Posted on 11/01/2018 5:51:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Pope speaks to the Scalabrinians of the “drama of a demographic winter and of a closure of the doors”: migrants have built Europe
“Today there is a wave of closure towards the foreigner” and “there are many situations of foreigners trafficked”: this is the complaint that Pope Francis pronounced when he received the Scalabrinian missionaries, who have always been close to migrants and refugees, underlining that “wellbeing is suicidal” because it leads to “a demographic winter” and the “closing of the doors”, and recalls that Europe “was not born this way, but was made by many waves of migration over the centuries”.
I am the son of migrants and I remember after the war - I was a boy and I was 10 or 12 years old... - when the Polish arrived in the place where my father worked, they were all migrants, and they were all well welcomed. Argentina has this experience of welcoming, because there was work, and there was also need. In my experience, Argentina is a cocktail of migratory waves, you know this better than I do. Because migrants build a country, as they built Europe, which was not born the way it is but was made by many waves of migration over the centuries”.
“You - the Pope continued addressing the superior of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles - used an “ugly” word: wellbeing, yet wellbeing is suicidal, because it brings to two things: to close the doors, so that they don’t disturb, only those people who serve for my well-being can enter. And on the other hand, for the sake of wellbeing, people become fruitless: and today we have this drama of a demographic winter and of closing the doors. This must help us to understand a little better on receiving........
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Shut up you communist
Shouldn’t Frank be shredding some documents or something?
Hey you, the guy with the funny hat and clothes,
F-off.
later douchebag.
#NotMyPope...
Frankie The Red has so much to say, and so little of it intelligent.
Raised Catholic. But this clown isn’t my Pope.
My Pope was a Polish guy who teamed up with a President and a Prime Minister to bring down a Communist Evil Empire.
Evidently, Frankie the Red wants to re-establish that empire.
He is quoted as having used the word benessere, which, yes, literally means "well-being" but evidently can also be translated "comfort" or "ease" and hence imply complacency, such as Luke 12:20 warns against.
I'm thinking this is a double-entendre that didn't translate well.
I don’t see you taking anybody in! (the pope)
The Ottoman Turks would have “migrated” over all of western Europe and obliterated all of the Christians in Europe including the Pope in the 1600’s but for Sobieski. Are those the type of migrants that should be welcomed according to the Pope?
Exactly. How many “foreigners” is this demon worshipping @sshole letting into his little fiefdom?
Don’t Catholics ever wish the pope was Baptist? Then he wouldn’t beat around the bush with generalities, he’d say esteem Jesus Christ as the center of it all, and then you get well being AND hospitality.
Francis is a false Pope, a servant of Satan.
It is so sad to see a church I once belonged to reduced to a Stalinist mouthpiece.
You better believe it.
Wellbeing is suicidal?! Well, we knew he was against Trump. Stupid man.
You know that’s not Pope Francis, right?
You know that’s not Pope Francis, right?
Still waiting for this Pope to preach Jesus....
No, it’s gay sex that is suicide, old man.
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