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Pope decries Europe’s “indifference” to Muslim migrants, compares them to Jesus

Mar 20, 2016 9:20 am By Robert Spencer

“Pope Francis in his Palm Sunday homily decried what he called indifference to the refugees flooding into Europe, making a comparison to authorities who washed their hands of Jesus’ fate ahead of his crucifixion.” Who is preparing to crucify the Muslim migrants? Did Jesus adhere to a religion that called for the conversion, subjugation or killing of the authorities? Is the Pope actually saying that to be concerned about jihad terrorists and Sharia supremacists flooding into Europe with the migrant influx is tantamount to crucifying Jesus? Is he saying that opposing this influx out of concern for one’s family and society makes one un-Christian? No wonder the Church is offering no help against the Muslim migrant influx, but only making sure the gates are flung open as wide as possible.

Pope Francis

“Pope in Palm Sunday homily decries indifference to refugees,” Associated Press, March 20, 2016 (thanks to Darcy):

Pope Francis in his Palm Sunday homily decried what he called indifference to the refugees flooding into Europe, making a comparison to authorities who washed their hands of Jesus’ fate ahead of his crucifixion.

Before celebrating an outdoor Mass, Francis led a procession through St. Peter’s Square to usher in Holy Week, the solemn period leading to Easter. Faithful Catholics clutching olive branches and braided palm fronds received his blessing.

Francis abandoned his homily text to lament Europe’s handling of the influx of migrants and asylum-seekers fleeing war, persecution or poverty from Syria, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere.

Palm Sunday recalls a crowd’s triumphant welcome of Jesus entering Jerusalem. But soon Jesus would be condemned to be crucified after a series of authorities declined to rule on his fate. Francis drew a parallel to that with some European countries’ refusal to take responsibility for some of the more than 1 million refugees who reached European Union shores last year after risky sea voyages arranged by smugglers.

Jesus was “denied every justice,” the pope said. “Jesus also suffered on his own skin indifference, because no one wanted to take on the responsibility for his destiny.

“And I am thinking of so many people, so many on the margins, so many refugees” for whom “many don’t want to assume responsibility for their destiny,” Francis said in a clear reference to Europe’s migration debate….

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  1. Resist says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 9:31 am

    Unbelievable how the pope ignored the persecution and murders of christians and continues to prone the acceptance of this barbaric invasion. What a fool at best or he has been bought, whatever thecreason I have NO respect for this man.

    • Mo says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 9:59 am

      @ Resist

      “Unbelievable how the pope ignored the persecution and murders of christians and continues to prone the acceptance of this barbaric invasion. What a fool at best or he has been bought, whatever thecreason I have NO respect for this man.”

      Exactly my reaction. This is beyond disgusting.

      • JawsV says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 10:16 am

        Ditto. A Christian welcoming in the Muslims. It’s unbelievable.

        • mortimer says

          Mar 20, 2016 at 11:45 am

          Unbelievably naïve and stupid. The pope won’t worry about his wife or daughters being raped by these primitive savages.

          Did the Poles or Czechs welcome the Nazis into their countries?

          This is an invasion, a hejira which is a non-violent form of jihad.

          What does the pope not understand about the word ‘SUPREMACIST’???

        • Jay Boo says

          Mar 20, 2016 at 5:28 pm

          WE are not (indifferent).
          That is a red herring.

          We are SUSPICIOUS and DEFENSIVE for good reason.
          Islam is full of hate speech about us which many Muslims gleefully accept.
          Muslims are the ones who are either indifferent to us or antagonistic..
          Why does the Pope not ask about their attitudes.

          A pope should show more reverence than to use such a false metaphor.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 20, 2016 at 10:50 pm

          Jay Boo wrote:

          WE are not (indifferent).
          That is a red herring.

          We are SUSPICIOUS and DEFENSIVE for good reason.
          …………………….

          Given all the rapes, murders, violent clashes with the police and thefts from these Mohammedans, that is quite right, Jay Boo. But Pope Frank is just falling back on the false accusation of human indifference. He can’t bring himself to admit that there might be a serious problem with these invaders.

        • Bob says

          Mar 21, 2016 at 12:02 pm

          He presumably doesn’t read the newspapers!

        • Dean says

          Mar 21, 2016 at 12:19 pm

          Like Obama, the relativist even questions the existence of objective reality and certainly its relevance. The more complete and tight that they develop a construct of reality, the more impervious it is to facts coming from objective reality. Hence they advocate socialism despite overwhelming failures in the past and present and they support their leaders despite evidence of atrocities, as in this Pope’s continued respect for Castro’s alleged goals. Identity politics is a significant part of their construct and if a group is an accepted oppressed minority, as with Muslims, then their problems must be the fault of some oppressor regardless of how invisible.

    • Dom 107 says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 10:25 am

      Religious people of any hue talk absolute baloney ,some of it highly dangerous to societies all around the World. Away with all of them I say.! ?
      Let’s see the Pope fill up the Vatican with Muslim “refugees” if he is so concerned

      • JawsV says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 2:20 pm

        Only Muslims do that. Away with Islam? Great!

        • Jay Boo says

          Mar 20, 2016 at 11:17 pm

          Dumb 107 might wish to equivocate but Islam is unique in its hate

          Muslims may display
          Chapter 107: Al-Ma’un (Acts of Kindness)
          But the reality of Islam is bitter emptiness and hate.

      • James Foard says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 9:49 pm

        Well, apparently the anti-religion trolls (Dom 107) have discovered Robert Spencer’s website and are using the comment section to spew their vile hatred of any religion among more thoughtful, serious comments, and are quite willing to lump all religions together in the same pot.
        “Religious people of any hue talk absolute baloney ,some of it highly dangerous to societies all around the World. Away with all of them I say.!”
        That’s just flat out dangerous, deranged rhetoric coming from a dangerous, deranged mind.
        Yes, Islam is evil. All religion is not.

        • Mike Proulx says

          Mar 21, 2016 at 7:29 am

          Links to videos says it all.
          Does the Pope really think that the 200 foot walls surrounding the Vatican will keep these thugs out?.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seexa1n7jpA
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyZ8xf3Lhl8
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwBygVB_eRI

        • DFD says

          Mar 21, 2016 at 6:54 pm

          James Foard says: “Well, apparently the anti-religion trolls (Dom 107) have discovered Robert Spencer’s website…Yes, Islam is evil. All religion is not.”

          Spot on my friend

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 10:52 pm

        Dom, Christians–the vast majority of them Catholic–bravely defended Europe from Islam for hundreds of years.

    • Christianblood says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 10:53 am

      This traitorous Pope and all other Western religious and political leaders are ignoring the tens of thousands of Christians who are dying the hands of islamic jihadist every year. This past month alone over 500 Nigerian Christians, including women and children were murdered by islamic jihadists in Nigeria and NO Western religious or politcial leader mentioned this or publicly condemned it.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 11:19 pm

        Christianblood says
        March 20, 2016 at 10:53 am

        This traitorous Pope and all other Western religious and political leaders are ignoring the tens of thousands of Christians who are dying the hands of islamic jihadist every year.
        …………………………….

        Does the knee-jerk anti-Western “Christianblood” care nothing for veracity? Of course not.

        He ignores figures such as Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, who has spoken many times about persecution of Christians in Pakistan and Nigeria and other parts of the Muslim world.

        And Russia has not given sanctuary to a *single* Syrian Christian. No major nation in the West has a record that bad.

        The fact is that no one is doing enough to help persecuted Christians.

        But “Christianblood” does not care about that–he just wants to flog the idea that the only problem is the ‘decadent’ West.

        • Christianblood says

          Mar 21, 2016 at 9:11 am

          gravenimage:

          Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is an ex-muslim who deeply understands the the situation of Christians in the islamic and may God bless him! My criticism is directed to the so-called Christian and political leaders in the West such as the Pope etc who are all bending over backwards to enable the jihad and persecution.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 21, 2016 at 8:56 pm

          Christianblood, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali *is* a Christian leader in the West. Men like Geert Wilders and Allen West are political leaders in the West who speak out, as well.

          There are all too few *anywhere* in Dar-al-Harb, but they do exist.

          This is not just a problem in the West.

    • Godwin says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 11:44 am

      He should first open up his Vatican castle first to settle those Muslim immigrants n spend the immense wealth of the Church to feed them before he open his idiotic mouth to tell others to do stupid things..

      • Judi says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 6:45 am

        He lives in a sheltered environment. I wonder if he’d change his tune if the Vatican was overrun with the savage barbarians he is defending.

    • Mockingjay says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 1:27 pm

      I wonder if the Pope is aware of the prophetic vision that Pope Pius X , who died in 1914, had on his deathbed.
      This is what he said: “I saw one of my successors flee accross the bodies of his brothers. He retreated somewhere incognito but died a gruesome death not long afterwards.”
      Actually, there are more prophecies from different sources like this one. All foretell the Holy Father fleeing the Vatican, and his violent death.
      Does our current Pope know nothing about these prophecies? Does he not have the slightest inkling that these prophecies might turn out to be about him? Doesn’t he know how ISIS has been talking for years now about killing the Pope, and destroying “Rome”?
      I guess Pope Francis doesn’t really care about or believe in prophecies.

      • Jan Aage Jeppesen says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 3:39 pm

        Why believe in prophecies when you got a direct line to God. 😉

    • Peter Charles says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 7:27 pm

      The Pope seems delusional or has completely lost his wits. Can a Pope be fired?

      • Carolyne says

        Mar 22, 2016 at 9:58 am

        The traditional way to “Fire” a Pope is to hit him on the head with a silver hammer and ask if he is alive. If he doesn’t answer, they consider him dead. Benedict was the except as they let him retire to Castel Gandalpho.

    • Pong says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 8:08 pm

      This is the policy of CC for many years. What is unbelievable is that still plenty of “proud catholics”.
      Islamic republic of Ireland is full of them.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 10:47 pm

      So true, resist.

    • Peggy says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 1:00 am

      He has nothing to lose but his soul.
      He is still loved by Catholics around the world. Everywhere he turns up he gets rock star attendances.
      Just wondering how is he going to explain his actions to St Peter.

      • willem says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 7:16 am

        Absolutely right.

        Ever Heard of the traditional catholics. They can not stand him either. And for good reason.

      • DFD says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 7:05 pm

        Peggy says: “He has nothing to lose but his soul…”

        He still has a soul? Can you prove that? Sources please… 🙂

    • DP111 says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 7:21 am

      Just as Merkel is averse to the German flag, Francis the pope is averse to the cross.

    • Mjw says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 12:52 pm

      Pope Francis the Insane.

    • D. M. Mitchell says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 1:41 pm

      Isn’t this man supposed to be a Jesuit by training? Why does he not know his history. Why does he not know that the religion of Islam preaches to this day hatred, child-molesting, subjection of women, slavery, and killing or converting anyone who is not a Muslim? Why does he not know that the Muslims took away two-thirds of the Christian world–by the sword and forced conversions–and had sacked Rome before the first Crusade every set out for the Holy Land? Muslims haven’t changed. They are not going to change. They must be resisted by force if necessary and sent back to their vile, dirty countries before they turn all of Europe into vile, dirty Islamia.

      • Pong says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 1:49 pm

        Of cause he knows. It isn’t ignorance, it is the policy.
        Previous pope didn’t fit into that policy and had to go.

      • Dean says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 2:36 pm

        The Pope’s progressivism must include the irrational belief that all cultures are equal and he somehow reconciles that with his religious heritage that is part of the evolution of western culture. Nevertheless, Muslims fit neatly into his dependence on identity politics as part of the oppressed, and that oppression in his mind is the explanation for their bad behavior and beliefs that he must be aware of, therefore he excuses that conduct and his religious sympathies must lead him to the conclusion that empathy and love will change their conduct because their antipathy is the product of the invisible hand of western hubris. He must think that western cultural flexibility will soften Muslim inflexibility. Appeasement continues to be very popular because its advocates persist in believing that it placates the aggressor despite its persistent failure. Or perhaps he is a dedicated communist who’s dramatic pose has achieved an unlikely position of power. My understanding of human capacities allows for both and even a hybrid combination.

    • Dacritic says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 7:54 am

      F*ck the pope.

    • Karen says

      Mar 23, 2016 at 8:08 pm

      Excellent point. While he occasionally drops a mild lament here and there about the persecution and outright murder of Christians and other minorities on a global level, his almost-constant theme is “the refugees”. Muslims are the favored clients that trump all others on the minority yardstick. Pope Francis would condition his followers to believe that working against their own physical, cultural and economic security should be their highest and most treasured goal.

    • DT says

      Mar 29, 2016 at 5:36 pm

      Is there room in the Vatican for some of those refugees? The pope shouldn’t excuse his own responsibility in this matter, as he also is a European.

    • basi says

      Apr 7, 2016 at 12:19 pm

      What does he care. He lives safe in his abode in vatican protected and pampered by his creed so he can get out and make these statements knowing it is the same people who continue to harass and kill Christians., I wish someone could direct a whole million of these refugees to his protectorate and see his actions. Dumb bastard he is no Chrisaian

  2. BrianH says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 9:37 am

    It’s baffling how the Pope can lecture everyone on this topic all the while keeping the gates guarded at the Vatican. It’s like celebrity gun-control advocates walking around with their armed bodyguards.

  3. Angemon says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 9:38 am

    Pope Francis in his Palm Sunday homily decried what he called indifference to the refugees flooding into Europe, making a comparison to authorities who washed their hands of Jesus’ fate ahead of his crucifixion.

    Perhaps His Holyness should start by caring about the plight of Christians?

    • DFD says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 7:11 pm

      Angemon says : “…Perhaps His Holyness should start by caring about the plight of Christians?”

      Angemon dear chap, he’s a busy man, he hasn’t got the time for such riff-raff! How dare you wanting to impose such triviality upon such a man?

      Bewteen you and me: What do you expect from a bloody Quran kisser?

  4. Alan Fontana says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 9:48 am

    Jesus was sure of his own destiny. He prayed for it and got the answer he didn’t like and still went through with it. He was responsible for his own destiny.
    These thousands of young male emigrants amounts to an army, and the truckloads of weapons which followed them as far as the Greek border had no other use than to destroy the destiny of Europe.
    Until the Pope turns the Vatican into a refugee camp, his words are without substance.

  5. Adrian says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 9:48 am

    The shepherd caring for his wolves…

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 11:36 pm

      All too true…

  6. Porky The Crusader says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 9:57 am

    The Pope is deeply deranged.

  7. JawsV says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 10:14 am

    First the Pope tears down the Vatican walls and lets in the Moslems.

    • Dom107 says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 10:33 am

      Religion scrambles your brains.We have yet another proof of this as if Daesch wasn’t enough.
      I expect the Pope and all the other celebrity leftists to stop being hypocrites and open their vast abodes to hundreds of Muslim “refugees”. I won’t hold my breath though!!!?????

      • JawsV says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 11:35 am

        Only Islam is the brain-scrambler.

    • Westman says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 11:11 am

      For someone who decries nationalism, the Pope seems quite content to reside in his own nation within a nation, the Vatican City. He has no trouble dismissing cultural and national differences of the world as if they have no value to the citizens of those nations.

      Nor does he throw open the gates of Vatican City to the immigrants and house them. Religion, at the top leadership level, is always a case of “Do as I say, while I do something else”. Leading by example could bring some needed education in reality. Even if it was done it would be a carefully selected group of women and children and not the 80% single men. Even the Vatican puts PR ahead of charity.

  8. Paleologos says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 10:21 am

    As a Catholic, I have observed a number of Popes.

    My favorite will always be Benedict XVI for his brave Regensburg speech. …

    http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg.html …

    which much of the MSM twisted beyond recognition. The MSM also almost totally ignored the muslim murders of Catholic clergy in response to Benedict’s Regensburg speech. …

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/violent_muslim_reaction_proves_popes_point_says_catholic_league_president/

    As much as the MSM lionized Pope John Paul II, I never forgave him for giving a private audience to Arafat. …

    http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-24/news/mn-512_1_pope-meets-arafat

    ********************************************************************
    But now, … now comes Pope Francis. Francis is the first Catholic Pope I have observed that I can say is a complete Catholic embarrassment. 🙁

    R/

    Paleologos

    Reply

    • James Foard says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 10:00 pm

      Bless you Paleologos

      • Pong says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 11:24 pm

        You still want to believe that it is all about the pope. Blind don’t need glasses.

    • Jenny H says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 4:47 am

      I completely agree with you, Paleologos. To become a Catholic Priest you must undergo years of education. I assume most priests are intelligent. Do they neglect Logic classes when attending Seminaries?
      I’m stunned as to why Pope Francis doesn’t pay attention to his Bishops in the Middle East, the ones with the legacy of their people experiencing the Moslem yoke for centuries. I very much regret that Pope Benedict XVI is no longer Pope. (A bit of trivia: Saint Benedict of Nuncia (now Noncia, is considered the Patron Saint of Europe.)
      I wish Pope Francis would listen to the leaders of the Central and Eastern European countries, whose people’s resisted Islam for centuries. .

  9. Daniel says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 10:48 am

    Is the Pope really comparing Jesus to a Muslim?

    • JawsV says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 2:26 pm

      No, he’s comparing the Muslim “refugees” to Jesus. Inane, idiotic, and false.

  10. Christianblood says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 11:03 am

    Don’t blame it on the Pope alone because cozying up to islamic jihadist barbarity was the hallmark if US gov policies for the past 50 years. All Western religious and political leaders are ignoring the death of tens of thousands of Christians being murdered in the islamic world by muslim jihadists every single year and they are even encouraging and backing the islamic jihadist killers in one way or another. For example, in the short video clip below, the former US National security adviser (Zbigniew Brzezinski) tells a gathering of senior Talibani/Alqaeda Islamic jihadists this: “Your cause is right and God (Allah) is on your side”. Please watch the short video clip below and see how he sincerely encourages the jihadists to carry out their jihad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9RCFZnWGE0

    • Angemon says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 2:14 pm

      Christianblood posted:

      “Don’t blame it on the Pope alone because cozying up to islamic jihadist barbarity was the hallmark if US gov policies for the past 50 years.”

      What does that have to do with the pope? Propaganda is not supposed to be so ham-fisted – at least, not if you want it to have any effect.

      “ All Western religious and political leaders are ignoring the death of tens of thousands of Christians being murdered in the islamic world by muslim jihadists every single year and they are even encouraging and backing the islamic jihadist killers in one way or another”

      C’mon, CB, propaganda is not supposed to be this demonstrably false – ALL of them? Really? What about, for example, Geert Wilders, or Viktor Orbán? How are they encouraging and backing jihadi killers? Tsk tsk…
      (Also, isn’t a jihadi killer someone who kills jihadis? You know, like a bug exterminator is someone who exterminates bugs or a rat hunter is someone who hunts rats.)

      “ For example, in the short video clip below, the former US National security adviser (Zbigniew Brzezinski) tells a gathering of senior Talibani/Alqaeda Islamic jihadists this: “Your cause is right and God (Allah) is on your side”.”

      Yeah… in 1979. When they were fighting against the Soviets, who invaded Afghanistan to defend a regime that was killing tens of thousands of Afghani political dissidents. Don’t you think you’re being dishonest and misleading?

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 11:35 pm

        “Christianblood” doesn’t care about the truth, Angemon–just in lauding Putin and slamming the West.

      • Christianblood says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 9:19 am

        gravenimage

        Without the support that Putin is giving the legitimate Syrian government which is fighting the Western-backed barbaric islamic jihadists, these Christians in Damascus would not have celebrated Christmas in this past January in the streets of Damascus. Watch the video below: https://www.rt.com/news/327064-christmas-celebrate-syria-damascus/

        • Angemon says

          Mar 22, 2016 at 3:21 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “Without the support that Putin is giving the legitimate Syrian government”

          https://www.rt.com/news/335565-russia-start-withdrawal-syria/

          Ups!!!

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 9:01 pm

        Under the circumstances, Assad is the lesser of several evils, no doubt. But while he is not actively persecuting Christians, he is still a Jihadist, and not the staunch defender you might like to think.

        And your constant claims that the West backs–or has even created–ISIS simply does not hold water. Not that this will prevent Christianblood from continuing to falsely assert it, though…

  11. KrazyKafir says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 11:08 am

    Pope Marx I, never fails to amaze.

  12. Len Vaness says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 11:18 am

    This Pope is filled with kindness…not clues. At least his predecessor was aware of the threat.

  13. CogitoErgoSum says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 11:42 am

    This Pope is not a follower of Jesus. He is a follower of Judas who thought he knew better than Christ about what was best for the people … but Judas was deluded and misguided in his thinking. In betraying Jesus, Judas also betrayed the other Apostles and everyone who loved and believed in Jesus. This Pope is lighting the way for the enemy into the Garden and is betraying his master with a kiss. And like Judas, he will not be around to help when the persecution of those he has betrayed begins.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 1:44 pm

      Judas did what he did out of greed, not because he thought he knew best. It was greed. He had been taking the money meant for the daily expenses of Christ and His disciples as they went about preaching the good news. Judas was a thief and his actions when betraying Jesus were selfish…he wanted the money the scribes and pharisees offered for the betrayal.

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Mar 20, 2016 at 2:27 pm

        Somehistory, I think you are only partly correct. John 12:6 does tell us that Judas held the money box for Jesus and the disciples and that Judas would sometimes pilfer from it for himself. However, just previously in verse 5 John tells us that Judas thought the perfume used by the woman to anoint the feet of Jesus could have been put to better use by selling it and giving the proceeds to the poor.

        I also think Judas had close ties to the Zealots and wanted Jesus to be more of a political leader who would spark a revolt. When he saw that Jesus was not going in that direction Judas became disillusioned and hoped the arrest of Jesus would push Jesus into using the sword to fight back. Jesus knew all about this and still told Judas to do what he thought he had to do. So what Judas did is not really what Jesus wanted him to do but what Jesus allowed Judas to do by thinking for himself. So Judas did what he thought was best.

        Yes, Judas was greedy but he also thought he knew better than Christ. That’s my thinking on the matter.

        • somehistory says

          Mar 20, 2016 at 5:49 pm

          Thankfully, neither of us is able…nor do I believe either of us is trying…to force the other to accept the views expressed by the other.
          But, I must respectfully disagree with the perfume issue. Judas didn’t really wish the *poor* to have the funds. He was thinking of the *waste*…it was not spiritual thinking on his part, as the perfume was an anointing of Christ…of the oil, when if it had been sold, he would have the profits from it as he was in charge of the money.
          He had greedy eyes, a greedy heart, and in the end, it cost him every thing worthwhile.
          I don’t think for a moment that he thought he knew more than Christ did or Jesus would never had chosen him in the first place. There were plenty of those people around…thinking they knew more than Jesus and they followed Him endlessly, taunting, mocking, and asking questions to try to trip Him up.
          But, as I said, thankfully, we are both free to believe as we see it. 🙂

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Mar 20, 2016 at 8:23 pm

          Well, I can see your point because John 12:5-6 does say Judas wanted the money that could have been gained by selling the perfume (or oil) only because he was a thief and not because he cared about the poor. I just find that to be an oversimplification of Judas’ motives but apparently that’s what John thought so I guess I’m contradicting John. However, I have a hard time going along with John on that because I think people always justify to themselves the things they do. If Judas thought betraying Jesus was a bad idea I can’t imagine how he could have done it.

          In addition, Judas threw away the 30 pieces of silver he was paid for betraying Christ. He did not keep it for himself …. but then he did not give it to the poor either. So that leads me nowhere. He just went out and hung himself because he realized he had done the wrong thing and he did not have any faith that Jesus would forgive him for such a serious offense. He totally misunderstood the message of Christ but by being such a close follower of Christ, he should have known better. So it’s an enigma to me.

          It all leaves me in a quandary about the Pope’s actions also. I believe he thinks he is actually following the teachings of Christ when it comes to showing mercy to the Muslims but he can’t bring himself to accept everything about Christ’s teachings. For example, there are seven acts of corporal mercy and there are seven acts of spiritual mercy.

          These are:

          Acts of Corporal Mercy:
          To feed the hungry;
          To give drink to the thirsty;
          To clothe the naked;
          To house the homeless;
          To visit the sick;
          To ransom the captive;
          To bury the dead.

          Acts of Spiritual Mercy:
          To instruct the ignorant;
          To counsel the doubtful;
          To admonish sinners;
          To bear wrongs patiently;
          To forgive offenses willingly;
          To comfort the afflicted;
          To pray for the living and the dead.

          I think in this case, much like Judas, the Pope is missing some of the picture. He is forgetting to instruct the ignorant (Muslims) and to counsel the doubtful (Muslims). In some cases he does not even admonish the sinners (as when he rationalizes the actions of the Charlie Hebdo killers). Is he doing this on purpose or has he allowed himself to be deluded into thinking that some of these works of spiritual mercy are actually bad when it comes to applying them to Muslims? You seem to be saying the Pope knows that what he is doing is bad and he is doing it anyway because he loves evil. I am willing to give the Pope the benefit of the doubt and say that he has been deluded into thinking yes, mercy for the Muslims is good …. but only when it comes to the physical and not when it comes to the spiritual. He is just like Judas who would hold back some of the money thinking the poor did not really need all of it. The Pope thinks the Muslims do not need all of the spiritual treasure that Christ wishes to distribute completely so he holds some of it back.

          I do admit I could be wrong and agree with you that we are all free to think and believe as we wish. I will continue to think about it some more.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 20, 2016 at 11:40 pm

          And Judas was almost immediately remorseful for his betrayal of Christ:

          Matthew 27:3-8 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

    • DFD says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 7:22 pm

      CogitoErgoSum says: “… This Pope is lighting the way for the enemy into the Garden and is betraying his master with a kiss…”

      There’s a difference here: Judas kissed his master. His unholiness, the pope, kisses the quran, Come to think, his master – our enemy…

      Hmh….

  14. mortimer says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 11:51 am

    Francis may be one of the worst and stupidest popes in history.

    • BringBackTheCrusades says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 7:04 pm

      This pope is as Catholic as Obama is Christian. Maybe, they are both Muslim. He sure seems to be embracing the interpretation of a Muslim Jesus…

  15. rooare says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 11:53 am

    Lead by example, knock the walls of Vatican City down and invite a few thousand Muslim refugees in. Or is this more “do as I say not as I do”.

  16. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    There are two puzzling points in this Associated Press report.
    [1] “Francis abandoned his homily text”.
    How did the AP reporter know this? Was the pope’s homily text published in advance? Where can it be found? How does it differ from what he actually said?
    [2] The pope said, “Jesus also suffered on his [lowercase] own skin indifference, because no one wanted to take on the responsibility for his [lowercase] destiny.”
    What does it mean to “suffer skin indifference” on one’s own? Does this mean that Jesus was a victim of skin-color racism? Maybe “skin indifference” is just a poor translation of some idiom in the language in which the pope spoke (Latin? Italian? Spanish?).

  17. Mark A says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 12:41 pm

    I’m Catholic, but I don’t agree with the Pope on this issue.We can help refugees in their own countries without bringing massive numbers to Europe and completely changing Europe’s demography.

    One only has to look at the state of Christians in Islamic countries to see what is in store for European Catholics and all European Christians of Europe becomes an Islamic majority continent.

  18. jewdog says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    Yes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

    • Don Spilman says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 1:31 pm

      This man does NOT have any “good intentions” here JD. I think he is debilitated in his brain OR he is shilling for the Devils one world “utopia “

  19. Richie says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    shouldn’t he be more concerned with the Christians that Muslims are butchering?

  20. Truth Seeker says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    Seems Vatican is under the Control of Infiltrated Islamic Trojan Horses. Vatican doesn’t’ have any opinion, forget about Sympathy, on Worldwide Muslim Persecution of Christians. Seems the Worry is European Caliphate is getting Delayed! END TIMES.

    • Don Spilman says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 2:29 pm

      Just gotta agree here TS the lines of prophecy dropping like the lines on a sizemometer

  21. Bezelel says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 1:29 pm

    The elitists who would deprive citizens of guns for self defense while they are surrounded by armed guards are of the same mentality as this Pope.

  22. Wellington says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 1:37 pm

    This Pope’s a dope.

  23. somehistory says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    Jesus Christ said that His followers would be hated and persecuted…by the *world*…”on this account, the world hates you.” He said that if his followers were a “part of the world,” then the world would be “fond” of them as being part of the world. (John 15)
    Who seems to have the most hate for Christians at the moment? moslims are exhibiting the most, but the rest of the non Christian world seems able to turn a blind eye to the rampant and rabid persecution the moslims are heaping upon Christians. This, too, is a show of hatred.
    This pope…who has the gall and audacity to think he can *bless* these people who bring palm branches as those Jews brought palm branches to welcome Christ as King as though he thinks he is a *Messiah* is sickening in the extreme.
    By taking the side of the moslims who are busily torturing, persecuting, raping, killing, Christians wherever they can, he is “Making himself a friend of the world” and James said (4:4), “Whoever makes himself a friend of the world, is making himself an enemy of God.”

  24. Richard Paulsen says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 2:59 pm

    Who does he support, the Prophet Muhammed or Jesus? Islam or Europe? Why not criticize arabstates instead? Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Quwait, Yemen and so on instead? All muslim states. Criticize them for not taking care of their own.
    Did he criticize South Americans or Cubans when he was there? Almost any muslims and mosques there.

  25. Richard Paulsen says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    Maybe he would like the Basilica of St Peter being changed into a mosque? With minarets and everything. As the Hagia Sophia once was.
    And other church buildings like the Sacre Coeur, the Notre Dame, St Paul´s Cathedral, the Köln Dom.
    One wonders.

    • DFD says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 7:31 pm

      Richard Paulsen says: “…One wonders.”

      I don’t. It’s time we stopped wondering, seeking dialogue, seeking to make aware.

      The people know, well most of them. We certainly know who the enemy is, time to get organized and fight. That’s all there is.

  26. shoehorn of africa says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    ‘Francis abandoned his homily text to lament Europe’s handling of the influx of migrants and asylum-seekers fleeing war, persecution or poverty from Syria, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere.’

    So he’s concerned about indifference to better-life-seekers fleeing poverty?

    Matthew 26:11English Standard Version (ESV)

    11 For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.

  27. Mubarak says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    The abhorrent treatment of the Jews during the Nazi Time has paved the way for the welcoming of Muslims to Europe in our time. The Jews went to the concentration camps as sheep to the slaughterhouse. The Muslims arrive in Europe in search of the best welfare system to exploit. Well established the cuckoo will increase its demands, and soon we will hear its call from minarets and even from inside our churches, as Heidi Mund has brought our attention to.
    How many Muslim immigrants has the Vatican City State in its indifference rejected? And when will we hear the Muezzins call to prayer echoing over the St. Peter’s Place in Rome as a friendly “ecumenical” gesture?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2016 at 11:45 pm

      What is Mubarak playing at here? Just recently, he was claiming across multiple threads–and over a period of months–that Western women deserved to be rapes and so we should welcome Muslim rapists.

      • Mubarak says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 6:30 am

        Trying to understand why things are happening is not the same thing as condoning them. If you want a pertinent picture and an incisive description of much of European youth, read some articles and books of Theodore Dalrymple. The mental rape and self inflicted harassment, especially by young women, in our culture is appalling. I have suggested to you and others, that what was happening in Cologne and other places could be a consequence and an outward expression and confirmation of this callousness women are prone to direct against themselves cheered along the way by our culture, or what’s left of it (as Dalrymple puts it) and theirs and ours foolish ignorance. The Muslim men are bringing the problem to our attention in a disgusting, but maybe necessary way in order for us to have our eyes opened?

        Sure, I have said things in a provocative way, and of cause I am not providing a universal explanation of everything bad that happens to women all over the world, but the phenomenon of mass celebrations in the streets of our big cities with drunkenness and other disorderly behaviors should be discouraged before Muslim men do it.

        I have also suggested the double application and the unoriginal thought – Martin Luther espoused it – that Islam is the bane of Europe analogous with the history of Israel and its enemies in the Old Testament. Robert Spencer is a Catholic, as far as I understand, and I am sure he is familiar with this theology of chastisement, though I don’t know if he believes in it?

        This theology is poignantly expressed in psalm 74: “Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own standards for signs.” Unfortunately the pope himself seems to be ignorant about this ultimate goal of Islam to his eternal shame and our own blame – to return to the theme of the article.

        Is the pope willfully blinded by the scandals of pedophilia in his organization and the empty, hollow, political hierarchy his “church” has turned into, that through Islam Isaiah 5, and many other frightening prophesies, can come to pass just before our collective nose?
        But “woe (also) to him who is the scourge of my wrath, and the staff of my anger!”

        Finally, “gravenimage”: please don’t let me get under your skin. You provide much more space for me here in the comment-section, than I deserve. And also: I am not as bad, as you want to make me, and I am only a little fish in the ocean.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 21, 2016 at 10:08 pm

          Mubarak wrote:

          Trying to understand why things are happening is not the same thing as condoning them. If you want a pertinent picture and an incisive description of much of European youth, read some articles and books of Theodore Dalrymple…
          ………………………

          It was, in fact, through reading Theodore Dalrymple’s work and following some provided links that I first found Jihad Watch ten years ago. I am quite familiar with his work.

          Despite what the vile “Mubarak” implies, no\where in his critiques of our culture does Dalrymple imply that we would be better off with an invasion of rapist Muslims.

          He is, in fact, quite critical of Islam and its depredations.

          More:

          The mental rape and self inflicted harassment, especially by young women, in our culture is appalling. I have suggested to you and others, that what was happening in Cologne and other places could be a consequence and an outward expression and confirmation of this callousness women are prone to direct against themselves cheered along the way by our culture, or what’s left of it (as Dalrymple puts it) and theirs and ours foolish ignorance. The Muslim men are bringing the problem to our attention in a disgusting, but maybe necessary way in order for us to have our eyes opened?
          ………………………

          Mubarak claimed he was changing his tactics, but proves here how utterly false that is.

          Once, again, he claims that the mass Muslim molestation and rapes in Cologne and other cities was due to the victims themselves–that Muslims raping women is “self inflicted” by the women themselves. *Ugh*..

          But this is false–firstly, it has been proven that these attacks were planned*-this should not surprise, since they were coordinated in several cities. Then, the victims were heavily bundled in coats, as it was midnight in the depths of winter.

          The idea that rapists spontaneously began molesting women because they were supposedly scantily dressed makes no sense.

          And then, virtually all of the rapists were Muslims–none other has been identified.

          So the only problem brought to our attention is the presence of *rapist Muslims*.

          More:

          Sure, I have said things in a provocative way, and of cause I am not providing a universal explanation of everything bad that happens to women all over the world, but the phenomenon of mass celebrations in the streets of our big cities with drunkenness and other disorderly behaviors should be discouraged before Muslim men do it.
          ………………………

          In other words, women should not be allowed to celebrate New Year’s Eve–even if Muslim men are not around to rape them if they try it.

          So sorry–civilized Westerners reject this. If you believe that Theodore Dalrymple is supporting women being removed from the streets and from public celebrations, you are woefully misreading him.

          Of course, it is far more likely that the foul Mubarak is just deliberately misrepresenting his views.

          More:

          I have also suggested the double application and the unoriginal thought – Martin Luther espoused it – that Islam is the bane of Europe analogous with the history of Israel and its enemies in the Old Testament. Robert Spencer is a Catholic, as far as I understand, and I am sure he is familiar with this theology of chastisement, though I don’t know if he believes in it?
          ………………………

          Ah–now Mubarak is trying to take the idea of self criticism and have us believe that we deserve to be raped and murdered by his savage coreligionists *for our own good*.

          More:

          This theology is poignantly expressed in psalm 74: “Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own standards for signs.” Unfortunately the pope himself seems to be ignorant about this ultimate goal of Islam to his eternal shame and our own blame – to return to the theme of the article.
          ………………………

          In other words, too bad Pope Francis doesn’t take it a step further and tell us we should take in millions of savage Muslim invaders because their raping and murdering us would punish us for our sins.

          How dare the Pope be so ignorant as not to demand that we commit suicide once and for all? After all, we sure deserve it…

          Once again, Mubarak never addressed Muslims raping little 12-year-old Yezidi girls and elderly nuns in their convents? What sins were *they* atoning for?

          And note that on this thread

          http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/03/hugh-fitzgerald-raping-me-is-his-prayer-to-god-its-allowed-its-halal

          that Mubarak repeatedly refuses to condemn the rape of such victims, and finally when pressed says that such a condemnation would be “banal”.

          But this makes it clear that his support of Muslim rapists goes far beyond even the ugly idea that women out walking deserve what they get.

          More:

          Is the pope willfully blinded by the scandals of pedophilia in his organization and the empty, hollow, political hierarchy his “church” has turned into, that through Islam Isaiah 5, and many other frightening prophesies, can come to pass just before our collective nose?
          But “woe (also) to him who is the scourge of my wrath, and the staff of my anger!”
          ………………………

          This is very much like Muslims who demand that Christians not defend themselves against ravening Mohammedans because it would not be “Christian” to so so–here Mubarak is insisting that we allow Muslim invades to rape and murder us to “chastise” us for our shortcomings–and moreover claims that God demands this of us!

          In both cases, Muslims are trying to use our own values to get us to roll over for them. They try to do this in the secular sense, as well–demanding that Western nations take them in and regard them as “refugees”, rather than the violent invading army they really are–and if we don’t that we are violating Western values.

          Yet more:

          Finally, “gravenimage”: please don’t let me get under your skin. You provide much more space for me here in the comment-section, than I deserve. And also: I am not as bad, as you want to make me, and I am only a little fish in the ocean.
          ………………………

          In other words, I should ignore Mubarak’s viciousness–why? Because he isn’t–so far was we know, anyway–personally out on the street raping women?

          I suppose he is positing that he is what would pass for a “moderate” Muslim.

          He is trying to normalize our victimization by Muslim savages–that’s plenty bad in my book.

          And yes–there are *many more* of Mubarak’s ilk–which is what makes him and his fellow Mohammedans so very, very dangerous.

      • Mubarak says

        Mar 22, 2016 at 8:48 am

        You confirm and validate what you rage against. Your hateful comments here on JIHAD WATCH is a testimony to the fact, that you already in your mind have given in to this ideology of conquest and domination, and your comments therefore look more and more like a soliloquy or a dialog with yourself.

        The day you can make Muslims rage and foam at the mouth the same way you do now, you are getting much closer to win the battle against them.
        – Have you any ideas on how that is done? –

        Calling me (or Muslims) vicious, vile, repulsive or the like invectives from the repertoire you use to spice up your comments with, is entertaining and it only calls fore more pressing on the button in order to get you going.

        • Mubarak says

          Mar 22, 2016 at 10:06 am

          PS:
          Mr. Dalrymple has in fact written an article with subtitle “When the victim isn’t blameless.” I don’t suggest it is applicable to what happened I Cologne, but maybe it is applicable to our culture or at least “what’s left of it.”—?
          With all the bad experiences we have had with Muslims in Europe and the horrific things we see daily in Muslim countries, why do we keep inviting them to Europe if not for the sake and secret wish of being raped and harassed by them?

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 23, 2016 at 7:17 pm

          Yet more from Mubarak:

          You confirm and validate what you rage against. Your hateful comments here on JIHAD WATCH is a testimony to the fact, that you already in your mind have given in to this ideology of conquest and domination, and your comments therefore look more and more like a soliloquy or a dialog with yourself.
          ………………………………………..

          Uh huh–standing against rape–somehow–confirms and validates rapists. Have I mentioned that Islam rejects reason? A clear indication of that here.

          And according to Mubarak opposing something is a clear sign of having surrendered to it. More cognitive dissonance.

          And opposing rape is “hateful”. Mubarak has said previously that it would be “banal” to condemn the rape of children and nuns–now he considers it “hateful”. Grotesque.

          And no–I am not having a dialog with myself. Nor, of course, am I having a real exchange with the appalling Mubarak, a figure so vile in his beliefs that it is clear that I will make no headway there.

          Instead, I reply to Muslim supremacists and apologists for evil for the same reason I always do–that it might be instructive for other good people reading here.

          More:

          The day you can make Muslims rage and foam at the mouth the same way you do now, you are getting much closer to win the battle against them.
          – Have you any ideas on how that is done? –
          ………………………………………..

          The idea that someone opposing rape is ‘raging and foaming at the mouth’, but that this is not something rapist Muslims are already doing–as though rape and murder were reasonable matters, but decrying them is not–is moral idiocy.

          More:

          Calling me (or Muslims) vicious, vile, repulsive or the like invectives from the repertoire you use to spice up your comments with, is entertaining and it only calls fore more pressing on the button in order to get you going.
          ………………………………………..

          It is not unreasonable to find calls for rape and conquest vicious, vile, and repulsive. Really, one rather wonders at the moral landscape of someone who *doesn’t* find these things appalling.

          More:

          PS:
          Mr. Dalrymple has in fact written an article with subtitle “When the victim isn’t blameless.” I don’t suggest it is applicable to what happened I Cologne, but maybe it is applicable to our culture or at least “what’s left of it.”—?
          ………………………………………..

          I read that article at City Journal a year ago. The point Dalrymple is making is that it is disastrous for some women to have so little self esteem and poor coping skills that they are prone to becoming involved with violent men.

          The idea that that this means he is condemning Western women for walking the squares of their own cities lest they be raped by ravening Muslims is ludicrous.

          To pretend further that he is *lauding* the Muslim rapists is even more sickeningly false.

          Here. in fact, is what Dalrymple has to say about the horrifying crime of rape:

          “However, there is one crime that is of special heinousness, deserving only the most condign punishment. It is a crime that must, for moral reasons, be treated with exemplary severity and unparalleled harshness.

          “That crime is rape…”

          https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/the-sentences-given-to-rapists-are-ludicrously-inadequate/

          Besides, Dalrymple makes it quite clear in the article Mubarak cites that his real condemnation is for the poor girl’s assailant.

          More:

          With all the bad experiences we have had with Muslims in Europe and the horrific things we see daily in Muslim countries, why do we keep inviting them to Europe if not for the sake and secret wish of being raped and harassed by them?
          ………………………………………..

          Why does Mubarak–who at this point has clearly and irrevocably proven that he is *not* a civilized Westerner–continue to speak of “us”? Obviously because he is still trying to present his appalling Muslim supremacism as a reasonable Western view. Try again, creep.

          The fact is that many in the West are still in a great deal of denial about Islam. They believe that the Muslim invaders are just vulnerable refugees who need our help–and so they ignore the cases of rape, robbery, murder and violent JIhad that they perpetrate.

          But Mubarak is pretending that this willful denial in the West–dangerous as that is by itself–is actually our wanting to be raped by Muslims, because we think we deserve it.

          Another glimpse into the repellent Muslim mindset–God knows it is *not pretty*.

  28. Gerald Mucci says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 5:10 pm

    Some religious leaders can be completee morons when it comes to Islam and Islamic doctrine and Muslim attitudes and alternate morality..

  29. Peter Hyatt says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    It’s shocking how he betrays his own people.

    We Protestants are little better: look at all the “Christian” organizations making money off importing jihadists (widows and orphans, or in Germany, engineers and doctors) into the United States.

    The same be upon us all; but the painful reality will be upon our children and grandchildren who did not ask for this, and upon a world that will deal with a nuclear Iran.

  30. Jay Boo says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    “Pope Francis in his Palm Sunday homily decried what he called indifference to the refugees flooding into Europe, making a comparison to authorities who washed their hands of Jesus’ fate ahead of his crucifixion.
    …”
    ———————————-

    Muslims deny The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus.
    Muslims angrily refute the divinity of Jesus.

  31. Marcel Bérubé says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    How can a leader , a pope , can be so ignorant of the muslim agenda and see them as

    poor muslims?

    He is making me proud of being distant from, «my» religion.

  32. abad says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    Francis is comparable to the UN in this manner: be concerned only with the plight of the Muslims whether it is the Rohingya (UN) or Syrian Refugees(TM).

    Francis clearly is very selective about the European news he reads for if he really read all the news he would know good and well very few of those “refugees” are Syrian – and even fewer are really refugees.

    I have no use for this Pope.

  33. Aron says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    POWER OF THE MAINSTREAM NARRATIVE

    Pope confirms that the Mainstream Narrative of Muslims always as Victims, no matter what they do seems to have enormous hold on our leaders’ minds.
    This is a sure indication that only by shaming and destroying that narrative- we can hope the brains start working normally once again.

  34. gravenimage says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    Pope decries Europe’s “indifference” to Muslim migrants, compares them to Jesus
    ………………………….

    Yes–I just heard this idiocy on the radio.

    Not only is no one crucifying these invaders, but those involved with the Islamic State have *themselves* been involved with a regime that crucifies its victims:

    “Islamic State crucifies 17-year-old boy for apostasy”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/islamic-state-crucifies-17-year-old-boy-for-apostasy

    And the Pope comparing his lord Jesus with Muslim *rapefugees* is simply grotesque beyond belief.

  35. Jay Boo says

    Mar 20, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    He Reigns – Newsboys (with lyrics)
    Instead of humming the call to prayer the Pope should change stations.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 1:15 am

      Desert spirits spoke in twisted verse,
      a dance of words to recite, to recite.

      Medina’s false prophet this rehearsed
      in a dark cave near Mecca veiled by night.
      But, the angel Gabriel saw his descent, and said

      — “Pawn of Satan turn, repent, repent.”

    • Champ says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 1:33 am

      Awesome song really enjoyed it!!! ..thank you, Jay Boo 🙂

    • Pathfinder0100 says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 3:25 pm

      Great song Jay Boo!! Thank you much!!

  36. Laurence says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 12:35 am

    They say Pope Francis abandoned his Palm Sunday homily text, which can be found here ( http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2016/documents/papa-francesco_20160320_omelia-palme.html ) and instead he replaced it with an impromptu (?) address. . . should have stayed on point with the prepared speech.

  37. citycat says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 1:32 am

    Who in the name of Holy Satan elected the pope.
    Is he deferring fear of Islam?
    He’s on drugs.
    It’ll be interesting to see what the Pope says when the Muslims finally crucify him, unless he converts or hands over the dosh.
    Next he’ll be telling Christians to convert to Islam.

  38. Dean says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 3:24 am

    I sympathize with Catholics that try to keep their faith and maintain their support of traditional American values while listening to this Pope. He has about as much in common with Jesus as the communists, Eco-fascists and Islamofascists that he is consistently aligned with. I call the messages of the new left and progressivism as nuanced irrationalism and this Pope is clearly a leading voice of that movement.

  39. Cecilia Ellis says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 3:57 am

    “And I am thinking of so many people, so many on the margins, so many refugees’ for whom ‘many don’t want to assume responsibility for their destiny,’ Francis said in a clear reference to Europe’s migration debate….”

    This statement by Pope Francis reflects either incredulous naïveté or absurd arrogance. Given the volume of daily, global news reports of atrocities committed by devout Muslims who justify their actions by referring to specific, unabrogated verses from the Islamic canonical texts, naïveté must be dismissed. That leaves the consideration of arrogance as a potential force multiplier in Pope Francis’ blatant effort to dismiss the nature of the divide between Christianity and Islam.

    Here are some irrefutable differences, which have been addressed by the Jesuit priest, Samir Khalil Samir in an article entitled, “Pope Francis and His Invitation to Dialogue with Islam.” Fr. Samir directly cited paragraphs from Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation “Evangelii gaudium.” The following examples are direct quotes from that article:

    1. “The Quran is opposed to all the fundamental Christian dogmas (No. 252)

    All the Christian dogmas are rejected by the Koran and Islam. The figure of Christ as the second person of the Trinity is condemned. In the Koran it says explicitly to Christians: “O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not “Three” – Cease! (it is) better for you! – Allah is only One God. Far is it removed from His Transcendent Majesty that “(Koran 4:171). These verses against the Trinity are very clear and need no interpretation.

    The Koran denies the divinity of Christ: “O Jesus, Son of Mary, did you say to the people, ‘Take me and my mother as deities besides Allah?'”(Koran 5:116). And Jesus denies it!

    Finally, the Koran negates Redemption. It even says that Jesus Christ did not die on the Cross, but it was a look-alike: “And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble him to them” (Koran 4:157) . . . In short, the Koran and Muslims deny the essential dogmas of Christianity: the Trinity, the Incarnation and Redemption. It should be added that this is their most absolute right! But you cannot then say that “The sacred writings of Islam retain part of Christian teachings”. You simply must speak of the “Jesus of the Koran” which has nothing to do with the Jesus of the Gospels.

    The Koran mentions Jesus because it aims to complete the revelation of Christ to exalt Muhammad. Besides, seeing what Jesus and Mary do in the Koran, we notice that it is no more than apply the prayers and fasting according to the Koran. Mary is certainly the most beautiful figure among all those presented in the Koran: she is the Virgin Mother, whom no man has ever touched. But she cannot be the Theotokos; instead she is a good Muslim.”

    2. “Violence in the Koran and the life of Muhammad (No. 253)

    Finally, the Pope mentions the violence in Islam. In No. 253 he writes: “True Islam and the proper interpretation of the Koran oppose all violence”.

    This phrase is beautiful and expresses a very benevolent attitude on the Pope’s part towards Islam. However, . . . it expresses more a wish than a reality. The fact that the majority of Muslims are opposed to violence, may well be true. But to say that “the true Islam is against any violence,” does not seem true: there is violence in the Koran. To say then that “for authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence”” needs a lot of explaining. It is enough to cite Chapters 2, 9 of the Koran.”

    3. “The figure of Christ in the Gospel and the Koran (No. 252)

    The Koran refers to “Jesus and Mary [who] are the object of profound veneration”. To tell the truth, Jesus is not an object of veneration in the Muslim tradition. Instead, Mary is venerated, especially by Muslim women, who willingly go to the places of pilgrimage.
    The lack of veneration for Jesus Christ is probably explained by the fact that, in the Koran, Jesus is a great prophet, famous for his miracles on behalf of a poor and sick humanity, but he is not the equal of Muhammad.

    In fact, all that is said of Jesus in the Koran is the exact opposite of Christian teachings. He is not the Son of God, but a prophet and that’s it. He is not even the last of the prophets, because instead the “seal of the prophets ” is Muhammad (Koran 33:40). Christian revelation is only seen as a step towards the ultimate revelation brought by Muhammad, i.e. Islam.”

    http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope-Francis-and-his-invitation-to-dialogue-with-Islam-29858.html

    With these three examples alone, Pope Francis cannot possibly expect European and Western countries to dismiss the threat posed by an influx of “refugees” who have demonstrated religious intolerance, no desire to assimilate, no regard for Western jurisprudence, supremacy, and violence. As such, there must be another motive. Could it be that Pope Francis might not be the humble man that he is so resolute in demonstrating? Could it be that he is willing to sacrifice lives, traditions, and religious heritage in order to garner praise from the “world”? Whatever the reason, it cannot be one of ignorance or naïveté. To exhort others to such compromise, under the auspices of hospitality and mercy, is equal to exhorting others to compromise with evil. That is evil in itself.

    • Pathfinder0100 says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 3:17 pm

      Damn well said Cecilia!! I have forwared your post , giving YOU credit for ir. Hope that you don’t mind??

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Mar 21, 2016 at 9:35 pm

        Pathfinder0100, thank you for your reply. I do not mind that you forward my comment, but please ensure that recipients know that the Jesuit, Fr. Samir, is the one who articulated concerns with such clarity and precision. I, as a consumer of his analysis, subsequently marveled at the distance reflected between the paradigms presented by two Jesuits — the Pope and Fr. Samir, who is a renowned expert on Islam. As a result, I sought to isolate a credible cause for such a disparity. In so doing, I had to consider the potential that his effort was one intended to capture the awe of those who respect his pronouncements and who tend to accept his calls to action. My consideration noted the Pope’s omission of Muslim countries from exhortations to accept these “refugees.”

        Why would that be? There, perhaps, are many reasons for this, but the one that gnawed constantly at me was this: the Muslim world does not respect the exhortations of a Christian religious leader unless that leader identifies the supremacy of Islam. That is a canonical mandate, as well as a historical fact. No staunch defense exists for the Pope’s failure to extend his exhortations to countries consistent with the original environment of these “refugees”. There would be no Muslim world embrace of his words; instead, those words would fall on deaf ears. From there would come no praise for his vision of compassion and mercy. I was compelled to conclude that as both of these virtues reside in the human spirit, not exclusively in religion, there must be a another motive.

    • Dean says

      Mar 23, 2016 at 7:41 pm

      Shocking, are you even entertaining the idea that a progressive would strike any pose to achieve a position of power? In his irrational construct of reality, therein are the social justice and identity politics fallacies effectively integrated into climate change and his interpretations of his religion. Since Muslims are a treasured member of the oppressed people of the world, their conversion will be achieved through love and unity. Your thorough consideration of the facts contradicting his construct of reality has no effect on someone that doesn’t let facts intrude on it.

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Mar 23, 2016 at 7:50 pm

        Dean, you do have a very valid point there. ?

  40. jura says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 4:25 am

    I realy wonder what would the pope be doing in the case of muslim influx into southern America.

    Someone should give him advice to visit the office if the Patriarch of Constantinople or of Syriac patriarchs.
    With such popes attitude this is not only future for his succesors but for him personally.

    • Marcel Bérubé says

      Mar 21, 2016 at 4:38 am

      Isis is already working in latin america. Young latinos are going to Syria and received ISIS

      informations on how to work once they are back to their countries. We weill here from them

      in next months .

  41. BEAR TOM says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 7:00 am

    The Pope has got it completely wrong. It’s the Pharisees that he meant to make the comparison to Muslims with. Supremisists, bigots, hypocrites, wanting to force their religion on everybody else. Convinced of their own salvation, but noone elses. Convinced that their God hated the sinners. And Jesus only had complete disgust and severe criticism for them. He did not wash their feet. He called them whitened sepulchers and doomed to Hell with their father.

  42. BC says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 7:01 am

    Popes are men who have spent their whole lives pursuing a delusion, they are elected by a committee of similar men, who themselves are unelected. A more undemocratic institution than the RC church cannot be imagined unless it is the leadership of the former communist empire.
    Yet millions hang on his words as though they are pearls of wisdom.
    Even if Jesus existed as portrayed in the bible there is not sound evidence that he was crucified or subjected to the trials that are celebrated by the churches every Easter.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2016 at 7:21 pm

      BC, whatever you think of the celebration of Easter, it is not Christians who are running amok in Europe raping and murdering.

  43. Aussie Infidel says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 7:02 am

    Robert, Please send the Pope a complimentary subscription to Jihad Watch. He needs educating about the ‘religion of peace’. How is it possible for a Christian leader to be so uninformed about an ideology which has fought against his people for 1,400 years? Is he in denial, or simply too politically correct to confront the mullahs with the truth?

  44. Bear Tom says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 7:05 am

    And THEY screamed to crucify Jesus. BT

  45. G P says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 7:19 am

    Maybe Catholics should have a video link up stating to Francis that they wish to convert to islam as the one true faith – heaven knows the pope isn’t interested in maintaining numbers.

    Anyone who equates Christianity with islam is insane. In my biblical forays, I don’t recall Christ advocating child marriage (pedophilia), stoning, raping, theft, murder or war and he certainly didn’t practise these but islam supports all of these and more

  46. Laurence says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 10:45 am

    Not just anyone can go into the barrenness of the desert and maintain their Christian understanding of the God of the Universe, let alone find Him there.

    So many having gone have turned to other gods, and some to a misguided or false understanding of Christianity.

    If there yet remains room for discovery, if one is not already filled with contempt or denial or hate, Jesus can still be found for oneself. If one is to discover the truth of his message, be it for the first or nth time, one must turn to the Gospels. And laying aside old and new prejudices, read as if for the first time, allowing the narrator to speak to you. One may look and listen as if present to the scenes unfolding therein, and let one’s questions and comments be offered up as a prayer. And hopefully, God and man (or woman) both willing, whether slowly or quickly, discover Him.

  47. Bob scala says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 11:18 am

    Solution is simple.
    Pope can start by opening the doors of the Vatican to a couple of hundred migrants, feed, house, dress and educate them.
    Second the pope can put his money where his mouth is by funding the European migrants problem with Vatican money. Will cost billions and billions of course, but eh, what is the church and its money for other then helping those in need. Grin

  48. Milt says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 11:48 am

    I think the popes hat is too tight or he has gone deaf,blind and dyslexic.

    Or he should keep his micro brain and stupid thoughts to himself.

    He also could be just sucking up to moo slime’s to keep vatican city from become n isis base camp.

    Doesn’t he realize that the first victims will be all his cute little cho0ir boy’s?

  49. Cathy says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    He is crazy. Jesus did NOT go around murdering people and I know Jesus would not agree with the hate and violence of sharia law. And pedophelia. This pope is nuts!!!

  50. Pathfinder0100 says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Yeah! Yeah Popeee Jesus went around raping women and boys, stealing everything He could, stabbing people, shooting people, killing and beating up Jews, and all those other things the “refugees” are doing NOW!! Pope–You need to get your head out of where the sun don’t shine and take a look at what’s going on in YOUR part of the World. Keep them with you please!! We DO NOT need them here in America!! You feed them and give them all that they want You’ve got plenty of money–We Don’t

  51. Mae says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    “Jesus also suffered on his own skin indifference, because no one wanted to take on the responsibility for his destiny.”

    What does that even mean? Senseless!

    Jesus Christ willingly went to the cross to save mankind from its sins. HE chose his destiny. HE did not need anyone to take on HIS responsibility.

    As for the “refugees”, of course they should be treated humanely…IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.

  52. Carolyne says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    IMO the Syrian refugees, etc. should be responsible for their own destinies. Like maybe those strong young men could go back to defend their country?

    When I was a Christian, I was a Protestant and I never cared for the Popes anyway, but I thought it was hilarious when they carried a Pope around in a chair. Especially that fat one.

    This man is an idiot. He accuses the West of not taking care of refugees when they have overrun Europe, raping and pillaging, and the Pope sits on one of the greatest treasures of the world. I wonder if he has had his 60 foot wall built any higher recently. If his criteria for a Christian is that they don’t build walls for protection, then by his own standards, he is not a Christian.

  53. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 6:26 pm

    What a despicable scumbag this treasonous “pope” is!

    To advocate for suicidal masochism as the highest moral virtue, while also claiming the only real crime is to hurt the feelings of and offend criminals by accusing them of their crimes, outs him as a massive criminal himself!

    Since islam is nothing more or less than the world’s oldest and largest ongoing extortion-racket CRIME syndicate, where the only “religious” part in it is where its holy mobster crime-gang members slander “god” as their #1 alibi to excuse their own criminal desires and actions where they claim

    “God told us to commit these crimes!”

    (CAPISCE?)!

    … it’s obvious that our Western governments, with our legally-mandated respect for universal equality of individual, not group or gang, human rights, do indeed have both the right and the responsibility to ban it from our shores.

    Based on the Qur’an, sharia denies freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

    It denies equal rights between men and women and between Muslims and non-Muslims.

    It permits no separation of mosque and state and has rules for the micro-management of every aspect of its subjects’ personal lives.

    It is to apply to all believers and non-believers across the globe, and officially sanctions violent, offensive jihad to achieve it.

  54. bouboulina says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    I’m a R. Catholic & am so sick of this hypocritical, crypto-Marxist excuse for a Pope. Instead of having so much sympathy & concern for these masses of violent Muslim marauders he should be asking why there are so few Christians among the refugee masses, given the undeniable Christian genocide going on in Syria. And where is the Pope’s sympathy for the beleaguered peoples of Europe who are experiencing wholesale invasion thanks to the the foul UN & the delusional morons in charge of the EU? It’s really looking like the proverbial beginning of the end for Western civilization, thanks to the not-so-subtle & very relentless march of Marxism in its many innocent-sounding avatars.

  55. dvo99 says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    Dear Pope Francis,

    Jesus was a hippie. Sorry, it’s the truth. These men you want us to let in adhere to an ideology founded by a psychopathic, paedophilic warmonger.

    signed,

    The Free West

  56. Myxlplik says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 7:09 pm

    So the Pope is a little confused, the reason why Muslims are fleeing to the West is because we are stable due to not having a lot of Muslims.

    In order to have this free place, you have to have Muslim no go Zones. It’s super basic.

  57. Pam Thorley says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 6:38 am

    My only thoughts on this subject are “Thank heaven I’m not a Catholic”

  58. Karen says

    Mar 23, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    CrossWare, didn’t you hear? The Vatican took in a Syrian family of refugees. Four – count ’em – four people, in total. Oh, and they are Catholic, so no clash of civilizations for Vatican City!

    I heard they had agreed to take in a 2nd family, but find no evidence that they have done so.

    Looks like the Vatican is leaving the heavy lifting to everyone else. So, yes, the Pope can shut it!

  59. DAVID says

    May 20, 2016 at 3:50 am

    Take down your pagan obelisk, remove the pagan gods from your museum take off you pagan Nimrod hat, then maybe you can preach…the devil is wrapped around the foundations of your house. Why do you enter politics and forget that the job of determining who is a refugee is for authorities to examine case by case. should we accept whoever calls himself refugee? Sell your goods all of them give to the poor sell your church lands and buildings..preach as Christ did,,but the church is not of Christ. shall we breed with the Muslims? shall they be raised Christian or Muslim oh pope?

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