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Obama praises Vatican for ‘very important’ role in deal to free American from Castro’s prison
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 18, 2014 | Francesca Chambers

Posted on 12/19/2014 6:29:54 AM PST by C19fan

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21 posted on 12/19/2014 7:51:11 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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It sure makes the whole process of how this Jesuit came to be the Pope a suspect one.


22 posted on 12/19/2014 7:52:10 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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I would blame it on dryrot in the organization.

Perhaps Francis will soon issue a statement of support for Presidential Candidacy of Fellow Jesuit Jerry Moonbeam Brown !


23 posted on 12/19/2014 7:55:28 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: ZULU

Everytime they pick a Bad Pope ,they get bad Bishops and Cardinals ,which gives even worst Pope ,etc etc etc,like what’s happing in the US


24 posted on 12/19/2014 8:01:10 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: C19fan

Indeed.

Of most concern to me are the gullible but faithful young people who will eagerly accept the idea of letting government do the work of church rather than understanding that Jesus spoke to us as individuals.

Wallis has been particularly effective in spreading this heresy in the northern hemisphere. The Marxist clergy in South America has been highly influential in the socialist states there.

It’s intertwined with the abandonment of personal responsibility in society as a whole. The state was never to take the place of individual believers, collectively “the church,” in serving our fellow man physically and spiritually.

I speak as one in the trenches, with secure first-hand knowledge that our individual charitable efforts leave government programs in the dust. Money and time where my mouth is.


25 posted on 12/19/2014 8:17:31 AM PST by Jedidah
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After 23 years suffering torture and humiliations in Castro’s political dungeons, Cuban writer and poet, Armando Valladares recalled: “During those years, with the purpose of forcing us to abandon our religious beliefs and to demoralize us, the Cuban Communist indoctrinators repeatedly used the statements made by some representatives of the American Christian churches. Every time a pamphlet was published in U.S., every time a clergyman would write an article in support of Castro’s dictatorship, a translation would be given to us, and that was far worse for the Christian political prisoners than the beatings or the hunger. Incomprehensible to us, while we waited for the embrace of solidarity from our brothers in Christ, those who were embraced were our tormentors.”

After more than 50 years of violations of their human rights, is inconceivable that once again the Cuban people is betrayed by those most called to defend and demand their right to freedom and the respect for their human dignity. Pope Francis negotiated and blessed a Faustian accord in which an apprentice of tyrant came to the rescue of the regimen of a genocide tyrant throwing under bus and condemning the Cuban people to eternal damnation. By this accord, the American taxpayers will keep afloat the Cuban government assuming the financing the Stalinist regime.


26 posted on 12/28/2014 3:33:21 PM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPx.jpg)
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