We've read a few of the items from Catholic Vote. They're good stuff.
President Donald Trump has picked a pro-life leader as his Ambassador to the Holy See.
Brian Burch is the president and co-founder of CatholicVote, a prominent pro-life group. He and his wife, Sara, have nine children and live in the Chicago suburbs.
“I am pleased to announce that Brian Burch will serve as the next United States Ambassador to the Holy See. Brian is a devout Catholic, a father of nine, and President of CatholicVote,” Trump said in a statement to LifeNews....
That's also a half-slap of Pope Franny 1; Burch has published articles on immigration--which happen to be genuinely Catholic ones--that are largely contradictions of views expressed by Franny 1 and a gaggle of un-serious propagandist US Bishops such as +Seitz of El Paso. For example:
...The Catechism of the Catholic Church provides a nuanced perspective on immigration, balancing the duty to welcome the stranger with the responsibility of governments to protect their citizens and promote the common good. Contrary to the perception that Catholic teaching demands an open-border policy, the Catechism outlines important qualifications for managing immigration.
Paragraph 2241 of the Catechism emphasizes that “the more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin.” However, this welcome is not without limits. Nations are not required to accept an unlimited number of immigrants, especially if doing so imposes undue burdens on their citizens. The text underscores that public authorities must ensure that natural rights are respected while balancing their responsibility to protect their own populations and the common good of the country....
Thomas Aquinas' views are very restrictive in comparison to the "Easy Come, Easy Go" mind-fartings of the Democrats (and most Republicans). Aquinas followed Aristotle's thinking and that of the ancient Israelites:
...Aquinas considers foreigners who wish to settle permanently and obtain citizenship. He argues that such integration requires time, as immediate citizenship can lead to serious dangers for a nation.
“If foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur,” he warns. St. Thomas does not provide a specific time frame for integration but references Aristotle’s view that assimilation can take two or three generations. This gradual process, Aquinas argues, ensures that immigrants fully embrace the culture and values of the nation, avoiding harm to its unity.
Commenting on this principle in Aquinas, that integration usually takes several generations, in an article titled “What Did Thomas Aquinas Say About Citizenship & Immigration?” political analyst Jerry Salyer notes that for St. Thomas, “only the descendants of new arrivals would be eligible for citizenship.”
“The reason for this seems to be that the Israelites understood true assimilation into a living community to be a profound, challenging process, one requiring not years, nor even decades, but generations,” Sayler wrote. ...
It will be fun to watch!
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