RLL 120: Catholic Charities' Border Bonanza

You're listening to Radio Looks Lucid. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thank you for joining me for episode 120. The title of tonight's episode is, what is the title of tonight's episode? Oh, yeah, Catholic Charities Border Bonanza.

Boeing’s Decline and the Loss of American Industrial Quality

This is a highly professional operation. Just so you know, no expenses spared in setting up this live stream and podcast. Well, welcome to everybody here tonight. I hope you're having a good evening. You know, I had a good day here today.

I know it's been a little while since I've done this. I'm kind of a summer slacker. I have to admit when it comes to podcasting, there's a lot of things I think I'd rather do than sit in front of a TV, in front of a computer screen and talk.

Although I do enjoy doing this. I do that a lot. That's why I spend my whole day at work. I spend eight hours a day, 40 hours a week sitting in front of a computer screen and sometimes it's just really nice to get out when the weather's nice.

The weather was very nice today. It got fairly warm here. It was in the 90s, but there's a very low humidity. It's like that old adage or whatever about, you know, it's not so much the heat as it is the humidity.

Well, there's actually some truth to that. And I went out and did some riding today. And I didn't really even break much of a sweat. And that's one of the ways you can tell the humidity's down, is when I don't have sweat pouring off of me.

So that was actually kind of nice. You know, when I was out to this place, I like to go ride and it tends to be out in the, oh, it's out in the kind of the western part of Hamilton County where I live.

And anyway, one of the, when I was out there kind of at the head of the trail, I was kind of packing things up. It was big, big roar. There's this big jet coming in. Well, the trail area, it's in the flight path of the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky Airport.

And I look up and there's this great big 747 coming in low and slow. And you can always tell it's a 747. There's nothing else because it's got four engines on it. And that's about the only four-engine, really the only four-engine airliner that's still left out there.

I know they had the Airbus, the A380 for a while, but I don't know that that's even flying anymore. But the 747 is the last of the four-engine airliners. And a lot of the traffic that comes into the airport here is actually freight traffic.

And I don't know for sure, but I suspect there's a regular flight that comes out of Anchorage, Alaska. And it may have been that. But anyway, at any rate, they usually fly 747s on that route. But anyway, I looked up and it was just so great to see it.

Seeing 747s like that always makes me happy. It was coming in kind of low and slow. You got a good look at them. And those are beautiful jets. And they're big and they're just a very elegant design, I think.

And they're really something to look at, majestic even. And I got to thinking, that was back when Boeing was really making cutting-edge aircraft. I mean, that aircraft, the 747, has been around a long time.

I think it went into commercial service in 1969. So almost my entire life, it's been flying for 55 years commercially. And I mean, I think that certainly is proof positive of the quality of the design.

Well, anyway, I bring that up because I was thinking to myself, what a contrast that is from Boeing from 1969 to Boeing here in 2024, 55 years later. Boeing's kind of fallen on hard times. And in some ways, it's maybe a bit of a, in microcosm, sort of what's happened to the United States over the last 50 plus years.

You know, I mean, Boeing, that's a really iconic company. I mean, they've been making airplanes.

I don't know.

They started in Seattle. I don't know exactly when it was found. It's probably close to a 100-year-old company, I would imagine. But they have fallen on hard times. And I got to thinking a little bit about that whole situation with the SpaceX astronauts.

Where were the astronauts up there in the International Space Station? And I saw there was a story today saying that, this was on a lot of the major newspapers, that SpaceX, it's Elon Musk's company, they're going to actually send their capsule up and bring those two astronauts back that have been stuck up there since, I think it was June when they went up, I want to say.

And bring them back because the Boeing Starliner that they went up on apparently is unsafe to ride on the way back. And that's, you know, that's really one of the, that whole thing with that Starliner, I mean, that just, again, that is, has been just so typical of the kind of bad press that Boeing has received over the past few years.

And I would say deservedly so. Because their quality has not been what it used to be. It seems like they really struggle to get anything right. You know, one thing I know they did several years ago is they moved the management office, you know, the corporate offices.

They had always been up there in Seattle where their production facilities were. They moved their management offices, I think, originally to Chicago. And I want to say they've moved since then. And I don't know, that doesn't seem like necessarily a very smart idea.

Maybe that has had something to do with the problems they've had. You know, you have management disconnected from production. Of course, there's a lot of people have talked about D .I .E. Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.

I prefer to call it D .I .E. rather than D .E .I. Simply because I think it's more descriptive. D .I .E., I mean, basically they want a lot of people just to go die. I mean, that's kind of the sense that one gets from these corporate types that will push that particular agenda.

So anyway, you know, yeah, I think that there has been some, probably some issues with D .I .E. But I think there's some other issues going on there. And apparently the problems aren't, have not been solved.

And, you know, it's difficult to turn a company like that around. I believe they just got a new CEO. But the problem is, you know, corporate culture, it's a culture of quality, a culture of innovation.

Those aren't easy things. It takes some time to establish that. And I don't know if Boeing has learned the lessons that they need to learn to get back to where the company once was. And I don't have any insider information on Boeing.

I don't. I don't know anybody that works there. I've never worked there myself. I'm just observing things on my own. Just, you know, reading things in the newspaper, just like you are. And they certainly have some problems to overcome.

Catholic Charities, Illegal Immigration, and Rome’s Political Theology

So hopefully they can correct those and get back on a more positive path. Well, what I wanted to talk to you about mainly here today is a story. And this is actually a story that my dad sent to me in Breitbart News.

And I'm going to go ahead and do a screen share here on this. Just a moment while we get this set up. I've got a slightly new setup here. I use Restream as my streaming service. And they changed the studio around a little bit.

Studio 2 .0, you know. And then you've got to figure out where things are and that all over again. Like you've never used the program before. Now, actually, it's not too bad. But it is a little bit different.

Anyway, but here's the story in Breitbart. And I'm glad he sent this to me. I always tell him, I mean, when you see stuff that's immigration related, particularly with immigration related relative to the Roman Catholic Church, send it to me.

And he sent this to me. And the Breitbart article, it's got a headline here. It says, Feds Gave Catholic Charities Almost $800 Million That Helped Shelter Transport Biden's Migrants Into U .S. Communities.

So let's get in here a little bit. It says, Congress and President Joe Biden's government have reportedly paid the Texas arm of Catholic Charities USA $796 million since 2021 to help deliver a huge population of poor migrants into U .S. communities, workplaces, and housing.

Now, I have talked extensively on this blog, and I've also written about it or on this podcast, and I've written about it in my blog, about how Catholic Charities is a huge player in facilitating the current illegal alien invasion of the United States.

And this is something that is really, it's amazing. It's amazing for two reasons. Number one, it's amazing how upfront it is. And it's also amazing, number two, for the fact that almost nobody comments on it.

I was glad to see that they ran that story in Breitbart on it. But generally speaking, there is not much scrutiny placed on the activities of the Roman Catholic Church. Now, I know that the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has gone after some of the Catholic Charities, has gone after some of these Catholic, these NGOs, these organizations in Texas that have been bringing, that have been helping, aiding and abetting the migrant crisis.

But to date, he hasn't had a lot of success yet. So I know they've got some cases that have, where they've kind of scotched his investigation, and he's appealing, and I don't know. I don't know how that's ultimately going to come out.

I do think we can pray for his work and hope that his efforts bear fruit. Although, I mean, he's got a, certainly has a, a tough road to hoe in getting the, getting his investigations through the courts that seem determined to block him.

But anyway, here's this article in Catholic Charities. So almost, I mean, it's almost $800 million in just the last three years have been given by our government. This is your tax dollars at work. It's going to fund the Roman Catholic Church so they can subvert our nation with illegal immigration.

Here's a quote here from Sheena Rodriguez. She's the president of Alliance for a Safe Texas, and she says this, quote, Catholic Charities has a history of prioritizing the needs of migrants over those of Americans, end quote.

Well, that's true. That's exactly what they do. They do have a long history of doing this sort of thing. Said Sheena Rodriguez, president of Alliance for a Safe Texas, which champions border security and anti-trafficking programs, I spoke with numerous homeless Americans who claim they were forced out of a Catholic Charities shelter in the dead of night to accommodate the influx of illegal migrants, end quote.

She told Breitbart News. So yeah, I guess apparently they've got these various shelters, and they boot out the homeless Americans, and they bring in the migrants. So, I mean, that's, yeah, that's not surprising.

It says on August 16th, so that's just a couple weeks ago or so, she reported obligated prime grant awards for Catholic Charities locations in Texas amount to $769 ,192 ,082 .35. Of which $462 ,304 .35 is reported as outlaid.

So those are funds that are actually paid out. So they've already, they've contracted, the government contracted to give them this huge amount. They've paid out, well, it's a bit over half of it. I'm sure the rest of the dollars will be released in due time.

And the article continues here, it says, Catholic leaders are defending Catholic Charities participation in the government's migration-based economic strategy, which divides many foreign families, kills many migrants, cuts Americans' wages, drives up housing costs, expands U .S. poverty, and reduces the incentive for U .S. trade with developing countries.

The catch and release network of shelters and buses also brings criminals into many U .S. communities. And Sheena Rodriguez continues, The group's disregard for the plight of our own citizens is a cause of concern, Rodriguez told Breitbart News.

The sad truth, NGOs like Catholic Charities receive far more federal money for the care of illegal migrants, which fosters blatant discrimination against American citizens. So yeah, the Catholic Charities gets huge amounts of money to bring in all these illegal aliens.

And any Americans they may have served, they just kind of get kicked to the curb. I mean, of course, I don't advocate that one dime of taxpayer money should be going to Catholic Charities. And I think probably you can make a good case that Catholic Charities ought to be shut down because of the, really, I mean, I would call it treasonous activities of that organization.

And let's see, Sheena Rodriguez continues here,. As a pro-life advocate and former Crisis Pregnancy Center volunteer counselor, I remain thankful for the faithful in the Catholic Church who was historically a staunch advocate for life.

However, Catholic Charities turns a blind eye to the devastating number of abortions pushed on the unprecedented number of unaccompanied minors and abused migrant women flooding the U .S. on taxpayer dime.

Now, it doesn't say here whether or not Christina Rodriguez herself is a Roman Catholic. I don't know. I think that there are a lot of Roman Catholics, and we're going to take a look at this here, who really question what the Roman Catholic Church does with its immigration policy, as well they should.

As well they should. Leading these kinds of migrant invasions, I mean, this is the work of the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church state. And I've talked about this many, many times on this podcast, and I'll mention it again.

I mean, what the Biden administration is doing is just carrying out the Vatican's immigration policy.

It's what they're doing.

I mean, what you're seeing with the United States being flooded with illegal aliens and legal immigrants, but illegal aliens as well, I mean, this is something that's being done by the Vatican. It's pushed by the Vatican.

The same thing is going on in Europe. And I don't know the situation in Europe quite as well, but I think there's a lot of evidence that the Vatican's behind that type of thing as well. Let's see here.

Catholic Charities also continues to work alongside other organizations such as International Organization for Migration and the UNICEF that are publicly anti-life, Catholic Charities. So, I mean, Catholic Charities claims to be pro-life, but they work with these, I guess, apparently, these organizations that push abortion.

Because for the Roman Catholic Church, it's immigration uber alis. Immigration is the most important thing. They want to get as many people in here as they can, get them on the dole, and subvert the United States of America.

That's what they're trying to do. They do not like nation-states, especially historically successful Protestant nation-states such as the United States of America. They want to get rid of them. Yet lobbyists for Catholic Charities and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops advocate against border security legislation on a state and federal level.

Catholic Charities and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have deceived Catholics and continue to use their charitable donations and billions of taxpayer dollars to actually work against true beliefs of Catholicism.

Now, this is one area where I would differ with Sheena Rodriguez because the true beliefs of Catholicism are this irredentist policy of flooding the United States and other nations with illegal aliens, if possible, certainly Roman Catholic illegal aliens.

But I don't think they even really care that much. I mean, it doesn't have to be Roman Catholics. It's just anything that they can do to destabilize independent nation-states and with the ultimate goal of bringing about global government.

That's what they want to do. So I think Sheena Rodriguez is... I appreciate a lot of her comments, although I would disagree with her on the idea that somehow true Roman Catholic beliefs is not about flooding the United States with massive millions of illegal aliens.

That's exactly what their true beliefs are. That's precisely what their true beliefs are. The article continues, and this is Breitbart, Catholic Charities USA is legally independent of the Catholic Church, but church leaders vigorously defend its role in the unpopular transfer of migrants into American society.

I am honored to receive criticism. Be maligned for the defense of the immigrant, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said in December of 2023. Now, they actually provide a link in this Breitbart article to another Breitbart article from 2023.

And the headline here, it says, Archbishop Catholics are rebelling against church's pro-migration policies. Well, he's Archbishop of New York. And of course, New York's been inundated with illegal aliens.

They're housed, they're fed, they're clothed, they're given. I think there's some program now where they're giving them a debit card with something like $1 ,000 or $1 ,500 a month. They're just giving this stuff to them.

I think it's some kind of a state or maybe even a New York City program. But the article says, Catholics are rebelling against their religious leaders' pro-migration policies. Well, yeah, because they don't like having their country overrun by a bunch of foreigners who shouldn't be here.

And that are being brought in substantially through the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church and these men like Timothy Dolan. And Dolan, he whines in this article, We were about ready with Catholic charities a year ago to turn that empty New York City school into a school for immigrant kids who would come in and we'd help them with their English.

We would help them get up to speed when it comes to their eventual insertion into one of our schools, the Catholic Cardinal said. But then I guess all these big mean people said no. And he goes on, he says, And the people in that parish rebelled and said, Absolutely not, we will not have them here, said Dolan, who watches over the massive government-funded migrant delivery process operated by the legally independent Catholic Charities USA.

So, yeah. So, yeah, Timothy Dolan, he's upset because Roman Catholics in this parish didn't want to have their parish flooded with illegal aliens. Can't imagine why. I mean, see, Roman Catholics don't like this stuff.

And this is one of the things that really comes out in this article and then there's another article I'm going to talk about, and that is these bishops keep complaining that the Roman Catholic people won't follow them in their ridiculous, destructive, treasonous ideas support of illegal immigration.

But Dolan, the thing that's important here, and I want you to see this, is that Dolan defends the idea that this idea of flooding the country with illegal aliens is in fact Catholic teaching, which it is.

I mean, Dolan is actually right. That is Roman Catholic Church policy. He's not wrong about that. I mean, the Roman Catholic Church has made it very clear that they think that they have the right to send millions of people into the United States of America, put them all on a dole force, Americans to pay for them, and our job is just to shut up and take it.

That's what they think. Dolan also dismissed criticism from bigots in Congress and asserted that he and other bishops get hate mail saying, we're tired of you bishops being hung up about the immigrants and we're not going to support you anymore.

Oh, good.

And this is the other thing. I mean, of course, these guys like Dolan, the first thing they do is they start screaming and crying about bigotry. So people don't like having millions of people show up on their front door and being forced to pay for them.

And of course, this clown wants to sit here and say, well, that's just bigotry. Well, no. I mean, what he is advocating for is theft. The amount of money to which immigrants, whether they're legal or illegal, it doesn't matter, the amount of U .S. taxpayer money they are entitled to is precisely zero.

It's not the job of the government to take money from the American people and give it to illegal aliens or to anybody else. The entire idea of the welfare state, of course, is in part a Roman Catholic idea.

The reason we have this huge welfare state in the United States as it is right now and we're going bankrupt is largely because of the lobbying of the Roman Catholic Church. But nobody has a right to live off of somebody else's taxpayer dollars.

As an American, I don't have a responsibility to underwrite through my taxpayer dollars the lifestyle of another American. And I certainly don't have an obligation to do that if these people are from foreign countries, even less so, if it's possible to be less so.

There is no obligation on the part of the American people to fund others' lifestyles. That is theft. The Scriptures do not support the idea of a welfare state. And yet people like this Timothy Dolan, they want to push it.

See, Dolan goes on, he says, this is part of our Catholic responsibility to do this and this is part of that pro-life ethic that gives a lot of flavor to our evangelical witness. Well, that's not being pro-life.

What you're doing is you're actually heaping up heavy burdens on men's backs while he himself won't lift so much as a finger to move them. I think, didn't Jesus say that about the Pharisees? Yeah, these Roman Catholic bishops are very much like the Pharisees of the New Testament.

They're quite willing to put all kinds of heavy burdens on you as an American taxpayer, but you don't expect the Church to actually use its own funds. No, the Church gets these Catholic charities, I don't remember how it's billions of dollars total a year from the federal government to run all of these programs.

I mean, your tax dollars are being given to Catholic charities. It's ridiculous. He's honored to receive criticism and be maligned for the defense of the immigrant. Okay, you're a great guy there, Dolan.

Now, this next sentence brings in a comment from a fellow named Mark Krikorian, who's a critic of all this policy. He's a director of the Center for Immigration Studies and he says,. But that sure seems to be the case here, talking about Dolan.

Dolan, he's a big gas bag. That guy, he just, I don't know, he's one of the worst as far as I'm concerned on this particular issue of immigration, although they're all terrible. He's just maybe one of the biggest mouths out there talking about it.

Krikorian continues, he says, Well, of course the bishops don't know what the gospel is. The bishops think that the gospel is, well, I mean, whatever the Catholic gospel is, some sort of faith works combination.

That's not the gospel. The gospel of Jesus Christ is that he died for the sins of his people. And when we, and when sinners believe in his name, have faith in Jesus Christ, his righteousness is imputed to them and they're saved.

That's the gospel. We're not saved by some combination of our works and faith. We're saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ. That's the gospel. And this guy, you know, of course, the Roman Catholic Church has cursed the gospel and cursed everybody who believes in it.

So no, he doesn't know, so Dolan does not know what the gospel of Jesus Christ is.

He does not.

And let's see here. It talks here, and there was some discussion here toward the bottom. Oh, I see here. It was talking, they interview this guy named Nicholas DiMarzio. He is, I guess, he's Bishop Emeritus of Brooklyn, New York.

He says,.

U .S. born citizens are born with an unchangeable immigrant identity. Well, I'm not an immigrant. He says an immigrant identity, I'm not really sure what he means by that. But you very often hear people say things, you know, you hear these Roman Catholic bishops say, well, we're all immigrants.

Well, I'm not an immigrant. I had ancestors who immigrated here. I'm an American citizen, not an immigrant. I had family members who were here in North America before there was a United States of America.

They were settlers, they weren't immigrants. It's interesting, here's a comment. I'm not an immigrant, responded Margaret Telford, a U .S. born citizen and a Catholic who works with Krikorian at the Center of Immigration Studies.

If I moved to France, would I become an immigrant? She scoffed, adding, I don't understand why they wouldn't take away the significance of my citizenship and label me an immigrant and my children and grandchildren.

When that does not fit who I am, what does this redefinition have to do with theology? Well, yeah, that's a good question. Again, I think one of the things that's important to understand is a critic of the Roman Catholic Church.

Not all Roman Catholics are on board with these bishops.

That's a good thing.

There are a lot of American Roman Catholics that are more, I would say, Protestant in their thinking probably than what they realize. I think maybe it's even, it's things like this. Maybe this issue, maybe some other issues that I think we can talk to people about this type of thing as Christians and show them that, hey, this church that you support, it's actually attacking the country, the nation that you claim to love.

I think this church is actually actively trying to make your life as an American worse. Perhaps that's one way of opening up a broader conversation to someone about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I don't know.

I haven't had that experience myself, but I think that that certainly is a way potentially that as Christians we can appeal to some of these Roman Catholics that look at these positions of the bishops and say, no, I don't agree with that, and she's right not to agree with it.

And this, DiMarzio, he continues, says the benefits of immigration in our country need to be emphasized. People don't see that. Again, the negativity is that they're taking away resources. Well, they actually are.

When they're going on a dole, they are taking away resources. When they're going on public welfare, they are taking away resources. Well, they give more than they take when all is said and done. Well, how does he know that?

Some studies that I've seen have shown that it costs hundreds of billions of dollars in U .S. taxpayer money every year to bring all these people in. And frankly, I think that that seems to me to be far more closer to the truth than anything that this bishop emeritus has to say.

To analyze it properly economically, we need to get people that are already grown, somewhat educated, some very educated. It doesn't cost us anything. We benefit as a country. Well, no, again, we do not benefit as a country from the activities that the Roman Catholic Church is pushing on us.

It is destroying the United States of America. Let's see. And this Telford, she continues, does that sound like a church statement? Telford responded, it's good for the economy and you need to do this.

Does that make any sense coming from the pulpit? It is not, Dracht, and we do not have to agree with him on this. Well, again, I would actually disagree with that. You know, John Robbins talked about this in his book Ecclesiastical Megalomania.

I wonder if I can... It's actually a great quote that he has in there. What he effectively says in Ecclesiastical Megalomania is that the Roman Catholic Church offers a package deal. In other words, not only the economic and political statements of the Roman Catholic Church, they flow from Rome's theology.

So they really are doctrine. This whole idea of the immigration stance of the Roman Catholic Church actually flows from the theology of the Roman Catholic Church. So it is doctrine. It is doctrine. The Bible has a great deal to say about economics and politics.

And the economic and political ideas of the Bible are just as much Scripture and just as much Christian doctrine as the passages that talk about salvation, you know, justification by faith alone. I've actually got a Kindle version of Ecclesiastical Megalomania here.

Let's see here. Yeah, here it is right here. Oh, I love a search function. What would I ever do? Sometimes I'm reading a regular book and I realize, I can't search the document. Oh no. But yeah, I was able to search this.

Let's see here. Maybe we can do a screen share on that in just a moment here. Let's stop sharing that and see if we can do... Oh, here we go. Okay, yeah. So this is Ecclesiastical Megalomania. And I'll just start reading here a little bit.

It says, In the pages that follow, the reader will find scores of such statements from the Magisterium of the Roman Church State. They are part of a system, and he's talking about statements on criticizing capitalism and personal liberty, you know, these sorts of things.

So in the pages that follow, the reader will find scores of such statements from the Magisterium of the Roman Church State. They are part of a system of thought that is one of the most impressive systems yet devised by men.

They are not disjointed statements, but the logical conclusions of the premises accepted in Roman theology. Okay? So this attack on political freedom, this attack on economic freedom, on private property, these things, they are logical conclusions of the premises accepted in Roman theology.

So they're not these separate things. It's not like you've got Roman Catholic theology way over here on one side, and their economics and politics over here on the other side, and they have nothing to do with each other.

The economics and the politics of the Roman Church State are just as much doctrine as anything else they teach on Jesus Christ or the worship of Mary or any of these other ideas. I know they say they don't worship Mary, but they do.

I don't want to get off on that tangent right now. But John Robbins continues here. He says they, and that is all of these statements, attacking personal liberty, attacking private property, they are offered to the world by the Roman Magisterium as part of a package deal, and we are not at liberty, as some American Catholics would prefer to do, to accept the Church State's theology and reject its economic and political philosophy that flies in the face not only of the claims of the Church State itself, but of reason as well.

He continues. I'll just, I'll finish this out here. He says the author hopes that those who read this book will come away with a better understanding of what Rome has said in the fields of political and economic theory and why it has said it.

And if there be any Roman Catholic readers who are inclined to favor freedom and free enterprise, may they understand that their Church does not, and therefore they must choose to be either good Catholics or good Christians.

So, yeah, that's, you know, really the crux of this idea is the fact that, you know, that Rome offers its theology and politics and economics as a package deal. That's what Rome claims. And we are not at liberty, and this is, again, I'll just read this again, we are not at liberty, as some American Catholics would prefer to do, to accept the Church State's theology and reject its economic and political philosophy.

Now, to the credit of this lady that they're interviewing here, she actually rejects Rome's political and economic philosophy. Now, sometimes we call that a blessed inconsistency. But, you know, this idea that somehow that the statements on immigration, which are part of the economic and political philosophy as Rome, are not doctrine, they don't have to agree with it, that is very much mistaken.

And Timothy Dolan makes that point. And, in fact, another guy, this DiMarzio that they interview in this original piece, toward the end of the piece he's talking about a study, a survey that was done of Roman Catholics.

And this was his conclusion. It said that there were a large number of Roman Catholics that did not base their views on immigration on the Roman Catholic Church's social teaching. And this kind of really makes John Robbins' point.

This Bishop DiMarzio that they describe as a leading advocate for more immigration, quote, at least 46 of our Catholics need better instruction on what the Church teaches about immigration, so that their opinions on migration will be informed by Catholic social teaching.

He added in an August 21st article for Catholic Review. So, actually, they provided a link in that Breitbart article. And let's see here. It says that another key question is to what degree does your Catholic faith inform your opinions about immigrants and refugees with the following result?

19 said very much, 35 said somewhat, 19 said a little, and 27 said not very much. And this was DiMarzio's response. He says at least 46 of our Catholics need better instruction on what the Church teaches so that their opinions on migration will be informed by Catholic social teaching.

This gives me more reasons to walk with migrants and to keep on writing these monthly columns. So, this DiMarzio, he wants to help the Catholic laypeople to get their thinking straight. I want to help you out here.

What we have here is failure to communicate, kind of like cool hand Luke or something like that. So, yeah, DiMarzio is right. Now, please understand what I'm saying when I say he's right. What he's simply saying is that Catholics do have an obligation to support the current policies of flooding the United States of America with tens of millions of illegal aliens.

They have an obligation to support that. That's what he's saying. Now, again, it's a good thing that there are a lot of Roman Catholic laymen out there who do reject that. You have to distinguish between, you know, John Robbins used to talk about how you had to distinguish between a system and a person.

You can have a system of thought of Roman Catholicism and in particular Roman Catholic social teaching, but that doesn't mean that all Roman Catholics actually agree on that. But these bishops like DiMarzio and also we saw with Dolan, they're saying, oh, no, you do, you as a Roman Catholic, you do have an obligation to believe this stuff.

And they are right. That is the Church's position. The Roman Catholic Church offers its stance on immigration. It's part of its theology. And you can't separate those two. So anyway, I'm glad I had a chance to go through that article a bit.

The 2024 Election, Rigged Polls, and Election Theft

You know, one last thing I wanted to talk about here today, this is just getting off on the subject. I wanted to say something about it here. It had to do with the presidential election. Of course, it's hard to believe we're only just a little bit over two months away from the big 2024 presidential election.

At this point, it certainly appears it's going to be Donald Trump against J .D. Vance, his running mate, meeting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The Democrats just wrapped up their convention I think a couple days ago.

And this has been my base case. So somebody might say, OK, so who do you think is going to win? Well, my base case is the Democrats are going to steal the election and give it to Kamala Harris. And why do I say that?

Simply because of the fact that none of the people that stole the election in 2022 or in 2020, nobody has been punished. Nobody has paid a price for their election interference. And so my assumption is they're just going to do the same thing again.

Some people, they use that saying, well, we can't vote our way out of this. I'd like to believe that that was wrong, but it seems to me that's the most logical thing to expect. Now, I'm not saying this to discourage people from going out and voting.