“…..according to Francis,
opening the West to migrants seems to be a non-negotiable principle.” Added to this is a policy of dialogue with
Islam, whatever the cost. The pope
pursues this goal by minimizing Islam’s terrorism matrix while showing extreme caution
in denouncing the religious nature of the persecution of Christians in
Muslim-majority countries.
The author points out that John XXIII wrote in his encyclical Pacem in Terris, “Every human being has the right to freedom of movement and of residence within the confines of his own State. When there are just reasons in favor of it, he must be permitted to emigrate to other countries and take up residence there.”
In North Korea no one is allowed to travel to the
capital, Pyongyang without government official permission and for people in the
countryside, this is almost always denied.
Officials want peasants to believe their life is as good as it gets
anywhere in the country. At the same
time, no one who is privileged to live in Pyongyang is allowed to see the devastation
and dire poverty in the countryside, because they are told every person in
North Korea has the same beautiful lifestyle they enjoy, which by our standards
is NOT so wonderful. The pope in Pacem in Terris said this should not be
the case. A man should be allowed
freedom of movement WITHIN HIS OWN STATE to be able to conduct his life, pursue
happiness, earn his living, and raise his family.
Pacem
in Terris also condemns the idea that a man should be prevented
from leaving a state that does not allow him these things that are vital to our
existence. The wall in Berlin was to
prevent people from leaving. The absence
of any people on the borders of North Korea and in Cuba is to prevent the
people from attempting to escape. This is not desirable for anyone and in the many
cases; it only perpetuates the worst of all the modern socialist regimes. But the document did not contain previous
limitations on immigration that were established by Pius XII, predecessor to
John XXIII. Those restrictions were
extreme need to migrate and the second was the host nation’s right to
restrict access for the sake of the common good.
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An all to familiar image of waves of immigrants with
no intention of assimilating
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This has brought on, fifty years later, an attitude that
men can move about freely from one country to another as it suits them and that
they have a moral right to do so without regard for how it will upset the host
country. According to Ureta, this
violates the “Aristotelian principle embodied in Catholic social doctrine,
according to which the common good of society prevails over the private good of
individuals. Moreover, the pope’s
statement is contradictory in itself because as the Catechism of the Catholic Church says, the common good presupposes
that ‘authority should ensure by morally acceptable means the security of
society and its members,’ so that the common good ‘is the basis of the right to
legitimate personal and collective defense.’”
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Muslim protesters in Sweden intent on bringing
their culture and beliefs to their host country
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We see the threat to the “common good” of people in
places like Sweden which has practically been overrun by immigrants that do not
share their culture, their beliefs, nor their sense of what is or should be
legal. The same continues to occur in
other countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands.
Italian journalist, Eugenio Scalfari in 2017 said this,
“I do not understand this
pope. What he says is beyond any
rational understanding…. Why does he insist on total acceptance? The pope does this because he detests the
West. He aspires to destroy it. He does everything to achieve that end.”
On the other side, as Ureta points out, “seems to be a
distaste for Europe’s Christian identity.
The pope is quoted by La Croix
in an interview saying about Europe, “We need to speak of roots in the
plural. There are many. In this sense, when I hear about the
Christian roots of Europe, I am sometimes afraid of the tone, which can be
triumphalist or avenging. That becomes
colonialism.”
In an interview with book author Dominique Wolton, the
pope said,
“It has important Christian roots
that is true. But that is not enough to
define it.
There are all our
capabilities. These abilities to
integrate, to receive others. There is
also language, within the culture. In
our Spanish language, 40% of the words are Arabic [sic]. Why? Because they were there for seven
centuries. And they left their mark.”
What he’s suggesting is that Europe is not as
European/Christian as we would like to believe.
It has Arabic roots and they are as valid today as they ever were. All this relates to his ideas on the “indigenous”
people. THEY not the usurpers of the
last two thousand years are the actual owners of the land. The rest of us are just what? Long time squatters with no real rights to
call our countries our own?
As Ureta puts it,
“This means passively
accepting the irresponsible mass immigration policies promoted by the important
European leaders. It entails allowing
mostly Islamic immigrant ghettos to form inside European nations. In these enclaves, Muslims refuse to
assimilate into the culture of their host countries. They are filled with men who dream of
extending the Islamic umma to all of
Europe. Marwan Muhammad, the spokesman
of the Collective against Islamophobia, asked in the Grand Mosque of the Orly ‘No
one in this country has the right to define for us what constitutes the French
identity.’”
In July 2016 when asked about the murder of Fr. Jacques Hamel as he was celebrating mass in France, the pope said,
“I don’t like to speak of
Islamic violence because every day when I open the newspapers I see acts of
violence, here in Italy: Someone kills
his girlfriend, someone else his mother-in-law…. And these violent people are
baptized Catholics! They are violent
Catholics…. If I spoke about Islamic violence, I would also have to speak about
Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are
violent; not all Catholics are violent.
It’s like a fruitcake, there’s a little bit of everything, there are
violent people in these religions. One
thing is true: I believe that in almost
all religions there is always a small fundamentalist group. Fundamentalist. We have some ourselves. And when fundamentalism gets to the point of
killing---and one can kill with the tongue (these are words of the Apostle
James, not mine) as well as with a knife… I believe that it is not right to
identify Islam with violence. It is not
right and it is not true. I had a long
talk with the Grand Imam at the University of al-Azhar, and I know what they
are thinking; they are looking for peace, for encounter.”
So there you have it.
He, Francis, spoke to their leader and has full confidence in the
peaceful aims of all of Islam toward infidels. If you think that’s bad, “there
is worse,” says, Ureta. “For Pope
Francis, Islam is not only peaceful but a means of salvation for Muslims.” (You read that correctly.) On January 19, 2014 Francis said to
immigrants at Sacro Cuore di Gesu a Castro Pretorio, “It is important that
you share….the Bible with those who are Christians, the Koran with those who
are Muslim. Share with them the
faith they have received from their parents.
Go forward always. Share your own
faith too. God is only one. He is the same. Some [worship Him] in one way, some in
another.”
This had many former Muslim converts wondering why they
ever bothered to become Catholics.
Ureta points out that well-known Catholic Islamicists
have “warned against the illusory nature of this ‘policy of the extended hand”
saying, “We also must have the courage to say that Islam has elements
of violence in the Koran and in the life
of Muhammad. If we continue to say
that ‘Islam is a religion of peace,’ we only create confusion and
mystification.”
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Coptic Church in Egypt after attack on Palm Sunday by
members of the religion of peace
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In
stark contrast to the opinions of the pope we find a saner
wiser voice in of Fr. Boulad as he spoke after the attack in 2017 of Coptic
Christians on Palm Sunday,
I
accuse Islam of being the cause of this barbarity and of all
acts of violence committed in the name of the Muslim faith. I accuse not only the terrorists or
terrorism. I accuse not only the Muslim
Brotherhood or the nebula of small groups that gravitate around this violent
and totalitarian jihadist confraternity.
I accuse not only Islamism or radical and political Islam.
I
merely accuse Islam, which is political and radical by its
very nature. As I wrote more than
twenty-five years ago, Islamism is Islam without disguise, in all its logic and
rigor….
I
accuse the Catholic Church of maintaining with Islam a ‘dialogue’
based on complacency, compromise, and duplicity. ………such monologue is today in neutral gear.”
Why would Francis or any pope take such a stance
one might ask? He would, in my opinion,
if his aim was focused primarily on a future world in which religion is nothing
more than a quaint personal habit and all men whether religious or not have as
their goal peaceful obedience to a single world government. No longer must mankind worry about the Kingdom
God so much. The paradigm shift is to a
world where all of us are simply the same and must agree to go along to get
along on “mother earth.”
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