The Pope has completely lost it.
How can he suggest that ANYONE with a Christian identity stay in a war ravaged land that is controlled by Islamic terrorists?
This is insanity, pure and simple.
He is literally protected by his own army, police and other security details that number into the thousands....
And the Pope is telling these people to “hold out” while they are outnumbered 1000 to 1 by people who want them dead?
The Pope, iirc, lamented the vanishing Christian presence, but I don’t think he told them to stay there. That was the bizarre take of this particular cardinal, and since Francis never comes out and corrects or clarifies anything, they all feel free to misuse his words for their purposes.
Is there a direct quote from him or is this just a Cardinal saying it?
Here we are (rightly) blasting away at muslims for using kids as human shields, then this pope advocates unarmed Christian families returning back to their former homes in Iraq to be slaughtered like animals.
JPII would NEVER have advocated this. Francis can kiss my recovering-catholic a**.