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America’s Bishops Should Heed Church on Sovereignty
American Spectator ^ | January 18, 2025 | S.A. McCarthy

Posted on 01/19/2025 4:10:31 PM PST by ebb tide

America’s Bishops Should Heed Church on Sovereignty

As Trump takes office, they should recall that the Church has long supported preserving the sovereignty and culture of nations.

President-elect Donald J. Trump is to be inaugurated Monday and his mass deportation program is slated to begin Tuesday. While a number of Catholic bishops have spoken out against Trump’s deportation plans (I’ve covered the subject for The American Spectator here, here, and here), the Catholic Church has actually long supported the right of nations to defend their sovereignty, their borders, and their national culture and identity.

The Catholic Church’s teachings on national sovereignty, culture, and identity are perennial and immutable.

The Church and the Sovereignty of Nations

In what would surely be characterized as a nationalist hate screed if published today, Pope Leo XII wrote in 1885, “Nations have their own distinct character and genius, bestowed upon them by divine Providence, and it is the duty of the state to ensure that these unique identities are respected and fostered in the development of society.”

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Two years later, Pope Pius XII continued his predecessor’s work, strongly condemning racially-motivated violence and ethnic cleansing while firmly supporting a nation’s right to protect its ethnic and cultural heritage. In Summi Pontificatus, he wrote, “In the unity of the human family, races, and peoples have their own characteristics which they may and must guard, preserve, and develop, yet always in harmony and in the service of the common good.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: frankebishops; frankenchurch; illegals; invaders; treasonisasin

1 posted on 01/19/2025 4:10:31 PM PST by ebb tide
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2 posted on 01/19/2025 4:13:38 PM PST by ebb tide (The Synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
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To: ebb tide

Could this be made a Catholic Caucus before we get the usual vindictive anti Catholic posts please?


3 posted on 01/19/2025 5:04:41 PM PST by Texas_Guy
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To: Texas_Guy

...my posts are only against the [corrupt] Latin Church, The Catholic Church I am still part of.

Rome has fallen.


4 posted on 01/19/2025 5:55:16 PM PST by JJBookman (Leave Rome and come home to Eastern Orthodoxy, it's The Church as it was BEFORE V2 ruined it)
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To: Texas_Guy

Among the citizenry most concerned with the practical effects of state sovereignty are home born African-Americans who are the people most disadvantaged by the unending legions of invading migrants whose invasion has been subsidized by business interests—the U.S. Chamber of Commerece, the Business Roundtable, the Koch Bros. & Foster Farms.

The American Bishops who get $100s millions to administer these business interests’ governemnt grants to facilitate this invasion, curiously have no concern for those home born Blacks, whose ancestors never invaded this country, who came here against their will.

Faithful servant of the oligarchs against the interests of low-wage, home born workers, “Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the Trump administration’s proposed deportations would be “an absolute gut punch” to the U.S. economy.”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4291141/posts


5 posted on 01/19/2025 5:56:00 PM PST by CharlesOConnell (Kucy)
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To: JJBookman; Texas_Guy
The Catholic Church I am still part of.

No, you're a schismatic; a deserter.

6 posted on 01/19/2025 6:21:43 PM PST by ebb tide (The Synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
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