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Not content with parading around the nation’s capital, New York City and Philadelphia, Pope Francis I, the current occupant of the office of Antichrist, has big plans for the U.S. Mexican border. According to a recent report,
The Vatican has announced the program for Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Mexico, which will include a visit to the U.S.-Mexican border with the celebration of a “cross-border” Mass.
The focus of the pope’s border visit, which is to take place during his February 12-17 tour of Mexico, will be to press for immigration reform, which is code for flooding the U.S. with taxpayer subsidized third-world Roman Catholics. According to a statement by El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz,
During Mass, Pope Francis will undoubtedly call attention to many realities that are lived on both sides of our U.S.-Mexico border, particularly the plight of so many migrants and refugees fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries, in search of better lives for themselves and their children.
As the Breitbart article notes, the pope’s visit will take place, “just as voters are heading to the polls in both Iowa and New Hampshire, where immigration policy is a major issue.” The timing of the papal visit almost certainly is no coincidence. Rome has long sought to turn the U.S. into a majority Roman Catholic country. To date, its efforts have failed, as the Roman Catholic population of America is about 65 million in a nation of over 300 million. But with a virtually bottomless supply of potential immigrants from Latin America at its disposal, the Church hopes to finally realize its goal of a majority Roman Catholic America. What are American Evangelicals to make of this latest push by Antichrist?
The Mass
The first thing that should be noted about the pope’s border visit is that it will involve his conducting a mass. Breitbart reports that, “The Pope’s plan to celebrate Mass at the border is expected to drawn hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from both the U.S. and Mexico and will be a ‘significant milestone of the trip’s itinerary.’ ”
Pope Francis holds his pastoral staff as he arrives to celebrate Mass at Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba, where Ernesto “Che” Guevara and a Cuban flag decorate a nearby government building, Sept, 20, 2015. Credit VOA.
This is significant, because it is during the mass that the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the Eucharist, which according to Rome is the most important of all sacraments.
But for all its importance in the Roman Church, most Evangelicals have little idea of what Rome means by the mass or the Eucharist. It has been the experience of this writer than many Protestants think the Roman Catholic mass is little different than the Sunday services with which they are familiar. But the very words of Rome refute this.
The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species [bread and wine] is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.” In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the while Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained…”
It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament
[I]t has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council [Council of Trent] now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the while substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whose substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.
The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration [by the priest during the mass] and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist (Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church, 1373, 1374, 1375, 1376).
There is, of course, no Biblical support for any of this. At Christ’s ascension, the angel told those present, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you say Him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). When Christ returns to earth, it will be at the time and place of his own choosing. He is not at the beck and call of Rome’s priestlings, who imagine they have the power to command the Son of God to leave his session at the right hand of the Father and to imprison him in a cracker.
And if it were no small thing to blaspheme God by claiming to call Christ from heaven, the Romanists aggravate their sin by claiming the mass is a sacrifice.
The terms holy sacrifice of the Mass, “sacrifice of praise,” spiritual sacrifice, pure and holy sacrifice are also used, since it completes and surpasses all the sacrifices of the Old Testament (Catechism, 1330).
On the cross Jesus said, “It is finished.” The author of Hebrews tells us, “But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for the sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God (Hebrews 10:12). But ignoring all this, Rome persists in teaching that it is never finished. The Christ of the Roman Catholic Church-State is forever bleeding, forever suffering, forever dying, forever a sacrifice. As John Robbins put it,
Thus, when one participates in mass, one is eating the physical body and drinking the physical blood of Christ. The proper name for the practice – if Catholics were actually doing what they dogmatically assert that they are doing – is ritual cannibalism (The Lost Soul of Scott Hahn).
And don’t you dare think of disagreeing with all this hocus pocus. For if you do, in the mass, in the most loving and pastoral manner imaginable, Antichrist will pronounce his anathema upon you,
If anyone shall deny, that, in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist, are verily, really, and substantially contained the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ; but shall say that He is only therein as in a sign, or a figure, or virtue; let him be anathema (Cannons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, Session the Thirteenth, Chapter III, Canon I).
So if you don’t agree with the Bishop of Rome that priests can too change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, what the Romanists call transubstantiation, you can, in plain English, go to hell.
The sum of all this is that Protestants should not be fooled into thinking that the pope’s plan for a mass on the U.S. – Mexico border has anything to do with Christianity or the duty to love one’s neighbor as oneself. And the big tell here is the obvious antichristian nature of the mass, which anyone with a Bible should know is a grotesque fraud.
Francis I does not have the good of the immigrants or the American people in view. He is seeking to advance the cause of the Roman Catholic Church-State, that Mother of Harlots, by flooding the US with Roman Catholics. Nothing else.
Poverty and Violence: Fleeing the Legacy of Rome
According to Mark J. Seitz, the Roman Catholic Bishop of El Paso,
During Mass, Pope Francis will undoubtedly call attention to many realities that are lived on both sides of our U.S.-Mexico border, particularly the plight of so many migrants and refugees fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries, in search of better lives for themselves and their children.
This raises at least two interesting questions. First, since the Roman Catholic Church-State has for centuries now has held sway in Central and South America, why is it that people from those nations feel the need to flee violence and poverty? Why is Rome unwilling or unable to provide for the welfare of these people out of its own deep pockets?
The answers are simple enough. First, the political and economic thought of the Roman Catholic Church-State is incompetent. This was one of the main points John Robbins made in his book Ecclesiastical Megalomania
(click here for my review of this book). Whereas the Biblical Christianity of the Reformation is conducive to both political liberty and economic prosperity, the incompetent economic and political thought of Rome is the cause of, not the solution to, the problems facing the nations of Latin America.
Second, Rome would rather have taxpayers foot the bill for its immigrants because Rome does not care about these people. They are pawns in Rome’s game of thrones, the ultimate goal of which is world domination.
At Odds: Open Immigration and the Welfare State
The past one hundred years has seen an enormous growth of government in the U.S., and much of the blame for this can be laid directly at the feet of Rome. Some Roman Catholic prelates even boast about this. For example, Cardinal Timothy Dolan crowed that the Romanists have been for universal, taxpayer funded healthcare since 1919.
“It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.”
– Milton Friedman
But the creation and expansion of the entitlement state is at direct odds with the policy of open immigration advocated by Francis I and other Catholic officials. In the Breitbart article, the pope is quoted as saying, “You [Hispanic immigrants to the U.S.] are called to be responsible citizens, and to contribute fruitfully – as those who came before you did with such fortitude – to the life of the communities in which you live.”
Nice sounding words, those. But as economist Milton Friedman famously observed, “It’s just obvious that you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.” The welfare state is a giant magnate attracting people from all over the world to come to the U.S. and go on the dole.
It is common for Catholic officials to counter this objection by pointing out that the Mosaic Law required Israelites to care for the stranger among them or to cite the parable of the Good Samaritan as the moral basis for taxpayer funded immigrant welfare. According to the Breitbart article,
During his recent visit to the United States in September, Pope Francis met with Hispanics and other immigrants where he publicly thanked those who have sought to serve God “by defending the cause of the poor and the immigrant.” In his address, the Pope said that these people “remind American democracy of the ideals for which it was founded.”
But what the pope forgets is that care of the stranger was a matter of private charity, not taxpayer funded welfare. The Good Samaritan gave of his own resources. He didn’t lobby the government, as does the Roman Catholic Church, to help his neighbor in need. He gave of his own time and resources, “And and the next day, when he [the Good Samaritan] departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you” (Luke 10:35).
Not only does the Roman Catholic Church-State work without ceasing to Romanize America through both legal and illegal immigration, but it cynically wants American citizens to foot the bill for the whole process. Jesus described the Pharisees of his day with the words, “And they tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers (Matthew 23:4). And as with the Pharisee, so with the Roman Catholic prelate.
Rome’s Opposition to Effective Immigration Reform
American immigration policy is a mess badly in need of reform. As such, there is no better starting point than to put an end to birthright citizenship. As it stands, any child born within the borders of the U.S. is automatically granted citizenship rights. But there is no ethical reason why this should be so.
The children born to sojourners in Israel were not considered Israelites by virtue of their birth within the national borders Israel. But it was possible for foreigners to become Israelites by oath. Ruth is a good example of this. Born a Moabite, she nevertheless became one of the children of Israel with the words, “Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God” (Ruth 1:16). These words were, in effect, a citizenship oath, and both Ruth and her offspring were considered Israelites as a result.
But this is a far different situation than a woman who comes to the U.S., has her child often at taxpayer expense, which child is then automatically considered and American citizen and eligible for host of taxpayer funded goodies. In the case of Ruth, there was a commitment to Israel and Israel’s God. In the case of those who come to the U.S. to burden the taxpayer with the cost of giving birth, their only commitment is to taking what does not by right belong to them.
But Rome, not surprisingly, opposes any reform to the current birthright citizenship policy.
To address legitimate concerns surrounding immigration law enforcement in the United States, the Catholic Church believes that our country must pass immigration reform laws to ensure the rule of law, while simultaneously ensuring that the laws that rule are rooted in the reunification of the family and respectful of the human dignity of the immigrants in our midst [N.B. the Church says nothing about the welfare to the American people, only the concerns of foreigners is in view].
The Church opposes the repeal of birthright citizenship because it would render innocent children stateless, depriving them of the ability to thrive in their communities and reach their full potential (The Catholic Church’s Position On Birthright Citizenship).
This is false, even by the admission of the Catholic Church. For in their own paper, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops notes that there are two ways in which citizenship is obtained: 1) by descent or 2) by birth. This implies that children born within the borders of the U.S. to citizens of foreign nations would still be considered citizens of their parents home countries on the basis of descent. They would not, as the Bishops claim, be stateless.
Rome’s Blind Eye
Worth noting too is the fact that while the Roman Catholic Antichrist is quick to point out the problems, real or perceived, with U.S. immigration policy, he turns a blind eye to that of our neighbor to the south. This is interesting, for it turns out that Mexico does not go easy on those found illegally within its borders.
According to a study by Amnesty International titled Mexico: Invisible Victims. Migrants on the Move in Mexico,
Every year, thousands of people travel through Mexico without legal permission as irregular migrants. The lack of access to protection and justice makes migrants easy targets for criminal gangs and corrupt public officials. Migrants in Mexico are facing a major human rights crisis fuelled by widespread impunity for those responsible for abuses.
A New York Times article quotes a Mexican official as saying, “Never before has Mexico announced a state policy on the border, and now it has. It is absolute control of the southern border.”
Doubtless the pope is ready to rush to Mexico’s southern border and hold a memorial mass for the victims of the nation’s unjust immigration policies…or maybe not.
Conclusion
The debate over reforming U.S. immigration policy has for several years generated more heat than light. And much of the confusion can be chalked up to the machinations of the Roman Catholic Church-State.
It is easy to understand why Rome would push for expanded immigration: it allows the Church to grow its influence in the U.S. and thus in the world at large. And what is better, at least from Rome’s perspective, is that it can shuck and jive naive U.S taxpayers into paying for it, all the while its representatives pose as the voice of Christian moral authority.
The papal Antichrist is no friend of the American people or the Hispanic immigrants he claims to love. It is high time Americans stopped being so naive as to listen to him.