Turns out Pope Leo is squabbling with Orangeman about immigration:
White House border czar Tom Homan stepped into the growing tension between the Trump administration and the Vatican on Tuesday, delivering a response so raw and grounded in lived experience that it’s nearly impossible to argue with. A lifelong Catholic himself, Homan didn’t attack the church. He challenged it to do better.
Pope Leo hasn’t exactly been quiet on the issue of immigration enforcement in the United States, and bizarrely declared that there is “inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States.” – Matt Margolis
Who knew? I barely listen to the guy and I’m Catholic.
Vice President JD Vance, who is Catholic, tried to cool things down Monday, calling Trump’s remarks not “newsworthy” and suggesting “it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality… and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy.”
That was spot on, but Homan took a different approach entirely, hitting much harder.
“I’m not gonna speak for the president. I’m speaking for myself, a lifelong Catholic,” Homan said. “I wish they’d stay out of immigration because they don’t know what they’re talking about. Because if they wore my shoes for forty years and talked to a nine-year-old girl that got raped multiple times, or stood in the back of a tractor-trailer, with nineteen dead aliens at my feet, including a five-year-old boy that baked to death. If they understood the atrocities that happen on an open border, I think their opinion would change.” – Matt Margolis
One of the thing that sets Roman Catholics apart from other religions is the pope. He’s infallible on matters of doctrine. But on everything else, he’s a man with an opinion, nothing more. Same thing with Frances before him. Dude stepped in it constantly. But where he really never veered was on doctrine, although he came close. He had bishops demanding clarification for some of his writings.
For immigration though, Leo is just another left leaning Chicagoan. Nothing more. Like I said earlier, when popes say dumb shit, I’m barely listening much less treating it as holy writ.
Far as Catholic Charities go, they are deep into thwarting the will of the people on immigration. We’re called to be kind to them. But what we aren’t called to do is give them the store and denying our own for their sakes. Pearls before swine, that sort of thing. Like I said, I’m Catholic, but I believe a good curb stomping is needed to reel Catholic Charities back in. Should we help immigrants? Sure, to some extent. Those here illegally, no.
Far as the pope goes, when he starts letting the downtrodden mooslims immigrate to Vatican city, then we can talk.
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