In America’s history, there naturally have been – because human nature is imperfect and cannot be perfected – periods in which people of different colors and creeds have been maltreated, even enslaved. Black Americans and some Chinese Americans, for example, have been discriminated against and abused because of their color by individual Americans, as well as by the laws of their governments, local, state, and national.
On the topic of creed, no faith in the United States has been as verbally abused, physically attacked, and denied employment and political access for so long a period as Roman Catholics. American Jews revel in portraying themselves as the most abused faith, but they have long been, and still are, in the van of anti-Catholicism in the United States. And, in the past week, they have proved that they remain there and are proud of their achievement. More on that later.
Before American independence, non-Catholic British North Americans had excellent reason to want to avoid Catholics at all costs. These colonists were Englishman, after all, and knew well the Vatican’s attempts to use Jesuits and Catholic Englishmen to assassinate the Protestant queen, Elizabeth I, and then to keep the Catholic Stuarts on the British throne. The overwhelmingly Protestant American colonists also suffered through endless frontier raids and all-out wars waged against them by Canada-based (then New France) French military forces, as well as the savage mix formed by their allies among Jesuit missionaries and scalping, child/women-kidnapping Indians. The anti-Catholic turn-of-mind left in Protestant American by these wars was deep and justifiable, and it endured for much more than a century.
The problem for American Catholics took a long, difficult, and, at times violent time to work through. Non- and Anti-Catholic Americans regarded Catholics as disloyal to the republic because they were in the thrall of a foreign ruler in Vatican. Pope Pius IX added to anti-Catholicism in America when he wrote, and sent his photograph to the imprisoned Confederate President Jefferson Davis just after the civil war’s end. The Pope sent Davis the following text from Matthew 11:28 “Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis, et ego reficiam vos, dicit Dominus.” (Come to me all all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, sayeth the Lord.) Whatever the commonsense-lacking Pope’s intention, his action helped to keep American Catholics under the widespread suspicion of their non-Catholic countrymen. [2]
The worm turned slowly as many thousands of Catholics fought and died for the United States in two world wars. Catholics hit the edge of countrywide respectability when a boot-legger named Joe Kennedy bought the 1960 presidential election for his son Jack. The mystique, charm, and elegance powered by JFK and his wife exploited the opportunity Joe Kennedy bought, and, until recently, American Catholics had shed most of their long-standing reputation as the Vatican’s creatures.
Then the thoroughly anti-American Pope Francis came to power in Rome. This Red China-loving pope’s reign has been marked by consistent attacks on the United States for not ratifying the unneeded and suicidal-for-America Paris Climate Accord, for acting to control its borders, and for evicting illegal aliens, many of who are criminals.
To top off this direct and deliberate interference in U.S. political affairs, Pope Francis denounced the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in his speech at the recent UN General Assembly. On 25 September 2020, Pope Francis said:
“We need to dismantle the perverse logic that links personal and national security to the possession of weaponry. This logic serves only to increase the profits of the arms industry, while fostering a climate of distrust and fear between persons and peoples.” [2]
This is at least the second time Pope Francis has attacked the 2nd Amendment. In 2018, the pope said that owning a weapon is incompatible with being a Christian – didn’t the pope know St. Peter carried a sword? [3] — though he did use unclear language, thinking it would hide his clear intent. Unsurprisingly, one of the Democratic Party’s half-assed, “fact-checking organizations” said the Pope’s words were not aimed at the U.S. 2nd Amendment, and identified those who claimed that the pope said what he said were guilty of “cherry-picking” quotations.[4]
In both 2018 and 2020, however, Pope Francis clearly meant to support the goal of George Soros, the UN, and the Democratic Party to install an authoritarian government in the United States that would fully disarm Americans (fat chance), and leave them as hapless, helpless, hopeless, and devoid of civil liberties as are most Europeans and all of the Chinese population.
It is time for American Catholics, layman and clergyman, to tell Pope Francis – who is really not much more than an average two-bit Latin American socialist — to stay out of American politics and constitutional affairs; stop being the vicar of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Jew-killing former Nazi George Soros; and return to trying to be the vicar of Christ on earth. Better yet, he could retire and go back to Latin America. There, he could while away his golden years worshiping Che and Fidel — seemingly Francis’s favorite gods — and whistling the Internationale.
–Endnote:
–1.) https://www.the-american-catholic.com/2010/08/03/jefferson-davis-and-the-crown-of-thorns/
–2.) https://www.saginaw.org/news/pope-francis-addresses-united-nations-general-assembly
–3.) https://biblehub.com/john/18-10.htm
–4.) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pope-francis-gun-owners/
