Why Pope Francis Is Keeping His Hammer-and-Sickle Crucifix

National Review ^ | 07/14/2015 | Dennis Prager

[ilgipper]

The commie pope must go. No more South American radicals can be put into that role again. What a fool.

[bray]

Why do Conservatives stay in the Catholic church. It has been infiltrated by Marxist priests and bishops for decades.

Pray America is waking

[C. Edmund Wright]

Wonderful piece....and this is what leftist do....they infiltrate formerly conservative organizations and turn those institutions to the left.

We’’re seeing it in the Catholic Church....where it’s been going on for a long time...as well as in the Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian denominations and others. Even in Joel Osteen’s church.

Maybe the organized church is not the future of “the church” - as in the body of Christ.

[21st Century Crusader]

Some have said the antiCHRIST would be a Pope.

[defconw]

Where should we go?

[kenmcg]

Who ever thought this imposter would be following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ? He is doing to the Catholic Church what Obama is doing to the country. They are both commie/Marxists.

[SaveFerris]

Ah, he’s keeping it? Let the spin begin.

[livius]

Unfortunately, all this is too true. The other very alarming thing - having read the interview in which he says many of these things - is that the Pope is not a very smart man. He thinks he knows everything and is willing to offer a sentimental, statist or even Marxist opinion on everything, from economics to global politics...but he rarely mentions the thing that he is supposed to be doing, which is heading a religion that is fundamentally at odds with statism and relies on individual conversion and individual adherence to the moral law and faith in the revelation of God in His Son, Jesus Christ.

The few times he ventures into religion, of course, he reveals his ignorance and ideology there, as well.

I wish he would be removed from us. He is destroying the Church.

[miss marmelstein]

Your question shows you do not understand the religion. Catholics are brought up to understand that even priests can be bad men - it means little when one can still receive the sacraments.

[ScottinVA]

The pope himself later announced that he was keeping the hammer-and-sickle crucifix and taking it home, saying, “I understand this work. For me it wasn’t an offense.”

Oh.. the pope understands that work, all right... and the ideology behind it. Does anyone else think Evo Morales took His Popeness behind closed doors and apologized for Bolivia's role in taking down that other Argentinian marxist, Che Guevara?

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Where should we go?

To Ayn Rand. Or Adam Smith. Maybe Prager offers salvation too.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Why do Conservatives stay in the Catholic church. It has been infiltrated by Marxist priests and bishops for decades.”

Please specify, “Roman Catholic”. The “hammer and sickle” symbol will probably not go over too well in non-Roman Catholic churches, which were persecuted in Eastern Europe for 70 years and have just now managed to achieve a level of being barely tolerated.

In case anyone was wondering, “not go over too well” was a spectacular understatement.

[navet97]

“Where should we go?”

I’m thinking maybe Eastern Orthodox, haven’t decided yet.

[exit82]

Will he accept Jesus crucified on a swastika?

What would be the difference?

[ArcadeQuarters]

Once you allow gay child molesters in the Church hierarchy, it’s over. Communism is just another phase in the Church’s self-destruction.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

I’ve always read that a the Pope would be an even better candidate for the False Prophet position since he literally paves the way for the New Global Order of the A/C.

We shall see of course and I’m no expert in prophetic study by any means. Just posting what I’ve read many times by my own understanding.

[Alex Murphy]

Last week the Marxist quasi-dictator of Bolivia, Evo Morales, presented Pope Francis with a gift — a carved wooden hammer-and-sickle cross on which the figure of Christ is crucified. The Vatican announced that the pope had not been informed in advance about the gift. And some commentators said that photos of the pope and Morales show that the pope was actually offended. That was a false — probably wishful — interpretation. The pope himself later announced that he was keeping the hammer-and-sickle crucifix and taking it home, saying, “I understand this work. For me it wasn’t an offense.” And “Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi . . . said he personally wasn’t offended by Morales’ gift” (the Guardian)....

[Gamecock]

Because he is a commie?