Faithful Roman Catholics hoped the first American pope, Leo XIV, would make a decisive break with Pope Francis, but he is already continuing one of his predecessor’s worst habits: putting the moral authority of world’s largest church behind illegal immigration. So far, Pope Leo XIV’s actions and statements signal that he will offer Americans more baptized lawlessness on the border. This should have become obvious when then-Cardinal Robert Prevost amplified Pope Francis’ last major papal communiqué — a pointed attack on patriotic, Christian policies and an apology for open borders that violated Vatican practice, his church’s tradition, and the Holy Bible.
The final letter Pope Francis wrote before entering the hospital for the last time emerged from his beef with Vice President J.D. Vance’s theological defense of border enforcement. Vance told Fox News host Sean Hannity his America First policies come from Christian teachings:
“There’s this old school — and I think it’s a very Christian concept, by the way — that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far-Left has completely inverted that. They seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders. That is no way to run a society.”
Vance later encouraged social media followers to “Google ‘ordo amoris,’” which means loving everything in the right order.
The ailing pontiff spent his last days pouncing on the Catholic politician for implying Christians could oppose open borders. The veep got it all wrong, he wrote. “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” but “true ordo amoris … builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.” Sigma Tau Open Borders.
The late pope seemed to adopt the Jasmine Crockett theory of illegal immigration: “The rightly formed conscience” can only condemn the notion that even tacitly “identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.” Sovereign nations can only deport illegal immigrants guilty of “violent or serious crimes.” They must absorb anyone emigrating for any reason, including “extreme poverty,” “insecurity,” or environmental deterioration.
Those conditions sound like East Palestine, Ohio.
To make sure no one missed his target, the pope exhorted “all the faithful of the Catholic Church … to avoid walls of ignominy.”
Since this letter does not meet the criteria for an ex cathedra statement, even faithful Roman Catholics need not view it as infallible — which is good, because it is a motley stew of balderdash.
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