After woke Pope Francis whined about the Trump administration’s deportations of illegal alien criminals, lifelong Catholic and new border czar Tom Homan searingly exposed the hypocrisy of a man who lives behind the famed Vatican walls.
Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and those who live behind massive medieval walls shouldn’t tear down other people’s fences. On Newsmax recently, Homan pulled no punches on the subject of illegal immigration, utterly rejecting the false claim that protecting a nation‘s sovereignty is against Catholic Church doctrine (actually, heads of state have a duty to protect their people and can of course restrict immigration — see Catechism of the Catholic Church 2241). And, as a fellow lifelong Catholic, I applaud Homan for not being bullied by dishonest clerics, either in the Vatican or at home.
Newsmax host Rob Schmitt told Homan, “The Pope this week said that it's ‘a disgrace’, what we're now doing with this new government, deporting all of these people … there's going to be a lot of media searching for the sad stories here, trying to turn public opinion against this operation. What's your message to the American people, as you guys do this work?”
NEW: Border Czar Tom Homan responds to Catholic outcry over Trump’s deportation operation, calls out the Pope for living behind massive 30 foot walls.
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Homan told the Pope to fix the Catholic church before he starts criticizing the United States.
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Homan calmly stated, “Well, let me give a message to the pope. I’m a lifelong Catholic, born Catholic, I've been through Catholic doctrine. He [oughta] concentrate on fixing the Catholic Church. First of all, he's got big problems there. And the Vatican, they have a wall around the Vatican.”
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I’ve been to the Vatican, and the millennium-old walls are huge — and extremely effective at keeping people out, from lost tourists to illegal migrants. Also, you should see the security line to get into the Vatican Museums or St. Peter’s. As Homan said, “If you enter the Vatican [illegally], the crime is serious. You'll be charged with serious crime in jail. So he can protect the Vatican where he lives. He can build a wall where he lives, [but] the American people are not allowed that? No, secure the border, save lives.”
The pope, said Homan, “needs to understand that [when] we secure the border, less people come, less women get raped by the cartel, less children die in the river, less Americans die from fentanyl overdoses. He ought to stick to the Catholic Church and fix that. That's a mess.”
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As Schmitt agreed, “the wall that's around the Vatican[,] it's even nicer than Trump's wall… the wall around the Vatican is really, really impressive.”
Pope Francis might be supporting illegal immigration just because he’s woke and socialist, but in the case of American bishops, there is a financial reason behind it. Too many American bishops and organizations have taken their 30 pieces of silver from the Democrat party in exchange for fueling the border crisis. Some Catholic NGOs and dioceses have received, in all, billions of dollars from the government to process and house illegal aliens. My home diocese of Tucson is one of them.
Instead of lecturing national leaders about deporting criminals, Pope Francis should be addressing the financial and sexual scandals that plague the Church, and start reforming his own behavior, too. The man who keeps renewing the catastrophic deal with Communist China to the detriment of Chinese Catholics is in absolutely no position to lecture Donald Trump.
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