A group of migrants from Venezuela planned their next steps at the Downtown El Paso Greyhound station after they were released to the streets as part of an effort by the Border Patrol to control the population at its El Paso Central Processing Center. The men gave their consent to be photographed. (Cindy Ramirez/El Paso Matters)
In his book Ecclesiastical Megalomania: the Economic and Political Thought of the Roman Catholic Church, John Robbins argued that the Thomistic principle of the universal destination of all goods is so important in Catholic thought that all rights are subject to it. (Robbins, 1999)
This principle, the universal destination of all goods, is the idea that when God created the world, he gave it to man collectively. Robbins calls the universal destination of goods “original communism.”
One of the implications of the doctrine of the universal destination of all goods is that property rights are not absolute but can be overridden by other concerns. In Rome’s social teaching, need is the ultimate factor in determining rightful ownership. John Robbins explains it this way, according to Rome, “Whoever needs property ought to possess it. Need makes another’s goods one’s own. Need is the ultimate and only moral title to property.” (Robbins, 1999)
The Roman Church-State is fine with private property up to a point, but when things get serious, need is all that matters. If your neighbor needs something, and you have a surplus of what he needs, he can take it, and it’s neither a sin nor a crime for him to do so.
Robbins quotes Pope Paul VI writing in his encyclical On the Progress of Peoples:
…each man has therefore the right to find in the world what is necessary for himself. The recent Council [Vatican II] reminded us of this: “God intended the earth and all that it contains for the use of every human being and people. Thus, as all men follow justice and unite in charity, created goods should abound for them on a reasonable basis.” All other rights whatsoever, including those of property and of free commerce, are to be subordinated to this principle. (Robbins, 1999)
Justice For Immigrants webpage, accessed 1/2/2022. Note well, there’s no mention of justice for American citizens. Rome cares only about foreigners. And really, Rome doesn’t care about the illegal aliens either. The only thing Rome cares about is advancing its causes of socialism and world government by any means necessary. The migrants are pawns in Rome’s power game.
Exsul Familia Nazarathana by Pope Pius XII, 1952. Pope Pius XX, also known as “Hitler’s Pope” (see John Cornwell’s book by the same title). This Apostolic Constitution sets forth the migration principles Rome is using to destroy the West. The Babylonian Harlot has figured out a way, not only to destabilize and ultimately destroy the free, independent nations of the West, but also to make the citizens of these nations pay for their own destruction. Truly a Satanic work.
“Was Jesus An Illegal Immigrant?” Pulpit & Pen, 12/18/2013. This article quotes Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention talking his usual immigration nonsense, aping the papal Antichrist by calling Jesus an “illegal immigrant” when he was nothing of the sort. Russell Moore, it would seem, has made a prosperous career for himself denouncing his putative fellow Christians to an ever-eager audience of progressives and various America haters. His message? “I’m an Evangelical, but not one of those icky sorts of Evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump or who questions the wisdom of admitting endless millions of welfare migrants into the country.”
“Pope Francis: ‘No Country Can Exempt Itself From Duty To Take In Migrants” by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D, 12/22/2021. The “duty” for nations to admit welfare migrants of which Pope Francis speaks is found nowhere in Scripture. It is a figment of the Antichrist papal imagination. The words of Genesis 6:5 are applicable here, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
The U.S. is allowing many Afghan refugees to enter the U.S. without visas, relying on an immigration program known as humanitarian parole. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
“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
“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.”
Those are the words of Roman Catholic priest Giulivo Tessarolo, writing in the introduction of a book he edited titled Exsul Familia: The Church’s Magna Charta for Migrants.
As has been covered in the space before, Exsul Familia Nazarethana(EFN) is the 1952 Apostolic Constitution by Pope Pius XII in which he formally laid out the Roman Catholic Church State’s (RCCS) position on migration, immigration, and refugee resettlement. In short, the RCCS believes the more migration, the better.
Why does the RCCS take this stance?
Mass, taxpayer subsidized immigration, migration, and refugee resettlement is a powerful way for globalists – the RCCS is the oldest and premier globalist institution in the world – to destabilize individual nations, break down the Christian system of independent nation states established as a result of the Protestant victory over Rome in the Thirty Years’ War, and institute global government.
I chose to feature Tessarolo’s quote to start this post, because, unlike most statements by officials of the RCCS, Tessarolo’s clearly notes the enormous, implied cost to the receiving nations of the pope’s immigration plans.
In short, the popes of Rome want to destroy independent nation states, impose world government with Rome as the head, all while forcing the citizens of those targeted nations to subsidize their own dispossession. If anyone gets wise to the scheme and objects, Rome or one of its proxies simply denounces him as a “xenophobe” or a “racist” and that individual is either quickly brought to heel or is “cancelled” and driven out of polite society.
That’s a great deal for the occupants of the office of Antichrist. For Americans and citizens of other targeted nations, not so much.
The important point to take away from Tessarolo’s statement is that the RCCS views refugee resettlement as a cost to be dutifully born by the citizens of the receiving nations. In other words, your tax dollars are going to support he RCCS’s plans to destroy your nation.
Put still another way, refugee resettlement is a form of international welfare, the bill for which Antichrist plans to send to you.
Put still another way, refugee resettlement as currently practiced in America and around the world is a welfare racket.
In his classic book War is a Racket, retired US Marine General Smedley Butler wrote, “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to be to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group know what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many” (23).
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.
Detail from The Tower of Babel by Peter Brugel, 1563.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
In his 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis wrote, “The right to private property can only be considered a secondary natural right, derived from the principle of the universal destination of created goods.”
Listed under the heading “Re-Envisaging The Social Role of Property,” Francis’ comments are not, as some of his more free market critics suppose, out of the mainstream of Roman Catholic economic thought. Rather, the Pope’s attack on private property is simply a restatement of Rome’s long-held unchristian, erroneous, and socialist understanding of private property.
To underscore Francis hostility to private property, we need look no further than the paragraph quoted at the top of this post, “The principle of the common use of created goods is the ‘first principle of the whole ethical and social order; it is a natural and inherent right that takes priority over others.’” In Pope Francis view, collectivism is “ethical” while holding to the Bible’s view of private property, that it is lawful for a man to do what he wishes with his own things, is not.
Contrary to Pope Francis, the common use of created goods, far from being the “first principle of the whole ethical and social order,” is a guarantor of poverty and tyranny. One would think the many failed socialist states over the past 100 years, and the economic and political disasters suffered by those unfortunate enough to live in them, would make this clear. But far from slowing them down, it’s almost as if the economic disasters suffered by the Soviet Union, Venezuela and a host of other nations embolden the socialists, including Pope Francis, to double down on calling evil good and good evil by pushing for more economic collectivism.
In one of his lectures, John Robbins made the important point that systems of thought tend to go wrong from the very beginning. That is to say, systems of thought, in this case economic thought, tend to begin with faulty premises which then lead their adherents to faulty conclusions.
This can be seen in the economic thinking of Pope Francis, who begins with the unbiblical notion of the “the principle of the universal destination of created goods” which in turn leads him to attack private property and capitalism – God’s economics – and to promote the form of coveting we know as socialism or collectivism.
But while at least some Christians understand that capitalism is the economic system of the Bible, it may come as a surprise even to them that one must begin in Genesis to have a sound understanding of economics, specifically, the origin of private property.
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 Israelite army defeats the armies of Sihon and Og.
And the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more” (Numbers 21:19).
“The émigré Holy Family of Nazareth, fleeing into Egypt, is the archetype of every refugee family. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien and refugee of whatever kind who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved parents and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil.”
Thus began Pope Pius XII in his 1952 Apostolic Constitution Exsul Familia Nazarethana (hereafter EFN), the most important statement to date by the Roman Catholic Church-State on the subjects of immigration, migration and refugee resettlement.
Having gone over EFN is some detail in earlier posts in this series, I shall not repeat myself here. But I wanted to mention EFN in connection with this week’s post, because my topic today ties back to the prior discussion on EFN.
In this respect, the words of John Robbins on philosophic systems is worth calling to mind. I don’t have the reference immediately handy, but I do recall hearing or reading Robbins state that when philosophic systems go wrong, they tend to go wrong right from the beginning. That is to say, you don’t have to plow through a thousand tedious pages of argumentation before you realize someone’s talking nonsense. If you know what to look for, you can spot the foolishness quickly.
Such is the case with EFN. Infallible Pope Pius XII drops the ball right away when he makes the rather shocking blunder of saying that the Biblical account of Joseph’s taking Mary and Jesus to Egypt to escape Herod, “is the archetype of every refugee family.” Now an archetype is defined by Merriam Webster as, “the original pattern of model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies.” But it seems to this author that the Pope is manifestly wrong in his assertion.
In the first place, the scale doesn’t quite fit the sort of mass migration that was occurring at the time Pope Pius XII wrote his Apostolic Constitution, or, for that matter, the sort of mass migration the current occupant of the office of Antichrist is encouraging. One family versus millions is not really a great comparison.
Second, the Bible is silent about how the Joseph and his family were supported. While Rome boldly asserts that the governments of receiving nations have an obligation to take property from citizens (i.e. Rome claims governments must steal from their own people) and transfer it to migrants, immigrants and refugees, the account of Joseph and his family in Egypt supports no such theft.
Third, unlike many of today’s migrants, Joseph took his family and returned home once the danger was past. But unlike Joseph, the representatives of the Babylonian Harlot fight tooth and nail to make sure all migrants remain in the receiving countries, even when they entered the receiving country on explicitly temporary terms. For example, in January 2018 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a press release lamenting how disappointed they were to hear that the Trump administration had cancelled the Temporary protected Status (TPS) of Salvadorans who had been allowed to stay in the US as a result of the devastation wrought on El Salvador by Hurricane Mitch. What the bishops failed to mention in their release is that Hurricane Mitch had hit El Salvador in, wait for it, 1999. In other words, the Salvadorans “temporary” status in the US was in its nineteenth year. Still, nearly nineteen years of American generosity wasn’t enough to satisfy the moral conscience of USCCB as they proceeded to lecture Americans on their need to “love the resident alien” as if they hadn’t already gone far any above any reasonable efforts. What part of “temporary” do the bishops not understand?
Clearly, even a brief consideration of the flight to Egypt reveals that it does not support the case for unlimited, taxpayer subsidized immigration, migration and refugee resettlement that Antichrist and his representatives in the USCCB want you to think it does. This, however, does not mean the Bible is silent on these topics. Actually, it has quite a lot to say about migration, but you have to look in the right place. And where would that be? Is there an example of a mass exodus to be found anywhere in Scripture? Why yes, there most certainly is. And the account of that mass exodus is found, oddly enough, in the Book of Exodus and the following books of Moses.
English political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer, c. 1588-1653
“[F]or it is not possible for the wit of man to search out the first grounds or principles of government (which necessarily depend upon the original of property) except he know that at the creation one man alone was made, to whom the dominion of all things was given, and from whom all men derive their title.
– Sir Robert Filmer, Patriarcha and Other Political Works, 203-204
One of the major, perhaps the major, overarching themes of this series of essays, which has now stretched to twenty installments, is that Rome’s faulty economic and political thought, which itself is derived from Rome’s faulty theology, is the primary cause of the migrant crisis in the United States and in Europe.
But while there are many problems with Roman Catholic theological, political and economic thought, the examination of which is beyond the scope of this series, one error in particular stands out as relevant to the topic of mass migration: Rome’s doctrine of the universal destination of goods.
This series has examined the universal destination of goods at some length in previous installments, and it is not my intention here to go over it again in close detail. Let it suffice for our purposes today to quote John Robbins’ magisterial work on the political and economic thought of the Roman Catholic Church, Ecclesiastical Megalomania,
The Thomistic notion of original communism – the denial that private property is part of the natural law, but that common property is both natural and divine – is foundational to all the Roman Catholic arguments for various forms of collectivism, from medieval feudalism and guild socialism to twentieth century fascism and liberation theology. The popes refer to this original communism as the “universal destination of all goods” (38).
As this quote points out, the universal destination of goods depends upon the idea that God, at the time of creation, gave the world, not to individual men, but to mankind collectively. This view, what John Robbins calls “original communism,” is the official position of the Roman Catholic church, having become part of the warp and woof of Roman Catholic Social Teaching, not only as a result of the Church-State’s establishment of Thomism as the official doctrine of the Church, but also through the many repetitions of this idea through papal encyclicals and other important church documents over the past 100 plus years.
The universal destination of goods resting on the idea of original communism is the foundational idea of all of Rome’s teaching on the issues of immigration, migration and refugee resettlement. If you doubt this, please read, or re-read the last two posts in this series where, quoting directly from Roman Catholic sources, this author has made this assertion abundantly clear. You may find these posts here and here.
Having the universal destination of goods as a unifying concept behind all its Social Teaching, including its teaching on migration, has allowed Rome to systematize its economic and political teaching in a way that would not otherwise have been possible. Instead of having random ideas strewn about, Rome’s teaching on political and economic issues is highly organized, with statements on one topic serving to reinforce the Church-State’s teaching on another topic. Roman Catholic Social Teaching is, for all its many errors, testament to the power of systematic thought.
But while Rome’s systematic approach to addressing political and economic questions is a great strength, at the same time, it’s also Rome’s great point of weakness. Why is this? For the reason that, if one can demonstrate from the Scriptures that the “community of goods” is false, that God did not, in fact give the Earth to mankind collectively, then the entire system of Rome’s Social Teaching comes crashing to the ground, including its dogmatic assertions about the right of migrants to impose themselves on host nations. Or, as Martin Luther might put it, one little word shall fell them.
It is the contention of this author that not only is it possible to demonstrate from the Scriptures that Rome’s community of goods is a fiction, but that this point already has been demonstrated in the works of 17th century political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer.
Today’s post, and, Lord willing, the next few posts will focus on showing that, far from endorsing the idea of “original communism,” the Bible instead posits a system of original private property. God did not give the Earth to mankind collectively, but rather he gave it to Adam individually, and it is from Adam that “all men derive their title” to private property. Far from being a late addition to the economic order, private property, original capitalism, was what was established by God at the time of creation.
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.
Lux Lucet 