I just learned that Pope Francis will ignore the
English-speaking majority of the population of the United States when he visits
here on September 23rd. He will be giving a speech, in Spanish, when
he visits Washington D.C., and I’m willing to bet he won’t give a speech in
English to the citizens of Mexico City when he next visits Mexico. The Pope is pandering to the illegal invaders
of America’s borders and he insults all American citizens by performing this highly
symbolic act.
If the Pope is so fond of illegal aliens, he can
demonstrate his sincerity by packing his jet with poor, hungry Mexicans and
take them back to the Vatican when he returns home, and then allow them to
become citizens of Vatican City. Although
I’m not a Catholic, I love the Pope, the office he occupies and idea of having
a Pope, but this act by Pope Francis suggests he is a panderer and a hypocrite
with this slap in the face of every American.
How dare he involve himself in our domestic politics when he absolutely will
not go after Castro or Kim Jong-il for the misery and evil those dictators have
perpetrated on their citizens. But the
Pope finds it acceptable to insult peaceful, democratic America and thereby
reap the praise of America’s fancy liberal class, rather than to risk imprisonment
in Cuba or North Korea for attacking those horrid places.
And the Pope is also meddling in our domestic politics
by agreeing with our lying president about the lie of global warming, and that
the western democracies have to cut back on their comfort level in order to
save the world. Considering the millions
of dollars that Americans give to the church and the Pope each year, and considering
that these millions of dollars are what keep the Vatican fat and happy
year-round and that capitalism is what allows Americans to have an excess of
money to donate to the church, the Pope had better hope that our capitalism isn’t
upset by the falsehood of warming or his church donations may dry up, and he
would be hardest hit. It’s kind of a situation
of killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Capitalism keeps the world
functioning, and only where a nation’s ruler will not allow its citizens to
have the freedom to participate in capitalism are people found to be in serious
want and privation.
I can only hope and trust that former Mexican and
Central American citizens who have become legal citizens of the United States will
resent the Pope’s slap as much as I do.
