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Pope says Islam is religion of peace, then begs Muslims to condemn violence

Dec 25, 2014 6:37 am By Robert Spencer

FrancisdovesFrancisdovecrowMore Pope Fiction: “Islam is a religion of peace, one which is compatible with respect for human rights and peaceful coexistence,” says the Pope. Then he calls on Muslims to push a “more authentic image of Islam, as so many of them desire.” Has he ever wondered how this version of Islam that he assumes to be inauthentic has become so widespread and so powerful as to displace millions of Christians from the Middle East?

Moreover, condemnations are easy. What we really need to see from Muslim leaders who profess to oppose jihad violence is real action against it to prevent young Muslims from adopting this view of Islam. But we do not see that, and neither the Pope nor anyone else seems to notice or care.

“Pope challenges Muslims to condemn violence,” by Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service, December 23, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis challenged Muslim religious leaders Tuesday to “unanimously” condemn the violent persecution of Christians in the Middle East, as well as killing in the name of God.

In an open Christmas letter to beleaguered Christians in the region, the pope called on Muslims to push a “more authentic image of Islam, as so many of them desire.”

“Islam is a religion of peace, one which is compatible with respect for human rights and peaceful coexistence,” the pope said.

“The tragic situation faced by our Christian brothers and sisters in Iraq, as well as the Yazidi and members of other religious and ethnic communities, demands that all religious leaders clearly speak out to condemn these crimes unanimously and unambiguously.”

The pope stopped short of naming the self-declared militant Islamic State but expressed his closeness to Christians suffering in the region, including the thousands of refugees and victims of kidnapping and violence.

He urged the international community to not only help the many Christians in need but to increase humanitarian aid and end the violence.

“I write to you just before Christmas, knowing that for many of you the music of your Christmas hymns will be accompanied by tears and sighs,” he said.

It’s not the first time that Francis has urged Muslim leaders to take a stronger stand against Christian persecution and condemn terrorism carried out in the name of Islam, particularly in Iraq and Syria. He previously called for greater support on his return flight from Turkey in November, saying a “global condemnation” of the violence would help the majority of Muslims dispel this stereotype….

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Comments

  1. Alicia says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 6:48 am

    He is an embarrassment to Christianity. He is after all, the Catholic version of the Muslim Caliph.
    And when is Jihadwatch going to cover Islam horrors throughout the world? Why is there a bias towards ‘Western’ arena?

    Crimes by Muslims are committed throughout the world each and everyday in the name of Islam. We need the requisite coverage to drive through this point.

    • Tradewinds says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 7:53 am

      There’s no bias. Spencer provides coverage of Muslims’ atrocities worldwide every day.

    • TH says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 9:52 am

      The statement that the Pope is the Catholic version of the Islamic Caliphate is totally false. Catholicism has never had anything remotely like an Islamic Caliphate. Get an education in real history.

    • Angemon says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 11:47 am

      Alicia posted:

      “He is after all, the Catholic version of the Muslim Caliph.”

      Nope. A caliph is a religious, political and military leader. The Pope is just a religious leader.

    • SolarWinds says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 12:09 pm

      What do you do or have done for Christians… Nothing but waste air with your ignorant comments…?

  2. Jovial Joe says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 6:50 am

    Pope fiction, ha! My thoughts go out to all victims of muslim violence and oppression, including those muslims who themselves suffer from this. Their number is legion and will only increase until these deniers in positions of power and influence are deposed.

  3. cs says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 7:10 am

    HE can grab a sit, and wait, he may have to wait forever….

  4. vlparker says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 7:22 am

    Just where does he think islam’s authenticity comes from? Just like catholicism, islam’s dogma comes from its “holy books”. Islam is what Mohammad said it was. And Mohammad led by example, just as Jesus led by example. Only those examples are vastly different.

    Islam’s leaders don’t want to change islam’s dogma. Islam teaches their children hatred from the day they are born, with the full support of islam’s leaders. How is it that so many fools manage to attain positions of power? Merkel, Cameron, Obama, the pope. The list is endless.

    • Tradewinds says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 7:59 am

      This Pope has actually said it is wrong to equate Islam with violence. Only someone completely out of touch with reality would say such a thing. Here’s someone in reality:

      “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” – Manuel II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor

  5. PRCS says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 7:23 am

    Can’t get past the imagery of the dove’s imminent demise.

    • vlparker says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 10:47 pm

      Perhaps God is trying to tell the Pope something. I don’t think he is listening.

      • Alicia says

        Dec 26, 2014 at 11:37 pm

        If you understand Allah’s scripture, his prostitutes are indeed virgins. All 72 of them, for each Muslim male.

  6. José Atento says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 7:34 am

    The Pope can make his point without insisting that Islam is a “religion of peace.”

    • Tradewinds says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 9:09 am

      I would love to know who came up with that propaganda. Even Geo W Bush used it on 9/11.

      • MukeNecca says

        Dec 25, 2014 at 11:58 am

        “Even Geo W Bush used it on 9/11.”

        He was mistaken, badly informed and simply repeating the, at that time, generally accepted falsehood. Would he insisted it is true 13 years and 23,000 acts of islam’s terrorism later? I am convinced he wouldn’t. That man, whatever his mistakes and imperfections, was not morally corrupted coward, or an enemy of America driven by socialist chimera.

        • ECAW says

          Dec 25, 2014 at 12:15 pm

          You know what, just musing on your name – and God knows, I’m not advocating it – but if someone did happen to drop a couple of small ones on Mecca and Medina and a few big ones over the Middle East oilfields, it could go a long way to restoring the natural balance in the world. The price of oil would rise, averting the coming meltdown in the Russian economy, the world could revert to the previously stable geopolitical competition between the two biggest oil producers Russia and the USA, Arabs could go back to their tents and camels with the benefit of learning that Allah wasn’t capable of protecting his own capital city let alone lead them to worldly success and give them an incentive to seek elsewhere for a solution to their ills. I’m sure Israel, magnanimous in victory, would show them how to turn their own countries into lands of milk and honey.

        • MukeNecca says

          Dec 25, 2014 at 1:17 pm

          Of all the blessings ensuing from “dropping couple of a small ones and a few of big ones” you name I think the greatest would be that:
          “Arabs could go back to their tents and camels with the benefit of learning that Allah wasn’t capable of protecting his own capital city let alone lead them to worldly success and give them an incentive to seek elsewhere for a solution to their ills.””

          I have been arguing this for years. Muslims need a total humiliation before they may become teachable.
          Peace with Islam is a farce – a farce that eventually will destroy us. Only a war that we are serious to win can bring peace to us while for muslims it will offer a chance for joining and sharing destiny with the rest of humanity.

        • ECAW says

          Dec 25, 2014 at 1:29 pm

          Quite so. Islam must be shown up as the bankrupt ideology it is and thus broken.

          What a situation it must be contrasting their belief in themselves as the “best of peoples” with their miserable situation – and worst of all, left for dead in all the arts of civilization by a few million descendants of apes and pigs.

  7. no more mistruths from political or religious leaders says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 7:37 am

    This pope should be thinking of practical ways he can get food, assistance and shelter to the disposed Christians in Syria and Iraq. What is he doing for them? Let us know. Does he know the oldest churches in the world used to be in the Middle East?

    If so, would he be telling us that same old line “Islam is a religion of peace” when he knows churches are being destroyed every year, every month, every day in the middle east. It is a cultural genocide in which the Vatican is seemingly doing nothing. Why is the Christian population shrinking in the Middle East year after year? Does he believe Christians should have to pay a tax for being Christians to the muslims? If not, why isn’t he stating this?

    What is he doing to help Asia Bibi in Pakistan as well? No more lies and mistruths. DO SOMETHING!

    • TH says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 10:00 am

      Papal infalllibility is an extremely limited concept in Catholic teaching. The fact is that he has no authority to decide or proclaim what islam is, unless he has studied it, which obviously he hasn’t and is therefore clueless about it. It is unfortunate as there are plenty of academics in Rome who know well what Islam is all about and could give him some education on the matter. He seems to be living in fantasyland regarding this matter. Probably in Argentina he knew some “nice” imans and mullahs and never knew anything about “takiya” and believed the lies they told him. Unfortunately, people generally stick with what they first learn, unless they can be convinced thatit is false.

    • bobm says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 6:30 pm

      he winks at the destruction…. say!… where did I hear that once upon a camel… the early Christian world was slaughtered by islam and came under Rome with Rome having its hand in islams creation and benefiting from the er…. illmination of Mid eastern Christianity… then the bad asses of islam decided to do the Euro tour too….oops!.. it fits boys cand girls …..it fits.

  8. duh_swami says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 7:48 am

    I’m glad I’m not an Islamo-wise Catholic and have to listen to that tripe, coming from the direct representative of God who some claim is infallible. Francis shoots the infallible idea full of holes. He sounds just like a Mahoundian spouting taqiyya.

    • Neil Jennison says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 9:14 am

      There appears to be a lot of protestant ignorance around here. Popes are not infallible in their Christmas messages……or indeed in most of the things they say.

      The Pope only speaks infallibly when he speaks Ex-Cathedra, on a matter of Faith or Morals in his capacity as Head of the Universal Church.

      So yes, Pope Francis is talking drivel, he has been talking drivel since he became Pope on almost all subjects and doubtless spoke drivel before he was elected Pope.

    • TH says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 9:59 am

      Papal infalllibility is an extremely limited concept in Catholic teaching. The fact is that he has no authority to decide or proclaim what islam is, unless he has studied it, which obviously he hasn’t and is therefore clueless about it. It is unfortunate as there are plenty of academics in Rome who know well what Islam is all about and could give him some education on the matter. He seems to be living in fantasyland regarding this matter. Probably in Argentina he knew some “nice” imans and mullahs and never knew anything about “takiya” and believed the lies they told him. Unfortunately, people generally stick with what they first learn, unless they can be convinced thatit is false.

  9. ManchesterLad says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 8:36 am

    He should be saying it’s not up to the ‘leaders’ of Muslims to oppose violence, it’s up to the rank and file of ‘moderate’ Muslims to stand up and demonstrate against it. He should be calling for them to protest widely and noisily throughout the world carrying banners showing cartoons of Mohamed masturbating on a six year girl’s thighs and the caption “Mohamed is an insult to Islam”.

    Then I’ll believe Islam is possibly able to reform and take its place in a civilised culture.

    • duh_swami says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 9:06 am

      Rank and file moderates, can’t do that, because they don’t actually exist. And Islam cannot be reformed…ever…

  10. jewdog says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 9:23 am

    Okay, so the Pope isn’t Geert Wilders when it comes to Islam, but I think people are starting to get the basic idea. In any case, the contrast between Christian countries and Islamic ones is pretty stark. Have a Merry Christmas, Infidels!

  11. Judi says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 9:41 am

    On Al Jazeera yesterday,they switched to the town of Bethlehem in, quote, the “OCCUPIED” West Bank, where thousands of palestinian Christians and visitors from all over the world were able to pray (in safety thanks to the IDF). They then turned their attention to a “palestinian” Christian who was lamenting how “difficult” it was living under the “occupation” and how all his children (about 6 or 7 I think he mentioned) have all moved out to Canada and America for a better life. When asked why he didn’t go and join them he stated that he had lived there all his life and didn’t feel the need to emigrate.

    Hm, maybe it’s not so bad under “Israeli occupation” after all.

    • Holy Prophet APF says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 11:49 am

      On Al Jazeera yesterday,they switched to the town of Bethlehem in, quote, the “OCCUPIED” West Bank…

      Oh the bitter irony. Say, speaking of frauds, isn’t that Al Gore’s network? Global-warming-it’s-too-late-to-save-ourselves seems like the wrong worry in this context.

  12. eib says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 9:57 am

    No, your Holiness.
    Islam is profane; no salvation in Mohammed’s faith.

    • celticwarriorcanada says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 11:53 am

      As a Protestant Church Leader : I had to go to Seminary; two of the courses required to be taken were Church History and Historical Theology . Often the text books we used were written by Roman Catholic Scholars, and they were usually very well researched and informative .Perhaps this Pope didn’t like History,or maybe he found it dull and boring . Maybe it was offered in the morning and he accidentally slept in on few occasions . Or maybe he is ,1; DELUDED BY WISHFUL THINKING,2: DELIBERATELY LYING OR ,:3rdly,SUFFERING FROM A MENTAL ILLNESS, WHICH MAKES HIM THINK HE IS LIVING IN A LIBERAL UTOPIAN FANTASY LAND . I will be gracious to the Pope and give him the benefit the doubt .I vote for number 1: DELUDED BY WISHFUL THINKING . But the other two are possible !

  13. Richard C Brown says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:08 am

    Don’t forget the Pope has a Direct Line to God.
    He has it a Together.
    The World is in Chaos .Job Security.

  14. David Dowdall says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:27 am

    Come on now Pope Francis! I respect you, as a fellow Christian and Catholic, yet have you forgotten how many times Christianity has been pushed to breaking point by the force of Islam? Come now, take a leaf out of popes like Urban II and Pius the fifth (I believe) to name just a couple. I have nothing against Muslims, but you have to wake up!

    • gary says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 1:08 am

      It seems both of you “have nothing against the Muslims”.
      You both are pathetic.

  15. Chris says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:46 am

    Your Holiness Pope Francis, May I ve so bold as to remind you that the Vatican and every other Catholic Church relies on donations and volunteers for its very existence and survival. While as a Catholic, the faith in me cannot diminish or be extinguished, the catholic church and rome, ‘the institution’, may very well be written of to oblivion forever. While you and your band of merry men go about your business with absolute disregard and abandon, I say this, I will cease to volunteer my time and effort or make any further monetary pledges and donations until such time that the catholic church condemns jihad and sharia law for what it is. Then I would like to see the catholic church use it’s efforts, influence and resources to effectively campaign and protect liberty and freedom.

    Now, who’s with me?

  16. pdxnag says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:08 am

    What we need to see are Muslims who become non-Muslims, if they are indeed repulsed by authentic Islam.

  17. Holy Prophet APF says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:10 am

    He can beg all he wants, but he’ll be lucky to get even half-hearted shots of taquiyya. Yeah, Pope, slame down a shot of Taqiyya Sunrise and bask in its warm glow.

    You push globo-socialism when political economics is none of your business, and institute poverty. You also push fantastic understanding of Islam, and guarantee oppression… and yet more poverty.

  18. ECAW says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:11 am

    Perhaps the Pope should spend more time talking to his own secretary Father Yoannis Lahzi Gaido, a Coptic Catholic Christian who writes of the:

    “…difficulties under which Christians must live in places with a Muslim majority. These difficulties are not caused by a few Islamists, but by a culture of death and violence that is based on very clear verses [of their scripture] that they quote, calling for violence and jihad, saying they should murder all who are different and killing [those who express] freedom of conscience. Just to think differently is enough to be sentenced to death.”

    I wonder how their conversations go.

  19. Jorge J says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:16 am

    Pope is a Fake Christian & a Jesuit. He is promoting Jesuit ideology that is under Christ name control the world. This is an evil group & responsible for majority of wars & tragedies.
    Please do not promote Pope & Roman Catholicism. It is ROMAN not Christian.

    • [FA] says

      Dec 25, 2014 at 9:30 pm

      Which war was that exactly?

  20. [FA] says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:29 am

    Unless we Christians proclaim Muhammad to be a prophet he is a false prophet and therefore EVIL. Never will I appease evil. Never will I be asked to be “nice” to evil and oblige. Grievence harm has been done, diplomacy has failed, we do have a a reasonable chance of winning! For now all we can do is pray the Holy Spirit guides Pope Francis and teach all those that will listen the truth of Islam. Merry Christmas to all especially our persecuted brothers and sisters in the Middle East!

  21. mortimer says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    The pope is talking through his mitre.

    Mohammed used death threats to force conversions in the hadiths and Sira. There is no point using this rhetoric when it is so easy to discredit it.

    Why, Your Holiness, do you think this will be helpful. The truth about Islam’s inherent violence will set us free.

  22. bobm says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    This guy has just finished saying the way to heaven is not necessarily through only the Lamb… for some it’s nature …etc…… time grows short boys and girls… as R. Catholicism plays footsy with its old mutant child …islam… …looking unto JESUS …. the Author and Finisher of our Faith…………… cue the Jesuits….

  23. somehistory says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    From the article: In an open Christmas letter to beleaguered Christians in the region, the pope called on Muslims to push a “more authentic image of Islam, as so many of them desire.”
    “… image of Islam,”
    This is what is all important.To create an image. And then what?
    Revelation 13:14 “And it misleads those who dwell on the earth…it tells those who dwell on earth to make an image to the wild beast…(15)…granted to give breath to the image of the wild beast…the image of the wild beast should both speak and cause to be killed all those who would not in any way worship the image of the wild beast.”

    Create an image. The image speaks and commands worship of itself. If one does not worship the image? Death.

  24. bobm says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    Somewhere along the way; IF you ever knew HIM ROME…. you’ve lost touch in the smoke and mirrors of ritual and power …. with the TRUTH…. Throw off your vestments and imaginations … come out from amongst the tomb stones of “religion” … that man in rags you look down on may be able to teach you .. you in your “priestly” prides.

  25. rage against injustice says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:33 pm

    @Robert Spencer
    @Robert Spencer
    Romans 12:20
    To the contrary, o“if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
    Romans 12:21
    Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

    Yes I know this won’t work with muslims, but the pope is doing his best to make muslims coexist with Christians ( though it’s impossible) however, I think he is trying to do what he supposed to do work for peace instead of creating conflicts.

  26. Davegreybeard says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:48 pm

    @duh_swami
    “He sounds just like a Mahoundian spouting taqiyya.”

    I’m with you, swami.

    Since it is the Pope’s “profession” to be knowledgeable about religion morals and “the state of the world” in regard to such issues, I find it IMPOSSIBLE to believe that he does not know the basic tenets of Islam. He most certainly knows the statement of one of his predecessors, as Tradewinds reminds us:

    “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” – Manuel II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor

    All indications are that we are indeed witnessing, as Robert so eloquently puts it “Pope Fiction.”

    I would add that taqiyya coming from the chief Catholic, is even more disgusting than when it comes from a Mahoundian.

  27. Wojciech says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:50 pm

    Why do bash the Pope? He’s not stupid, he knows what Islam is and sincere catholics know that too. I believe that the message “islam is religion of peace” is not addressed to catholics, but addressed to half-conscious muslims to at least try to prevent them following true believers like ISIS.

    • gary says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 1:16 am

      Your logic would make a prostitute to be a virgin.

  28. James Foard says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:55 pm

    “Dhimmis for Dummies” at Barnes and Noble, by Pope Francis.

  29. rage against injustice says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    @Robert Spencer
    It is the GOVERNMENT’S duty to protect its citizens, and it’s the GOVERNMENT’S fault for letting muslims get away with with their crimes. As a Catholic I believe that the separation of church and state was the best thing it could happen for the Catholic church because by doing this it drove out a lot of greedy people who bacame part of the curch for the influence and power it had back in the days, to fulfill their own decires instead of doing the right thing, it was this type of people the ones that gave the Catholic Church a bad name by atrocities such as “the unholy inquisition”. I disagree when you criticize the pope for not condemning Islam , I’m pretty sure the pope knows the truth on islam but he won’t say it, because if he does knowing muslims they’ll start blowing up themselves in their nearest sunday mass. Againg it’s the GOVERNMENT’S job to condemn islam not the pope’s.

    • poggie says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 6:22 am

      The Pope has not read the Quran (Koran)…if he did he could not lie labeling it a ‘religion of peace’ See http://www.thereligionofpeace.com. There is a *sin of omission. *When you know the right thing and don’t do it. The Pope is not moving in the right direction on Islam nor the Gay Rights movement. Those that read, and study the Scriptures see clearly his error.

      • TNT says

        Dec 26, 2014 at 3:07 pm

        I agree with you, is this the second Vatican counsel talking here? What would St Peter have to say on this matter? , how can the Pope claim Islam is a religion of peace, and killing in the name of God? Which God is he talking about Our Supreme Lord the God of truth or allah the greatest of all deceivers? Who did Jesus tell us was the father of lies. And why is this moon god confirmed by archeology is the same moon god as ancient Baal? What did God think of people who followed that particular God? Did he not order the Hebrews to destroy those people who would not follow the Almighty living God ” I Am ” you know the world is in grave danger when evil is protected and defended by both governments and church leaders. And anyone with half a brain that reads the Bible knows where Satan lives, Jesus was very straight forward about that, why is our Lords warnings being ignored, and everyone claiming that Islam can be reformed? When the Koran very clearly states it’s the most perfect written word, and all Muslims must obey it always. How can you reform something like that? When it’s forbidden to do so? When will the apostasy end? We look to the pope for leadership in our faith! Then are we to accept abortion and homosexuality and all sorts of sins, such as murder rape thief lies as Islam is riddled with and sanctioned ? Diabolical acts are ok now? Who’s side is Pope Frances on here Jesus or allah?

        • TruthWFree says

          Dec 27, 2014 at 10:45 pm

          I agree. This Pope is giving Islam credibility. He should become a Muslim if he thinks it has merit. I’m sticking with Jesus Christ who said I am the only way to the Father. Jesus also said that they will kill you and claim to be serving God…that is Islam. Islam is a cancer on the world. This Pope is dangerous.

      • Amy says

        Dec 26, 2014 at 3:58 pm

        I agree….I think this Pope is a socialist actually. I am just not really sure about him.

    • Jack Gordon says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 2:47 pm

      What malarkey! The wan excuse you use here for the pope’s reluctance to condemn the thousands of Mohammedan atrocities committed every week around the globe makes Mr. Spencer’s case, not yours. It is precisely this vicious aspect of violence at the heart of Islam that Spencer rightly analyzes and denounces and that Pope Francis ignores and pretends is not there. If as you say it is the job of governments to stop Muslim thugs from killing and bombing, then just why is the pope speaking about the matter in the first place? And when he chooses to speak about it, why does he deform reality and tell lies about Islam? Out of fear as you maintain? Well then, better he keep his words to himself, wouldn’t you say?

      I too am a Catholic and I am alarmed by Francis’ willingness to sing the Mohammedan apologists’ tune….for whatever reason. He is doing great harm by his coyness and his repeated misrepresentations concerning this vile religion Christians have opposed since its inception. It also alarms me to see the kind of mental gymnastics people like you use to justify the pope’s bad policy. This kind of ”reasoning” can only lead those outside the Church to conclude Catholics are indeed as stupid as some Protestant canards once alleged they were.

      • rage against injustice says

        Dec 27, 2014 at 3:30 am

        @ Jack Gordon

        Romans 12:20
        To the contrary, o“if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
        Romans 12:21
        Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

        I feel this is what the pope is trying to do, a peaceful approach being diplomatic towards moslem hoping they’ll be ashamed of being as$#oles and eventually stop their hostilities against Christians, do I think this will work?? No, but I’ll give the pope the benefit of the doubt. In the other hand there are priest who are being bold and are not turning their checks on their oppressor and are being killed for it. In Mexico for example priest have been executed for speaking against the cartels, father goyo of Michoacan has literally rise up in arms leading a self defense group against cartels, and has strongly critize the government he’s always seen wearing bulletproof vest because the cartels and the government would love to see him dead.

    • RC says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 6:20 pm

      He would do much better if he kept his damn mouth shut.

  30. rage against injustice says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:18 pm

    I agree with you 100%

  31. rage against injustice says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:27 pm

    @Wojciech
    That 100% agree comment was to your comment.

  32. TyrifficT says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 6:59 am

    Tool of the New Order. He is a liar and you who follow him are deceived.

  33. Steve says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 8:43 am

    What is the Pope smoking these days? If I were a Catholic, I’d hide my head in shame and leave the church. This Pope is oxymoronic with emphases on the “moronic.”

  34. Centurion_Cornelius says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 8:59 am

    MEMO TO IL PAPA:

    As a practicing Roman Catholic for 70+ years, please reflect upon Pius XII and his comments-below(with my one slight word substitution of “radical Islam” where he said “Swastika.”

    In his 1939 encyclical Pius XII reprimanded: “What age has been, for all its technical and purely civic progress, more tormented than ours by spiritual emptiness and deep-felt interior poverty?” The world had abandoned Christ’s cross for another [radical Islam] which brings only death. The consecration of the world to Christ the King celebrates “a penetrating wisdom which sets itself to restore and to ennoble all human society and to promote its true welfare.” Pius XII’s encyclicals, discourses and radio messages clearly assert that the only solid foundation for social order is the law of God.

    obviously all God’s but Allah and his.

    P.S.
    Dear Holy Father: If Islam is the so-called religion of peace, why do you still maintain your Swiss Guard battalion and dozens of plain clothes bodyguards?…just sayin…

  35. Rick Post says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 9:26 am

    Your Holiness,

    With all do respect, Islam is NOT a religion of peace, in fact , in my opinion, it is a cult, not a religion.

    Your socialistic viewpoint is difficult for me to understand as a lifelong Roman Catholic. In theory, everyone having equal things is wonderful, but in reality, those that work everyday without an entitlement attitude will and should be more prosperous.

    Let the truth about Islam be told, and not mix the reality with a socialistic ideology.

    Turn the other cheek with Islam and you lose your head…

  36. DiMu says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 9:57 am

    Islam never ever has been a religion of peace. This is another stupidity of the ill-considered multi-cultural agenda which is ripping our nations apart. It’s not a matter of color or race or even religion – but of SHARED VALUES!

  37. GKP says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 1:22 pm

    Pope should read Qur’an first before giving this statement.
    In Islam peace comes only after death

  38. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 1:33 pm

    The claim of the pope that “Islam is a ” religion of peace” is a statement of outright faslehood. For the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran teaches violence and killing. As in ,for example, Sura 9:11. 47:4.

    • TNT says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 4:05 pm

      It’s time I believe that every Catholic wrote to him and express our beliefs in our faith. I cannot accept homosexuality abortion , or Islam period. The Bible is our guide as Catholics, I refuse to take the Popes word over Gods word period. He’s dipping the keys of saint Peter in blood. As The Lord said when he handed the keys to St Peter, ” the gates of hell will not prevail against it” if this is Gods way to give the Muslims one final chance to convert with a gentle hand then by all means I’m all for it, but i will not accept the abominations the Pope is set on appeasing. No way. Christianity will cease to exist as it’s the will of this so called allah. Im glad I took the time to learn about this ideology. Otherwise I would accepted it completely blind on the Popes word. I pray for the Pope and hope he knows what he is doing! The prophet mohammad ordered the conquer of the the Vatican and break the Cross. (Third phase jihad). Are we to stand by and allow it to happen, and continue to appease Islam? If this is the will of God then so be it. Is the Almighty so offended with the west that he would allow it? It seems mohammad is allowed to have a voice, isn’t Jesus allowed the same right anymore! Doesn’t He deserve a voice more so than mohammad? I believe he does after all He died for us, or does people just don’t believe in him anymore. Many Christians claim to be Christians , but how many would stand up with the Holy Cross of our Lord and scream Jesus name and laws as much as the Muslims will with their mohammad creed strapped to their heads and sharia? Our governments are failing to protect us! And they are ripping Gods laws out of our court houses, government systems, and schools. Separation of church and state has left the state Godless which is weak, and it will be replaced by something else and the candidate first in line is islam. Honestly will Christians in the west accept this? How many like Robert who have spoken out about the truth of Islam have lost their freedom because of the ridiculous liberal way of thinking of supporting and defending evil? By peace comes sudden destruction, The Lord tells us this.

      • RC says

        Dec 26, 2014 at 6:15 pm

        This Godless man–is not a Christian–he is a Marxist–the head of a works based religion, wherein no one has salvation. Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide.

        • John Stefan Obeda says

          Dec 26, 2014 at 8:51 pm

          . . . . and sola gratia. Amen!

    • RC says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 6:17 pm

      The Qu’ran–is not a holy book and should not be called one.

  39. Jim Kearney says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 4:09 pm

    The Pope is trying to be a diplomat, unsuccessfully. He might do well to reaffirm what Catholics knew before the Battle of Lepanto when the Pope initiated a worldwide Rosary Crusade for the DEFEAT of Islam that was on the verge of conquering Europe and the world FOR ISLAM.

  40. Colin says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    The surest way for churches to lose member is for church leaders to claim that murderers are men of peace.

    • RC says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 6:12 pm

      No wise person would embrace Roman Catholicism.

  41. RC says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    This Marxist pope is a liar–typical of Jesuits who commonly use casuistry and sophistry!

  42. Michael Brennick says

    Dec 27, 2014 at 10:26 am

    Bergoglio is a spiritually sick clown pope. He is a pure secularist Leftist. The Moslems spit on his absurd calls for phony peace.

  43. rab says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 1:49 am

    Wait a minuet! After all the reading of pislamic material. After all the attacks on six contenents. After the kidnappings and mass executions all in the name of allah. After all the statments declareing that pislam will conquer all religions. After europe’s history against pislam. How could he be that stupid!

  44. wallace says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 6:49 am

    Historical Catholosism i’m afraid is not one of my strong points, and I don’t know if it was a wind up by my uncles. The story went, long time ago a woman had disguised herself as a man , and managed to get poped, this caused a huge scandal, As a result of this a poping stool was made with a a hole cut in it. the pope to be, had to sit on it without any underwear, a servling would put his hand underneath and would have to declare” yes the pope has balls and they hang low” as I said I don’t know the truth of this. In any case I would definitely have the popes balls checked a.s.a.p. as I am not totally convinced he has them.

  45. wallace says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 6:23 am

    I have put in an offer to buy the Popemobile, I intend turning it into an ice cream van, then away I go to Raqqa and serve ice cream and cans of coke to thirsty jihaddi’s, make my fortune and come home and retire.

  46. Liberals Against Islam says

    Jan 9, 2015 at 5:15 am

    test

  47. dlp6666 says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 5:07 am

    What is it about Islam that so many Muslims all around the world have so ‘misinterpreted’ the Islamic scriptures and gravitated to violence and terrorism?

    Is it not a failing of Islam and its leaders to somehow allow these ‘unauthentic’ versions to have prevailed?

    Or are those ‘misinterpretations’ actually the ‘correct’ reading of Islam?

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