I extend my heartfelt congratulations to all Americans on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This anniversary stands as an invitation not only to celebrate the nation’s remarkable journey, but also to reflect upon the responsibilities that the sons and daughters of this country bear to one another, and to the generations who will inherit the nation that is being shaped today. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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In marking this anniversary, it is important to recognize that freedom of religion has long been central to the American promise, protecting both individual dignity and the peaceful coexistence of a diverse people. This same freedom has permitted the Catholic Church to take root and flourish within the United States, to the advantage not only of her own members, but of the entire nation.
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Among the principles that have guided the development of this country is the God-given dignity of every human life, each person being endowed with an inherent worth that calls for reverence, protection and care. In this spirit, a full understanding of this dignity leads to recognizing the importance of safeguarding human life from its beginning at conception until natural death, and of building a society in which the vulnerable, the suffering and the forgotten are always met with compassion, solidarity and love.
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Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants, whose hopes, sacrifices and contribution have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning. In every generation, those who have arrived seeking freedom, opportunity and a place to belong have helped to shape the nation’s character. To receive them with compassion and generosity is not only an act of charity, but also a recognition of the dignity that belongs to every human person.

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Just a Happy Birthday America would have been enough
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Shit like this is why people consider catholics to be un-American; why would you sit here and advocate for foreign interests on our birthday? You are correct that immigrants do shape our national character- I don't want my country to be shaped by Haitians, Muslims, or any other people from shithole countries. Is forcing my kids to grow up in a country not their own a charitable act?
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with all due respect stfu
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"You have to let in a bajillion foreigns that hate Christ and don't give a shit about American values or else you're bad Christians." This moron would destroy the Christian west and watch all your daughters be raped so he could brag about how nice he was to the rapists. Let 10k Muslim radicals into the Vatican and then tell us what we have to do.
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No we are not doing this anymore. They are all going back.
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If you feel so generous, why aren’t you welcoming illegals into Vatican City? You certainly have the space and the resources. The answer is no, because you are as hypocritical as the elite. You preach generosity, freedom of religion, and open borders when you don’t condone any of it in your own city. You have your own police and sky-high walls. As a former devout Catholic, I must express that I have not seen genuine humility in a pope since our beloved John Paul II. You are just an elitist Chicago liberal who preaches what he doesn’t practice. You are no different from a corrupt politician.
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Deport them all! Love American Catholics!
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You people destroyed Franco's legacy after he saved you. You're as treasonous as any generic NGO.
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Fuck all the way off, commie.
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You fetishize immigration, a thing which should be a neutral topic with acknowledged trade-offs, to the point where it becomes an unbalanced icon of obsessive pseudo-divinity of its own. Any virtue, when taken to extremes, becomes a form of vice or immorality.
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Open your gates then. Do it. Livestream, even.
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You’re a woman
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ACCESS TO WHITE WOMEN IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHT
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Practice what you preach, Holy Father. Vatican City has walls, strict borders, and takes in near zero mass migrants despite its wealth. How many are we supposed to take—the world? Legal immigration yes; unlimited illegal flows strain citizens, resources, and cohesion. True charity respects rule of law and helps people thrive at home too. Happy 250th, America.
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Oh please! You know or you should know less than 1 percent actually credible asylum claims !! Why doesn’t the Vatican accept illegal aliens than? Or is it the lack of monetary support the church was getting from USA government? USA will always accept immigrants that come legally to our country as well as the very few that have actual asylum status
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Accepting mooches and equating them to the people who actually built America is a denial of dignity to those real Americans who you would have suffer their violence, envy, and total lack of respect.
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How about white people go their lands and conquer them and improve their lives that way Why do they have to cone to White countries?
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God knows my heart and it is that you burn in a fire as hot as the devil can burn, you're preaching to the lower god, you're disgusting, you defile the church
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And what about defending the lives of citizens from illegal criminal immigrants? Help fix the problem at its root not spread misery across continents and then fix nothing and then help kill a culture.
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But it’s ok that democrats are running abortion tourism through their states?! You aren’t serious you’re a fraud.
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The church has several requirements of people to be in full communion with the church if they want to receive sacraments. The U.S.A. also has requirements for immigrants to follow to become citizens. Nothing in life is all benefit. There is always obligation that must be fulfilled. In the modern world the balance of obligation vs benefit for immigrants is skewed which is why citizens insist upon higher controls on immigration law.
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Legal immigration, sure. Open borders, birthing holidays and unlimited "temporary asylum" is not what God intended.
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We have a right to a country. Until you encourage all those illegals to affirm our own inherent dignity, you do a great injustice to Americans everywhere by claiming, contrary to Catholic teaching, that we do not have a right to enforce our laws.
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Of course it was gonna turn into this. Can’t even celebrate our founding without it becoming a call to commit national suicide.
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You are wrong Robert. 💯 #IllegalAliens and illegal immigration has ruined the world. Stop gaslighting like a satanic meat puppet. You mock my Heavenly Father as God has clearly articulated we are to obey the laws everywhere. ✅ As President, I'm going to drive out all these ungodly #IllegalAliens and deport them all to bring order out of the chaos you and the #NWO psychopaths have intentionally created. You're NOT a man of God but an apostate. You could care less for the nearly 1,000 Americans who were brutally murdered by illegal aliens during the invasion. In #Jesus name, I rebuke you! 💯 @FollowVigilante ✔️
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Legal imagrants we love and embrace if they embrace our Ideals of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. John 10:1: "Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit".
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Since many Catholic NGO’s help facilitate the illegal mass migration perhaps you should get your own house in order first. Americans are generous and benevolent people. Wishing us Happy Independence with a side of leftist propaganda. Talking out of both sides of your mouth.
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How many Muslim immigrants have you admitted to live in the Vatican City?
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Thank you But just a word of advice we’re tired of hearing the last paragraph. We do welcome people into this country, but we will not be slaves to those who come to take advantage of us and maybe someday you should talk about that too. We will not allow Marxism to take route in this nation. We will not allow people to come here that are able-bodied and live off of us. It’s time to tell these people to stand tall and fight in their own nations to make their countries free like America Freedom is not free. There’s no way you didn’t learn that in elementary school. It was a great letter until you shamed us once again, and it needs to be the last time
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There's lots of space in Vatican city and The Church has tens of billions in real estate, at least. Sell off all your property and feed the poor. That's your job, commie.
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Citizens are being murdered and raped while natives are met with skepticism and even arrested for voicing concern. This is demonic
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Wouldn't you help them more by going to their nations and helping them over giving your kids birthright to them
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Dear Leo Jesus spoke of welcoming the stranger. Let us always see the dignity and value of every human being. Migration across the Mediterranean is dangerous, illegal and fraught with abuse. Migration to Europe has gone too far and is harmful to human beings. Your endorsement of illegal migration is offensive to me as a Christian.
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