Timothy Biirdnow
Here is a good essay at American Thinker discussing how Dope Leo dissed America on her 250th birthday to wail and moan about the fate of illegal muslim aliens trying to invade Europe.
The author is right; this Pope doesn't understand the fundamental job description of his own position, thinking it is misplaced empathy rather than to defend the Church.
Prevost was seduced during his time in Peru and is a big supporter of Liberation Theology. Of course he came from Chicago, a city that gave us Saul Alinsky, Jesse Jackson, and Barack Obama, and now it has given us Pope Leo. It is a habitation of demons, a place of every foul and unclean bird. And Prevost didn't get his job because he was the best man for it so much as because he would continue the work of the late Pope Franics and Francis packed the College of Cardinals to see to just that, as well as demoted all the Conservatives in Rome.
If Leo is so touchingly concerned with immigrants why doesn't he open the Vatican to them? He is the king of a sovereign country after all.
The sad thing is even most Catholics don't understand the limited nature of Papal Infallability (ex cathedra). The Pope is only infallible when he is formally speaking ex cathedra and he must say so. Also, it is ONLY about matters of "faith and morals" meaning he can say homosexuality is a sin and say so infallibly, or say you have to believe in the Trinity and likewise be infallible. Speaking about immigration is just his personal opinion. (The last time the Pope spoke infallibly was in 1959 when the papacy declared the doctrine that Mary was bodily assumed into Heaven was confirmed.) Oh, and the Pope can't just do it; he has to consult with the Majesterium and it must settle a long-studied question. It is a very formal process.
I am always amazed at how many Catholics think the Pope is never wrong and if he says something they defend him no matter how ridiculous he might be. And of course this provides fodder for Protestant and other critics who sneer at the idea that a Pope is never wrong. He's wrong all the time - just not about very specific issues.
The American Spectator, which used to be a sensible publication, is now riddled with folks who think that the Pope said it so we must believe it. I stopped reading TAS some time ago because it became another NeverTrump operation, along with The National Review.
Anyway this Pope thinks it more important to welcome aliens who have no intention of becoming Westerners and will destroy what is left of Christendom through jihad by immigration. And he's so thick he doesn't see that is what is happening even though all sorts of terrible things are happening, like rape gangs in Sweden or France and Britain.
This is the prime mission he has chosen, apparently. He seems to think that surrender will change their behavior - it won't. Nor will it save any souls as in Islam you cannot change religions. They kill you if you try.
If Islam is to eventually be overcome by the Church it won't be by kowtowing to them. They respect strength and see what we see as kindness as weakness. Contemptible. The only way we will ever convert the Muslims is by the carrot AND the stick; they have to see that their way is a failure and that the Christian way is the better of the two. Obsequiousness and backside sphincter kissing isn't going to do anything but make them hate us more.
Leo either doesn't understand that or he believes the real danger is from Christians rather than Muslims, which would fit a man steeped in Leftism rather than Christ.
The Catholic Church has always believed the False Prophet of the Book of Revelations would be a Pope. I don't know if it is Leo but he appears to be a precursor.
Here is what Dope Leo says to the American People in his address to us on our 250th birthday:
Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants, whose hopes, sacrifices and contribution have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning. In every generation, those who have arrived seeking freedom, opportunity and a place to belong have helped to shape the nation’s character. To receive them with compassion and generosity is not only an act of charity, but also a recognition of the dignity that belongs to every human person.
In my recent Encyclical Letter, Magnifica Humanitas, I wrote about working together for the common good. "Building a world in which everyone can flourish requires shared responsibility and courage. No one can single-handedly bear the weight of the challenges the world is facing” (no. 13). We need one another, and we need to work together in unity to confront the challenges that the world is facing today.
May this milestone renew the shared commitment to the promise of freedom, justice, opportunity and democracy.
Here is a twofur of extreme liberalism - demanding we keep allowing huge amounts of immigration (illegal aliens aren't immigrants but invaders but even legal immigrants can't be enculturated at the pace we've been experiencing, and any fool can see it's destroying the entire Western world. Why aren't the immigrants fixing their own countries instead of coming here to wreck ours?) and the other calling for "community" by which he undoubtedly means a kind of socialism "everything within the state, nothing outside the state" as Mussolini explained of Fascism.
Just choosing these issues rather than speak of, say, abortion or rising sexual deviancy like transgenderism show where this man's heart lies. His is a social Gospel. No mention f the salvation of souls, his prime duty.
America was not built on communalism. It was built on the fundamental idea that the individual, first and foremost, was the core building block of society, followed by family, then local community, then state. We built our nation on the bedrock of "inalienable rights" held by the individual. All Leo can speak about is communal rights, communal responsibilities. As Christians we want to be servants of our communities but to do that we must first be servants to our families and ourselves. Putting the community first inevitably leads to societal disfunction. Human beings are not colonies of bees. We are communal but individuals living in communities. There is a reason why Jesus died for us as individuals, not just as part of some Borg collective.
Leo fails to understand that about his own country. Service to country comes first from service to ourselves, and that comes first from service to and love of God. Basically he's making a God of society and the State (as did Mussolini and Hitler).
Pope Leo was chosen to act as a counterbalance to President Trump. It was always said there would never be an American Pope because America was too powerful as it was and that would be gathering far too much power into one nation. But they chose Leo when Trump became President to pull the rug out on him.
Understand that and you understand him. He won't ALWAYS oppose Trump on everything but he'll oppose him on key issues, ones that have a lot of popularity among the People. This is to sever Catholics from his voting block. That is the intent. So he'll come out at seemingly inappropriate times to call out MAGA and Trump rather than call out real evils in the world becauses he's as much a part of the New World Order as is George Soros or the folks at the World Economic Forum.
This man is not trying to save souls. He's trying to win a kingdom for...something.