[Wallace T.]

The peculiarity is that the most conservative American Catholics from a theological standpoint are the most likely to support strong border controls. You would think that those who prefer the Council of Trent to Vatican II and consider the High Middle Ages as the pinnacle of "Christendom" would want a return to the open borders of medieval Europe. The modern nation state was by and large a product of the Enlightenment, when civil authority superceded ecclesiastic authority. In 1400, when Catholicism was virtually the only religion in Europe north of the Balkans, Europeans were more likely to think of themselves as Bavarians, Burgundians, and Castilians first and not as Germans, Frenchmen, or Spaniards. By the 17th Century, the Catholic Church was forced to compromise in order not to lose further territories. Thus, the king of France and the emperor of Austria could appoint or at least veto the appointment of bishops in their respective realms. National differences mattered more than religious ones. One suspects even "rad trad" white Catholics would prefer white evangelical neighbors to Hispanic Catholic ones.

[Zionist Conspirator]

One suspects even "rad trad" white Catholics would prefer white evangelical neighbors to Hispanic Catholic ones.

That's precisely the point I was making, though I believe one can replace the world "suspects" with the words "can be sure of."

Modern palaeoconservatism owes as much to modern racialism as it does to ancient or even medieval ecclesiology (witness Joe Sobran's defense of Instauration, a blatantly racialist publication).