As if the weaponization of the judiciary against President Donald Trump wasn’t awful enough, now the upper reaches of the Roman Catholic Church appear to be getting involved in attacking him, though in an absolutely absurd way, as shown by recent comments made by Cardinal Robert McElroy to the Jesuit Refugee Service organization in D.C.
As background, McElroy is Pope Francis’s new Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and is seen by many, particularly on the conservative right, as being a tool of the leftist pope who is meant to subvert President Trump’s agenda via religious means. Appearing to do exactly that when speaking at the Jesuit conference on Monday, March 24, Archbishop McElroy attacked Trump’s common sense border defense policies as being an evil crusade.
Making his claim about immigration policy being an evil crusade motivated by our “darkest” impulses during the absurd speech, he said, “The pathway of crusade and mass deportation cannot be followed in conscience by those who call themselves disciples of Jesus Christ, and we must work to make sure that that does not happen.”
Also during the speech, the cardinal claimed that the “crusade” for deportation can’t be followed by Christians, saying, “The pathway of crusade and mass deportation cannot be followed in conscience by those who call themselves disciples of Jesus Christ, and we must work to make sure that that does not happen.”
He then called for Catholics to push for a pro-mass migration policy, absurdly claiming that Americans would be in favor of mass migration and that Catholic theology supports it. He said, “The first pathway — which Catholic social teaching would support — is to change our laws so that they have secure borders and dignity for the treatment of everyone at those borders and a generous asylum and refugee policy … I actually believe most Americans would be in favor of that pathway.”
The leftist cardinal went on to reference Pope Francis and the Good Samaritan to justify allowing mass migration, saying, “Pope Francis talks about the victim lying by the side of the road. What desperation and hopelessness must be sinking in for him. Each of us, Francis says, at times in this world, is the victim in which we feel others are merely passing by, not paying attention.”
Building on that, the woke cardinal then rambled yet further in vague terms about the parable, saying, “And it is important, Francis says, to understand, to recognize this experience in our lives, because only when we do so can we see ourselves in right relation with the good Samaritan, the one who comes to action, the one who saves us.”
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Still not done, he then compared those who want tough border policies to the robber who attacked the Good Samaritan, saying, “Then there are the figures of the robbers. We don’t see them, but we see what they have done. And Francis says, ‘Each of us in our own lives, is also the robber.’ Each of us, at times, victimizes others, consciously in a variety of different ways, [each] will replace our own interests and well-being ahead of others and truly cause harm. We must be in touch with that side of ourselves and with the darkness which is the robber inside every one of us, and recognize that is one of the great calls of Christian conversion, to root out that darkness, to face it where it lies, and to fight against it always.”
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