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Entry: Benedict on the Border--A Showdown over Church and Nation-State Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/benedict_on_the_border_a_showdown_of_church_and_nation_state#24908 Post contents: Look at the Pope's actual words: "I want to encourage you and your communities to continue to welcome the immigrants who join your ranks today, to share their joys and hopes, to support them in their sorrows and trials and to help them flourish in their new home." N.B. He does not qualify this statement with "poor people who in fact "respect with gratitude" our heritage, obey our laws, and "assist in carrying civic burdens."" Of course, the Pope could be wrong on immigration, as Chilton Williamson hints at VDare, in that he could be promoting a position contrary to traditional Catholic teaching: "This is why the logic of Catholic theology points away from—not toward—the misbegotten but much-less-than-official position the Vatican has taken on the immigration issue for over a full century now." http://www.vdare.com/williamson/080422_immigration.htm Thomas Aquinas would seem to support this: "[A]fter his duties towards God, man owes most to his parents and his country. One's duties towards one's parents include one's obligations towards one's relatives, because these latter have sprung from [or are connected by ties of blood with] one's parents … and the services due to one's country have for their object all one's fellow-countrymen and all the friends of one's fatherland." But the Church has moved much to the Left since Aquinas and has (along with many Protestants) championed an Enlightenment understanding of "universal human rights." I have a sincere question for you (no sarcasm intended): If, as Jean Raspail "predicted," we do get a Third World Pope advocating the Third World invasion of the West, where would you stand? What would you do? Sent at: 2008 07 04