Posted on 10/28/2022 6:53:31 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Pope Francis has called for greater restrictions on weapons worldwide, spanning the production, marketing, and possession of both heavy and light arms.
“How many cases have we seen of children dead for handling weapons in their homes, how many massacres have been perpetrated due to the easy access to them in some countries?” the pontiff asks rhetorically in a new book, an excerpt of which was published Sunday in Italian media.
“Legal or illegal, on a large scale or in supermarkets, the arms trade is a serious problem around the world,” the pope declares in the book, titled I Ask You in God’s Name: Ten Prayers for a Future of Hope.
“It would be good for these debates to have more visibility and for an international consensus to be sought to achieve, on a global level, restrictions on the production, marketing, and possession of these instruments of death,” he asserts.
In his extended critique of the arms trade, Francis lays blame on weapons manufacturers for provoking conflicts as he has done in the case of the Russia-Ukraine war.
“World spending on armaments is one of the most serious moral scandals of the present era,” he states. “It also shows how much contradiction there is between talking about peace and, at the same time, promoting or allowing the arms trade.”
“It is all the more immoral that some so-called developed countries sometimes bar their doors to people fleeing the wars they themselves have promoted by selling arms,” he insists. “It also happens here in Europe and it is a betrayal of the spirit of the founding fathers.”
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Ok, he doesn’t want more weapons. Why don’t we all here volunteer to remove them for safe keeping?
I’m not Catholic, so whatever he says doesn’t really matter to me.
He REALLY needs to stay in his lane. Fraud.
P2 calls for restrictions on Papal edicts of Marxism implementation.
Pushing the leftist agenda. Who does he get his orders from? (that’s a rhetorical question, we know who controls the leftist movement)
What is wrong with this creep ?
Do you think his body guards have weapons ?
Just another socialist anti-Christian.
By this time, nobody listens to Bergoglio, except for those who use him as their tool, like the tree-huggers, the Fauci’s, the Chicoms, the socialists, etc.
Make the Vatican an arms-free zone.
No armed guards.
No weapons cache.
THEN, maybe I’d listen to you, Poop Franky.
Tear down his walls.....
Are the Bulgarians still interested in shooting a pope? Just curious!
When his body guards disarm.
Question to my Catholic brothers/sisters:
Who was/is the worse pope: Alexander VI, or Francis?
I don’t have a personal choice, just wondering...
(FYI, each had his “Nathan”: for Alexander it was Savonarola, for Francis it’s Vigano.)
Place Mark
RE: I’m not Catholic, so whatever he says doesn’t really matter to me.
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I am not, either.
However....
1.3 billion in the world.
71 or 72 million in US.
Of people who have a religion, 48.9% of Americans are Protestants, 23.0% are Catholics, 1.8% are Mormons, 1% Muslim (3.5 million Muslims in US).
Interesting if he were standing on the soil of China and then Russia followed by Iran and North Korea, then home to the Vatican. Didn’t some handlers tell him the imperialist Chinese are advancing, taunting and threatening others with their military, such as those artificial islands to claim international waters as “Chinese”, plus abducting Christians and Muslims to put in slave camps?
Like the jeering crowds in the 60s used to shout to anti-war protesters while Americans were fighting in Vietnam and some were in POW camps being tormented: “Why don’t you go over and protest in Hanoi?” and “Why don’t you go protest in Moscow?”
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