There are few mainstream-denomination church homes for white advocates/preservationists. I am a rarely-mass-attending, cultural Catholic. Pew research classifies me as one of the 43 percent of people raised Catholic in the US who have lapsed.
Many practicing Catholics have their faith, community, schools, history, statues, traditions, and that’s enough for them. Those who attend mass regularly find it deeply meaningful. I know many who would say, “I support the Catholic mission by believing in peace and justice,” a position that would apply to most secular charitable organizations. This lets them do something I can’t: overlook the damage the church of my youth is doing to America and Europe by supporting immigration.
Michelle Malkin explained this in her book, Open Borders, Inc., in Chapter 3, “Unholy Alliance: The Pope, Catholic Bishops, And Amnesty Profiteers.” No recent Pope has come out explicitly in favor of open borders, but most of them condone the catastrophic flood of third-worlders into Europe and America.
The new, American Pope, Leo XIV, is much the same. Not long ago, he called Donald Trump’s immigration policies “extremely disrespectful” — this from a guy who lives in a walled city with his own private army. He has called migrants “missionaries of hope” and a “divine blessing” to those who receive them. Since 2019, right in St. Peter’s Square, there has been a sculpture called Angels Unawares of 140 people from everywhere, crammed into a boat. A pair of wings sprout from among them, symbolizing the presence of the sacred.
The bronze sculpture Angels Unawares by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz. (Credit Image: © Valeria Ferraro/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)
A few practicing Catholics with whom I discuss this shake their heads and say my objections are a flimsy pretext for passing on Sundays. “You’re not practicing your faith because of that?” Would they have felt the same way about Pius XII not publicly condemning Nazism in the 1940s?
Islam is the most dangerous head on the Hydra. Europe is on the way to ruin, with Christianity walking the Vatican-supported plank right behind it. Rome’s outreach to Islam includes “fostering fraternal dialogue, mutual respect, shared responsibility for peace,” along with Papal visits, joint Catholic-Islam Iftar dinners, and dedicated prayer spaces for Muslims in the Vatican Library.
Pope Leo recently visited Turkey, where President Recep Erdoğan’s government persecutes the Greek Orthodox Church. Its members have declined from 100,000 in the 1950s to approximately 2,000–2,500 today — the brink of extinction. This is the same Mr. Erdoğan who said, “Democracy is like a train, we will get off once the destination is reached.”
Minneapolis is being hijacked by Somalis with the help of Catholic Church NGOs and leftist American politicians. These Catholic NGOs resettle immigrants all over America, give them legal protection, and are heavily dependent on government subsidies — though the Trump administration is trying to cut that off. Michelle Malkin wrote: “The open-borders business of the Catholic church is less about love, hope, faith, or charity than it is about cold, hard cash.”
I recently came across a 2000 address on the Muslim threat by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, then Archbishop of Bologna:
Muslims — in their great majority and with some exceptions — arrive among us intending to remain, individually and collectively, extraneous to our “humanity” in what is most essential, most precious, most “secularly” indispensable: more or less explicitly, they come to us well decided to remain substantially “different,” in the expectation of making all of us substantially like them.
They have a form of different food (and up to here not bad), a different day off, a right to a family incompatible with ours, a conception of the woman very distant from ours (to the point of practicing polygamy). Above all, they have a rigorously integralist vision of public life, as the perfect identification between religion and politics as part of their indubitable and undeniable faith, even though they wait prudently before showing it to be preponderant. It is not then the men of the Church, but the modern Western States that must come to terms with this.
Sadly, neither secularists nor Catholics appear to have yet grasped that the drama is unfolding. Secularists hold the Church hostage in all ways without realizing that they are fighting the strongest inspirer and most valid defender of Western civilization and its values of rationalism and freedom. They might realize it too late. “Catholics,” letting the knowledge of the truth they possess fade and substituting apostolic anxiety with the pure and simple dialogue at all costs, unconsciously prepare themselves (humanly speaking) for their own extinction. The hope is that the gravity of the situation might at a certain moment lead to an efficacious reawakening of both reason and the ancient faith.
How often do you hear such a sensible statement from a prominent Catholic? Cardinal Biffi died at age 87 in 2015. So, who’s left?
American Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, 76, is a rare conservative voice. As he noted in 2019: “To resist large-scale Muslim immigration in my judgment is to be responsible. Islam believes itself to be destined to rule the world. . . . You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see what has happened in Europe.”
For now, I have no Catholic home as a white, Western civilization and European heritage preservationist. To the contrary, I see the Catholic Church working vigorously, along with other leftists and globalists, to undermine my European heritage. Clearly, the Catholic Church does not believe a civilization has the right to preserve its ethnic-cultural continuity unless it is non-white.
As Europe ceases to be the center of Catholic growth and becomes more secularized, the Church does nothing to defend its Christian heritage or cultural identity. Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II were the last Popes to defend Europe as the home of the faith. Instead, the church now pours enormous efforts and resources into high-growth countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, a clear alignment with immigration priorities.
Expanding into countries under the auspices of “universal human dignity” is better for “business” and building a power base than defending the culture that fostered, transformed, empowered, and championed the Church. The spread of Christianity to other parts of the world is a good thing; the Catholic church ingratiating itself with those populations that now occupy “‘written off” parts of the West is not. This ingratiation comes in the form of organizing “newcomer” third-world church groups that cater to their distinctness; providing social support networks, refugee assistance programs, legal aid and housing; and lobbying on behalf of these populations at the expense of whites.
The Catholic Church encourages African and Asian cultures to remain intact even within the West, and works against the preservation of European and American cultures.
Michelle Malkin was right:
Because of everything I have uncovered about the Vatican, its border-bashing bishops, and sprawling open-borders network, I can no longer trust that donations I made to the Catholic Church will be used in a lawful manner that protects our freedom and posterity. I refuse to put my hard-earned money in collection baskets whose contents will end up in the hands of the Trump-deranged cultural Marxists in white collars.
The Catholic Church does abundant good at the parish level, but it (along with mainstream Protestant denominations) is undermining the nation. Rome fiddles while the Western world burns. The Vatican should heed the words of Winston Churchill: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.”
Without the brilliance of Western countries and white people, Christianity would never have grown as it did. The Catholic Church could never have become the largest denomination of the largest religion in the world without Constantine the Great; Emperor Theodosius I; the Roman Empire’s administrative structure of roads, communication and bishops in administrative roles of the cities; missionary activity of the Middle Ages; monasticism; Charlemagne; the unifying structure of the Western Church across warring kingdoms of Europe; scholasticism; the Crusades; the printing press; Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals; colonies and missions; Christianity’s schools and hospitals.
But what does the Vatican do for the culture and people who cradled, defended, protected, and contributed so mightily to its mission? Nothing; it betrays us, using our own money. I am reminded of Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II: “The worst part about betrayal is that it never comes from an enemy.”
Love toward oneself remains a fundamental Christian principle. The preservation of one’s people is no less sacred.
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