Your Excellency,
There it was, a news article on your World Meeting of Popular Movements, and in this news report were your unmistakable words, that we should resist President Trump.
It’s taken me quite a while to react to this, mainly because after thoroughly reading up, and hearing President Trump explain out his policies, and then reading your unhinged, vastly erroneous statement, I am perplexed at how someone so mistaken can hold any sort of position in the Church, but now I’m ready.
I’m not going to mince words here. I’m not going to get verbose. We both know our stuff about the Catholic Church, let’s just get this smackdown over. This will just be a quick, direct statement on why you, Bishop McElroy of the Diocese of San Diego are entirely wrong.
First, I have attended Catholic Church in the Diocese of San Diego my entire life. I remember Bishop Maher, I have met Bishop Brom, I met Bishop Flores briefly twice, and I have met you in person. For a person such as yourself professing to stand up for the working man, you were by far the least warm and most hesitant to even shake my out stretched hand. Actually, you looked at me like you loathed being bothered by a random Latino parishioner that you didn’t have time to waste addressing. I immediately, immediately felt as though you were not a true “people person.” My instincts serve me very well.
So, who am I? Let’s just say I’m educated by the diocese, I’m respected as very knowledgeable about the Church, and I know just about everyone you do there at Paducah Drive. Just a little secret? Most there at the Diocese, and in the pews, are not impressed either. Hint? Listen more to your Vicar General and Chancellor down the office hall. They know their stuff, you don’t. You following in the footsteps of great men like Bishop Brom and Bishop Flores is an insult. You’re not a man of the Catholic Church, you’re a politically partisan San Francisco hippy with a bath and clean clothes.
Now, about what you said:
Our Catechism of the Catholic Church clearly states that every country has a right to control its borders. Every country has an obligation to take in persecuted refugees. But what is going on here, both in the Middle East, and here in the Southwestern United States is migration for financial gain, and migration for criminal activity. These people are taking it upon themselves to do this. Nobody is forcing them, nor even asking them to get up and leave. Bishop McElroy, you are sadly mistaken. President Trump does have every single right to do this.
Now that we see this control of borders is a country’s right, and is by no means against any Church teaching, -are we not, by the same Catechism of the Catholic Church, to follow our leader’s fair laws? Yes, it’s right there in black and white: we are to be good citizens and contribute to the peace and prosperity of our country.
See, President Trump has explained out exactly, we all see exactly, why illegal immigration needs to be put back under law and order. There are serious crimes that go on. There is identity theft, there is auto theft, there is the spiraling cost of insurance to meet this loss, there are our children, there is human trafficking, there is prostitution, there are terrorist threats taking advantage of this porous border. President Trump’s policies are not, I repeat, are not rooted in xenophobia and religious prejudice (as you clearly and mistakenly stated). His policies do not target Muslims in Indonesia, Myanmar, or Saudi Arabia, they target countries that have high levels of terrorizing extremists and have passed through ISIS-issued fake-Visas by the thousands. Even Saudi Arabia themselves, a Muslim country just expelled 40,000 suspect immigrants. See, you are blind, veritably blind, to any error you commit with your obtuse statements.
Further, if you were to ever attend a Trump Rally, you would see all the nationalities that strongly support his very logical and smart policies. Huge numbers of Latinos and Blacks support President Trump. This is so simple and easy to see, all you have to do is be there and your statement falls apart. Latinos/Hispanics in this country want control at the borders.
You want to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and tend to the sick? Go down to 16th and Imperial Avenue. There are so many hungry, sick and exposed that even Father Joe’s Villages can help them all. If that’s not enough, drive up to Los Angeles, or San Francisco. No part in the Bible or the Catechism does it say you get more treasures in Heaven if they don’t speak English.
Basically, your erroneous advice doesn’t agree with The Catechism of the Catholic Church, and it doesn’t agree with our United States of America civil code. So what does it agree with? Is this your personal McElroy Code? You know, the one you fit so well in, up in San Francisco, where you were born, and became an Auxiliary Bishop? That is, after you were fully indoctrinated by radical leftist agenda at mid-Seventies upper-echelon schools? See, that’s precisely it. You’re a product from deep in the belly of the anti-American bubble known as academic Sixties and Seventies San Francisco, who brought us drugs, runaways, bacchanalian lust, draft dodgers and pan-handling as a legitimate professional career.
Your system has failed, -many times over. The Church will not be your new tool of influence. You are trying to tell people more socially wise than you to follow your obtuse socialist globalist elitist-feeding dream. I question why you were sent to San Diego, part of Pope Francis’ agenda to manipulate Catholics (unsuccessfully) in California?
There is such a strong parallel between you and the increasingly isolated elitist Hollywood crowd. Tactless, disrespectful entertainers like Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, etc. read lines directors give them, surrounded by the guilded technical machinery of film making. With so much attention drawn to them, the entertainers then somehow feel they can force their uneducated, biased, self-serving whims on the audience. You, likewise, read lines given to you by Church Fathers, surrounded by our Tradition rich and far-spanning Church Militant. You then somehow think you can use your position to pontificate your liberal San Fransisco-bred views to us as if we have no political knowledge of our own. We do have knowledge, obviously more than you, and more tact as well. It's the laity's job to represent the Church in the secular matters of the world, not the other way around.
A further parallel in this is the way the good and patriotic people of the United States have had to work around leaders like former president Obama and Nancy Pelosi that only wish to cause more division and confusion in a people straining for unity and happiness, people now listen to those they know are more direct and honest, calling for unity. Likewise, the faithful laity are surrounded with murderers that actually sell baby parts below them and division and confusion causing leaders like you in front of them. We have learned to turn to different sources and trust our Sensus Fidei, keeping closer together and valuing each other, instead of your distorted, politicized, dishonest message.
This San Diego Diocese has experienced enough tragedy; the abuse scandals, priest scandals, the premature death of our beloved Bishop Flores. We don't need any more division, hurt, and confusion. We need some time to heal here. And, look what you do: show up and tell us to act in a way not with doctrine nor good citizenship. Go away.
And what about contributing to sin? People get across, honest God-loving citizens get killed. Did you not contribute indirectly to their deaths? Misleading your flock? Telling them it was all okay? The Catechism clearly addresses this. You conveniently leave that out, don’t you?
And what about following true, well-formed conscience? -Also in our Catechism of the Catholic Church. What about if I know dangerous elements are taking advantage of a porous border, and innocent will suffer? What if I know in my heart those workers are being exploited by large agri-businesses and are not being given benefits. What about domestic home workers working extended hours also for no benefits and a fixed wage? And those paying them are not paying their fair share of business taxes? -Also against the Catechism under adhering to contracts. There are just so many areas you are incorrect.
Yes, I did hear IHRadio's (I Heart Radio Broadcasting) "Setting things Right", claiming my stance takes you out of context, that you are a victim of the media. No, you're not. All of us pointing this out see it clearly. I myself get feedback here from Catholics saying they are embarrassed by what you are publicly saying here. "Setting Things Right's" Deacon Jim and his staff, so used to pontificating from the radio room in the second floor of the San Diego Diocese usually correct in their stance on most Catholic teaching, are trying to find a way to spin this as to come out correct. -It can't be done. You're being called out for good reason; it's in black and white. You are incorrect and against Catholic teaching. You are misleading your flock, or at least attempting to mislead, very much so.
We will not follow you. You see, as Michael Voris so clearly points out here, we have a choice. President Trump is bringing back common sense, and respect for everybody and their safety. His policies are far, far more grounded in truth than yours will ever be. Sorry. Good day. Thank you.
Bishop McElroy, Your Excellency, I hear the witches are holding a spell casting ceremony to impede our President as well. Why not join the witches? You seem to be on their same side.