Posted on 05/08/2025 11:56:39 AM PDT by Strict9
His last retweet, on April 14, slams the Trump administration's deportation of undocumented migrant and Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.
The post reads: 'Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?'
Pope Leo XIV also shared several articles that address Catholic JD Vance's stance on immigration. One of them is titled: 'JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/thomas-aquinas-was-no-citizen-of-the-world/
"snip....."Medieval theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas—building upon certain Aristotelian precepts—called these concentric circles of responsibilities the “Order of Charity.” The explication for this can be found in Question 26 of the Secunda Secundae of his Summa Theologiae. By “charity,” Aquinas means love, understood not in a romantic sense, but in the broader, transcendent senses of devotion, duty, and self-gift. There must be a hierarchy of how one expresses these manifold qualities of love, says Aquinas, because “wherever there is a principle, there must necessarily also be order of some kind…. Consequently there must necessarily be some order in things loved out of charity.”
As a Catholic theologian, Aquinas unsurprisingly identifies God as the preeminent object of man’s love. But this hierarchy also has broad implications for the ordering of society, beginning with the family and working outwards. Aquinas proposes two general principles for making determinations in reference to charity: from the object loved and from the union caused. He writes: “a thing is loved more in two ways: first because it has the character of a more excellent good, secondly by reason of a closer connection.” In other words, we love certain persons more either because of the nature of who or what they are, or because we enjoy with them some deeper union. We love the virtuous person more than the scoundrel, and we love our parents, our spouses, and our children over strangers, because we share deep, close bonds with them."
From the family, we can apply the Order of Charity outwards. Aristotle observes: “it is our duty to render to each class of people such respect as is natural and appropriate.” Aquinas assents: “we ought to love some neighbors more than others.” For example, “some neighbors are connected with us by their natural origin, a connection which cannot be severed, since that origin makes them to be what they are.” Just as there is an indelible givenness to our family, so there is with members of our communities and our nation that require the prioritization of our affections. Aquinas says, “Since our neighbor is more visible to us, he is the first lovable object we meet with.” In other words, because of his proximity to us in time and space, we love our fellow countryman before citizens of other nations. Thus, “in matters concerning relations between citizens, we should prefer our fellow-citizens, and on the battlefield our fellow-soldiers.”
I think that this is actually something that J.D. Vance Believes and has discussed. I'll go with Aquinas rather than Liberation Theology and Globalism.
When will people realize the Vatican is against the American people?
True, but the anti-Catholic slams, directed at the church, not the pope, pop up like dandelions in the spring every time there is a topic about the church on this forum
It would be more correct to think that Catholic charities get a lot of its money from American taxpayers and American Catholic donors to *assist* the immigrant community.
Trump and Doge threaten the grift.
I’m not either so I don’t have to give him anything.
Thanks, Pete.
Of course, the “LEO 14” is new, I just now put that onto the image. Should I have used a sarcasm tag?
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Yes, if you didn’t want it to be fake and misleading.
Anyway, it’s no big deal.
No Catholic would ever say anything denigrating to Protestants.
So glad I am not catholic! I don’t have to struggle with my conscience when I have to defy another man who is believed to be the leader of the church ...
Well I’m a Protestant and we have just as many odd things. Goes with the territory I guess. Good luck to us both.
I’ve stood at the base of that wall, right where the picture is. Looking up it seems to reach the sky. They say it was built to protect against Moslem invaders—you know, Bergoglio’s new buddies.
I have learned to ignore it and just pray for the haters.
Amen
no joke, that’s the most impressive wall I’ve ever seen in my life
I was hoping for somebody like Cardinal Sarah or Erdo, but didn’t really expect that kind of miracle. I have a queasy feeling about this guy, but the Church has survived whole centuries of bad Popes before, and I’m just gonna go with “the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it” and pray for renewal in the future.
The fact that he’s from Chicago tells you all you need to know.
I was thinking the same thing
look at our run of Presidents the last few decades. It’s really hit and miss. ha
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