Warning: The following article contains references to the sexual abuse, rape, and torture of children, as detailed in the recent Rape Gang Inquiry Report from the U.K. Reader discretion is advised. Pope Leo XIV has, as I’ve noted before, done tremendous work reversing much of the damage done by his late predecessor Pope Francis, who often sowed confusion and nearly as often refused to offer subsequent clarity. There is one topic, however, upon which Pope Leo could and should afford further clarity, in accord with the age-old teachings of the Catholic Church and her greatest thinkers, and that subject is immigration. On June 16, speaking to journalists, the Holy Father said, regarding the program of “remigration” and mass deportations being executed or proposed in many Western nations at present, “Many times we don’t recognize the reasons why these people had to leave their countries. Many reasons: violence, war, conflict,” the pope said. “So simply saying, ‘We’ll send them away, so we can wash our hands of the problem,’ doesn’t seem like the most Christian response to me. We really need to look at the cases, and above all, treat people with respect as individuals.” The brutal, harrowing Rape Gang Inquiry Report is far from the only example of the abuse of Western peoples by foreigners. First of all, it is important to note that the Holy Father’s personal political opinions are not binding upon Catholics. His formal pronunciations on matters of faith and morals are, but “blanket remigration” and mass deportations are political matters; the treatment of others with dignity is a moral matter, of course, but conducting a mass deportation campaign and treating illegal aliens with dignity are not mutually exclusive. Second, it is worth noting that Pope Leo’s comments were made on the same day that British Member of Parliament (M.P.) Rupert Lowe published the 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry Report, a thorough study on the appalling phenomenon of Muslim gangs in the U.K. raping, gang-raping, torturing, and sex trafficking British girls as young as 11 years of age. This was not a report on some singular incident that happened once and authorities are now trying to get to the bottom of it. According to the report, at least 250,000 British girls have been raped by Muslim gangs “as a bare minimum,” although the actual number is likely significantly higher. This issue has been ongoing for decades; the earliest recorded instance of Muslim rape gangs Lowe and his commission found dated to the 1950s. The issue is still ongoing. The day after the report was published, in fact, a “migrant” was arrested in Glasgow for raping a teenage girl under a bridge. (My money is on the “migrant” being a Muslim and/or of African, Middle Eastern, Pakistani, or Indian origin.) One of the chief issues identified in the report is the absolute, near-total failure of authorities to do anything to protect British girls. The rape gangs were estimated to be comprised of some 95 percent Muslims, with the overwhelming majority being of Pakistani origin, although others were of African, Middle Eastern, Indian, and other southern Asian origins. Largely due to fear of being labeled racist, although sometimes due to outright corruption, police, social services, and even health care staff did almost nothing to protect the British girls who were being regularly, repeatedly raped. One girl testified that, after having been raped multiple times by Pakistani Muslims, she was raped with a whiskey bottle, which shattered inside her. She checked herself into a state-run emergency room, where she said that no doctors or nurses ever questioned how she wound up with shards of a whiskey bottle embedded in her vaginal walls. The girl was 12 years old at the time. When the mother of another victim called the police to report that her daughter was being serially raped by “Asian” men, the call dispatcher replied, “You can’t describe them as Asian men because that’s racist. You should just be glad your child is being taught a different culture.” In another instance, the same victim went to the police for help. The officer did not help and, in fact, returned the girl to the house where grown adult Muslim men had been gang-raping her. The officer is quoted as saying, “Have fun with her.” Incumbent Prime Minister Keir Starmer, while serving as the top prosecutor and chief of the Crown Prosecution Services, personally oversaw the prosecutions of thousands of Muslim rape gang members. According to the report, he let go at least 13,000 with warning letters. These were men who serially raped, sex trafficked, and tortured (Yes, many victims were tortured. As if the repeated rape, gang-rape, and sex trafficking weren’t bad enough, victims described being beaten, cut, branded with the letter “M” for Mohammed, and far, far worse) hundreds and thousands of underage girls — and they were let off with a warning! The man who let them off with a warning is now prime minister. One victim shared that the only men who raped her who were not Muslims of foreign origin were British police officers. Another testified that, when she was being sex trafficked up and down the length of Britain, her Muslim traffickers would force her to participate in “cop nights,” where she would be raped by police officers complicit in the gangs’ sickening activity. When the Holy Father says, “We really need to look at the cases, and above all, treat people with respect as individuals,” he must understand that those doing the “looking at the cases” will be the very same political leaders, prosecutors, police officers, social care workers, and health care workers who knowingly, willingly turned a blind eye to the mass, systematic rape of at least a quarter million British girls for decades. These people have evinced no prudence, no wisdom, no discernment, and above all, no charity. After letting go at least 13,000 child-rapists with warning letters, does anyone really believe that Starmer would place the safety and security of British children first when reviewing asylum claims, visa petitions, and the like? How about the police officers who handed girls over to be gang-raped, quipping, “Have fun with her”? Would anyone trust people like the doctors and nurses who failed to ask a bruised and battered 12-year-old girl how glass whiskey bottle shards became embedded in her vaginal walls to ask visa applicants the right questions? Every single British institution charged with the care and safekeeping of these girls failed and folded at the prospect of being called “racist.” They are not the sort of people fit to determine whether foreigners can enter the country or not. I have no idea whether Pope Leo has read or even heard about the Rape Gang Inquiry Report, but he must understand that, at the present moment, “blanket remigration” or mass deportations are the kindest, most charitable, and most humane response to crises such as the mass rape, torture, and sex trafficking of a quarter million children at the hands of foreign insurgents. The pontiff’s suggested course of action may err on the side of charity, but charity toward whom? Certainly not toward the little girls whose lives, bodies, and psyches were forever and perhaps even irreparably shattered by gangs of foreign rapists. Certainly not toward the mothers, fathers, and foster parents who genuinely cared about their children but found themselves helpless as every single institution refused to save their daughters from being raped and tortured. Certainly not toward the generations of men who fought, died, struggled, toiled, and labored (As Catholics, we pray for the souls of the dead and honor the venerable among them) to make their nation a safe place for their posterity to live. The Holy Father urges that we “treat people with respect as individuals.” Not a single one of the more than 250,000 girls who fell victim to foreign rape gangs was respected, as an individual or in any sense. One girl was beaten around the head with a baseball bat, which her attacker then used to rape her. Another girl was raped by a dog, and her Muslim captors placed bets on whether the dog would rape her vaginally or anally. Multiple girls were kidnapped and sex trafficked to the Middle East or parts of Asia, where they were forced into Muslim marriages. None of this is treating anyone with respect. The brutal, harrowing Rape Gang Inquiry Report is far from the only example of the abuse of Western peoples by foreigners who do not understand the concept of respect, dignity, or charity. British man Stephen Ogilvie was nearly beheaded in the streets of Belfast earlier this month by an African immigrant. In Dublin, Algerian national Riad Bocuchaker attempted to stab to death three five-year-old children because he was frustrated at having been denied additional welfare benefits. One of the children, a little girl, was slashed across the chest and needed surgery to save her life; she had no pulse when paramedics arrived on the scene. Another little girl was struck in the head so viciously that police found “bone fragments” in her hair. A 25-year-old wheelchair-bound Swedish woman with severe autism was raped by her ambulance driver, an Iraqi national 20 years her senior. The U.S. also stands as a rebuke of the pontiff’s political comments. Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old Iowa girl, was raped and murdered by an illegal alien, who first used an ear of corn to rape her anally, so vigorously and violently that her intestines were ruptured. Jocelyn Nugaray was 12 years old when two illegal aliens, both adult men, raped and strangled her under a bridge and dumped her body in a puddle. Rachel Morin was a mother of five who was beaten to death against a tunnel wall by an illegal alien who proceeded to rape her corpse. The list goes on — far too long a list. Certainly, these violent offenders should never have been allowed to enter the country, I’m sure the Holy Father would agree. But what of those who entered the U.S. without ever having committed a crime, those with no black mark or blemish on their records, save the violation of American immigration laws? Colombian national and illegal alien Jose Medina had no criminal record — in fact, he was a victim himself; Medina had been shot and left permanently wounded by an armed robber in his home country. Nevertheless, just this year, he shot and killed 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a Catholic girl — one of Pope Leo’s own flock! — who was studying at a Catholic university in Chicago. Both the U.K., where every major institution systematically and completely failed to protect 250,000 children from being brutally raped, and the U.S., where former president Joe Biden and his twisted lackies and deputies flooded the nation with at least 12 million illegal aliens in the space of four years, are evidence that “blanket remigration” and mass deportations are necessary, if for no other reason than to allow Western nations an opportunity to recalibrate the systems by which they vet foreigners for admission into the country. Pope Leo urges that Western nations treat foreigners with respect, dignity, and charity, yet dismisses “remigration” and mass deportations as a viable option. He ought not. Mass deportations may not be the gentlest means of reclaiming Western nations for their native peoples, but they certainly allow for treating foreign insurgents with respect, dignity, and charity. The alternative means of reclaiming Western nations for their native peoples, as I hope neither the Holy Father nor anyone else ever has to find out, will show no respect, no dignity, and no charity towards those who pose a threat to the safety, security, and sovereignty of those nations, those who have so callously, so brazenly, so viciously desecrated the dignity of their Western hosts. With all due respect and deference to the Holy Father and with a deep and filial love for his sacred office, I must point out that the pontiff’s personal political opinion in this instance is wrong. In fact, “remigration” and mass deportations are “the most Christian response” to the present crises. READ MORE from S.A. McCarthy: The Tragedy of the SSPX One Way or Another: The Insanely Easy Choice Facing America on Immigration The Exorcist and the Cardinal