Uh, the historic Crusades were Catholic soldiers led by Popes to protect the Holy Land and repel invasion of Europe...
And by the way, the Crusaders were vastly outnumbered.
Posted on 03/29/2025 6:35:51 PM PDT by ebb tide
“The pathway of crusade and mass deportation cannot be followed in conscience by those who call themselves disciples of Jesus Christ, and we must work to make sure that that does not happen,” Cardinal Robert McElroy said in a speech to the Jesuit Refugee Service organization in D.C.
McElroy called for welcoming policies similar to those established by President Joe Biden’s border czar, Alejandro Mayorkas, saying:
The first pathway — which Catholic social teaching would support — is to change our laws so that they have secure borders and dignity for the treatment of everyone at those borders and a generous asylum and refugee policy … I actually believe most Americans would be in favor of that pathway.
McElroy’s use of the “crusade” term suggests Trump’s policies are driven by zealotry, not by sympathy for Americans. Ironically, the term exists because McElroy’s predecessors in the Catholic Church launched the Crusades in 1096 to liberate Christians from the Muslim conquest of the Middle East, starting in the 800s.
McElroy justified his anathematization of Trump’s policies by citing the biblical story of the Good Samaritan, which describes how a man from the Samaritan ethnic group aided a wounded traveler of a different ethnic group after he had been attacked by robbers. This story about one act of personal kindness on the roadside should be a guide for the U.S. government as it deals with global migration, according to McElroy. He said:
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Deus Vult.
He’s just another Commie, Jim.....
US Conference of Catholic Bishops received billions of dollars for human/child trafficking across the Mexican border.
People should spend the rest of their lives in prison for that.
McElroy, shut your damn mouth, you hypocrite!!!
Take your Marxist/Globalist bullshit and shove it up your a$$!!!
READ YOUR BIBLE, JACKASS.
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What was wrong with the crusades?
I can’t stand these people. The pope allows no immigrants into Vatican City. And the bishops allow no immigrants into their personal residences.
Yet they preach to the rest of us about tolerance. I can’t stand these people.
I was thinking the same thing……
Hey US Conference of Catholic Bishops, have you removed ALL the pervert pedophile priests yet??
Are you still playing “hide the pervert” by moving them from parish to parish?
The USCCB is Up to its neck in corruption and misappropriated taxpayer funds. The Cardinal is braying about the loss of graft more than anything else.
Yeah, they say that like it’s a bad thing.
What does it say about a Catholic cardinal whose negative view of the Crusades appears to have been formed by leftists.
They continue to show that they prefer open borders to saving babies. Disgusting hypocrites. The younger priests are more conservative but thru better push these apostates out to save the church.
It reflects on the pope who made him a cardinal in the first place; and then placed the creep in D.C.
The D.C. archdiocese should be notified that if they don’t stop meddling in immigration law and using their ecclesiastical positions to promote specific politicians, political parties, and political positions they will lose their tax-exempt status.
The Cardinal should also be asked to explain how and why he thinks the Crusades occurred, and whether aggressive and violent Islamic expansion into Christian nations was a factor.
Uh, the historic Crusades were Catholic soldiers led by Popes to protect the Holy Land and repel invasion of Europe...
And by the way, the Crusaders were vastly outnumbered.
Good question.
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