Pope Francis Mexican Border

A comment by Pope Francis reported by the Latin Post regarding Hispanic immigration to the United States has riled conservatives.

“To enter the U.S. from the Mexico border would be a beautiful sign of brotherhood and help for immigrants” Francis reportedly said Pope Francis Mexican Borderwith regard to whether he will include a trip to Mexico when he visits the U.S. in September.

We like Francis although he seems to speak more from the heart than the head.  Perhaps that’s what popes should  do.

We, however, will speak from the head. In the spirit of compassion, the first thing to consider is why  those who choose to  emigrate –legally or otherwise — so choose.

Mexico, after all, has resources and climate and sun — better than where many Mexicans immigrants wind up in the U.S.

So whatever can be the reason for the emigration? Could it be the corruption, the greed and the oppression of the Mexican government? Wouldn’t a better sign of brotherhood and help be addressing those issues, Your Holiness, rather than implying the United States is somehow to blame for trying to maintain a semblance of public order.

Just sayin’.

Pope Francis Mexican Border

 

2 thoughts on “Pope Francis Mexican Border”

  1. Pope Francis is a product of the political philosophical climate in South America, which is Statist, that is, it places the State above the individual.

    I’m a history buff, and I have a theory that I might just research. That is, without the Protestant Reformation, our Revolution was not possible and that the Catholic Church encourages Statism, and/or collectivism. I’m not quite sure yet about how this premise, but that’s a first draft.

    Full disclosure–I’m Roman Catholic. I hang around with a good number of evangelical Christians, though, and it’s those interactions, plus reading about the political thinkers who influenced the Founders, that makes me think of this premise. I just wonder that our Church, with its hierarchical organization, fosters or encourages group-thinking, rather than individual thought. I also think that the Protestant emphasis on the individual and his relationship to God can be thought to lead to the idea that the individual is superior to the State, that the State exists to serve him and not the other way ’round.

    Anyway, just something I’m mulling over.

    1. The Catholic Church at the time of the Reformation was pretty statist.

      Of course, the Church is at its most noble when it’s defending it’s flock against state oppression — think Ireland during its rule by England or Poland under the communists or even Mexico. Most of Mexico’s population is Catholic but its government has been notably anti-Catholic for most of the last century.

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