Pope Francis on Tuesday slammed President Donald J. Trump’s policy of arresting and deporting illegal aliens en masse, starting with criminals and terrorists who threaten domestic and national security. In just their first 18 days back in office, Trump, border czar Tom Homan, and other federal authorities have swept some 11,000 illegals from America’s communities — typically Democrat-run fugitive cities.
“I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of goodwill, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters,” the Pope wrote in an open letter to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Invoking a Latin phrase that Vice President JD Vance cited to justify Trump’s widespread deportations, Pope Francis argued: “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”
Without exception?
So, America must keep all the illegal-alien armed robbers, child molesters, rapists, MS-13 killers, Tren de Aragua murderers, and ISIS-connected terrorists who break into the USA, “without exception?”
Really?
“Concentrate on the Catholic Church,” Homan told Newsmax. “You have enough to fix in your own home. Leave the border stuff to us. We know what we’re doing.” Homan made similar remarks to journalists yesterday and observed, “I’m saying this as a lifelong Catholic.”
Homan might not have his current job, absent Trump’s burying Kamala Harris in an avalanche of Catholic votes last November. According to Edison Research’s signature exit poll, Trump smothered Harris 59 percent to 39 percnt. The Catholic vote was more competitive in 2020: Trump took 47 percent to 52 percent for Joe Biden, himself a Catholic.
Given Trump’s stone wall of Catholic support, Pope Francis should sit down on a hard chair and meditate on the New King James version of the Holy Bible. Matthew 7:3 asks: “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?”
How many illegal aliens does Pope Francis house in the Vatican? The 131-bedroom Domus Sanctae Marthae was built in 1996 to accommodate cardinals during papal-selection rituals, as dramatized in the Academy Award–nominated film Conclave, now in theaters. These premises would have to be vacated if the College of Cardinals had to pick a new pope. Until then, Pope Francis could send the facility’s overnight guests and longer-term residents to local hotels and yield the entire building to his blessed illegal aliens.
Also, how many illegal aliens does Pope Francis shelter at Castel Gondolfo, his 135-acre retreat — complete with 75 acres of farmland, the Apostolic and Papal Palace, soothing views, and abundant sunshine? Just 40 minutes from Rome, that luxurious venue would offer a stunning change of scenery for people who make the Pope weep, namely those who, as he put it, “have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution, or serious deterioration of the environment.”
The pope also said Mass at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2016. He declared that anyone who builds walls to bar foreigners is “not a Christian.” As luck would have it, Pope Francis lives in the Vatican behind a 39-foot-high wall. Pope Leo IV erected it in 846 AD — 1,179 years ago — to block marauding Saracens who invaded Rome from the Middle East. The “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall” that Trump installed in his first term, and is extending in his second, rises a mere 30 feet.
The pope’s whining about Trump would be easier to swallow if the pontiff welcomed some of the aforementioned illegal alien criminals as his new neighbors.
As for the Vatican’s 9th-century relic: Your Holiness, tear down that wall!
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.