Posted on 12/24/2017 5:50:20 PM PST by Innovative
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are today 65.6 million people who’ve been forcibly driven from their homes, including 22.5 million refugees and 10 million stateless persons. According to the same data, 20 people somewhere in the world are forcibly displaced every minute of every day. One could say that Pope Francis had all those people in mind on Christmas Eve, as he preached a homily extolling the Holy Family as an exemplar for today’s burgeoning numbers of people who find themselves unwillingly on the move.
“We see the tracks of entire families forced to set out in our own day,” Francis said, describing the Gospel story of Jesus and Mary being forced to set out for Bethlehem, where Mary would eventually give birth to the baby Jesus.
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Merry Christmas!
Really, Dopey Popey?
Frank, you’re quite the jerkoff.
Oh, shut up, Bergoglio.
This commie is obviously educated by the Jesuits
Mr. Popey, tear down those walls. Move them all in with you and your servants.
So, all those migrants and refugees are coming to America and Europe so they can pay their taxes?
Joseph and Mary weren’t homeless or refugees. They were victims of a lousy taxation scheme and no hotel reservation system.
Bad temper, swears a lot, likely faggot.
Nailed it
The Holy Family was returning home and broke no laws to do so. In fact their return home was in SUPPORT of the law.
No analogy at all.
A better analogy was people opening their homes on 9/11 when passengers were stranded and could not get home.
I would like for the pope to list what immigration laws Joseph and Mary broke when they moved around.
Go ahead, pontiff. I’ll wait.
BULLSHIT! They were there to PAY TAXES.
freedumb2003, very nice post. In Rome now and will be heading over to St Peter’s square in a bit for the “Urbi et Orbi” blessing. Will give an update afterwards if you’d like. Merry Christmas!
he ws going to his town of birth by Roman law. So Trump is biblical accurate, go home. Maybe the pope can encourage the immigrants to do that.
The man is an idiot.
He is delusional.
Tell us about it Mr. Pope when you have let thousands of them into your Palace/home. Until then you are just blowing smoke.
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