New Action Alert on the Catholic Church’s Disrespect for Immigration Law Enforcement
By • 4/21/08During his recent visit, the pope and other Catholic clergymen lobbied for illegal alien amnesty and expressed hostility for immigration law enforcement. This week’s action alert asks readers to e-mail the American Catholic Church and urge them to show greater respect for American natives.
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The Catholic Church’s support for mass immigration and the Multi-Cult can be explained by three things: (1) The need for more fee-paying constituents, (2) a hostility to white Protestant society and a veneration of non-whites (who are seen as innocent and virtous victims of capitalist greed), and (3) the need for a “cause” to justify its social programmes. In addition, I believe some Catholics think the importation of millions of poor Catholics to industrialised countries will somehow convert the unbelievers. However, I think the real motive is explained by (1) above: $$$.
By on 4/22/08 at 9:07 am
Dr. Jobling, I saw the exchange you were involved in over at Turnabout. It saddens me that Jim Kalb was so totally dismissive of your concerns. He refuses to do anything but take a position of willful ignorance concerning his beloved Pope.
By on 4/22/08 at 11:36 am
Thanks, Mr. Savage. Kalb is sticking tenaciously to his position that all the complaints about the pope’s anti-immigration law enforcement message are unfounded. He called my action alert a “screed,” no less. I think I was on solid ground in my statements, although I’ll have to analyze this issue. I’ll respond to Kalb this afternoon and post my response here too.
Kalb’s remarks are here. Look at the comments section for the exchange between us.
By on 4/22/08 at 1:01 pm
Having thought about it, I’ve decided there’s no good reason to reply to Kalb. John Savage diagnoses the case well enough at his worthy blog Brave New World Watch.
By on 4/22/08 at 6:22 pm
Dr. Jobling, thank you for the link.
I was hoping Auster was going to say something about Kalb’s comments too, but I’ve heard somewhere that Kalb is already persona non grata in Auster’s eyes, so Auster just ignores Kalb.
By on 4/22/08 at 9:13 pm
I thank Dr. Jobling for crafting a reasonable and restrained missive of complaint.
Reading some of these other comments, and being quite familiar with others like them from the AR site and elsewhere, I would caution non-Catholics against reading too much into the essential nature of Catholicism, let alone Christianity, from these developments.
It is only very recently from an overall timeframe that the Church has had any comment, let alone objectionable comment, on immigration related matters at all.
In fact, for the vast majority of its history, Catholicism, including governments that were officially Catholic, lived in perfect harmony with, and even encouraged, very strict law-and-order governments which patrolled their borders vigorously and jealously guarded their sovereignty from all rival powers. The Austro-Hungrian Empire, ancien régime France, or imperial Spain, for example.
The most traditional, true-believing Catholics, who are most informed about and in tune with the Church’s historic and long-standing teachings (before the 1960s) tend to be quite sympathetic with us.
Exhibit A of course is Pat Buchanan. Patriotic, pro-white, and far more genuinely Catholic than the PC crowd. He and those like him have a lot of heartburn about the fashionable mush emanating from prominent church leaders today, which would have been unheard of from the hard-line organization they were reared in.
One encouraging development is that contemporary young priests trend heavily orthodox and conservative, horrifying their hippy-dippy elders (who for example in the 60s allowed hordes of homosexuals into the seminaries in violation of Church law for fear of seeming judgmental, with predictably scandalous results that haunt the Church today).
Finally, advocating popular petitions directed at an inherently anti-democratic and authoritarian organization betrays a fundamental, even comic, misunderstanding of its essential nature.
By on 4/22/08 at 10:29 pm
“but I’ve heard somewhere that Kalb is already persona non grata in Auster’s eyes”
That’s just gossipy hearsay. And even if it’s true, who cares?
Jim writes a lot about fundamental issues and so he doesn’t come off as sufficently chest-thumping and policy-advocating for some people’s tastes.
By on 4/30/08 at 12:48 pm
I was once a Roman Catholic, in a time when the liturgy was still in Latin, and there was respect for the Law. That all changed with the changes brought by Vatican 2, that changed the church from a spiritual institution, seeking the Kingdom of God, to a socialist institution, promoting the communist ideology, and the kingdom of man on earth.
By on 5/3/08 at 1:50 am
Indifference to immigration laws whether in the US or elsewhere is inevitable in a religious institution that regards the entire human race as “God’s children”.
As the Pope speaking for the Catholic church sees it, life on this earth is a merely a prelude to an eternal existence in paradise and national frontiers don’t figure in this universal scheme. On this reasoning, or something like it, a continuous flux of people seeking a temporary abode in any place whatsoever (all is transient in this world) doesn’t matter so long as God’s plan for mankind is worked out. Nationality is irrelevant to salvation.
I don’t agree with this line of thought, but I believe the universal claims of the Catholic church explain its acquiescent posture on immigration and “diversity”
By on 4/22/08 at 3:56 am