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A Nation Has a Right to Control Its Borders, by Scott Richert (Feb. 2017) – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Scott Richert, Catholic Answers, Feb. 6, 2017

“Can borders be controlled? Yes, each country has a right to control its borders, who enters and who leaves, and countries that are in danger—of terrorism or the like—have more right to control them more . . . “

These words of Pope Francis, delivered in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País on January 22, likely came as a surprise to those, Catholic and non-Catholic, who assume that the Church is committed to unrestricted immigration. Yet the Holy Father’s words reflect the Church’s longstanding teaching, drawn from natural law, that the nation is an extension of the human family.

As Pope Saint John Paul II wrote in his final book, Memory and Identity: “The term ‘nation’ designates a community based in a given territory and distinguished by its culture. Catholic social doctrine holds that the family and the nation are both natural societies, not the product of mere convention.” ….

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