Posted on 09/03/2023 8:04:16 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
ULAANBAATAR – Standing in a country that borders both Russia and China, Pope Francis on Saturday praised what he called Mongolia’s foreign policy of peace and prayed aloud that the “dark clouds of war” will be dispelled.
Although the pontiff did not specifically mention Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, given the context the reference seemed clear.
Speaking to national civil authorities in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, the Pope complimented Mongolia’s efforts in forging a broad network of diplomatic relations and its active membership in the United Nations, as well as its efforts “to promote human rights and peace.”
These efforts have a significant role both within Asia and on the international scene, the Holy Father said, lauding Mongolia’s commitment to end nuclear proliferation and its decision to end capital punishment in 2015, with the law formally taking effect in July 2016.
“Mongolia is a democratic nation that pursues a peaceful foreign policy, but also proposes to play an important role on behalf of world peace,” he added.
Noting that this year marks 860 years since the birth of Genghis Khan, who formed the world’s largest empire after uniting all Mongol tribes, Pope Francis praised the Mongols’ ability “to acknowledge the outstanding qualities of the peoples present in its immense territory and to put those qualities at the service of a common development.”
“This model should be valued and re-proposed in our own day,” he said, asking that God would “grant that today, on this earth devastated by countless conflicts, there be a renewal, respectful of international laws, of the conditions of what was once the Pax Mongolica, that is, the absence of conflicts.”
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I wonder if Francis thinks the various Crusades were a noble attempt to push back at Islamic expansion (as shown in the following map) and reunify them under Christianity, given that a large swath of the Middle East, including areas such as Egypt, Syria, Judea, Turkey, etc, had been largely Christianized from the time of Constantine the Great until the 7th century AD.
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14212/islamic-conquests-in-the-7th-9th-centuries/
Steven Crowder
DEBUNKED: “The Crusades” Myths
https://youtu.be/8prwEJkJ3Ds?feature=shared
Brian Holdsworth
In Defense of the Crusades
https://youtu.be/YiqkUcWLlC0?feature=shared
What? I didn’t know Argentinians observed April Fools Day.
I certainly would not have expected it in September.
“to acknowledge the outstanding qualities of the peoples present in its immense territory and to put those qualities at the service of a common development.”
A fair definition of slavery.
This guy is beyond warped. Genghis Khan was the greatest murderer, sadist and rapist that the world has ever seen.
You can’t deny that it’s very unifying when you’re threatened with your death, your family’s death, the deaths of everyone in your village and the same for every village within three day’s march.
It straightens your mind right out about who you support. lol
Who else were a great unifiers? Adolf Hitler. Mao Tse Tung. Lenin. Alexander the Great.
Genghis Khan does, indeed, deserve praise for his domestic achievements. His population management programs, which involved significantly reducing the population of the area under his domain addressed the problem of overpopulation and very likely reduced the area’s carbon footprint. And he achieved significant urban redevelopment in cities like Peking, Samarkand and Gurganj.
Nothing says “Unity” like “Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Führer!”
I honestly thought this was the Babylon Bee.
Seriously, this particular reference to a Pax Mongolica exceeds my imagination of what an anti-Catholic Pope might spout next. I thought he’d just stick with “commies OK, Capitalists BAD!” but basically ANYthing that isn’t Catholic is good, and anything is Catholic is regressive, rigid, and prevents progress.
I cannot BELIEVE THE STUPID PRONOUNCEMENTS FROM THIS LUNATIC HERETIC POSING AS A POPE.
Now Ghengis Kahn is unifying.
this BRAZEN ARTICLE is ready for the “DUST BIN.”
Millions murdered. 5% of the worlds present population directly descended from this monster given his raping captives. What’s not to like. Francis is a moron and a leftist hack. This from a card carrying and practicing Catholic
As a “card carrying Catholic” you are the first group to be tested by the unleashed communist posing as a pope.
Don’t be fooled and don’t, for a minute, question your Faith.
It is real, and no nutcase from Argentina is going to change that. Soon enough we will rid of him.
God Bless you and stay strong.
Europe and the Pope in the middle ages desperately tried to forge an alliance with the Khan, so if you are gonna blame Francis then you better complain about Christendom as a whole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Mongol_alliance
By all means, blame “Christendom as a whole” why not, we are the worst gathering of people in the world.
I believe Jesus told us it would be so.
But, in all honesty, Snook, I feel absolutely NO guilt in what my predessors did to survive.
Much like right now. Still Faithful. Still Believe.
And still fighting the rascals who hate us.
If he wasn’t the world’s greatest mass murderer, he’s gotta rank right up there, with the others who were.
As another Marxist heretic anathema put it, “Yes, we Khan! Yes, we Khan!”
Bow to me or die in an ocean of BLOOD: Why Genghis Khan, throat slitter supreme, was even nastier than you thought
o Genghis Khan has been a byword for barbarity for the last 800 years
o Some historians estimate four million people were killed under his orders
o As a boy Genghis believed God had decreed he should conquer the land
o The name Genghis means ‘fierce, hard, tough’
o During Genghis’s reign of terror the Mongol Empire took up most of Asia
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