{"id":13508,"date":"2025-10-14T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13508"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:25:53","slug":"whatever-happened-to-unconditional-welcome-the-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/whatever-happened-to-unconditional-welcome-the-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened to Unconditional &#8220;Welcome the Stranger?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vatican City has one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/zenit.org\/2024\/08\/29\/vatican-citys-immigration-law-one-of-the-strictest-in-europe\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">strictest immigration laws<\/a> in the whole world. I seem to recall the Bergoglio-Prevost tag team &#8212; now known as BergoLEO &#8212; going on and on about unconditional &#8220;Welcome the Stranger.&#8221;\u00a0 Suicidal leftist folly on stilts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I am all for welcoming the stranger, but only under certain conditions.\u00a0 Immigration must be to the benefit of the host country. The depredatory Dems refuse to countenance that simple truth.\u00a0 Interesting to speculate why.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/emg1\/v\/t13\/7800087403799358388?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzenit.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F08%2Fla-ciudad-del-vaticano-es-el-estado-mas-pequeno-y-con-menos-habitantes-del-mundo-pero-al-igual-que-otros-estados-tiene-una-frontera-y-una-fuerza-encargada-de-vigilarla-01.png&amp;fb_obo=1&amp;utld=zenit.org&amp;stp=c0.5000x0.5000f_dst-jpg_flffffff_p500x261_q75_tt6&amp;_nc_gid=itZOZso0cpjuwBBPFTXfNw&amp;_nc_oc=Adn91GRrsw3K5KBcRJdX5rqTrDOlBAq3kcFABnzKOUHU2X_84cmCBbTvHgFZPzdnuWU&amp;ccb=13-1&amp;oh=06_Q3-4ATYXbXqjnc_AtVdzxJ4BnfhBhdoBoyoFxCjRVwlzx-X7&amp;oe=68F06113&amp;_nc_sid=215617\" alt=\"Vatican City's immigration law, one of the strictest in Europe - ZENIT - English\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican City has one of the strictest immigration laws in the whole world. I seem to recall the Bergoglio-Prevost tag team &#8212; now known as BergoLEO &#8212; going on and on about unconditional &#8220;Welcome the Stranger.&#8221;\u00a0 Suicidal leftist folly on stilts. I am all for welcoming the stranger, but only under certain conditions.\u00a0 Immigration must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/whatever-happened-to-unconditional-welcome-the-stranger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whatever Happened to Unconditional &#8220;Welcome the Stranger?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13509,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13508\/revisions\/13509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}