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Might the Leo/Francis illegal immigration humanitarianism & support of James Martin blessings be severed from real relationships within families, societies & with God according to philosopher Manet?: "[N]ew order... deduce all of society’s rules from the individual’s relation to himself. This self-relation refuses the introduction of any human law that might inform, regulate, or elevate it. Because the individual alone possesses the authority of nature, it is the sovereign self who rules over the law"

Pope says migrants' rights should override national security concerns ... Reuters https://www.reuters.com  › article › world › pope-says-... Aug 21, 2017 —  Pope Francis urged political leaders on Monday to defend migrants... "Leo XIV... appears to have adopted 'humanitarianism' as his default position." - Daniel Mahoney " Pope Leo XIV  signaled Thursday that he supports the Vatican’s existing position allowing informal blessings for same-sex couples." - Advocate "Leo said he has chosen to reflect on this biblical passage through the lens of the late Pope Francis' 2020 Encyclical  Fratelli tutti  on human fraternity" - Vatican News Political philosopher Pierre Manent in his scholarship presents how the humanitarianism of Francis and Leo sever us from the common good of families and societies which should ultimately be directed to loving God above all things and working for the salvation of ourselves and others. Manet's books have argued...

Abp Lefebvre on Mexican Massacre because of the Cristeros' "Rash Obedience" to "Pope Pius XI...influence[d]...[by] Progressives": "[S]alvation of souls—over blind submission"

Mexico, 1931: The Vatican and the “just war” Is it right for a Christian to take up arms against a government that persecutes the Church? Two years before the end of the Cristera War in Mexico, Cardinals Pacelli, Gasparri, and Boggiani discussed the subject at the Secretary of State [...] Thus we can count the laying down of arms against their will, in the spirit of obedience toward the bishops and the Holy See, as one of the numerous heroic acts committed in nearly three years of war. It was a sacrifice that was followed by hundreds of Cristeros (mostly leaders) being assassinated in many episodes of score-settling after the arreglos, in the face of indifference on the part of the government, which in June 1929 was required to guarantee safe conduct to all militants who had laid down their arms. It is not surprising, therefore, that large sections of the Mexican Catholic Church felt somehow betrayed by the hierarchy, guilty of what appeared to be in effect a surrender to a state which...