THE POPE'S LIES AND THE SAINTS' REBUTTALS

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The Pope’s selective use of Matthew 25 reflects a modern temptation: to translate eternal truths into sentimental slogans. In doing so, we risk turning the Gospel into a borderless ideology where compassion is measured by how quickly a society can dismantle its own defenses.
Yet even Pope Benedict XVI, Francis’s predecessor, warned in Caritas in Veritate that “the right to migrate must be balanced by the right of nations to regulate migration with a view to the common good.” Mercy does not abolish order; it perfects it.