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Entry: Love Among the Bones Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/love_among_the_bones#24117 Post contents: Dear Erich, The pope's pastoral comments are a different matter from official Catholic teaching--just as Julius II's fulminations about the Papal States were distinct from the official teachings of the Church in his time. If he is saying that America (unlike other countries, such as... say, Vatican City) has no right to enforce its immigration laws, then he is simply, and probably for the best of reasons, mistaken. Unless he invokes his ex cathedra authority to say so, his statements are over-ridden by Catholic Tradition on the subject, and the doctrinal statements of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It is NOT true, as Rex Mottram of "Brideshead Revisited" believed, that if the pope said it would rain tomorrow, and it didn't rain, "That it would be sort of spiritually raining, only we'd be too sinful to see it." If Pope Benedict does invoke his supreme authority... then I will stand corrected. Until then.... As for the electoral impact of Mexican immigration, it is obvious: These people vote for baby-killing Democrats, out of a frankly racist concern for their ethnic self-interest. I DO NOT favor Republican Anglos emulating their strategy, and supporting anti-Mexican candidates regardless of their views on Life issues. Until and unless Latino leaders rise to the same level of moral consistency, I oppose increasing their numbers in my country. Period. Sent at: 2008 08 30