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Hugh Fitzgerald: The Pope: Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor An Umpire

May 12, 2016 12:23 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

“Integration” And “Dialogue” Or, The Pope Accepts His Prize

Merkel and Pope

The Charlemagne Prize, awarded by the city of Aachen for services furthering the unity of Europe, was given this year to Pope Francis. His address upon receiving the prize is one more example of his inability to recognize, or possibly of his feeling compelled not to acknowledge, the real effect of Muslim migrants on Europe today, and the insurmountable obstacles to “dialogue” with, and “integration” of, Muslims within Europe. Indeed, in his speech about the future of Europe, he never mentions the words that are in every thinking European’s mind — “Islam” and “Muslims.” Instead, he describes a Europe that is perceived as “weary, aging, no longer fertile and vital.” He paints a portrait of a Europe that needs, he says, an infusion of new blood, and where else could that infusion come from, if not from the Muslim immigrants knocking at every gate and flooding in, whether the Europeans like it or not – almost a million into Germany just in the last year? For the Pope, this will be a Good Thing, if the native Europeans – for this Vatican umpire, the ball is always in their court – handle things correctly.

Europe, the Pope said, should now emulate those who were its “founding fathers” after the war – Robert Schuman, Alcide De Gasperi, Konrad Adenauer – and honor their vision “to build bridges and tear down walls.” But those postwar statesmen wanted to “build bridges” to whom? And wanted to “tear down walls” between whom? The European Union’s founding fathers were building bridges from one European country to another (and especially, between those hereditary enemies France and Germany), and the “walls” they wanted torn down were those that had separated one European country from another. They could not have conceived that their work might someday be used to justify opening Europe to millions of Muslims. Now, nearly 60 years later, between European countries there are bridges galore, and among the signatories to the Schengen Agreement, the walls have been torn down, with even the need for visas for travel within Europe eliminated. The metaphoric “bridges” and “walls” of which Pope Francis spoke are quite different; he means “bridges” that connect Europe to the outside world; the “walls” he wants torn down are not those between countries, but those which once shielded Europe from the outside by strict enforcement of border controls.

The Pope deplores this “resignation and weariness” of Europe: “what has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the champion of human rights, democracy, and freedom?” Could it be that Europeans are weary from the battle against Jihad terrorism, that shows no signs – and why should it? – of ever coming to an end, and exhausted too with the social disruption and expense which has resulted from the Muslims in their midst? And to what group of Muslims, anywhere in the world, before or after the Arab Spring, have Europeans managed to transplant what the Pope insists they champion, that is “human rights, democracy, and freedom,” all so antipathetic to the letter and spirit of Islam?

Could it be that Europeans, whatever their outward views, regard with secret dread this ever-increasing population of Muslims, and that fear, not economic inequality (the other theme of the Pope’s Charlemagne speech), is what is now most demoralizing Europe? But neither the Pope nor anyone else among the “respectable” leaders will ever discuss this; that’s left to Le Pen, Wilders, and similar beyond-the-pale outcasts.

Meanwhile, what has been the palpable effect of these migrants? The Muslim immigrant population has taken a terrific financial toll on Europe, including the cost of providing medical care, education, housing (all of them heavily subsidized or free for those immigrants), unemployment benefits for these largely unskilled immigrants, and the expense for more security (at airports, train and metro stations, tourist sites at major sites), more police, more investigators, more state-paid judges and prosecutors, and more prison cells (the crime rate of Muslims is much higher than that of non-Muslims). This all takes money.

Another worry is the physical threat to non-Muslim women, from the lone-wolf attacker to the Muslim gangs of groomers and rapists of very young girls in the U.K. Some European authorities, especially in Germany and the U.K., have unfairly put the burden of security on the potential victims: it is the girls and women who are advised by the police to change what they wear, or told not to go out after dusk, or even advised to dye their hair a darker shade should they have the misfortune of being come-hither blondes, in order not to attract the feral attentions of Muslim men. Jews, too, from Sweden and Denmark to France and Italy, have been victims of anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims. And most frightening for everyone is the permanent threat of groups (ISIS, Al-Qaeda, name your poison), who have already brought murder and mayhem to many different cities in Europe: Paris, Brussels, London, Madrid, Amsterdam, and Moscow.

Imagine starting out in Europe today, with the Muslim population in the European Union already approaching 25 million (and that is not counting, next door, the 70 million in Turkey, or the 20 million in Russia). When a young European couple makes plans for their own future, in many places they now must consider whether they will be sending their children to schools with large numbers of Muslim children (schools with syllabi subject to drastic change, as in France, where the history of Western Christendom is no longer compulsory). Private schools might be a solution for that young couple, but also would be an extra expense which, in turn, might cause them to limit their own family’s size. Meanwhile, Muslims greatly outbreed non-Muslims all over Europe, and thus constitute an ever-larger percentage of the population. Nor is it only the young who must revise their expectations downward. When older Europeans consider what state assistance will be available to them, they must take into account a likely decrease in what they will receive, because of the amounts now going to Muslim immigrants (most of whom never paid into the social security system, but are still eligible for support). All this is a major contributor to the European “resignation” and “weariness” that the Pope deplores.

None of this grim reality was allowed into the Pope’s speech. What he called for was more “integration” of the kind that led to the European Union. But whatever the differences among nations that were by degrees overcome to form the European Union are as nothing compared to the gigantic differences between Muslims and non-Muslims. He spoke at great length about the need, in Europe, for “integration” of the “foreigner” and the “migrant.” We know whom he means, and we know why he offers not analysis but only pious hope. The same fact-defying obsession and desire to “integrate” Muslims in Europe has caused him to make other astonishing remarks, as he did two years ago when he claimed that the Qur’an is a “peaceful book” and Islam “a peaceful religion.”

In his Charlemagne speech, the Pope said that “the identity of Europe is, and always has been, a dynamic and multicultural identity.” This sounds good. What right-thinking person could possibly have anything against what is “dynamic and multicultural”? But what does the phrase mean? And if we manage to figure out what it means, then we must ask “but is it true”? What makes one “culture” sufficiently different from the majority culture for its presence to create a “multicultural” identity? What is the “multicultural identity” of Italy? Is it “multicultural” because the Greeks were in southern Italy three thousand years ago, or Muslims in Sicily eleven hundred years ago, or Austrians ruled what is now the Alto Adige a century ago? How long is our timeline? What is the mix-n’-match needed to create that elusive “multicultural identity” the Pope so ardently desires for Europe?

Surely there can be differences so great between cultures as to preclude the possibility of that “multicultural identity.” What allowed the European Union to come into being was that the differences among its member states were not nearly as large as between Muslims and non-Muslims. The Pope knows that European countries have a common heritage in Greece and Rome and, for the past 2000 years, the peoples of Europe have developed their civilization within a shared faith, Christianity — a word which Pope Francis, in his Charlemagne speech, never once uttered.

The Pope is not alone in minimizing the role of Christianity (at least in his public utterances) in creating the civilization of Europe. It’s become quite the thing. A few years ago, former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac created a mild scandal when he spoke of a “Europe whose roots are as much Muslim as Christian.” Such statements, alas, no longer scandalize. When, the other day, the European Minister for Financial and Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici roundly declared that “Europe is not Christian. I don’t believe in the supposed ‘Christian roots’ of Europe. Europe is diverse,” practically no one protested. No words of correction or reproach came, not even from the Vatican.

In Pope Francis’ view, Europe is true to its own past only when it admits, and “integrates,” others who can satisfy that essential need for “multicultural identity.” But how do you create a “multicultural” identity when the faith of Islam rejects all compromises or “integration” with non-Muslims? No sleight of word from the Vatican – nor all the perfumes of Arabia – can make this happen.

“The capacity to integrate” should be based on real “solidarity” with the migrants, says the Pope: “Time is teaching us that it is not enough simply to settle individuals geographically: the challenge is that of a profound cultural integration.” Perhaps the Pope has not noticed, but Europeans have been going out of their way for years to promote that “profound cultural integration” with the new Muslim immigrants. There are state-funded language classes, required lessons in many countries in their history, customs, laws as part of “citizenship education” for immigrants (see, as one example, the requirements for the Dutch Certificaat Inburgering) – all provided to “acculturate” Muslims and to help them become part of the larger society. But this has not led to the desired result, because Muslims who remain true to Islam don’t want to be part of that larger society; they want that larger society to adjust to them. They will learn what they must to pass the tests, but only to ensure they can remain in the country. They are still intent on changing the culture of Europe rather than themselves. And they have had nothing to give them pause, but only triumphs so far: changes to the school curricula, censorship of material deemed anti-Islam, rules to prevent gender-mixing in municipal pools or gyms, halal food served in school cantines and prisons. Even those Muslims at the very pinnacle of worldly success have not “integrated” as the Pope might have assumed they would. Think of Tariq Ramadan, who teaches at Oxford, and whose knowledge of Western languages and culture has done nothing to dampen his enthusiasm for his role as Muslim apologist; he is not so much an example of “cultural integration” as of someone who has exploited his knowledge of Western culture and languages, the better to defend and promote Islam through the Jihad of “pen, speech.”

If proof of the openness of European societies to immigrants were needed, look only at the success with which so many “others” — Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists – have been integrated. Compare their example with that of Muslim immigrants who, remaining true to their faith, instead of accepting those well-meaning attempts to integrate them, work to impose their own “culture” uncompromisingly on the “culture” of their European hosts. Such “profound cultural integration” as has taken place in Europe with many other kinds of immigrants has been uniquely unsuccessful with Muslims. The Pope dare not allude to the reasons for this; for him it’s “dialogue” all the way with everyone: “If there is one word that we should never tire of repeating, it is this: dialogue. We are called to promote a culture of dialogue by every possible means and thus to rebuild the fabric of society. The culture of dialogue entails a true apprenticeship and a discipline that enables us to view others as valid dialogue partners, to respect the foreigner, the immigrant, and people from different cultures as worthy of being listened to.” So it’s the “foreigner” and the “immigrant” and “people from different cultures” with whom Europeans must enter into this “culture of dialogue.” But, it needs constantly to be repeated, what if those “foreigners” and those “immigrants” have been taught not to enter into “dialogue” with others, in their case those “others” being non-Muslims, because there is nothing, in the Muslim view, about which the “best of peoples” (Muslims) can have a “dialogue” with the “vilest of creatures” (Non-Muslims).

Now just imagine if the Pope had turned things on their head, and dared to suggest in his Charlemagne Prize speech that “immigrants should exhibit real solidarity with those who have taken them in,” that the “foreigner and the immigrant” have a “duty to learn about, and take an intelligent interest in, the history of their new country, if they expect integration and dialogue”? All hell would have broken loose.

The Pope quotes approvingly Elie Wiesel, “a survivor of the Nazi death camps” who “has said that what we need today is a ‘memory transfusion.’ We need to ‘remember,’ to take a step back from the present to listen to the voice of our forebears.” Of course. But which memories does Europe need to have transfused from the past, and the voices of which forebears? How about the memories of more than a thousand years of Islam’s “encounter” with Europe, meaning the conquest of Christian lands, in North Africa, in Anatolia, in the Middle East, and the virtual extinguishing of Christianity in many of those lands and the screams of anguish – “the voice of our forebears” — that must have accompanied that conquest and subjugation? Isn’t that, at present, the “memory transfusion” most needed throughout Europe and, judging by the Pope’s good-hearted but soft-headed remarks, in the Vatican too? And while we are at it, wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect that someone in authority will declare — because it obviously needs to be restated — that Europe does indeed have “Christian roots”? Perhaps even this Pope?

 

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  1. Andra says

    May 12, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    I wonder why the Catholic Church has been beaten with this Pope in times like ours. Where is a new Urban? Why didn´t the Cardinals pick the Hungarian Cardinal who dares speaking Non-pc about Islam?
    Why does the Catholic Church get the third Pope in line who worships Allah by kissing Koran?
    As the Western politicians all have run mad already we would have needed strong an truthful religious leaders.

    • Isabellathecrusader says

      May 12, 2016 at 1:08 pm

      Unfortunately, we get the leaders we deserve. Modern people excuse themselves from practicing the faith the way Jesus taught us to. They go against what he taught but then show up at church on Sunday with their big hats and expect God to acquiesce to their demands. They keep God around for when they really need Him but don’t want Him mussing up the works with commands to live a more pure life and honor Him above all, including above the latest sports event or Game of Thrones episode.

      We are screwed by our own hands.

    • DFD says

      May 12, 2016 at 1:32 pm

      The German Pope, Benedikt, saw that coming, he know hat was going on, being planned. Do you really believe he resigned for health reasons? He’s still around, and for his age rather healthy…

      Think about it. This isn’t yesterday’s idea, hmmh?

      • Isabellathecrusader says

        May 12, 2016 at 2:12 pm

        I don’t know why Benedict left early but I do know that he is one of the Periti who during Vatican II was complicit in setting up the scenario that we are all suffering from now. Perhaps he has remorse over his actions, I don’t know, but Pope Francis is merely following the plan.

        • DFD says

          May 12, 2016 at 4:18 pm

          To: Isabellathecrusader

          Hi,

          You could have (a bit of) a point there. But what speaks against that is that this goes back way beyond, or rather prior, to Benedikt.

          Of course, we can only speculate. All we, the public, are good enough for is well rehearsed, meaningless speeches.

          I like your moniker or handle, nice 🙂

        • Isabellathecrusader says

          May 12, 2016 at 5:52 pm

          Hi DFD,

          Yeah, I know it goes back way further, to Lenin and the rise of the Communists throughout the planet. I’m just saying that Benedict as Cardinal Ratzinger was a big time modernist, in direct opposition to the teachings of say, Pope St. Pius X, who condemned modernism, and therefore part of the problem, not a supporter of the true Catholic cause.

          Oh, thank you. My girl Isabella Catolica is my inspiration. She knew how to kick some serious Muslim _ss. Didn’t put up with any nonsense. I wish she were here now.

    • Truth Seeker says

      May 13, 2016 at 11:48 am

      End Times. Church Leaders and Political Leaders will get the Influence of Satanic Forces and these people will lead mankind into destruction.

    • Polk1970 says

      May 13, 2016 at 7:53 pm

      Why is Benedict in living exile somewhere in the . hills
      Come to think of it ,WHY isn’t he in his native Germany?

  2. Lucienne says

    May 12, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    There is a reason that this Pope is called the false prophet in the Book of Revelation. All Born Again Christians are talking about it. Come Lord Jesus.

    • Charli Main says

      May 12, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      With respect Lucienne, I hate the term ” born again Christian” I was born a Christian, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A CHRISTIAN and despite the best efforts of the scum of Islam, will die one.

      • Lucienne says

        May 12, 2016 at 6:07 pm

        Charli Main , Well my dear it was Jesus that said ‘you must be Born Again’ in my Holy Bible. Have a Blessed Day.

        • Charli Main says

          May 13, 2016 at 3:44 am

          Dear Lucienne

          I´m not an expert, but I believe that was directed by our Lord, at His Jewish brothers meaning that they must be born again by BECOMING CHRISTIANS

          Perhaps Champ a very devout and knowledgeable Christian can clarify this point.

        • Lucienne says

          May 13, 2016 at 6:57 pm

          Charli Main, Last reply. Are You Born Again?

          The phrase “born again” has picked up a lot of baggage over the years, to the point where some more “sophisticated” Christians don’t even like to use it. .
          .
          .

          But the Bible is very clear on two points. The first is, we must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:3). And the second is, we become born again by believing, 1) that we are sinners in need of a savior, 2) that Jesus came to die for our sins, and 3) that He rose again on the third day as proof that His death was sufficient to save us from our sins. Otherwise we have believed in vain (1 Cor. 15:1-4).

          By becoming born again we have become like little children in God’s sight and are therefore qualified, just like they are, to enter His Kingdom and enjoy eternal life with Him.

          https://gracethrufaith.com/topical-studies/spiritual-life/must-born/

        • Champ says

          May 13, 2016 at 7:25 pm

          Charli Main wrote:

          Perhaps Champ a very devout and knowledgeable Christian can clarify this point.

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Thank you for your kind words, Charli 🙂

          Yes, Jesus said you must be “born again” …

          And “Got Questions” offers a thorough and succint explanation:

          Question: “What does it mean to be a born again Christian?”

          Answer: What does it mean to be a born-again Christian? The classic passage from the Bible that answers this question is John 3:1-21. The Lord Jesus Christ is talking to Nicodemus, a prominent Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin (the ruling body of the Jews). Nicodemus had come to Jesus at night with some questions.

          As Jesus talked with Nicodemus, He said, “‘I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.’ ‘How can a man be born when he is old?’ Nicodemus asked. ‘Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!’ Jesus answered, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, “You must be born again”’” (John 3:3-7).

          The phrase “born again” literally means “born from above.” Nicodemus had a real need. He needed a change of his heart—a spiritual transformation. New birth, being born again, is an act of God whereby eternal life is imparted to the person who believes (2 Corinthians 5:17; Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 1:3; 1 John 2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1-4, 18). John 1:12, 13 indicates that being “born again” also carries the idea of “becoming children of God” through trust in the name of Jesus Christ.

          Excerpt here: http://www.gotquestions.org/born-again.html

        • Polk1970 says

          May 13, 2016 at 8:03 pm

          Folks,
          This is Jihad Watch,not Christian Theology 101-102

      • Kepha says

        May 13, 2016 at 6:53 pm

        Remember Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” (John 3:3)–the same conversation whose climax is, “for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16).

        This is also a central message of the Gospel of John, mentioned in the prologue (which tells us what the rest of the book is going to tell us) in which we are told, “But as many as received him (the Incarnate Logos of God, namely Jesus Christ), to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12-13).

        It is clear from these verses in the prologue that the spiritual birth (the new birth) is separate from one’s physical birth. Perhaps it is the Johannine complement to Paul’s teaching of two humanities, either in the Old Adam, or in Christ (cf. Romans 5).

        I further reject that idea that Jesus is saying that the old Israel (represented by Nicodemus, a teacher in Israel) is what has to be born again. It is clear from the verses in the Johannine Prologue, as well as in John 10, where Jesus speaks of his sheep hearing his voice and his calling them by name, that Jesus speaks to individual human persons as well–and I write as one who believes that community (the church) is extremely important, and that one cannot be a freelance Christian.

        I do not say that a liver-shiver emotional binge equals the New Birth; as is implied by too many of my Evangelical brethren. I do not think that one has to be able to date one’s second birth (especially if we’ve grown up around Christian influences and let them have their way). But I also refuse to accept that a smug, “I have been born, at most, only once” is proper for a Christian. The fact of the matter is that being in Christ is being a new creation (II Corinthians 5:17), none of us can confess Jesus as Lord save by the Holy Spirit, and all the rest. Teaching the need of the new birth is a reminder that the Christian faith is a supernatural one, which God fosters by His Word and Spirit rather than simply a matter of which association we adhere to whether by birth or choice.

        And now to the main topic: what are we to make of Pope Francis?

        My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me. (Hosea 4:6).

        This is the fruit of liberal thinking, which, alas, infects even the churches of Christ to an appalling degree.

        • Lucienne says

          May 13, 2016 at 7:00 pm

          Oh my Dear, I can see your Holy Ghost from my house. Great job!

        • Polk1970 says

          May 13, 2016 at 8:06 pm

          The world must learn the REAL circumstances of Pope Benedict’s .
          abdication to a mountain EXILE in rural Itay

        • Laura says

          May 13, 2016 at 9:11 pm

          In other words…just because one sits in a garage, does not make one a car! 🙂

    • Isabellathecrusader says

      May 12, 2016 at 2:15 pm

      Good one Westman. Randy, please stay on subject.

  3. SoCalMike says

    May 12, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    I loathe this Pope.
    He is a false prophet like Obama.
    He is the Devil in angel garb.

    • Polk1970 says

      May 13, 2016 at 8:11 pm

      He is the result of a Vatican Coup and it’s as plain as day
      Is Benedict a mountain captive like Mussolini was for some “reason.
      Is he the victim of Vatican intrigue and politics.
      WHAT happened to Pope John Paul I,the one month Pontiff,found dead in his bed,and dramitized in the movie “Godfather III”

  4. jihad3tracker says

    May 12, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    Deborah Tyler’s item in the December 28 2015 online edition of American Thinker has been recommended by me several times here on JW.

    She mentions cognitive dissonance as the prime cause of stupid thinking from otherwise intelligent people — even when faced with overwhelming evidence that their conclusions are wrong.

    Go here: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/why_people_cant_face_the_truth_about_obama_.html

    Read it for some insight on the Pope, Merkel, Cameron, and oodles of additional stooges masquerading as capable heads of state.

    • Jack Diamond says

      May 12, 2016 at 2:13 pm

      Cognitive dissonance helped along with heavy doses of conformity, fear disguised as respect, outright corruption and treason, short-term greed and ambition, pariah status for thinking any differently.

      This dream of recovering Europe’s importance and power (combined with fervent anti-Americanism) had led to ideas of an Arab-European symbiosis as far back as the 1960s (or at least Arab-French). It became real as a result of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 (and after years of PLO terrorism on the continent). The OPEC oil-boycott, quadrupling of prices, political demands. Political demands the EU met 19 days later, siding against Israel, recognizing the PLO and Arafat and the “Palestinian cause” (whose charter delegitimized the existence of Israel; the later Hamas Charter actually calling for genocide, never denounced by the EU), the beginning of vast alliances with the Arab League, including policies for Muslim immigration into Europe.

      Oriana Fallaci on the Euro-Arab Dialogue and the Strasbourg Resolution (from “The Force of Reason”):
      “”It was then that Europe definitely sold itself to Islam…I went to Paris and got hold of the back numbers of “Eurabia” (the journal of the conferences). (Editor Lucian) Bitterlin underlines how the future of Europe is directly linked to the future of the Middle East and says that economic agreement has to depend on political agreements: to reflect ‘a complete identity of European views with the views of the Arab world.’ (In the second issue he enumerates the proposals of the Strasbourg Resolution for…) future immigrants. To be precise, the immigrants that Arab countries intend to send to Europe along with the oil. ‘A medium and long term policy must be formulated through the technology that from now on the European Community will provide Arab countries in exchange of crude oil and Arab manpower reserves (immigrants) (leading to) the complete economic integration between Europe and Arabia.’

      Carefully avoiding the words Islam, Islamic, Muslims, Koran, Mohammad, Allah, the Resolution goes on talking about the human needs arising when the ‘human trade goods’ get to Europe. ‘the need to enable immigrants and their families to observe the religious and cultural life of the Arabs.’ ‘The necessity to use the press and the various information outlets to create a climate favorable to the immigrants.’ ‘The urgency to exalt through the press and the academic world the immense contribution given by Arab culture to European development.’ The Cairo Convention added ‘the immigrants shall have the right to export their culture to Europe. That is, to propagate and disseminate Islamic religion and habits.’ (Also) it clarified that european cooperation had to expand into banking, financial, scientific, nuclear, industrial, and commercial fields. Worse, Arab countries would purchase ‘massive quantities of weapons.'”

      That was over 40 years ago.
      What The Economist calls “scaremongering” (‘Tales From Eurabia’ 6/22/06).
      Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.

      • Mark Swan says

        May 12, 2016 at 2:20 pm

        Good Comment Jack Diamond

        • jihad3tracker says

          May 12, 2016 at 3:11 pm

          Yes, agreed.

          Thank you, Jack, for that contextual enlargement of my narrow attribution of cause. The added reason to read Deborah Tyler’s essay is her shredding of Barry Hussein Soetoro, aka Mr. Slick.

    • Polk1970 says

      May 13, 2016 at 8:17 pm

      I’ve been told CD also involves a WILLFUL desire to see what’s NOT reality
      They WANT,therefore it is.

  5. Wellington says

    May 12, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    Excellent essay by Fitzgerald, replete with a very clever twist in its title, courtesy of Voltaire.

  6. Custos Custodum says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    Why is anyone in Europe listening to a communist priest from Argentina? As is well known, communists in South America adopted the label “Liberation Theology” for their perversion of of traditional Church institutions to the ends of nihilist Marxism and power worship (but I repeat myself).

    BTW Eastern and South-Eastern Europe “remembers” rather more direct encounters with Islam. Hungary and Romania were under Ottoman suzerainty for centuries. In fact, the Ottoman Empire retained interests in the Balkans (e.g. Albania) until World War I.

    • Polk1970 says

      May 13, 2016 at 8:27 pm

      “Why is anyone in Europe listening to a communist priest from Argentina?”
      Especially since the German Pope was deposed in a Vatican Coup and is in EXILE in rural mountain Italy
      Question:
      WHY has Benedict not returned to his native Germany?
      CAN Benedict return to Germany ,IF he wants to?

      • Polk1970 says

        May 13, 2016 at 8:29 pm

        IS this a replay of Mussolini’s mountain captivity ,until Hitler rescued him?

  7. Jay Boo says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:10 pm

    Western interference ???

    It would seem that Muslims love ‘Western interference’ so much that “almost a million invaded into Germany just in the last year” after Merkel opened the front door.

  8. SD says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    As a Protestant I never really liked the idea of a pope so much, however I did see the merits of having a leader of Christianity or someone that could Inspire Christians because of his religious position. Now that popes are washing and kissing Muslim feet I have no respect for this person and the position that they are supposed to represent. Surely the Muslim world is laughing at us. It’s a big joke but not the good kind. If Donald Trump gets elected the Muslims will have nothing to laugh about.

  9. Isabellathecrusader says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    Pope Francis is the perfect pope for our post Vatican II, modernistic, disobedient age. All my friends who are fallen away Catholics or nominal Protestants just think he’s great. They also don’t know that they are frogs in a pot and that the water is up to 180 right now.

  10. Walter Sieruk says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    How absurd, pope Francis say that the Europeans should “tear down” the walls of Europe and welcome the Muslim migrants .into their countries . Nevertheless the pope lives in the Vatican the has tall strong walls constructed around it that were originally build to keep Muslims out. Furthermore , two different years I’ve visited the Vatican and there are many sections of the city/nation that have the Swiss Guard keeping people out of many areas of that small nation. In addition, the changes are very large that the pope will never experience Muslim terrorism first hand as had the French ,many times. For the November jihad terror attack in Paris was not the first time this century the France had had Islamic violence. Likewise, the nation of Belgian this year those murderous Islamic terror attacks Brussels. Also Islamic crime , gang violence Muslim riots and Muslim sexual and outright rapes committed by misogynist Muslim against Europeans women the pope will never experience . So it’s easy for the pope to talk so gracious. What gall he has ! For the pope is safe from all this Islamic evil.

    • Mark Swan says

      May 12, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      Good Point Walter Sieruk

    • Polk1970 says

      May 13, 2016 at 8:34 pm

      And he has the Swiss Guard bodyguards,and they’re no slouches.

  11. DFD says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    HI All,

    (Not really) off topic, though…
    —————————————.

    It’s about masses of boat people landing, titled “How the Indian-Genozid really occurred”. It’s in American with German subtitles, from one of those websites promoting German Russian Alliances, other’s even unity…

    Right, that’s the source. It shows the racist, Nazi, politically incorrect Indians, refusing diversity and multiculturalism! Those racist, Neo-Nazi Indians are actually concerned, and calculate that they will be outnumbered in the future. There’s even a little white girl on the beach. But those heartless racist Indians still don’t want ‘them’…

    If you enjoyed these 15 minutes, and show your approval by reply, be careful! “Randy” will be shooting flaming arrows in the future – who knows, he’ll probably form a new tribe, together with “Christianblood”.

    Who cares? Here’s the link, ENJOY!

    https://youtu.be/vBb3yqf7Kok

    Again, if I cross post, please forgive.

    • RonaldB says

      May 13, 2016 at 10:45 am

      Thanks, DFD.

      The video is depressing as hell, but spot on. Assuming any of the left looks at it (they won’t, as they refuse to consider any viewpoint but their own), they will see a deadly accurate portrayal of their own arguments concerning unlimited immigration.

    • Kepha says

      May 13, 2016 at 7:02 pm

      DFD, I’ad not a fan of a Russo-German alliance.

      As for Randy, I’m sure he’s a blue-eyed blonde with lots of body hair. If we’re not careful, he’s going to come out of his mommy’s basement, borrow her lipstick to paint streaks on his cheeks, put on his made-in-China feathers and fringed leather loincloth, and attack us with a rubber tomahawk he bought at Disney World.

      • DFD says

        May 13, 2016 at 10:39 pm

        Kepha says: “…DFD, I’ad not a fan of a Russo-German alliance…”

        I just mentioned the source, that’s all.

        Interesting comments about Randy. “…blue-eyed blonde with lots of body hair…” Goes to show your thinking.

        I have no doubt you are one of those who are delighted about what happens to those blue-eyed blonde Swedes, Germans and others of course.

        How sometimes true opinions are revealed… Thank you for showing yours

        • Kepha says

          May 13, 2016 at 11:00 pm

          Easy, DFD. I’m [mostly] white myself.

          I was making an insinuation about Randy rather than about European peoples–that he is an overgrown kid playing Indian (a male Elizabeth Warren, aka Fauxahontas, if you will). I’m someone who finds a pet peeve in people who cry rivers of tears over the wrongs done to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, yet remain content to enjoy the fruits of European expansion and colonization (such as Randy-one-note).

          I do not delight in what is being done to the indigenous European population by the Muslim invasion, but feel a great deal of dismay. It’s one reason why I follow this blog.

  12. Guest says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    Don’t pretend you know who the real culprit is Pope.

  13. RonaldB says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:52 pm

    The intellectual laziness of the Pope and the rest of the Muslim enablers pops out at you.

    These are people who have chosen their world view years ago, and are not in the least interested in examining or modifying it. So, the more unrealistic the actual approach is, the more the Pope redoubles his energy into repeating the same old platitudes and formulas. He will not pay attention to any examination of assumptions or logic. He desperately tries to conceptualize the world, using dogged repetition rather than intelligence and critique. He rejects any discordant feedback by simply ignoring it.

    This approach does have a sort of Darwinian competitiveness. It is the approach Islam takes: there is no introspection or critique allowed. Islam maintains its thrust, despite the truth or falsity of its core doctrines. This approach has allowed Islam to take over vast swatches of land in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. It took the Spaniards, Hungarians, and Bulgarians centuries to dig out the Islamic invaders.

    Part of the intellectual laziness of dignitaries like the Pope are to assume that once Muslims understand the philosophy of the liberal West, they will give up their theocratic and fascist intentions. In fact, Muslims in the West seldom switch their allegiance, although they might put Islam on hold for the sake of their own convenience. But eating pork or drinking alcohol does not constitute rejection of the central Islamic thrust to conquer. Islam has no competitive, moderate teachings (I’m aware of the Amadiyas). A self-identified Muslim cannot, by definition, integrate into Western culture. It is a contradiction in terms. The Pope and his coteries are too lazy and comfortable to grapple with this truth, so they simply put more energy into saying the same meaningless words.

    • mortimer says

      May 12, 2016 at 2:03 pm

      RB wrote: “intellectual laziness of dignitaries like the Pope”. Excellent!

      Western elites lazily assume from their base of cultural Marxism that their presuppositions are unassailable…whereas, their assumptions are merely unexamined and thus not worth having.

      Western elites assume they are experts at understanding Islam without having done their homework of actually reading Islam’s foundational source texts. They are dangerously shallow as were Chamberlain and his acolytes who refused to read and understand Hitler’s book and speeches.

      Heaven spare us from these feel-good, empty-headed and arrogant know-nothings.

      • Kepha says

        May 13, 2016 at 7:04 pm

        The current Western elite? It’s not only that their unexamined cultural Marxist assumptions are not worth having: they themselves are not worth having!

  14. mortimer says

    May 12, 2016 at 1:58 pm

    The Charlemagne Prize? No they should get the ‘Count Julian Prize’ for abetting the invasion of Europe by inassimilable hostile peoples who in future will visit immeasurable suffering upon the Europeans.

  15. Jack Holan says

    May 12, 2016 at 2:00 pm

    Pope Francis why isn’t there a huge number number of Syrian ‘Refugees’ targeted for South Ameica where there exists wide open spaces of workable land. Do you know one South American Country demanded that the UN take back Syrian refugees because of the threat they’ve become to they’re non-Muslim Women and how they try to impose Sharia on everyone? Could it be these White Europeans don’t deserve the their wealth so you’re putting it to use and redistributing it at the same time? Why hasn’t the Church stripped itself of all her jewel and other wealth collections to help these poor ‘Refugees’ or does the זChurch feel exempt. Islam is so Peaceful that Saudi Arabia is seeking Nuclear bombs to counter Iran, Shia Iran fought an 8 year war with Sunni Iraq and lost 1mm souls in the name of Allah. In the name of Islam the Christian Population of the Middle East has been reduced 80% and SHAME on you that you do the Muslim’s bidding dancing around proclaiming Islam is the Religion of Peace

    • mortimer says

      May 12, 2016 at 2:04 pm

      Pope Dhimmi.

    • Polk1970 says

      May 13, 2016 at 8:39 pm

      Bariloche,Patagonia,Argentina would love to assimilate Syrian refugees.
      Yep, those 90 yr old Nazi War Criminals and their descendents will throw a welcome party in the village square.
      Yesiree,,what a match made in heaven
      Nazis and Jihadists.

      • Polk1970 says

        May 13, 2016 at 8:49 pm

        of course, there is this “Aryan “thing in Argentine Germania that may prove a problem .
        That would leave ,Islamic Supremecists invaders,against the “Aryan Supremecists who know a thing or two about invasions.

  16. Christian says

    May 12, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    We are screwed by our own hands.
    Of course.

  17. mortimer says

    May 12, 2016 at 2:07 pm

    Islam is inassimilable.

  18. Isabellathecrusader says

    May 12, 2016 at 2:09 pm

    It should not be shocking to anyone who studies history that our present pope may in fact be a Communist. Lenin hatched a plan almost a hundred years ago to infiltrate the Catholic Church from the inside. As the biggest opponent of Communism on the planet Lenin knew he had to do something to neutralize the Church and so he decided to fill our seminaries with Communist agents. If you don’t believe me read Bella Dodd’s excellent autobiography, School of Darkness. She was a high ranking member of the Communist Party USA who personally placed 1000 Communist agents in seminaries. The fruits of her work and others like her has come to full fruition.

    Ironically, she left the Communist Party and came back to the Church in her later years, The priest who brought her back in? None other than Archbishop Fulton Sheen of Life is Worth Living acclaim.

    • Joanne says

      May 12, 2016 at 5:31 pm

      Interesting. Do you think this is in part why our priests and bishops have been so disgracefully negligent (with a few exceptions) in teaching us our faith for the past several decades?

      • Isabellathecrusader says

        May 12, 2016 at 6:03 pm

        Yes ma’am. It’s all part of Satan’s plan to make himself the ruler of the world and not submit to Our Lord Jesus Christ. No faith = no one to stand against him. And it’s super hard to be a true practicing Catholic. You can’t do everything you want and stay in the fold, But Vatican II made it easy for priests and parishioners who want to be “Catholic” but don’t want it to be too taxing to enjoy (in their minds) the benefit of faith without having to exert too much energy. Hence we have endless discussions about priests getting married, divorced Catholics being able to receive the Eucharist after they “marry” someone else, “gay” marriage and all the rest instead of getting close to Jesus and coming to understand him very well and being willing to sacrifice for Him like He sacrificed for us. People nowadays miss the whole point but that has a lot to do with asking a modern priest what the Church teaches about this or that and having him tell you, “You’ve got to do what you feel is right”. No Father, I’m asking you, “What does the Church teach about…” and I need you to give me a definitve answer.

        • Charli Main says

          May 13, 2016 at 11:59 am

          Ah yes, the Church must be modernised and brought into the 21st century mantra.

          God is not a democracy and His laws are not for manipulating to fit into and condone modern social behaviour.

    • RonaldB says

      May 13, 2016 at 11:02 am

      It’s very interesting to read the assertion, and quite possible that the Communist Party instituted a systematic infiltration of Catholic seminaries. The same thing is happening today, with the systematic infiltration by the Muslim Brotherhood of US government security agencies.

      The real beauty of the plan, in either case, is it does not have to be kept secret. Just as Bella Dodd revealed the details of the Communist infiltration, to no effect, the Center for Security Policy
      http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/about-us/
      has extensively documented the Muslim Brotherhood penetration of US security. The response of the White House and US government is to ban the people who document the infiltration.

      Which came first? The weakening of the resolve of US institutions, which view their circumstances as so comfortable that they can’t imagine anyone wanting to disturb them, or the penetration of vital institutions, systematically demolishing the sense of culture and uniqueness? I honestly don’t know.

  19. mortimer says

    May 12, 2016 at 2:14 pm

    The Beheading of the Spanish King

    The traitorous dhimmi renegades of the Spanish army captured King Rodrigo and handed him to Count Julian, who presented him to Musa ibn Nusayr and Tarik ibn Ziyad. On the orders of Musa, Tarik caught hold of the fugitive emperor’s hair and sawed off his head. The Muslim army stuck the Spanish Emperor’s head on a pole and paraded it before those contingents of the Spanish army that were still engaged in opposing the Muslims in crossing of the Guadalete River.

    The grisly sight of their emperor’s severed head was a one which even the brave and chivalrous Spanish were not used to seeing. This gruesome sight, caused pandemonium and panic in the Spanish army and what followed was a unruly retreat and a slaughter of a greater part of the now demoralized and retreating Spanish army.

    The Visigothic king Rodrigo decided to cross over to repulse the invading Arab hordes. But as had been pre-mediated those contingents of the Spanish army who were secretly loyal to Count Julian did not cross and remained on the other bank, thus ensuring the defeat of the Spaniards and the victory of the Muslims.

    The pope is a Count Julian.

    • RonaldB says

      May 13, 2016 at 11:12 am

      That’s a very interesting recollection of the earliest Muslim invaders of Europe and Spain.

      A primary point is that the Muslims gain as much or more from subversion and infiltration as from military might. They always seem to have plenty of allies among their targeted victims.

      The Muslims have used these tactics to conquer vast areas of formerly Christian, Buddhist, and Zoroastrian lands.

      The whole philosophy and practice of Islam is to maintain their identity in foreign lands, reject any softening of their aggressive, violent, imperialist nature, and systematically cripple any possible resistance, including the tactic of constantly dumbing down their own population through inbreeding.

  20. teresa says

    May 12, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    Pope Francis is a south American Jesuit who is a Marxist as most of the Jesuits were. He can not possibly be unaware of the mayhem these Muslim refugees are causing in Europe and in the US if Obama has his way. To urge the acceptance of millions of Muslims who are not allowed by their religion to assimilate into other non-Muslim cultures is to encourage the destruction of the Judeo-Christian culture that is western civilization. I want to know why he and Obama feel that the world will be better off under the Koran than under principles laid out in the Constitution. At this point it seems that they automatically side with third-world refugees who are changing every country they occupy. Is there a number of westerners who have to die before things will settle down to a quiet life under Sharia? Are we making up for the Crusades or what?

  21. Stephen says

    May 12, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    Fuddy duddy exteriors often cover a cold menacing heart. No man I repeat no man can be ignorant of the ramifications of such a position on Islam who is aware of what they do to Chritians or anyone who does not except sharia, no man even if that man is the Pope.

    • RonaldB says

      May 13, 2016 at 11:16 am

      I think your point is well-taken, and one I had not thought of. The Pope’s obvious incompetence and obliviousness may not be simply stupidity and intellectual sloth.

    • Lion of Judah's Cub says

      May 13, 2016 at 2:23 pm

      Is Obama the antichrist and Pope Francis the false prophet?

  22. Mirren10 says

    May 12, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    What an utterly nauseating photograph. It makes my gorge rise.

    For those who have read C.S. Lewis’s: ”That Hideous Strength”, think of the picture of Frost and Wither, head to head, knee to knee, gibbering and giggling over what they think will be the triumph of N.I.C.E.

    In the story, the N.I.C.E. didn’t triumph. Let’s hope their alter ego doesn’t triumph in the real world.

  23. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 12, 2016 at 4:05 pm

    An excellent essay on the decline and fall of European civilization.

    The fall coincides with the retirement of representative government with the inception of the EU:

    When older Europeans consider what state assistance will be available to them, they must take into account a likely decrease in what they will receive, because of the amounts now going to Muslim immigrants (most of whom never paid into the social security system, but are still eligible for support).

    We all know that when you can’t control your own fate by voting then it is under the control of the ruling elite. But for some reason empowered ruling elites almost always get things exactly wrong. In the case of Europe, the birth of the Pill and decline of birth rates was met by the mass importation of Moslems. The bureaucrats in Brussels could’ve brought in tens of millions of Mexicans and things would be better today. True, the cost would’ve been high to transport the millions across the Atlantic to their new home, but at least they work, and only do mass murders and beheadings in pursuit of drug cartel expansion.

    • RonaldB says

      May 13, 2016 at 11:26 am

      An alternative explanation is that the people of the countries involved in the EU imperialism were lured by the prospect of German money. Their governments were able to distribute public funds that they did not have, but borrowed from German and Belgian bankers. Of course, “he who pays the piper, calls the tune”, and the people who became accustomed to living on unearned income found their independence and identity was demolished.

      Some people claim the Federal Reserve contains the roots of destruction of the US, as it permits covert manipulation of the US money supply and banking system for private profit. And yet, paradoxically, the US had to attain a national identity and unity beyond a confederation of independent states, in order to resist foreign incursions such as the Barbary pirate attacks on US shipping.

  24. Richard Paulsen says

    May 12, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    Is there an imam or a pope in the Vatican as head of Christians of Catholic belief? How many Christians are there in muslim countries? How many of other beliefs? Granted how much influence?What happende to them?
    Wishing the same for Christians in Europe and all the Civilian world? Watching the holocaust Europe? Not caring?
    Not bothering him the lack of water and food as in most of the world outside Europe and the Civilian world.
    The pope can calm down. Muslims in Europe as well as globally are increasing.
    Number of muslim growth globally between 1990-2030 1,050 -2,190 muslims. From 19,9%-26,4% of global population. Plus 1,140 billion increase in 30 years. Some 40 million more per year.
    Is he telling the Americas the same as he tells the europeans? To be more open?
    There was just 0,6 muslims in the Americas and 6,0% in Europe 2010. Ten times more in Europe than in the America, Argentina 2,5%, Chile less than 0,1%, Cuba 0,1%.
    God bless the pope, the Vatican, his church and his Congregation.

    • Richard Paulsen says

      May 12, 2016 at 4:52 pm

      Correction: Civilized world. Not civilian.

  25. ECAW says

    May 12, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    Why this mad keenness everywhere to tear down walls?

    I am something of a wallophile myself. They hold my roof up and keep my neighbours out of my living room.

    • Isabellathecrusader says

      May 12, 2016 at 6:05 pm

      I agree ECAW. I am definitely pro-walls.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        May 12, 2016 at 9:01 pm

        Yep.

        Like Robert Frost said, “good fences make good neighbours”. As any farmer or pet owner knows!

        When our dog dug a hole under our back fence to go play with her BFF, the pup in the house that backed onto ours, I made sure I filled up the hole. Because although the two dogs get on great and love playing, I didn’t want my dog, who is young and boisterous, maybe annoying the folks next door, chewing up their stuff, or even getting out through *their* front fence onto the road. The two pups can still touch noses through the wire fence and we’ll organise a ‘play date’ at the local dog park.

        • ECAW says

          May 13, 2016 at 1:42 am

          DDA – That poem by Robert Frost is one of the few things I remember from my “A” level Eng Lit course many years ago. As I remember he had to go through an annual ritual with his neighbour of repairing the common fence. He was not particularly pro-fence and as I remember was even slightly mocking his neighbour’s concern, and into whose mouth he put the phrase. Nevertheless it has become a widespread saying which most sensible people would agree with…excluding Obama, Merkel. Francis, the no-borders loonies and the foolish young whose only concern is to identify the cool side of any argument. I think of the phrase every time I see young African males clambering onto a European naval vessel.

  26. garegin says

    May 12, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    I honestly believe that one doesn’t have to resort to conspiracy theories to explain why religious leaders are complete p***ies when it comes Islam. In this day and age saying the truth makes you a Westboro Baptism nutbag. Even if Francis thought that Islam is of the devil, he would have to resort to endless kowtowing to get his point across. I mean cmon people, the whole upper east side was frothing at the mouth when Romney told a cold FACT (a statistic, not an opinion) that half of Americans don’t pay taxes. What do you think will happen if a religious public figure lays it down?
    Do we have to be reminded of the worldwide mayhem after Benedict had that remark or when Jews accused Ann Coulter of anti-semitism when she said that they need to accept Jesus?
    Saying anything hasher than “all religions are the same, rainbows and butterflies” is bound to get your ass handed to you.

  27. Isabellathecrusader says

    May 12, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    The “Prophecy” of Bella Dodd
    by Christopher A. Ferrara

    In light of the current confusion and moral scandal in the Church, it would be well to consider a neglected bit of recent Church history: the public testimony of Bella Dodd, who served as legal counsel to the Communist Party in the United States until her conversion to Catholicism, after which she spent the rest of her life atoning for her role in the communist infiltration of the Catholic Church.

    An article in Christian Order magazine (November 2000) recounts how Dodd and her associate, Douglas Hyde, revealed the plan for communist subversion of the Church:

    Ex-Communist and celebrated convert Douglas Hyde revealed long ago that in the 1930s the Communist leadership issued a worldwide directive about infiltrating the Catholic Church. While in the early 1950s, Mrs. Bella Dodd was also providing detailed explanations of the Communist subversion of the Church. Speaking as a former high ranking official of the American Communist Party, Mrs. Dodd said: “In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within.” The idea was for these men to be ordained and progress to positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops. A dozen years before Vatican II she stated that: “Right now they are in the highest places in the Church” — where they were working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church’s effectiveness against Communism. She also said that these changes would be so drastic that “you will not recognise the Catholic Church.”

    Dodd gave voluminous testimony on communist infiltration of Church and state before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the 1950s. In a lecture at Fordham University during that time, Dodd unveiled what would seem to be an uncanny prophecy of future chaos in the Church. The lecture was attended by a monk whose account of the talk is presented in Christian Order:

    I listened to that woman for four hours and she had my hair standing on end. Everything she said has been fulfilled to the letter. You would think she was the world’s greatest prophet, but she was no prophet. She was merely exposing the step-by-step battle plan of Communist subversion of the Catholic Church. She explained that of all the world’s religions, the Catholic Church was the only one feared by the Communists, for it was its only effective opponent. The whole idea was to destroy, not the institution of the Church, but rather the Faith of the people, and even use the institution of the Church, if possible, to destroy the Faith through the promotion of a pseudo-religion: something that resembled Catholicism but was not the real thing. Once the Faith was destroyed, she explained that there would be a guilt complex introduced into the Church…. to label the ‘Church of the past’ as being oppressive, authoritarian, full of prejudices, arrogant in claiming to be the sole possessor of truth, and responsible for the divisions of religious bodies throughout the centuries. This would be necessary in order to shame Church leaders into an ‘openness to the world,’ and to a more flexible attitude toward all religions and philosophies. The Communists would then exploit this openness in order to undermine the Church.

    Does any of this sound familiar? Unless you have been comatose since Vatican II, you would be aware that Bella Dodd was describing the state of the Catholic Church today. Today, post-conciliar churchmen wallow in guilt over the Church’s “intolerant” past, make public apologies for the sins of dead Catholics (but not their own sins against the living faithful, including the victims of the homo-priest cover-up), and extol the virtues of other religions, thereby de facto abandoning the defined dogma that there is no salvation outside the Church.

    Bella Dodd was no prophet. She merely told us what the infiltrators of the Church were planning to do. And lo, they have done it.

    • common sense says

      May 12, 2016 at 9:22 pm

      Also see Barrack Hussein Obama AKA the POTUS. Coincidence?
      My Catholic forebears warned me about the weak response to Islam after 911. People expected that “We are supposed to just take it and not do anything”. I will never forget that

  28. Isabellathecrusader says

    May 12, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    Anybody notice any similarities in the above to Obama’s plan to fundamentally transform America?

    • Frank says

      May 12, 2016 at 10:30 pm

      Certainly. One that leaps instantly to mind is Obama’s appointment of multiple ‘czars’ not subject to congressional confirmation/oversight/review, reporting only directly to himself, as a way of circumventing the Departmental Inspectors General.

      • Isabellathecrusader says

        May 13, 2016 at 12:18 am

        It’s all part of the same plan. The Leftists, Democrat, Progressives, Communists, whatever you want to call them are using Islam to eradicate any shreds of our Christian based heritage in the west and the Muslims are using the fellow travelers to further their agenda of infiltrating and conquering our societies. I assume both think they will get rid of the other once they achieve their goals. I’d love to be out of here before then but unfortunately, I’ve got kids that have to live through this. So we carry on and keep trying to stand tall. Surrendering to that garbage is not an option.

  29. ILIA TOLI says

    May 12, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    I didn’t even read the article, but this pope has nothing whatsoever to do with faith or religion. He is just another career bureaucrat of cold calculations, like any other career bureaucrat in the world. All he cares about is his chair. Anything would do. Passes on the Christian siblings, kisses the feet of black muslims. Well, that benefits his career.

  30. Annak says

    May 12, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    Francis is just another narcissist upstart joining the ranks of Obama, Merkel, and now Khan , the London ‘ Mayor’ believing they are co- Presidents of the world.
    Francis , the Jesuit planet-saving -Commie is the worst of them all. A treasonous and blasphemous heretic twisting the scriptures, and a traitor to Christianity the RCC , the West and to God.
    So, rant over !

    • Richard Paulsen says

      May 12, 2016 at 9:30 pm

      Will we experience the pope and London Khan meeting in the Vatican shaking hands, big smiles shortly?
      Just waiting.

      • Richard Paulsen says

        May 12, 2016 at 9:31 pm

        London Mayor Khan.

      • Charli Main says

        May 13, 2016 at 12:07 pm

        Yes, indeed. Papa Francis is probably panting at the bit, to kiss and wash the paki´s feet.

  31. common sense says

    May 12, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    Yup that ought to finish the job. That is just how it is done,
    as so well put by Hugh.

    I’m Catholic. A real one like many that I know but my view point on Islam resides here.

    I have been threatened with my life more than once and grasp the significance of this article vastly more than the average American stooge.

    Forgiveness works between those with the same ethical code, Islam has never proved to me that they share that same code not even among their own. When safety is in question your forgiveness is not accepted.

    This all reeks of commercial greed, incest and death. This pope is an empty fart bag he means nothing to the Catholic faith. Too bad so many will listen blindly and then find a way to later blame it on Christendom once again.

  32. dajjal says

    May 12, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    Perhaps Europe should surrender to Dope Francis, embrace the ‘slimes with open arms and reinstitute slavery. Allocate the rapefugees to European families most in need and best able to manage a slave or two. The Euros will get ‘free’ labor, get the rapefugees off the welfare rolls and the rapefugees will have a sense of security and being wanted.

  33. Stewart Davies says

    May 13, 2016 at 6:49 am

    Elie Wiesel; “professional holocaust survivor,” pathological liar and monstrous fraud.

  34. Stephen says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    Christ’s final COMMAND, not suggestion, COMMAND!!! to the first Pope St. Peter and hence all his successors, that means you Pope Francis, till the end of time, “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Perhaps my kindergarten teachers explantion may help the Pope, “that means the Churches Mission, what God wants it to do, is to go into the world in order to convert every soul till the end of time to the Catholic Faith by teaching what Jesus taught.” At best he is guilty of deriliction of duty at worst, I don’t even want to consider it. Shameful witness! Just contrast the first Pope’s response with the present one’s.

    From the Acts of the Apostles,
    1 When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together,

    2 when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting;

    3 and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them.

    4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.

    5 Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven,

    6 and at this sound they all assembled, and each one was bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language.

    7 They were amazed and astonished. ‘Surely,’ they said, ‘all these men speaking are Galileans?

    8 How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language?

    9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; people from Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

    10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya round Cyrene; residents of Rome-

    11 Jews and proselytes alike — Cretans and Arabs, we hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God.’

    12 Everyone was amazed and perplexed; they asked one another what it all meant.

    13 Some, however, laughed it off. ‘They have been drinking too much new wine,’ they said.

    14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed them in a loud voice: ‘Men of Judaea, and all you who live in Jerusalem, make no mistake about this, but listen carefully to what I say.

    15 These men are not drunk, as you imagine; why, it is only the third hour of the day.

    16 On the contrary, this is what the prophet was saying:

    17 In the last days — the Lord declares — I shall pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young people shall see visions, your old people dream dreams.

    18 Even on the slaves, men and women, shall I pour out my Spirit.

    19 I will show portents in the sky above and signs on the earth below.

    20 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the day of the Lord comes, that great and terrible Day.

    21 And all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.

    22 ‘Men of Israel, listen to what I am going to say: Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God by the miracles and portents and signs that God worked through him when he was among you, as you know.

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    23 This man, who was put into your power by the deliberate intention and foreknowledge of God, you took and had crucified and killed by men outside the Law.

    24 But God raised him to life, freeing him from the pangs of Hades; for it was impossible for him to be held in its power since,

    25 as David says of him: I kept the Lord before my sight always, for with him at my right hand nothing can shake me.

    26 So my heart rejoiced my tongue delighted; my body, too, will rest secure,

    27 for you will not abandon me to Hades or allow your holy one to see corruption.

    28 You have taught me the way of life, you will fill me with joy in your presence.

    29 ‘Brothers, no one can deny that the patriarch David himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still with us.

    30 But since he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn him an oath to make one of his descendants succeed him on the throne,

    31 he spoke with foreknowledge about the resurrection of the Christ: he is the one who was not abandoned to Hades, and whose body did not see corruption.

    32 God raised this man Jesus to life, and of that we are all witnesses.

    33 Now raised to the heights by God’s right hand, he has received from the Father the Holy Spirit, who was promised, and what you see and hear is the outpouring of that Spirit.

    34 For David himself never went up to heaven, but yet he said: The Lord declared to my Lord, take your seat at my right hand,

    35 till I have made your enemies your footstool.

    36 ‘For this reason the whole House of Israel can be certain that the Lord and Christ whom God has made is this Jesus whom you crucified.’

    37 Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, ‘What are we to do, brothers?’

    38 ‘You must repent,’ Peter answered, ‘and every one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

    39 The promise that was made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for all those whom the Lord our God is calling to himself.’

    40 He spoke to them for a long time using many other arguments, and he urged them, ‘Save yourselves from this perverse generation.’

    41 They accepted what he said and were baptised. That very day about three thousand were added to their number.

    Enough said!!!!

    • RonaldB says

      May 13, 2016 at 12:42 pm

      “Enough said!!!!”

      Actually, far, far too much said.

  35. Jay Boo says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    The Pope has watched Lawrence of Arabia one to many times.

    Plot Summary:
    http://www.filmsite.org/lawr.html

    “Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the filmic retelling of Britishman T. E. Lawrence’s heroic, autobiographical account of his own Arabian adventure, published in “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” (originally published with the title Revolt in the Desert). The cinematic “men’s film” (with first-time screenwriter Robert Bolt’s screenplay) is a superb character study of a compelling cult hero, who exhibits homo-erotic tendences in his relationship with Arab blood brother Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), a dark personal nature, and an obsession with Arabia itself.”

  36. Mubarak says

    May 13, 2016 at 1:57 pm

    The pope is a melancholy figure and a monument to the memorial of a vital apostolic faith 2000 years ago. That Christ would built his church on the silly dialogues that this “man” proposes is as laughable as an attempt to built a house on the surface of the Dead Sea.
    Why not build a mosque beside St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and dialogue in between the calls to prayer—?
    Or even better: lend St. Peter’s Basilica to Muslims for prayer, as in this videoclip: https://youtu.be/BqWUZSNrVcE —? What could be more inclusive and multicultural? –
    The picture of the barren Angela Merkel from Germany and the papal and worldly eunuch from Italy is poignant. Once a coalition between the two countries spelled disaster for Europe, and what we see in this picture, if we have eyes to see with, is a proxy war against the Jews. History only repeats itself in new costumes.

  37. michael says

    May 13, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    We should stop listening to these crazy corrupt leaders and all start thinking and doing for ourselves it is our land and as things stand in a few years time we will have nowhere to call our own

  38. Michael Poulin says

    May 13, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    If you look through the biographies of past winners of the Charlemagne Prize you will see a pigpen full of ex-Nazi’s, socialists, communists , globalists, freemasons, banksters, secular humanists, transnationalists, and serial rapists, so it seems they have recognized a “brother” when they see one.

    Europe is doomed to die because it has intentionally cut off its Catholic roots. The VaticanII Church will die a similar death. No amount of Vatican II sounding graffiti spray painted on the ugly faceless concrete gravestone called the EU will ever resurrect it.

    As for Francis, well…at least bears still shit in the woods.

  39. Michael Poulin says

    May 13, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    That Pope Francis is a Modernist heretic can be justified by comparing his actions to the definitions of a Modernist heretic as written in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Encyclical on the Doctrine of the Modernists) by Pope Pius X September 8, 1907.
    Modernists do not deny, but maintain, that all religions are true, including Islam. For the Modernist,truth is not only able, but ought to evolve and to be changed. To the Modernists, whether as authors or propagandists, there is to be nothing stable, nothing immutable in the Church. There is no part of Catholic truth which they leave untouched, none that they do not strive to corrupt. . Authority, like the Church, has its origin in the religious conscience of individuals, and, that being so, is subject to it. Modernists deny the supernatural miracles of Jesus Christ and so deny His Divinity. This describes the man sitting in the chair of St Peter, a heretic and so therefore, not a Catholic.

  40. Truth Seeker says

    May 15, 2016 at 10:58 am

    Now Europeans Voluntarily Embrace Suicidal Death, by giving Warm Welcome to the Jihadis coming with the Mask of Refugees. Next Generation won’t see Europe,but see Eurabia.

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