Tancredo to Pope: Kindly quit being such an amnesty shill, your holiness
posted at 12:02 pm on April 18, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The boss has all the background you’ll need, although you might want to revisit the U.S. Bishops’ statement on the subject too. Church leadership is unified on this point and it’s not hard to see why. Not even Tancelot can slay the dragon of demographic reality:
While nearly one-in-three Americans (31%) were raised in the Catholic faith, today fewer than one-in-four (24%) describe themselves as Catholic.
These losses would have been even more pronounced were it not for the offsetting impact of immigration. The Landscape Survey finds that among the foreign-born adult population, Catholics outnumber Protestants by nearly a two-to-one margin (46% Catholic vs. 24% Protestant); among native-born Americans, on the other hand, Protestants outnumber Catholics by an even larger margin (55% Protestant vs. 21% Catholic)…
Latinos, who already account for roughly one-in-three adult Catholics overall, may account for an even larger share of U.S. Catholics in the future. For while Latinos represent roughly one-in-eight U.S. Catholics age 70 and older (12%), they account for nearly half of all Catholics ages 18-29 (45%).
Seal the borders and you may seal the fate of the Catholic Church in America. Which makes this year’s election mighty fortuitous for them: No matter who wins, the Church wins, too.
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At least Tom had the stones to say something.
I don’t remember a passage in the Bible that encourages law of the land disobedience and certainly not as a tool to increase the population of one country by migrating from another.
Speakup on April 18, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Tanc stuttered a lot, but I figured out what he was saying.
Good message.
Let Vatican City welcome millions of illegal aliens.
jgapinoy on April 18, 2008 at 10:08 PM
I agree with Tanc…
MsUnderestimated on April 19, 2008 at 12:50 AM
How about a Tancredo/Bolton ticket?
Or Bolton/Tancredo.
Talk about kicking and taking. Sheesh!
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Great, great headline, Allah, PBOY.
misterpeasea on April 19, 2008 at 1:28 AM
I’m a Catholic who goes to church whenever I feel like it(just like for the first thousand years before weekly mandatory) and don’t support the Pope on his amnesty garbage. He should go to Mexico and promote a government that will rein in corruption so their entire population doen’t end up here…He’s infallible as far as church doctrine,and that’s where the line is drawn….
adamsmith on April 19, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Paisley,
Thank you. Silence was more or less what I expected, since I am confident that nobody can come up with a direct quote of the Pope supporting amnesty/open borders (if anyone can find one, I will be more than willing to concede the point). Even Tancredo can do no better than simply refer to news reports – did the man actually read or listen to any of the Pope’s speeches? Has anyone here actually bothered to look at the source material? It’s all been published in full online.
I have been reading Benedict for a long time without ever having come across the sort of opinion being ascribed to him in this article or in the news reports. Moreover it’s the second time in a month Hot Air has run a misleading story related to Catholic affairs by relying solely on MSM reports without actually bothering to check out the source info (the 7 “new” deadly sins thing) – is this stuff just too good to check because it fits in with pre-conceived notions about the Church?
Benedict is one of the few western leaders who actually “gets” the problem of Islam and the problems with present-day progressivism. He’s trying to reverse the damage done in the Church as best he can, and the Catholics who agree with his plan would appreciate a little more support on calling the MSM and leftie church’s bull instead of seeing the lot of you leap on their bandwagon and proclaim the pope is in cahoots with them. Congratulations, opportunity lost, thanks for lending just a little more legitimacy to the open-borders US Church by not contesting the notion that the pope supports it.
Cyrus on April 19, 2008 at 4:19 PM
I’m with Tanc on this, if the Pope was indeed trying to influence our policy debate on this. If anything he should be addressing Mexico. Mexico is always getting a free pass, and I’m sick of it.
silverfox on April 20, 2008 at 5:36 AM
Tancredo has lost my support. So much for Republican conservatives coming up with accurate quotes.
Zorro on April 26, 2008 at 10:25 AM
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