Pope Francis, the Vicar of Christ and first Jesuit to hold the Papacy, died days ago at the age of 88. I was sorry to hear about his passing and mournful that one of Christianity’s greatest living advocates (as all Popes are) had passed. However, mixed with this sadness at His Holiness’ passing was a deep-seated relief that the age of the Catholic Church’s most “liberal” Pope had finally come to an end. It will soon by time to pick a new Pope and we must put pressure on the church, wherever possible, to pick a Pope who won’t be so anti-Western.
For anyone not aware, Pope Francis saved a great many of his rebukes for Western nations and politicians who wanted to put a stop to the age of mass immigration. Pope Francis called it a grave sin to turn away migrants from the shores of Europe and said that plans to deport illegal immigrants from the United States were “a disgrace”.
The late Jesuit Pope even went so far as to pen a letter to every Bishop in the US wherein he rebuked our Vice President JD Vance for simply stating that people had an obligation to their own countrymen before random newcomers at our borders. In his letter the Pope said that worrying about “personal, community or national identity” distorts social life and imposes a “will of the strongest”. The Pope did not take into consideration the way mass immigration distorts the social lives of the nations being visited by mass immigration and the accompanying crime and social upheaval nor did he speak about how this immigration was imposed by an elite upon a population constantly voting for less immigration. The Pope even donated $500,000 from the Vatican fund known as Peter’s Pence to migrants at the US border, facilitating the unconscionable destruction of a Christian nation. The Pope could have donated those funds to the many charitable organizations trying to keep would-be migrants from leaving their homelands.
His actions concerning Europe were even worse. He demanded European countries take in as many refugees as possible. Even Worse the late Pope Francis outright denied that Europe had a migrant crisis and challenged European countries to throw their borders. The Pope even went so far as to call the ability to migrate to another country a right and to reject the idea that nations had a right to keep foreigners out.
If the Western world had fully embraced the migrant madness of Pope Francis it would have completely destroyed Europe, the birthplace of Western Christianity, and resulted in the destruction of the deeply Christian United States. The late Pope’s advocacy for unlimited immigration was not universal either, but rather his ire was particularly directed at the West. I have looked extensively yet cannot find examples of him chastising other peoples and civilizations for keeping migrants out. He never targeted the highly restrictionist nations of Japan or Chile.
When Pope Francis said it was “the duty of civilization” to allow seemingly endless waves of immigration he appears to have meant that it was the “duty” of Western civilization to quicken our pace of civilizational self-destruction via mass immigration.
It’s clearly time for a Pope who does not display such distaste toward Western civilization and will defend the birthplace of Western Christianity. The West is the largest Christian civilization on Earth and our destruction would mean the destruction of many millennia of Christian history and tradition along with legal, social, and governance traditions all rooted in Christianity.
During the time of Francis it was a foreign religious leader, the 14th and current Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, who defended the West when he said that “Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country” and that “Germany is Germany”. He implored refugees to rebuild their own homelands and said that “Europe belongs to the Europeans”. The West needs a Pope in Rome who will express these same sentiments and give moral courage to those Western nationalists fighting to preserve our civilization.
There are many lists of speculative Papal candidates and most of them are terrible on the issue of immigration or have no history of statements on the issue. Some candidates such as Cardinal Peter Erdő of Hungary are moderate on the issue while men such as Anders Arborelius of Sweden and Luis Tagle of the Philippines are very likely to continue pushing for relentless waves of immigration into the West.
There is some speculation that the American Bishop Leo Burke could become the next Pope and if he did it would certainly mark a positive turn on the issue of immigration. Bishop Burke has said that opposition to mass Muslim immigration was “responsible” in his judgment and a “responsible exercise of one’s patriotism”. The Bishop and Cardinal has met with nationalist leaders such as Matteo Salvini, the deputy Prime Minister of Italy, and has expressed a worry that demographic changes will undermine Christian peoples. He has said that mass immigration into the West has resulted from an unwillingness of Christians to “defend the moral law” and it would seem that he would support the current wave of nationalist sentiment in the United States and Europe.
Another Conservative favorite who is admittedly much more likely than Leo Burke to actually become Pope, is African prelate and Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea. Sarah is viewed as among the most popular conservative frontrunners to be Pope.
Sarah said that it was a “false exegesis” to use the word of God to promote immigration and that it was better for peoples to “flourish” within their own cultural contexts rather than to attempt and migrate to Europe.
I will leave you with a few more choice quotes from Robert Sarah:
- “Those who use the Bible to justify mass immigration are bewitched.”
- “As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West! The barbarians are already inside the city. The barbarians are all those who hate human nature, all those who trample upon the sense of the sacred, all those who do not value life, all those who rebel against God the Creator of man and nature. The West is blinded by science, technology, and the thirst for riches.”