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 tonight's episode? Oh, yeah Catholic Charities Board of Bonanza This is a highly professional operation just so you know

Spent those no no expenses spared In 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 I know the weather was very nice today.

It was Got fairly warm here is in the 90s, but there's a very low humidity. You know, 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 did some riding today and That you know

I didn't really even break much of a sweat and I can that's that's one of the ways you can tell the humidities 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 the western part of Hamilton County where I live and anyway, one of the

When I was out there kind of at the at the head of the trail is kind of packing things up It was big big roar.

There's this big jet coming in Well that that that the part of the the trail area it's in the flight path for the greater

Cincinnati North 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 Then it's the about the only four engine really the only four engine airliner that's still left out there

I know they had the the Airbus the a380 for a while but I don't I don't know that that's even flying anymore, but the 747 is as the last of the

The the four -engine Airliners and a lot of the the traffic that comes into the airport here is actually freight traffic and I I don't know for sure

But I suspected there's a regular flight that comes out of Anchorage, Alaska And it may have been that but anyway at any rate they they usually fly 747s on that route, but anyway

I looked up and it was just it was so great to see it I always always seen 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 those are beautiful jets and you know, they're big and they're

Just very elegant design I think and they're really something to look at majestic even and Yeah, I got to thinking, you know, that was back when

You know Boeing was really making cutting -edge aircraft. I mean that 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 is proof positive of The quality of the design.

Well, anyway, you know, I bring that up because I was thinking to myself You know what a contrast that is from Boeing from 1969 to Boeing here in 2024 55 years later

You know Boeing's kind of fallen on hard times and in in some ways. It's maybe a bit

Bit of a in microcosm sort of what what's happened to the United States over the last 50 plus years

You know, I mean in Boeing, that's a really iconic company. I mean, they've been making airplanes I don't know.

They they started in Seattle. I I don't know exactly when it was found. It's probably close to a hundred -year -old company I would imagine but they have fallen on hard times and and I got to thinking a little bit about that the 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 a lot must company they're gonna actually send their capsule up and 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 whole thing with that Starliner I mean that just again that 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 move the the management Office, you know the the corporate offices

They had always been up there in Seattle where their production facilities were where they moved 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 that doesn't seem like necessarily a very smart idea.

Maybe that had some has had something to do With with the problems they've had you have management disconnected from production

Of course, there's a lot of people have talked about D IE Diversity inclusion and equity.

I prefer to call it D IE rather than D E I Simply because I think it's more descriptive

D IE. I mean basically they want a lot of people just to go die I mean, that's that's kind of the the sense that one gets from these

Corporate types that that will push that particular agenda So anyway, you know the yeah,

I think I think that there has been some probably some issues with with D IE but I think there's some other issues going on there and Apparently the the problems aren't aren't have not been solved and you know, it's it's 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 it's a

Culture of quality of course culture of innovation. Those are an easy thing. It takes some time to establish that and I don't know if if Boeing has learned the lessons that they need to learn to To get back to 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 newspaper just like you are and They certainly have some some problems to overcome 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 is a story and this is actually a story that That my dad sent to me in in Breitbart news and I'm gonna 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 Set up here in I use a restream as my streaming service

And they change the studio around a little bit studio 2 .0, you know And then you got to figure out all 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 So anyway, but here's the story in Breitbart and this this really

I'm glad he sent this to me I always tell him I mean when you see stuff with its immigration related particularly with immigration related relative to the

Roman Catholic Church Send it to me and he 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 shelter transport

Biden's migrants in the US 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 dollars since 2021 to help deliver a huge population of poor migrants in the

US communities workplaces and housing Now I have talked extensively

On this blog and I've also written about it or on this 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 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 and Breitbart on it, but Generally speaking there is 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 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 his investigation and he's appealing and I don't know

I don't know how that's ultimately gonna come out I I do, you know think we can pray for his his work and hope that his efforts bear fruit although I mean he's got a certainly has a a

Tough tough road to hoe in in getting the Getting his 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 dollars in just the last three years have been given by our government

This is your 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 in 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 charity shelter in the dead of night

To accommodate the influx of illegal migrants then quote she told Breitbart News. So yeah,

I guess apparently they've got these various Shelters and a they boot out the homeless Americans and they they bring bring in the bring in the migrants so,

I mean that's Yeah, that's that's not surprising This is an

August 16th. So that's just you know a couple weeks ago or so she reported

Obligated prime grant awards for Catholic Charities locations in Texas amount to seven hundred sixty nine one hundred ninety two thousand eight eighty two dollars and thirty five cents of which four hundred fifty thousand four hundred sixty two dollars three four hundred sixty two thousand three hundred four dollars and thirty five cents is

Reported as outlaid. So those are funds that are actually paid out So they they've already they've contracted the government to contract to get in this huge amount.

They've paid out It's a bit over half of it in them. I'm sure the rest of the dollars will be released and 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 cost expands us 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.

They cause of concern Rodriguez told Breitbart news 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 these illegal aliens and you know

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 could make a good case to Catholic Charities ought to be shut down because of the really,

I mean I would call it treasonous activities of that organization and 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 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

Roman Catholic. I don't know I think that there are a lot of Roman Catholics and we're gonna take a look at this here who

Really question what the Roman Catholic Church does with with its immigration policy as well.

They should as well they should Leading these kinds of migrant invasions

I mean this this is this is the work of the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church state and I've talked about this many many times on This this podcast and I'll mention it again

I mean what 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 alien and legal immigrants

But legal aliens as well. I mean this is something that's being done by the Vatican It's pushed by the

Vatican the same things going on in Europe, and I don't know the situation in Europe quite as well

But I would very I think there's a lot of evidence of 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 to work with these I guess apparently these organizations that push abortion because for the

Roman Catholic Church, it's it's Immigration uber all this immigration is the most important thing

They want to get as many people in here as they can get them on the dole and 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 It continues 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 in if possible certainly

Roman Catholic Illegal aliens But I don't think they even really care that much.

I mean it can be 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 I appreciate some 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 with massive millions of alien 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 and to another Breitbart article from 2023 and the headline here

It says Archbishop Catholics are rebelling against churches pro -migration policies Well, he's Archbishop of New York And of course,

New York's been inundated with illegal aliens. They 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 a

Thousand or fifteen hundred dollars 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 the religious leaders pro -migration policies

Well, yeah, because they don't like having their country overrun by a bunch of foreigners. You shouldn't be here Then in that are being brought in substantially through the efforts of the

Roman Catholic Church and in these you know these men like like Timothy Dolan and Dolan kind of 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 their eventual insertion into one of our schools the Catholic Cardinals said

But then I guess all these big mean people said no and and he goes on he says and the people in that parish

Rebellion said absolutely not we will not have them here said Dolan who watches over the massive government funded migrant delivery process process operated by the legally independent

Catholic Charities USA so yeah, so so yeah,

Timothy Dolan, he's he's upset because Roman Catholics in this parish didn't want to have their parish flooded with the illegal aliens

Can't imagine why I mean see you see Roman Catholics don't like this stuff And this is this is one of the things that really comes out in 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 but Dolan the thing that's important here 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 in The United States of America put them all on the 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 it's sort of 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 You know it and this is the other thing

I mean, of course, you know these these guys like Dolan the first thing they do is they start screaming and crying about bigotry you know, so people don't like having millions of people show up on their front door and being forced to pay for them and And of course this clown wants to sit here and say well that's just bigotry well, you know

I mean what what he is advocating for is theft The the amount of money to which

Immigrants whether the legal or illegal. It doesn't matter the amount of US 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 To illegal aliens or to anybody else the the entire idea of the welfare state is of course is 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 to to live live off off of somebody else off of somebody else's taxpayer dollars

And as as an American, I don't have a responsibility to to underwrite through my tax 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 there is no obligation on the part of the

American people To To fund others lifestyles, you know, that is theft the the scriptures do not support the idea of a welfare state

And yet people like this, you know, this is Timothy Dolan Yeah, you know they they they want to push it.

Let's 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 is you're actually heaping up heavy burdens on men's backs while Why 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 the church gets that, you know, these

Catholic charities they get these I don't remember has 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 it's it's ridiculous He's honored to receive criticism be maligned for the defense of the immigrant, okay, you're you're a you're a great guy there

Dolan Now this next This next sentence it brings in a comment for a fellow named

Mark Krikorian who's a critic of of all his policy He's he's a director of the

Center for immigration studies And he says not everybody who wants high immigration is guilty of the sin of pride

But that sure seems to be the case here talking about Dolan and Dolan. He's he's a he's a big gas bag

Yeah, that guy he just I don't know he's 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 the one of the biggest mouths out there talking about it

Krikorian continues He says the bishops think expressing their views and broad political issues is at least as important if not more important than actually preaching the gospel

Well, of course the bishops don't know what the gospel is. You know, 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 And when when when sinners believe in his name through you have faith in Jesus Christ His righteousness is imputed to them

And they're saved That's the gospel work. We're not saved by or by some combination of our works and in faith

We're saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ that's the gospel and And in 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 a talking they interview this guy named

Nicholas de Mar de Marzio and He is I guess this is

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're very often here people say things

You know the here these Roman Catholic bishops say well, we're all immigrants. Well, I'm not an immigrant. I Had ancestors who immigrate here.

I'm an American citizen not an immigrant You know, I had said I had I had family members who here in in North America before there was a

United States of America You know, they were settlers. They were they weren't they weren't immigrants It's interesting here.

Here's a comment says 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've moved to France when I become an immigrant immigrant, she scoffed adding

I don't understand why they want to take away the significance of my citizenship and label me an immigrant my children and grandchildren

When does that? When that does not fit who I am. What does this redefinition have to do with theology?

Well, yeah, that's a good question. And again, I think one of the things that's important to understand is

Is a critical Roman Catholic Church and not all Roman Catholics are on board with these with these bishops

And that's a good thing. I mean there are a lot of them a lot of American Roman Catholics that are more

I would say Protestant and they're thinking probably than what they realize and I Think maybe it's even you know, it's things like this and maybe me or maybe this issue

Maybe some other issues that I think we you know, we can talk to people about this type of thing as as Christians You know and show them that hey, you know this church that you support it doesn't you know, it's actually attacking the country the nation that That you claim to love

And I think you know, it's this church is actually actively trying to make your life as an

American worse and You know, perhaps you know that that's one way of opening up a broader conversation to someone about about the gospel of Jesus Christ I don't know.

I haven't had that experience myself. But you know, I think that that certainly is is a way Potentially that that as Christians that we can appeal

To some of these Roman Catholics that look at these these these positions of the bishops and say, you know

I don't agree with that and she's right not to agree with it and this

DeMarzio he continues Says the benefits of immigration or 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're taking away resources

Well, they give more than they take when all said and done. Well, how does he know that and in fact there have been Some studies that I've seen it has shown that it cost hundreds of billions of dollars in US 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 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 Churches is pushing on us is destroying the United States of America Let's see and This this

Telford she continues. Does that sound like a church statement Telford respond? It's good for the economy and you need to do this

Does that make any sense coming from the pulpit is not dropped 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 wonder if I can

It's actually a great quote that he has in there. What what he effectively says in ecclesiastical megalomania is that The Roman Catholic Church does not offer offers a package deal in other words

Not only the the their economic and political statements of the Roman Catholic Church.

They flow from Rome's theology so they really are doctrine, you know, they these these this whole idea of the

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, you know, the

Bible has a great deal to say about economics and politics and the the economic and political

Ideas of the Bible are just as much scripture and just as much Christian doctrine as the the passages of talk about Salvation, but you know justification by by faith alone.

Let's see. I've got I've got a actually got a Kindle version of Ecclesiastical megalomania here.

Let's see here. Yeah, here's here it is right here.

Oh, I love a search function What what would I ever do? I you know, sometimes I'm reading a you know, a regular book and I realize

I can't search the document Oh, no But yeah, I was able to search this And let's see here maybe we can do do a screen share on that just a moment here

Stop sharing that see if we can do 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 of follow the reader will find scores of such statements in 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 these separate things

It's not like you 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 on On Jesus Christ or the venue of the the worship of Mary or any of these other ideas

I know they they'd 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 to 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 states 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

They're really the crux of this idea is the fact that you know The 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 states 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 Rome's political and economic philosophy now some things 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 is

Rome are not doctrine they don't have to agree with it that that is very much mistaken and the and Timothy Dolan makes that point and in fact another guy this this

DiMarzio that they interview In this original piece Toward the end of the piece he's talking about a study as a survey that was done of Roman Catholics and This is was his conclusion it said that that there were oh

There were a a large number of Roman Catholics that did not base their their views on immigration on The church the

Roman Catholic Church's social teaching and this kind of really makes John Robbins point this

Bishop DiMarzio That they described as a leading advocate for more immigration quote at least 40 % 46 % of our

Catholics need better instruction what the church teaches About immigration so that their opinions on migration will be informed by Catholic social teaching

He added an August 21st article for Catholic review, so I actually they provided a link in that Breitbart article and Let's see here

It says that another key question is to is to what degree does your Catholic faith inform your opinions about?

immigrants and refugees with following result 19 % said very much 35 % said somewhat 19 % said a little and 27 % said not very much and This was 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 so this DiMarzio he wants to help he wants to help him help Is these the

Catholic laypeople to layman to to get their thinking straight want to help you out here?

There's what we have here is failure to communicate kind of like cool hand Luke or something like that Yeah, so so yeah in DiMarzio is right.

I Mean and and now please understand what I'm saying when I say he's right what he's simply saying is the

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 layman 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 that doesn't mean that all Roman Catholics actually agree on that But these bishops like DiMarzio and and also we saw with Dolan They 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 the

Roman Catholic Church offers the It stands on immigration.

It's 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, 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 had to do with the 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, it's gonna be

At this point, I mean it certainly appears it's going to be Donald Trump Against JD Vance is running mate are gonna be meeting

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz You know, the Democrats just wrapped up their convention.

I think a couple days ago and One of the things and this has been my base case, you know, so somebody might say, okay

So who do you think's gonna win? Who do you think's gonna win? Well, my base case is the Democrats are gonna 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 and nobody has been punished

Nobody has paid a price for their their election interference And so my assumption is they're just gonna do the same thing again yeah, some people have you know, they use that saying well we can't vote our way out of this and You know,

I'd like to believe that that was wrong, but I mean 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. I'm not saying this to to To be negative,

I don't want to be negative. I it's simply my opinion. I wish I could say something better than that Now I could be wrong.

I mean again, I'm giving my opinion so opinions can be wrong now, maybe You know some people have posited the fact that you know

There are a lot of people in a deep state that would actually like to see Donald Trump win And I think that there's some truth to that I mean,

I know that he's gone and he's met with some people on Wall Street and this guy If you follow financial news, you've maybe heard the name

Jamie Dimon He's the CEO longtime CEO of of JP Morgan Which is the largest bank in the

United States by assets very influential bank very tied into to Wall Street and also to Washington It's almost like a de facto part of government.

Not quite. It's it's a separate It's its own separate private company, but it's it's it's very closely tied in to to what goes on in Washington And I know he supported

Donald Trump Or has come out and he certainly has seemed like he's been okay with it

And I think that there are probably I mean we sometimes tend to portray the deep state as this this

Monolith and I'm not sure that that's always Necessarily true I think you can have Factions within within the deep state just like you can have factions in in any other group

You have factions in the Roman Catholic Church. You have you know factions in Congress this type of thing So I I don't think that that's an impossible situation that that there could be some people within the you know

The the deep state as we like to call it that that would favor Donald Trump I think maybe some of them are concerned that the country's going a little bit off the rails

You know, so, you know, who knows maybe maybe they they're able to to find a way to get

Donald Trump in but my base case is Is that Kamala Harris will be rigged into office?

I mean she can't possibly win on her own You know now there, you know

She still hasn't held a press conference after being the nominee for the last month Apparently she has backed out of of the agreed -upon debate so I don't think there's gonna be a presidential debate this year and On one hand,

I certainly can understand why the Democrats would not want to put her out there with Donald Trump She would not do well.

I Don't she might be as big a disaster as Biden was back in June for all I know but I can understand from a strategic standpoint the

Democrats not wanting to expose her that way basically They're trying to hide her in much the same way that they hid

Joe Biden back in 2020 Joe Biden was a terrible candidate back in 2020, you know, they called him basement

Joe I think there's some good reason for that Although to his credit he did at least go out and do I think he did a couple of debates with Trump But mostly he hid and then of course they just you know

Faked all these votes, you know they truck all these hundreds of thousands of ballots off and then fall off fall off the truck and in the

The middle of downtown Detroit and at 3 a .m. In the morning I'm being a little silly about that, but that's that's kind of what it was

You know, they they stopped counting and then in six of the swing states I think it was then when they reopened all sudden

Wow, it's amazing. You know all these votes Joe Biden's leading in all these states How could that possibly happen?

Yeah, there's nothing nothing at all suspicious about any of that. So anyway,

I Know that sounds like conspiracy theory Well, you know I would say to that well there are such things as conspiracies

There are conspiracies in the Bible. There's lots of conspiracies in the Bible and you know, there's that verse what is that Psalm 22?

I think is what the the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and his anointed

Well, what does take counsel together against mean other than they conspired? There's lots of conspiracies in the

Bible. There are such things as conspiracies you can even be Charged in US law with conspiracy

So to say something's a conspiracy theory, you know in an attempt to discredit it that's just you know, that's just nonsense

My understanding of it that is that the whole term conspiracy theory is something that started in started with the sea with the

CIA apparently and We're having to do with the Kennedy assassination that they they said that well

You know, it's a conspiracy theory if people won't believe the Warren Commission and and they they started floating this idea out there and of course that's been used to try to discredit lots of people over the last 60 or so years

But anyway, there's an article by by Paul Craig Roberts and he talks about this he says rigged polls creating a false narrative to enable election theft and I'll just read a little bit of this

He says I have repeatedly warned the rigged polls are turning Kamala into a leading candidate in order that the theft mechanisms

Democrats have have in place can be used to steal the election in other words What's going on here?

And what he's saying is is there they're faking these polls to show that you know The Donald Trump and and Kamala Harris are neck -and -neck.

They're right there, you know, it's going down to the wire it's gonna be it's super close and You know

And then they're just gonna rig it out rig rig her in the office with the sort of last -minute surges in in voting

But I mean there are limits to how much the the Dems the deep state folks can rig

You know, they're not God so there's some limits on what they can do and one of the ways they set this thing up according to Roberts is that they

Have these polls month in advance showing that the two are really really close and you know, it could go either way

So when when they do the rigging on election night that it seems plausible

You can't have a situation where Kamala Harris is behind by 20 points and then suddenly pulls a magic rabbit out of the hat and wins on on election night

That would not be believe that would be too obviously bogus. So you can't have that but what yes, but he talks in here about all of these these skewed polls and basically the

There's an article he links to here that talks about how they're over these pollsters are oversampling

Democrats Well, that's the same thing they were doing in 2016. So I mean, this is not really a new playbook

It's just they're doing the same old things that they have and here's the article that Roberts links to it

Says polling shows Harrison lead flagged by industry experts for vote samples and it has a quote here

It says so what they're doing is they're pulling fewer Republicans They're pulling a disproportionate number of Biden 2020 voters in these states that were dead

Even poster John McLaughlin said there's not It is not to be any consensus on any of the polls

Accuracy there there does not to be any consensus in any polls accuracy Okay, so that I think there's a word missing there a little confusing

Well, yeah talks about vice president Kamala Harris has enjoyed a noticeable surge in the polls particularly national polls

It's becoming the Democratic standard -bearer But the rapid shift in her position has left some of the in some industry analysts

Questioning the apparent boost in the former formerly quite unpopular vice president saying yeah, that's one of the things that's amazing, isn't it?

You know, she was she was the lowest I had the lowest approval rating of any vice president now all of a sudden

She's like this amazing almost godlike being it can do no wrong according to the national news media and And So, I mean, yeah, are they trying to are they rigging polls?

Yeah, I think they probably are I mean again that that was all part of what was going on in in prior elections

And the thing that you have to remember at least in my view of this is that when you talk about rigging an election

It's not just any one thing. I mean, this is a a multi -pronged approach

To to stealing the election, it's not just one thing, you know, there's those big ballot drops and those those

Those swing states in 2020 that was just sort of the final final step But you know, they set that up months months in advance and I think they're doing the same thing this year

As well, and they seem to be bound to determine they want to give us President Harris Which would be a a truly monstrous regiment and and it would be a disaster for this country

And as I said, I think there's even some people in and sort of the upper echelons Various industries and various Maybe even

Government agencies maybe that are thinking about that And I think maybe some of them don't want to see that happen

But I think we're gonna it's going to be interesting the next two months But as I said, my money is we're gonna be seeing

President Kamala Harris. I Hope that I'm wrong about that But but we'll see.