migrant pronouncements, every now and then a Catholic writer spills the beans. Writing in the introduction to Exsul Familia: The Church’s Magna Charta for Migrants, editor Rev. Giulivo Tessarolo wrote, “In undertaking this work, I took cognizance of a significant social fact of our time; that, due to enormous financial implications, the phenomenon of emigration will find some relief only in the English-speaking countries. The vast influx of immigrants into Canada and Australia confirms that fact.” In other words, Tessarolo thought that only the Anglosphere could bear the enormous costs of mass welfare migration. He was surely right in this.
Note well, Tessarolo’s remarks exclude the U.S., because he wrote in 1962, three years before America opened the immigration floodgates with the 1965 Immigration Act, an Act signed into law by then President Lyndon Johnson. During the signing ceremony, Johnson attributed the Act to, “the vision of the late beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy [American’s first Roman Catholic president], and to the support given to this measure by the then Attorney General and now Senator, Robert F. Kennedy [also a son of Rome].”
It was Rome that helped gift American with the welfare state, and it was Rome that the used that weaponized that welfare state to supercharge immigration, migration, and refugee resettlement for the purposes of undermining American and turning from a free and sovereign republic into another cog in the globalist machine. Not only is the historic American nation being dispossessed as it is overrun with replacement migration, but it is also forced to pay for the privilege of its own dispossession. This is truly diabolical and is exactly what one would expect from Antichrist and Mystery Babylon.
One important theoretical point that Cardinal Wilton did not mention in his attack on the American nation is Rome’s unbiblical theory of property call “the universal destination of goods” (UDG). I’ve written extensively about the UDG in this space and will not repeat all that I have said on the subject. One example can be found here. For our purposes today, I’ll simply remark that Rome’s conception of private property is probably not the same as yours. You likely think that your title to property gives you the legal and moral the exclusive right to use and to dispose of the things you own. But Rome doesn’t see it that way. In Rome’s unbiblical economic and political thought, need is the only criterion for ownership. If someone needs an item you possess, it is that person’s right, or the government’s, to take it from you and to give it to him for his use. This, in a nutshell, is the UDG.
A second idea underlying Rome’s theory of immigration is a concept called The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man (FOGBOM). John Robbins explains FOGBOM in his masterful book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, where he quotes John Paul II in one of his encyclicals, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On the Social Concern). Wrote John Paul II, “The teaching and spreading of her social doctrine are part of the Church’s evangelizing mission.” One of the ways the RCCS seeks to “evangelize” the world with its social doctrine in through mass, illegal, taxpayer subsidized immigration. Writing in Strangers No Longer (SNL) – SNL is a 2003 position paper co-authored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and their Mexican Conference of Catholic Bishops; essentially, it functions as the bishop’s game plan for subverting the United States of America through mass, taxpayer funded illegal immigration from Mexico and other Latin American nations – the bishops conclude,
As bishops we have decided, in the words of Pope John Paul II, to “put out into the deep” 31 in search of common initiatives that will promote solidarity between our countries, particularly among the Catholics of both countries [America and Mexico]. We are committed to the new evangelization of our continent and to the search for new ways of leading our peoples to encounter Christ, who is “the path to conversion, communion and solidarity” (emphasis mine).
Worth noting in this quote are the words “the path to conversion, communion and solidarity.” These are taken from Pope John Paul II’s 1999 exhortation “Ecclesia in America,” in which the Pope writes, “the Virgin of Guadalupe [Our Lady of Guadalupe] is venerated as Queen of all America.” And by “America,” the Pope means the whole continent, not the nation commonly called America. The Pope goes on to call Our Lady of Guadalupe the “Patroness of all America and Star of the first and new evangelization” …and “Mother and Evangelizer of America.” One of the chief means of evangelization used by Our Lady of Guadalupe is illegal immigration.
Yes, Rome seeks to evangelize the United States with the gospel of a demon called Our Lady of Guadalupe. To borrow a Star Trek reference, it’s as if Rome wants all Americans to become one with the FOGBOM Borg through the lies of a demonic apparition.
So, according to the immigration theory of the RCCS, not only do migrants have the right to barge into your country, immigration laws and economic conditions notwithstanding, they also have the right to take your stuff. And you have no say in the matter. As an American, your only job is to sit down, shut up, and fork it over. To make matters worse, these same illegal immigrants are charged with the responsibility of “evangelizing” Americans with the doctrines of devils, namely, devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
So much for the immigration theory of the RCCS.
An estimated 1,000 migrants wait under the Anzalduas International Bridge near McAllen, TX, August 2021. This is what happens when Rome’s evil immigration theory is put into practice.
Rome’s Immigration Practice
Rome is daily, openly, and actively working to subvert the United State of America by promoting the current massive flood of illegal immigration across our southern border. One of the Trump Administration’s few real wins has, in the space of a mere seven months, been completely reversed by the treasonous, illegitimate Biden regime through “la invitacion,” Spanish for “y’all come on up and we’ll give you lots of free stuff!”
In a recent article titled “COVID-19, Catholics and Illegal Alien Charities,” columnist Michelle Malkin, herself a Roman Catholic, exposed some of the wicked, treasonous activities of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grand Valley (CCRGV). It seems that not only has CCRGV actively promoted illegal border crossings, but has put up large numbers of Covid positive migrants in motels along the border.
Citing Fox New reporter Bill Melugin, Malkin writes,
Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reported on Tuesday that “after an incident at a Whataburger, police in La Joya, (Texas,) say they’ve learned illegal immigrants who test positive for COVID-19 are being released from federal custody to a local Catholic charity in the (Rio Grande Valley,) which then places them in local hotels without notice.”
So here we are at a time when actual American citizens are being threatened with new lockdowns, mask requirements, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, vaccine “strike forces,” placement on no-fly lists, etc. all supposedly to save us all from the dread “Delta Variant,” while illegal, Covid positive immigrants brought here by the illegitimate Biden regime and Catholic Charities are released into American cities with absolutely no concern for the health effects on the American people.
To underscore the treasonous nature of CCRGV and its complete disregard for the health and well-being of the American people, Bill Melugin reports that he asked the executive director of CCRGV, a nun by the name of Norma Pimentel, how many Covid positive illegal immigrants were quarantined in local hotels. Pimentel’s response was that she had been advised not to comment.
This nun, who is openly endangering the health of the America people, hides behind a “no comment” when asked about her treasonous practices. Could anything be more typical of the arrogance and irresponsibility of the RCCS than this?
Anyone paying attention to the news knows the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible. Anyone who actually visits the border discovers it is worse than that.
Here is what is most striking about the government’s response to the unprecedented surge of illegal border crossers: It is entirely improvised. Jury-rigged. Thrown together in a scramble to accommodate thousands of migrants who were not coming just months ago. And the reason it is being improvised is that during his first days in office, President Joe Biden blew up the foundation of the government’s handling of migrants. With a series of executive actions, Biden threw out key policies with nothing ready to replace them. And he did it using rhetoric that invited migrants to rush to the border — more than 172,000 in March alone, including nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children (emphasis mine).
Joe Biden is an illegitimate president. He serves not the interests of the American people, nor does he defend the Constitution. He is a tool of the Vatican and does the bidding of his father in Rome. What you are seeing on America’s southern border is the practice of Rome’s nation breaking theory of immigration.
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
When Presbyterian Samuel D. Burchard said described the Democrats as the “party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism and rebellion,” he could not have been more accurate or prescient in his remarks. The Democrats were then, and are much more today, exactly that. The current Pope and the popes before him have openly called for mass migration in the name of humanitarianism. But it’s not the good of the world’s poor that is the concern of the occupants of the office of Antichrist. Their goal is world government; migrants are their pawns for achieving that end. And in the United States, the primary channel for the papal Antichrist to work his evil deeds has been the Democratic party. This has been the case for over 150 years.
By flooding America’s southern border with an unprecedented flow of illegal immigrants, the Biden regime, the party of rum Romanism and rebellion, and their supporters in the schools, universities, and the media are working overtime to carry out Antichrist’s immigration policy, see, for example, here, here and here. The ultimate aim of this policy to subvert the United Sates, and, more generally, the WWO and usher in a tyrannical, globalist empire headed by Rome. There is nothing, not one thing, about the Biden regime’s immigration policy that is in any way beneficial to ordinary Americans or to the nation as a whole. But it does serve certain elite interests, in particular that of the RCCS, the Democratic party, the massive governmental welfare bureaucracy, socialists generally, and those who benefit from the cheapest possible labor while offloading the social costs of that cheap labor onto taxpayers.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 8 of the Constitution sets forth the presidential oath of office, which reads, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” There is nothing, not one thing, about Joe Biden’s immigration policy that is consistent with this oath. But his polices and his words have been consistent with carrying out the immigration policy of Antichrist. For this reason alone he deserves to be removed from office. One may well argue that Biden’s immigration policy rises to the level of treason. In the opinion of this author, it does.
The RCCS and the Popes of Rome are wicked beyond what most people can imagine. Time was, Christians understood the evil of Rome and opposed it. Writing in the 19th century, Charles Spurgeon said, “It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name.”
But ask yourself, when was the last time you hear a sermon denouncing Rome as Mystery Babylon or the pope as Antichrist. If you’re like me or like most Christians in Bible believing churches, the answer is never.
Brothers, this cannot be allowed to stand. We must do better. Antichrist and his minions are openly, brazenly, and without opposition destroying America and other nations around the world through mass migration, immigration, and refugee resettlement. Yet our pulpits remain silent in the face of this evil.
I’m reminded or the Proverb, “A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a murky spring and a polluted well.”
For far too long, Protestants have faltered before the wicked Pope’s of Rome. Things have gotten so bad that many nominal Protestants promote Antichrist as their “brother in Christ.”
America is under sustained attack by Antichrist and Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Harlots. It’s high time Christians repented of their cowardice and called upon the Lord to grant them the courage to expose evil, nation destroying immigration theory and practice of the papal Antichrist and the RCCS. The future of our nation depends on it.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
– Jeremiah 9:5
Miss two weeks, miss a lot. That’s how it is when you track the evil work of Antichrist. Mind you, I’m not speaking about all the evil the Pope and his minions are up to. God alone knows this. For the moment, I speak only of the evil work he and his ministers are doing on the immigration front. And that’s only here in the America!
Yes, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church-State are up to their usual immigration treachery as they continue their attempt to destabilize America by flooding the nation with bogus asylum seekers and welfare migrants, most of whom are themselves Roman Catholics.
More than any other institution, it is the Roman Catholic Church-State that is responsible for the mess on America’s southern border. One could liken Rome to the arsonist who first sets you house on fire, pretends to be the hero by showing up in a fire truck to douse the blaze, and then lectures you for your supposed lack of fire safety precautions.
Rome’s scan works like this. First, representatives of the Mystery Babylon cynically encourage people to violate US immigration law, often at great personal risk to themselves. Then, when something bad happens to one of their pawns, Rome sends its representatives to primp and preen before the cameras to lecture and to shame Americans about how it’s all their fault due to their supposed lack of Christian charity. Finally, in light of the most recent border tragedy Rome renews demands for the federal government to divert even more taxpayer funds to solve the humanitarian crisis Rome created in the first place. Naturally, “solving the humanitarian crisis” means letting more migrants in faster and, once they get here, giving them even more free stuff paid for by Americans.
Of course, the USCCB is very careful during this whole process to make clear that they believe that nations do have a right to regulate their borders, except when, “such control… is exerted merely for the purpose of acquiring additional wealth” (Strangers No Longer, 33). But oddly enough, every time the Trump administration attempts to do something that’s actually effective at ending the abuse of American citizens at the hands of the Pope’s welfare migrant hordes, Rome cries foul. Quite obviously, the claims of the USCCB, and of other individuals and organizations within the Roman Church-State, that it believes that nations have a right to regulate their borders is a fig leaf to cover their real agenda, which is to break America and to initiate world government through mass welfare migration.
This scam is not unique to America. Rome does the exact same thing in Europe, where the Pope has openly conspired with leaders such as Germany’s Angela Merkel to push a mass migration from the Middle East and Africa, a program which is clearly at odds with the best interests, not only of the German people, but of the people of the other EU nations.
As in all other matters, when Rome’s representatives speak concerning immigration, they do so with a tongue they’ve taught to speak lies.
In support of these claims, I’d like to walk through three recent press releases by the USCCB concerning the migrant crisis on America’s southern border.
One could hardly find a better word than Janus-faced, meaning duplicitous or two-faced, to describe the men who comprise the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). For these guys truly are masters of appearing to look in all directions at once, of seeming to be all things to all men, while at the same time never deviating from their evil plans.
You gotta fight for your right to migrate. Then Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s remarkable promise to fight for the right of everyone in the whole world to migrate to the US is what first prompted me to write this series beginning in June 2018.
No sooner had I finished reading this remarkable statement than I realized that I’d soon be writing my second extended series on immigration.
It may seem to some that Lux Lucet has become an immigration blog, what with the subject occupying such a large portion of my posts over the past two and a half years. My first series, Immigration, Citizenship and the Bible, took me nearly a year-and-a-half to write and represented my first extended effort on the subject of immigration.
So why, after spending all that time and energy completing on extended immigration series, did I start another one less than six months later? There are several reasons.
First, immigration is a fascinating topic, one that incorporates a number of my favorite fields of study. It’s part politics, part economics, part philosophy and part theology. What’s not to like?
Second, it’s a critically important topic. Parents, at least wise one’s, naturally want to pass their heritage to their children and to see them prosper in the way. In Deuteronomy, we see this expressed in the saying that the Lord keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love him. Likewise, we’re told in Proverbs that a good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. Fathers are encouraged to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, and children to obey their father and mother. But if current trends continue in the US and in Western Europe, it may well be that in a few decades not a few of these nations will cease to exist in anything like their historic form. There may be a France and a Germany and a United States, but these could well be just legacy place names only, with the actual peoples that historically occupied those places and their cultures being largely or entirely wiped out. The destruction of one’s heritage is not a blessing, but a sign of God’s curse. If the public policies pursued by the leaders of a nation and its people result, not in prosperity for their posterity, but in their destruction, it is reasonable to conclude that those policies are contrary to the law of God and must be repented of.
Third, immigration is one of the most poorly understood topics. If one is to prevent the destruction of one’s society, one first must understand why his society is being destroyed. But discussions of immigration policy, being prone as they are to emotional outbursts, are, for that reason, not always fruitful. I’ve heard Daniel McAdams, a former Congressional staffer for Ron Paul and Dr. Paul’s current co-host on the Liberty Report, say that immigration was his least favorite topic because of the extreme positions taken by various sides on the issue. For this reason, it’s important to find a way to talk about immigration in a way that focuses on ideas and not on people.
Fourth, immigration is a major weapon on the Roman Church-State’s arsenal for imposing an updated version of the Holy Roman Empire, not on Europe only, but on the whole world. Call it scalable tyranny if you will. It is imperative to understand the danger of Rome’s immigration gambit, yet most Americans are clueless about this. Former White House Chief Political Strategist Steve Bannon, himself a Roman Catholic, understands, at least in part, why Rome pushes immigration so hard. According to him, “unable to really come to grips with the problems in the Church, they need illegal aliens, they need illegal aliens to fill the churches. It’s obvious on the face of it…They have an economic interest. They have an economic interest in unlimited immigration, unlimited illegal immigration.
Fifth, Protestants, who should be at the forefront of the immigration debate, generally are missing in action. Either they avoid the subject out of fear or ignorance, or, when they do discuss it, they show themselves the intellectual thralls of Antichrist. Instead of going to the Scriptures to understand the mind of God on immigration, they instead are satisfied with repeating the tired and unbiblical arguments of the Roman Church-State, tricking it out in Evangelical garb to sell Rome’s nonsense to the unsuspecting sheep.
Sixth, immigration is a topic tailor made for Scripturalists. Scripturalism, the Christian system of thought developed by Gordon Clark and John Robbins, holds that the Bible has a systematic monopoly on truth. If Americans are to solve the knotty problem of immigration, they will not do so by turning to secular economists or political theorists. They must turn to the Word of God and seek his mind on the matter. It has been the goal of this author to begin the process of applying Scripturalist thought to the critical issue of immigration policy.
“The Prime duties of the second table [of the ten commandments] are conversant about the right of property. But if property be brought in by a human law (as Grotius teacheth), then the moral law depends upon the will of man. There could be no adultery or theft, if women and all things were common.”
– Sir Robert Filmer, Patriarcha
Rome’s teaching on migration, which is the theoretical basis for the ongoing migration crisis in both Europe and the United States, rests on the doctrine of the universal destination of goods.
The universal destination of all goods is the idea, repeated time and again in the official documents of the Roman Church-State, that in the original state of nature, before the fall of man, that God gave the world to mankind collectively. This idea, dating back to the pagan stoics, was picked up by the church fathers, repeated by Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae, and used by popes and other thinkers in the Roman Church-State as the foundational idea for socialist economic and political thought which characterizes the Social Teaching of the Church.
Since Rome’s teaching on migrants is one facet of the Church’s Social Teaching, it should come as no surprise to find that the universal destination of goods is foundational to the Church’s teaching on immigration, migration and refugee resettlement as well.
A second key point to this series is that the universal destination of goods is unbiblical. Rather than positing the idea that God gave the Earth to man collectively, the Bible teaches that private property was the original economic order of things.
The third key point is that, if it can be demonstrated from the Scriptures that Rome’s doctrine of the universal destination of goods is false, not only is Rome’s socialist migration doctrine likewise refuted, but the entirety of its Social Teaching is overthrown as well.
In this week’s post, we shall continue to examine the arguments against the universal destination of goods and for original capitalism made by 17th century English political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer as discussed in John Robbins’ doctoral dissertation, The Political Thought of Sir Robert Filmer.
Thomas Aquinas, official philosopher of the Roman Church-State and conduit for the unbiblical notion of the universal destination of goods, an idea central, not just to the Social Teaching of the Church, but to Rome’s destructive doctrine of migration. A doctrine that the Church-State is using to destroy the remnants of the Protestant West.
In Roman Catholic economic thought, there is a hierarchy of principles, and the most important principle, to which all others are subordinate, is the principle of the universal destination of goods.
– John W. Robbins, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, p.39
Last week, we began a more detailed look at the Roman Catholic principle of the universal destination of goods. That post, I emphasized the point that Rome’s doctrine of mass, taxpayer subsidized immigration, migration and refugee resettlement is not some isolated teaching, quite apart from other ideas advanced by the Roman Church-State. Rather, it is part of a larger body of teaching by Rome known as the Social Teaching of the Church.
Economics is part of the Roma Catholic Church’s Social Teaching. And, as noted in the quote at the top of this post, the most important principle in Roman Catholic economic thought is the universal destination of goods. The universal destination of goods rests on the false idea – a false idea promulgated by Greek and Roman philosophers, transmitted by the early church fathers, taught by Thomas Aquinas, the official philosopher of the Roman Church-State, and which serves as the foundation of all of Rome’s Social Teaching – that God originally gave the Earth to all men in common. That is to say, Rome believes in original communism.
Remember, Roman Catholicism is not a random collection of ideas. It is a system of thought. As such, it is held together by certain common ideas. The latent original communism found in Roman Catholic economic thought, what the popes call the universal destination of goods, is one of the consistent threads binding together the vast body of Rome’s Social Teaching, of which its teaching on immigration is a part.
To give you a visual representation of the relationship that exists between Roman Catholic Social Teaching, it’s general position on immigration, and the specific application of its teaching on immigration to the United States. a simple outline will suffice.
The Social Teaching of the Church (begins with the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, 1891) >
General statement of the church on migration (Exsul Familia Nazarathana, 1952) >
Specific application to the Church’s teaching on migration to the United States (Strangers No Longer, 2003)
Last week, I provided a quote from The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church illustrating the fundamental importance of the universal destination of goods in Roman Catholic Social Teaching. In part, the quote read, “The universal right to use the goods of the earth is based on the principle of the universal destination of goods…The right to the common use of goods is the first principle of the whole ethical and social order’ and ‘the characteristic principle of Christian social doctrine.’ ”
Lord willing, perhaps as soon as next week, I will make the Biblical case against the universal destination of goods. Since Rome’s Social Teaching is systematic, and since the universal destination of goods is, by Rome’s own admission, central to The Social Teaching of the Church, a Biblical refutation of the universal destination of goods constitutes a refutation, not just of Rome’s doctrine of immigration, but of the entire body of Rome’s Social Teaching. That is to say, the whole structure of Rome’s Social Teaching, including its ungodly doctrine of immigration, collapses like a house of cards.
But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. But before laying the axe to the root of Rome’s Social Teaching, I would like to demonstrate to you just how systematically Rome has worked the universal destination of goods into it teaching on immigration.
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 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.
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.
Lux Lucet 