(rewritten slightly for clarity)
“The plight of the some 11 million Mexican citizens who came uninvited and unwanted to the U.S. has prompted the U.S. Catholic Bishops to mount a campaign to encourage people from other countries to move to the U.S. as well, though uninvited and unwanted, this Sunday.
“Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI struck that chord when he addressed the bishops of the United States in 2012: “With the great generosity provided by others, we continue to welcome waves of economic parasites from other countries, to provide them with pastoral care and charitable assistance, and to support their sapping of the wealth of this prosperous country.”
Implied is that the wealth of Americans is so great they should be forced to surrender it to the five billion starving people of the world who live under governments indifferent to their well being. It is better that Americans lose their wealth and prosperity than that these people change their home nations so that they too could lead prosperous lives of their own making.
But what is not suggested is that “if man ‘A’ wishes to take from man ‘B’ to improve the life of man ‘C’, then man ‘A’ is a S.O.B.”
Well said.
Excellent.
The main goal is not to help the poor permanently. The purpose is to get the developed world to abandon its wealth. Once you understand that, it become more clear.
The Church believes that modern wealth and material comforts have lead people away from religion. Socialism is a tool to destroy the prosperity of the world. When nearly everyone is as poor and as miserable as a medieval European peasant, then the Church believes people will return to religion and achieve eternal salvation.