De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est.
That Latin phrase (meaning “Of the dead nothing but good is to be said”) is often more honored in its breach than otherwise. Yesterday, Megyn Kelly, a Roman Catholic herself, showed herself unafraid to step into that breach. While other conservatives have hidden their eyes from the obvious truth of how the late pontiff Francis promoted mass immigration into America and the Western world, on her Sirius program Monday, Kelly called out the deceased pope for moving the Church to the left, saying:
The church has been participating in getting immigrants here and then finding them housing and helping them stay here, irrespective of the fact that they’re here illegally. And Pope Francis didn’t have to deal with that. It’s caused a lot of us in the Catholic Church to wonder what exactly we’re donating toward on Sunday, it really does.
Kelly pointed out that while Francis stood up for some elements of traditional Catholicism (such as Rome’s at least formal stance on homosexuality and abortion), in some areas his message was unmistakably leftist. Foremost among these was the issue of illegal immigration. Francis, she said, had opposed the immigration policies of President Trump — policies supported by most Americans and no doubt most Catholics. In 2016, when Francis spoke up for building bridges instead of walls, Trump reminded him of the walls around Vatican City.
As recently as February, Francis sent a letter to American bishops protesting mass deportations of illegal aliens whom he seemed to regard as universally vulnerable and defenseless. Kelly said such blanket opposition to removing anyone illegally in the country is a disservice to their actual victims, who actually are — or were before their murders — vulnerable and defenseless.
Kelly concludes her comments on the late prelate with some good words, however, allowing that he was “unquestionably a good, decent, honorable, holy, loving man.” And he would, she was sure, have had “nothing but empathy for those killed by these illegals.”
Nevertheless, the life is lived and lost, and the man some called “Obama’s pope” has departed this Vale of Tears for a place where he can no longer do ill or good. Requiescat in pace.
For more, see the NY Post.