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Pope Francis Offers US Help in Closing Guantanamo
Newsmax ^ | 15 Dec 2014

Posted on 12/16/2014 5:50:38 AM PST by Gamecock

The Vatican on Monday offered to help the United States in its efforts to close Guantanamo prison, a goal fervently supported by Pope Francis.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the Holy See welcomed recent signs President Barack Obama appears to have accelerated efforts to close the controversial facility...

He said the Vatican stood ready to "help find adequate humanitarian solutions through our international contacts...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: cuba; gitmo; guantanamo; guantanamobay; pope
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1 posted on 12/16/2014 5:50:38 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: metmom; Alex Murphy; daniel1212; CynicalBear
Well, that makes me feel good about all of this!</sarc>
2 posted on 12/16/2014 5:51:39 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: Gamecock

He’s going to fly down there for a lot of “Last Rights”


3 posted on 12/16/2014 5:52:59 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: Gamecock

Has the pope offered to help Obama close the abortion stores, where they dismember human beings for profit?


4 posted on 12/16/2014 5:54:44 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Gamecock

I said it before,”Beware of the Jesuits. They have always been a problem”. Disclaimer..I went to a Dominican H.S.


5 posted on 12/16/2014 6:01:02 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Gamecock

Shut your pizza hole, Papa.


6 posted on 12/16/2014 6:01:34 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Gamecock

I am a Christian/practicing Catholic and I really wish this Pope would stick to his mandate and simply tend to his flock...


7 posted on 12/16/2014 6:02:17 AM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: Gamecock

“Mistranslated” again, I’m sure.


8 posted on 12/16/2014 6:02:37 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Gamecock

Loose cannon on deck. But actually, we all knew he’d do this. He met with “representatives of the Obama admiminstration” yesterday, btw, and they appealed for him to do this.


9 posted on 12/16/2014 6:04:01 AM PST by livius
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To: Gamecock
The Vatican on Monday offered to help the United States in its efforts to close Guantanamo prison, a goal fervently supported by Pope Francis.

The bubble wrap and the packing tape are over in the corner, Francis.

10 posted on 12/16/2014 6:05:08 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Gamecock

Fine.

Then the Joe Biden of Popes can take charge of the little misunderstood waifs at GITMO and bring them to the Vatican.


11 posted on 12/16/2014 6:05:33 AM PST by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: Gamecock

He’s just a misguided liberal.


12 posted on 12/16/2014 6:11:55 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Gamecock

Send them all to the Vatican. Give the Vatican Guards something to do...


13 posted on 12/16/2014 6:13:15 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: Gamecock

Pope better get his followers to follow Jesus and not him. The Pope should be concerned about his religious duties and butt out of any nation’s political actions. The Catholic church really voted in a winner like US voted in a winner like Obama. Idiots


14 posted on 12/16/2014 6:14:38 AM PST by YukonGreen
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To: Gamecock

Shouldn’t he maybe say a word or two about the INNOCENT Christians who may soon be beheaded?


15 posted on 12/16/2014 6:18:59 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Gamecock

(From earlier this year): Who would you say was visiting whom?

16 posted on 12/16/2014 6:42:30 AM PST by mikrofon (Catholic BUMP)
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To: Victor

I’m not a Catholic, but I wonder about Benedict. Did he truly resign or was he edged out by the same group that installed this guy. I admit I don’t know how it works.


17 posted on 12/16/2014 6:50:59 AM PST by sportutegrl
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"He’s going to fly down there for a lot of “Last Rights”"

Right after he dons his Superman cape and literally runs and jumps in the air. Is there anything this Pope can't do?

18 posted on 12/16/2014 7:28:32 AM PST by BipolarBob
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To: sportutegrl

Benedict resigned. He wanted to quit ever since he started. His favorite previous pope was one who resigned. He honestly felt called to shoulder some work as Pope, and then rest and pray. Also, his health was deteriorating when he retired.

I think his retirement played into the hands of “modernists” in the Church, however.


19 posted on 12/16/2014 7:33:20 AM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Gamecock
Revelation 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

It's coming!

20 posted on 12/16/2014 8:28:09 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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