Mr. Pope

 

Jeffrey St. Clair>>

Pope Francis had sent a letter to US bishops decrying mass deportation and rejecting “any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.” The actual “ordo amoris,” he writes, is the ethos of the Good Samaritan. When MAGA attacks Francis (they already refer to him derisively as “Mr. Pope”) for this powerful restating of Jesus’s teachings, will AG Pam Bondi’s “anti-Christian bias” commission investigate? Or write him off as “not a real Christian” because he doesn’t own an AR-15?

Perhaps Bondi could begin her investigations into “anti-Christian bias” with Trump’s Border Czar Thomas Homan, the man credited with inventing the child separation policy: “I’ve got harsh words for the Pope. Pope ought to fix the Catholic Church. He wants to attack us securing our border? He has a wall around the Vatican, does he not? So he has a wall to protect his people and himself, but we can’t have a wall around the United States?”

+ Does Homan not realize that 97% of the people ICE will be dragging out of churches are devout Catholics and thus part of the Hippie Pope’s flock? More likely he just doesn’t give a shit. But imagine the outrage if someone in the Biden adm had told the Pope to shut up about abortion?

+ By the way, there is an ancient wall around the Vatican. Still, the gates are wide open, and anyone can enter regardless of faith, ethnicity, or country of origin–no passport is needed, not even one of those much hated but rarely seen vaccine passports.

+ In anticipation of housing thousands of migrants swept up in ICE raids, Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison outfit Core Civic, told investors this week: “I’ve worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career … We’re anticipating .. The most significant growth in our company’s history.”