Posted on 10/13/2016 2:40:22 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting a pilgrimage of Catholics and Lutherans from Germany, Pope Francis said he does not like "the contradiction of those who want to defend Christianity in the West, and, on the other hand, are against refugees and other religions."
"This is not something I've read in books, but I see in the newspapers and on television every day," Pope Francis said.
Answering questions from young people in the group Oct. 13, the pope said, "the sickness or, you can say the sin, that Jesus condemns most is hypocrisy," which is precisely what is happening when someone claims to be a Christian but does not live according to the teaching of Christ.
"You cannot be a Christian without living like a Christian," he said. "You cannot be a Christian without practicing the Beatitudes. You cannot be a Christian without doing what Jesus teaches us in Matthew 25," which is to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and welcome the stranger.
"It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help," he said. "If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
Asked what he thought of the Reformation, Pope Francis said the Christian community is called to continual growth and maturity, and its entire history has been marked by reform movements "small and not so small," some of which were healthy and holy, others which went awry because of human sin.
"The greatest reformers of the church are the saints, those men and women who follow the word of God and practice it," he told the pilgrims, most of whom came from Martin Luther's home region of Saxony-Anhalt.
In his formal talk to the group, Pope Francis said Christians must praise God that, in the past 50 years, Catholics and Lutherans have moved "from conflict to communion. We already have traveled an important part of the road together."
Noting that he would go to Lund, Sweden, at the end of the month to participate with Lutheran leaders in opening commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Pope Francis said an important part of the commemoration would be a joint commitment to working together in a world "thirsting for God and his mercy."
The world needs Christians to witness God's mercy "through service to the poorest, the sick (and) those who have abandoned their homelands in search of a better future for themselves and their families," he said.
"In putting ourselves at the service of the neediest," Pope Francis said, "we will experience that we already are united; it is God's mercy that unites us."
I don’t reject all just the ones that want to behead me and those that want free chit
Send all the refugees to Vatican and his home country Argentina.
Uh huh. So Francis what are YOU doing? When will YOU sell all your wealth and give to the poor? Hypocrite.
If you’re forcing others to be generous and hospitable, that makes you neither generous or hospitable. It makes you a tyrant.
Globalist scumbag
This pope is a total wanker
GFY, Poop Frank.
How many refugees are living in Vatican City?
The Pope’s beating a straw dog. Who is against ALL refugees?
Francis is a blithering idiot.
Mr. Pope, your job is to lead the Catholic Church and to protect those Catholics and other Christians who are being raped, murdered, and beheaded by your Muslim pals.
Do your job!
When the Pope takes unvetted Syrians inside the Vatican walls for settlement, I will stop calling him a liar and a hypocrite.
Depends on what you mean by "chase away."
If refugees are coming to a secure zone and I chase them back into a battle zone, that's wrong.
That doesn't necessarily mean I have to move them in next door to me.
Good thing I couldn’t care less what this jerk thinks. I don’t care what the Vatican has decided, they’re just men and they don’t speak for God.
Tough
The fake Pope needs to study the history of Islam.
We just had the anniversaries of the battles of Tours 10/10/732 and Lepanto 10/7/1571, without those victories over muslim armies, there would not be any Christianity.
Islam does mean to eradicate all other religions.
They are commanded by their prophet to subjugate, convert of kill everyone else on earth until we all submit to Satan, they call him Allah.
Just STFU you pontificatng bubble headed morons. You know nothing of which you speak. You probably don't even know that God commanded the Israelites to kill other people to protect themselves from being infiltrating by their enemies who were evil or not intermarry people of other religions because it would destroy their own country. Read your bibles instead of trying to make friends with evil people who can fill your coffers.
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