They tell us that it’s not enough to be against abortion: to be «authentically pro-life,» one must support unconditional immigration, open borders, and the entire planet passing through Barajas as if it were the hallway of their home.

Very well. But then let’s look at Rome. Specifically at the Leonine Walls and the Santa Ana Gate. There, no seamless garment applies. There, the seamless garment turns into a seamless wall 12 meters high, made of travertine stone, with Swiss Guards at the entrance to ensure not even the air gets in without a passport.

The speech is heartwarming: «the Church welcomes everyone, the Pope is father to all, no one is illegal.» But if you try to cross the walls of the Vatican without authorization, you’ll quickly discover that the integral ethic of life doesn’t include spontaneous seekers of a papal audience. Perhaps, to be consistent, Leo XIV should start by tearing down the walls of Nicholas V, abolishing the Swiss Guard, and opening the Santa Ana Gate as if it were Terminal T-4.

In the meantime, the same people who preach to us that abortion and immigration are in the same pro-life package sit comfortably in the only state in the world with an intact medieval wall and armed guards to decide who enters and who doesn’t.

Maybe Leo XIV isn’t pro-life either, at least according to his own integral definition. Because as we all know: life isn’t defended only in the womb, but also at the Vatican’s immigration window.