One of the most sneaky lines in Dilexi Te comes under the chapter heading titled, “Accompanying migrants.” It reads: “Mary and Joseph flee with the child Jesus to Egypt. Christ himself, who ‘came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him’ (Jn 1:11), lived among us as a stranger. For this reason, the Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord…”
The author then misappropriates the Holy Family to argue for open-borders. Clearly, the Bible and the Catholic Church have always opposed chaos on national borders, as the true God is a God of order. But manipulating the Holy Family’s desperate flight to Egypt is also a trick of the leftists so predictable that I wrote against it even months before Dilexi Te was released.
In US Bishops and Their Moneymaking Borders, I wrote: “Liberal ‘Catholics’ might even describe Jesus and Mary and Joseph as ‘refugees,’ purposely ignoring the fact the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt crossed the Roman Empire legally. They also ignore the fact St. Joseph was obedient enough to the State in registering with the census as seen in Luke ch. 2.”
Another misleading line in Dilexi Te is: “For Augustine, the poor are not just people to be helped, but the sacramental presence of the Lord.” Fr. Kevin Cusick exposed this goofy idea by writing: “Saint Augustine was neither a modernist, nor a heretic. He sought clarity, for the sake of truth, not confusion to plant a false gospel. The poor are sinners as are we all, and all in need of sacraments, without the grace of which none can be saved.”
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