Gary Bauer of American Values Reports:
Pope Francis — Please Call Your Office!
By now you have heard about the controversy between Pope Francis and Donald Trump. When a reporter aboard the papal airplane baited Pope Francis with a loaded question about Donald Trump’s signature issue — building a border wall — the pope unfortunately swallowed the hook. He responded:
“And then a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. . . I say only that this man (Trump) is not Christian if he has said things like that.”
Let me say that the reporter who asked Pope Francis the question probably had an agenda. The U.S. media, which left out a lot of the pope’s response, certainly had an agenda.
Having said that, the pope’s remarks seemingly reflect a degree of hostility toward protecting borders, which he has expressed in other ways in the debate taking place in Europe now.
Government is a God-ordained institution whose purpose is to protect the life and liberty of its citizens. Nations that fail to secure their own borders eventually cease to be nations.
Pope Francis can see with his own eyes what is happening in Europe, which is facing a tidal wave of Muslim migrants that threatens to overwhelm the continent. If unchecked, the Vatican will be an island of the Christian faith in a sea of Muslim devotees.
What is even worse is what the Holy Father has avoided saying. Catholic theology and the teachings of Christ clearly embrace the sanctity of life and God’s institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The current president and vice president have elevated the destruction of innocent unborn children to an idol they worship. Meanwhile, they have used their liberal allies on the courts to turn the sacrament of marriage into a mockery.
But Pope Francis has remained silent as to whether these politicians are Christians.
As I understand Catholic theology, the pope is infallible on matters of faith and doctrine, not on the details of border security in a dangerous world.
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