Posted on 12/22/2019 5:46:05 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME — Pope Francis presided over the installation of a migrant crucifix in the Vatican Thursday, on which he had a migrant life vest placed on the cross in place of the body of Jesus.
The ceremony of the hanging of the new cross took place at the end of a meeting between the pope and a group of 33 migrants that the pontiff had flown over from the Greek island of Lesbos.
The life jacket on the cross was recovered adrift in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea last July and is believed to have belonged to a migrant who died at sea.
“We are facing another death caused by injustice,” Francis said in his address to the migrants. “Yes, because it is injustice that forces many migrants to leave their lands. It is injustice that forces them to cross deserts and suffer abuse and torture in detention camps. It is injustice that rejects them and makes them die at sea.”
“I decided to exhibit this life jacket, ‘crucified’ on this cross, to remind us that we must keep our eyes open, keep our hearts open, to remind everyone of the absolute commitment to save every human life, a moral duty that unites believers and non-believers,” he said.
The crucified life jacket “wishes to express the spiritual experience that I was able to grasp from the words of the rescuers,” the pope said. “In the Christian tradition the cross is a symbol of suffering and sacrifice and, at the same time, of redemption and salvation.”
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I’m speechless.....
Too much communion wine has destroyed this idiot’s brain cells. What a disgrace to Christianity
Apparently the old Jesus isn’t good enough anymore for the new and improved church.
Earth to Pope. Tear down your walls. And study the Bible.
WTF???
Coming to a Church near you....except I don’t hear the Pope inviting the migrants to stay at the Vatican.
When will this charade end?
Is it possible to impeach and remove a pope? This guy is nothing more than a leftist crackpot. Pope John Paul must be rolling over in his grave.
Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Dear Pope Francis. Can you please tell us what the injustice is that caused this death? Can you tell us who is responsible? When 100s of millions died under Communist rule, who was responsible? Who is responsible for those starving in Venezuela? Who is responsible for the genocide that has occurred in Africa? Who is responsible for the atrocities that occurred under the direction of ISIS? Who is responsible for the loss of millions of babies who were aborted? Who is responsible for the rise of antisemitism in the world? What will you be praying for this Christmas?
HOW DARE YOU!?
Is that the vest of a Christian that was robbed/raped then thrown overboard by the Pope’s Satanic friends?
Like double dog dare?
I new realize this Pope is not even Christian. Maybe agnostic, at best.
Even if he was, the Cardinals in the Vatican that voted for this Pope would just elect another leftist atheist to replace him ...
Like a Greta dare!
This dirty, sacreligious imposter makes me puke.
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