{"id":289,"date":"2025-02-21T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/ngo-pope-commits-ecclesiastical-suicide\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:20:08","slug":"ngo-pope-commits-ecclesiastical-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/ngo-pope-commits-ecclesiastical-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Pope Commits &#8216;Ecclesiastical Suicide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/europeanconservative.com\/articles\/commentary\/the-ngo-pope-commits-ecclesiastical-suicide\/\">Rod Dreher<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Elsewhere in the epistle, Francis implicitly condemns Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, for misunderstanding the Church\u2019s teaching on <em>ordo amoris<\/em>\u2014the order of love. Vance, a convert who was catechized by two of the most intelligent Dominican priests in America (I introduced him personally to his first teacher), had defended the administration\u2019s tough migration policy by referring to St. Thomas Aquinas\u2019 teaching that the order of love requires us to love those closest to us first\u2014not exclusively, but primarily, as God has given us the duty to care for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">It turns out that JD Vance really is&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/catholicstand.com\/what-the-catechism-says-about-immigration\/\" onclick=\"javascript:window.open(&#39;https:\/\/catholicstand.com\/what-the-catechism-says-about-immigration\/&#39;, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;noopener&#39;); return false;\">more Catholic than the pope<\/a>. The Catechism teaches that the moral duty towards foreign refugees must be balanced by duties to the common good of the people within one\u2019s own country. Yes, wealthy countries do have a moral responsibility to be generous in welcoming distressed foreigners, but they have the right to set limits on migration, and to refuse it when they judge that it harms the common good. The official Catholic teaching balances charity with common sense.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">JD Vance understands that; Pope Francis does not. The pope, in his teaching, has sanctified open borders\u2014even, as in Europe, when those ungated frontiers allow the migration into the Christian lands of Europe of millions of Muslims who at minimum do not share the ancestral faith of Europeans, and no small number of whom are militantly hostile to it. If Francis had lived in the time of Pius V, Europe would be Islamic today.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher: Elsewhere in the epistle, Francis implicitly condemns Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, for misunderstanding the Church\u2019s teaching on ordo amoris\u2014the order of love. Vance, a convert who was catechized by two of the most intelligent Dominican priests in America (I introduced him personally to his first teacher), had defended the administration\u2019s tough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/ngo-pope-commits-ecclesiastical-suicide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NGO Pope Commits &#8216;Ecclesiastical Suicide&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","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\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}