Posted on 02/18/2016 10:36:41 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Pope Francis, apparently desperate to reach out to the Catholic Church’s growing base in Latin America, spent the day slapping Americans in the face from across the US-Mexico border.
In Ciudad Juarez, one of the most violent cities in the Western Hemisphere thanks to the drug cartels, the pope walked up a ramp covered in flowers toward a cross “erected… in memory of migrants who have perished trying to reach the United States just a stone’s throw away,†according to Reuters.
Funny, he never did that while visiting Cuba to pay tribute to those who died attempting to escape that Communist hellhole. He reserved his spite for a nation with one of the most generous immigration policies on the planet.
The pope then blessed three more small crosses, at which “shoes of migrants who died†were laid. “We cannot deny the humanitarian crisis,†Pope Francis intoned. “Each step, a journey laden with grave injustices: the enslaved, the imprisoned and extorted; so many of these brothers and sisters of ours are the consequence of trafficking in human beings…Injustice is radicalized in the young; they are ‘cannon fodder,’ persecuted and threatened when they try to flee the spiral of violence and the hell of drugs. Then there are the many women unjustly robbed of their lives.â€
He concluded, “Let us together ask our God for the gift of conversion, the gift of tears, let us ask him to give us open hearts like the Ninevites, open to his call heard in the suffering faces of countless men and women. No more death! No more exploitation!
This came shortly after the pope said that capitalism cut against God, and that God would punish “slave drivers of our days†supposedly exploiting workers, adding, “The flow of capital cannot decide the flow of people.â€
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Good points.
You didn’t even mention that this terribly wicked country we’re in, essentially gives free smart phones to our poor.
Not that we should mind you...
Pope Communist The 1st- Vicar of Marx.
Im going to tone this down because I have many Catholic friends and family members but let me say this. The Vatican is surrounded by a 50 foot wall. If I was any good with HTML I would show it. Who is this man that has a wall protecting him but wants our country to parish from invading hordes including Trojan horse Islam “refugees” . I think he is a hippocrit.
I too have nothing to do with Catholicism after years ago.
Perhaps todays Catholics might take a good look at their Papa. From my point of view, he offers nothing to free thinking people....I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
FMCDH(BITS)
Pray for America and prepare. .
What mean things did the Pope have to say about Ted Cruz concerning migrants..........*crickets*......*crickets*?
The pope is a fraud. Bring down this wall, Francis!!!
The Pope is a Socialist in the true Venezuelan sense of the word. He is using the Church to help destroy the Free World
since he wants to join The New World Order to fill the Vatican Bank and join the powerful few.
I watched the CNN coverage of this last night while flipping thru channels for the town halls.
CNN used the time to basically say how the pope wanted open borders and no fence or immigration policy - thus anyone calling for this was anti-religious or something.
It’s amazing how the other side distorts the truth to fit their evil ideology.
It's also a dark hour (7 years) for conservatives living in America.
Go home, If you feel so strongly about it have them all live in vatican city
A communist by any reasonable measure...
All of those are things done to the migrants by - other Mexicans, before they ever get to the United States.
He is the anti-pope-—that is why. Any Common Sense would reveal that-—I about vomited when he was presented as the “new” pope-—and I am a hard core Catholic.
The Smoke of Satan entered the Vatican DECADES ago....(Freemasons).
Interesting that for thousands of years the Catholic Church CONDEMNED all Socialism, Marxism and Secret Societies (as did JFK in one of his LAST speeches) AND contraception (which now the pope is on record as encouraging (for Zika virus though).
Why the “Quiet” on the evil of Marxism/Socialism/contraception/divorce and Freemasonry after VII??? Why the ejection of thousands of years of Traditions and then the feminization and emasculation of the Church-—the homosexualization of the clergy? (Now, the majority of priests may be satanic homosexuals who lust after males/boys—(Fr. Oko’s Report/Good-bye, Good Men).
Makes one WONDER what happened to the Catholic Church with the pope who refused to reveal the 3rd secret of Fatima since Pope Pius X in Pascendi warned of infiltration in 1907 as Bella Dodd did in the 30s/40s by Marxist homosexuals. Claims of popes being Freemasons is rife, and Pope Paul VI, supposedly a homosexual, announced that the Smoke of Satan was in the Vatican. They have had Cardinals report Black Masses inside the Vatican——and then the murder of Pope John Paul after 33 days in office since he was for reform and firing the head of the Vatican Bank-—a known mafia member/Freemason.
This creepy anti-pope immediately gushes over sodomy and socialism (slavery) and pederasts—and puts them into higher positions of power and we are NOT supposed to notice?
Actually, good people DO notice—that is why a crisis in the Catholic Church today-—with its religionless Christianity and kumbaya “New Order” masses which mock God deliberately and glorify satan/man.
Seems to be that the two have at least equally good claims to being Christian, if we are going to be broad about it and count cultural Christianity.
When you live in a City protected by a 39 foot wall, you should be very careful in commenting about others’ desires for similar protection!
Pope attacks Trump over his proposal to build border wall - leading to another bump in support for Trump just before the SC primary!
BOL!
Seems to be that the two have at least equally good claims to being Christian, if we are going to be broad about it and count cultural Christianity.
It must be the other 50% that actually vote?
Jim, I’m sure you’ve already seen this, but will post it again in this thread since it’s germane:
Donald J. Trump Response to the Pope
If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated unlike what is happening now with our all talk, no action politicians.
The Mexican government and its leadership has made many disparaging remarks about me to the Pope, because they want to continue to rip off the United States, both on trade and at the border, and they understand I am totally wise to them. The Pope only heard one side of the story - he didn’t see the crime, the drug trafficking and the negative economic impact the current policies have on the United States. He doesn’t see how Mexican leadership is outsmarting President Obama and our leadership in every aspect of negotiation.
For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I am proud to be a Christian and as President I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now, with our current President. No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith. They are using the Pope as a pawn and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so, especially when so many lives are involved and when illegal immigration is so rampant.
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