Thread: Those 40-Foot Vatican Walls Are Logs in the Eyes of Bannon-Bashing Bishops

Nolte: Those 40-Foot Vatican Walls Are Logs in the Eyes of Bannon-Bashing Bishops

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by JOHN NOLTE8 Sep 2017



Settled in the middle of Rome, Vatican City serves as the Catholic Church’s headquarters and is also the Church’s very own 110-acre sovereign state. And while you are always welcome to enter St. Peter’s Square, that is as far as you are ever going to get.


The rest of the city, the remaining 99 percent, is literally surrounded by what President Trump might call “big, beautiful walls” — some as tall and mighty and imposing as 40 feet.


Is it nice to be allowed into St. Peter’s Square? Is it welcoming? Sure, about as welcoming as a neighbor who keeps you on their front porch.


Oh, and there are also guards and checkpoints, and what I am sure is a whole bunch of high-tech surveillance equipment that would stop a James Bond.


Nevertheless, because the Catholic Church doesn’t already have enough problems (I say this as a practicing Catholic), while working for and representing a religion headquartered in a Vatican City dedicated to keeping out the riff-raff, dedicated to retaining its own culture and preserving its history, dedicated to ensuring the safety of its citizens, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is hypocritically blasting away at Americans who wish to do the same for their own country.


From behind those mighty walls, Americans opposed to legalizing and incentivizing illegal immigration are attacked as “reprehensible,” as un-American, as betrayers of the Faith and Christ’s own teachings:

The cancellation of the DACA program is reprehensible. … This decision is unacceptable and does not reflect who we are as Americans. … As people of faith, we say to DACA youth – regardless of your immigration status, you are children of God and welcome in the Catholic Church.

Oddly enough, though, the USCCB is lobbying for a policy where OTHERS will suffer the consequences of its do-gooderism, where OTHERS will lose their jobs, have their wages lowered, and be forced to deal with the crime and the over-crowded schools.


Does this not seem to violate a rather important piece of scripture about “doing unto others?”
But the USCCB was not done.


In an upcoming 60 Minutes interview, former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon points out, correctly, that the USCCB’s position on illegal immigration is not Catholic doctrine but does benefit the Church greatly with additional worshippers:

The bishops have been terrible about this … Because [they’re] unable to really come to grips with the problems in the church, they need illegal aliens, they need illegal aliens to fill the churches. … They have – they have an economic interest. … As much as I respect Cardinal Dolan and the bishops on doctrine, this is not doctrine.

The USCCB responded with a swift statement that quoted all kinds of scripture before declaring Bannon’s comments “insulting and outrageous.” But what the Bishops failed to address is the redwood-sized log in the eye of a faith practiced behind mammoth walls and armed guards.


I am no biblical scholar, far from it, but I have read the Gospels and I simply don’t recall the part where Jesus said it was okay push for policies that only benefit myself while burdening “the least among us.”


And I certainly don’t recall Jesus hiding behind a locked door while demanding we open our homes to everyone else.


As I wrote back in 2015: You first, Pope Francis. Tear down these walls!



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They built those BIG BEAUTIFUL WALLS to keep the Muslims out.

Tear them down...build a bridge and let them in Pope!

The Pope is just a man...no better no worse than any other man...you do not dictate what countries should do.

Sell your treasures to pay for all your breeding poor people.

Pope Francis: Tear Down the Vatican Wall!

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by JOHN NOLTE24 Sep 2015


With open eyes and an open heart I joined the Catholic Church just a few years ago at the ripe old age of 43. I love my Church and I love Pope Francis and my trip to the Vatican last year was a highlight of my life. Being blessed by Francis in St. Peter’s Square is something I will never forget.


I should also add that one of the things I love about the Catholic Church is our disagreements. The last thing I want to do is sit in a Church that doesn’t spiritually or politically challenge me.

Nevertheless, until I learned this morning that Francis visited with the Little Sisters of the Poor, the nuns suing the Obama administration for relief from the persecution of a law (ObamaCare) that forces Catholics to violate their conscience, I was beyond frustrated with this Pope.

As our own government gives hundreds of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, an organization that butchers millions of innocent babies and sells off their body parts, the Pope ignoring that issue (and I hope the Holy Father will eventually address it) in favor of the unicorn of Global Warming is an abomination.

And when I live in a country where the poor have air conditioning and cable bills and iPhones and an obesity problem, with all due respect, the Pope’s attacks on capitalism are anti-science. Nothing has done more to lift the poor out of true poverty than free enterprise. If you want to see where true poverty still exists, visit a socialist country — any country where the government has “solved” wealth inequality.


And then there’s the issue of immigration.

Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops in the United States to open their doors to immigrants, asserting that “these people will enrich America and its Church.”
As a Latin American, the Pope apologized for “pleading my own case,” when speaking about the influx of Hispanic immigrants into the United States. He also thanked the bishops for the work they have done for immigrants in this country. …
“Perhaps you will be challenged by their diversity,” he said. “But know that they also possess resources meant to be shared. So do not be afraid to welcome them.”
The Pope also urged the bishops to offer immigrants “the warmth of the love of Christ.”

Again, I mean no disrespect but this is coming from a man who lives in a city-state completely surrounded, literally, by giant walls. Vatican City is a literal fortress.

What would happen to Vatican City if it was to do what Francis is asking America to do?

I’m assuming Pope Francis could order such a thing tomorrow, and after the walls came down he could also choose to greet the wave of “pilgrims” with the “warmth of the love of Christ.”

Of course Pope Francis would never do such a thing because he knows what would happen: Vatican City would be no more, everyone’s security and well-being would be compromised, and the standard of living for close to a thousand residents would be destroyed. Chaos would completely destroy the home of St. Peter.


Just as the loss of Vatican City would be detrimental to the world, so too will the loss of an America as we know it if our culture and free enterprise system is exploded into a giant welfare state by waves of immigrants embraced by mercenary, power-hungry Democrats desperate to use them to increase the power of the State.

Vatican City’s walls allow the Vatican to save itself in order to hold tight to an invaluable culture that exports its generosity and charity and missionary work. Vatican City cannot take everyone in and survive. And it must remain Vatican City or be destroyed at the expense of all the incalculable good it does.

By all means, Pope Francis should push and prod and even shame America and Americans to give and give and give and give. We should do whatever we can to help the refugees in the Middle East and do whatever we can to influence and help Mexico and its people.

But we cannot do that if we’re no longer America.

And all I’m asking is that for the good of the world Pope Francis allow America the same border security the home of no less than St. Peter enjoys.

My Church challenges me. It’s something I invite. With love in my heart this is me, a faithful follower, gently pushing back.


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AMEN!