Posted on 01/14/2018 7:40:01 PM PST by ebb tide
“Not one penny above regular hotel rates.”
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... In Athens 2,400 years ago, Aristophanes described the demagogue as having “a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, cross-grained nature and the language of the marketplace.” That marketplace today includes the biased media and the universities that have become daycare centers.
The recent action of our government’s executive branch to protect our borders and enforce national security is based on Constitutional obligations (Art. 1 sec 10 and Art. 4 sec 4). It is a practical protection of the tranquility of order explained by Saint Augustine when he saw the tranquillitas ordinis of Roman civilization threatened. Saint Thomas Aquinas sanctioned border control (S. Th. I-II, Q. 105, Art. 3)...
...At issue is not immigration, but illegal immigration. It is certainly manipulative of reason to justify uncontrolled immigration by citing previous generations of immigrants to our shores, all of whom went through the legal process, mostly in the halls of Ellis Island. And it is close to blasphemy to invoke the Holy Family as antinomian refugees, for they went to Bethlehem in obedience to a civil decree requiring tax registration, and they violated no statutes when they sought protection in Egypt.
Why do I get the nagging suspicion every bit of whining that spews from the Vatican is directed at the US? Muslims and socialists never had a better advocate that the faux-pope from Argentina.
Hey Vatican,
Take your jive ass marxist and maybe teach him morals instead of making money money money.
As that seems to be what makes the Catholic church go round and round.
He’s turning my Church from a Christian faith into some sort of left-wing political party. I’m quite angry with him.
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