There have already been jihad terrorists among the refugees (including two of the Paris jihad mass murderers in November 2015), and the Islamic State has threatened to send jihadis to Europe among the refugees. So on the face of it, it would appear that “our greatest security against hateful acts of terrorism” would be to keep the refugees out. Counterintuitively, the Pope says that “our greatest security against hateful acts of terrorism” is to bring the refugees in. Does he have a way to distinguish jihadis from peaceful refugees? He does not. He would just apparently rather see Europeans die in jihad massacres than do anything that would disturb his sense of his own moral rectitude.
“Pope: welcoming refugees helps keeps us safe from terrorism,” Associated Press, September 17, 2016 (thanks to W.):
Pope Francis has encouraged Europeans to welcome refugees, calling authentic hospitality “our greatest security against hateful acts of terrorism.”…
The pope said: “I encourage you to welcome refugees into your homes and communities, so that their first experience of Europe is not the traumatic experience of sleeping cold on the streets, but one of warm welcome.”…
He said each refugee “has a name, a face and a story, as well as an inalienable right to live in peace and to aspire to a better future” for their children.

Richard Paulsen says
Does he include Latin-and South America and Cuba? How many refugees do they welcome? Affording to build mosques.
Just forcing themselves into U.S.A. and the Western World except for Latin-South America and Cuba.
Rob says
“…Does he include Latin-and South America and Cuba?”
No – but the Vatican has plenty of space; and the pope will sell off all the gold, silver an art treasures the church has been hoarding for just this occasion, to ensure that he has plenty of funds to support, feed, house and educate the millions he wants help; and to bring to Jesus.
I’m sure they’ll all be appropriately grateful; and will work hard to assimilate into Vatican Culture – leaving behind them the barbarity and hatred with which their imams and madrassas indoctrinated their young minds.
Praise the lord…!
The pope is finally doing the work for which Jesus appointed him.
He will save mankind from the evils of false beliefs. He will convert the Muslims and make good Christians of them…
Walter Sieruk says
The pope has so much information available to him from so many well researched sources that there is really no excuse for him to be so naive and ignorant about the violent and deadly nature of Islam. Therefore the pope needs to have a reality check. For all those Islamic terror attacks around the world are ,indeed, Islamic. That is those murderous jihad attacks are ,very much based on religion. The religion of Islam For Islam’s “holy book” the Qur ‘an [the Koran] instructs on the uses of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. Furthermore, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruits then the fruits of that tree are the many brutal, violent and deadly jihad terror entities. Such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, al Shabaab , Hamas, Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc. With this statement, the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [K.J.V.] In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
BC says
Every thing that comes from his mouth is stupid and cowardly, even worse he doe little to protect his own faith and its followers Probably because he believes non Catholics do not count.
Frank says
On the contrary, he seems to believe everyone counts BUT Catholics. THEY get his thumb in their eyes, and his criticism and apparent contempt.
Shane says
The best thing that could happen to the Christian world would be for muslim terrorists to kill this Dope. The next Pope would not be such a clueless dhimmi as this moron is.
Angemon says
How’s that been working out so far? Terribly? Oh, well, nothing that can’t be fixed by doubling down on it.
And religious people wonder why other people leave religion…
somehistory says
The people with true faith in God don’t wonder why other people leave *religion.* Jesus told us what would happen to those who “stumble” children. Even an adult can be a child when it comes to knowledge and faith.
And this *pope* is probably stumbling more than his share. Of course, if moslims have their way, the pope won’t have a “neck” around which to tie the millstone.
JAR says
For the sake of those who listen to him and the whole free world, I wish this man would get his message straight. Either he has incompetent handlers, internal competing Vatican factions programming his conflicting messages, or maybe he’s just plain schizophrenic.
Georg says
I read that headline to my father, who is no spring chicken, and he burst out laughing.
Bradthefuzz says
…and letting 100 King Cobra snakes loose in your home reduces your chances of being lethally bitten by a Rattle Snake. Good call, Pope!! Jesus is Lord.
Jaladhi says
I think the Pope has really gone bananas – there is no rhyme or logic, simply delusional!
Jaladhi says
Can the college of cardinals impeach this Pope??
Ginger says
What they could get him on is heresy, ie speaking contra to the doctrines of the church, which he has done. That would shut him up completely. Other dodgy popes have been deposed in the past. Whether the present hierarchy has the cojones to do it is another matter. They have been scandalously silent. In the meantime, Francis has been busy promoting like minds to secure his legacy.
Shan Lim says
So, are we expecting to see any time soon the pope building refugee camps in the Vatican City to welcome muslim refugees for the demonstration of authentic hospitality?
I remember hearing some thing about the shoe and the mouth, hmmm…
Bob says
But, like muslim Obama, NOT Christian refugees! No matter what he and the RCC may think and believe, true Christianity is not a part of the pope’s mind-set!
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“has a name, a face and a story, as well as an inalienable right to live in peace and to aspire to a better future”
But there is no “inalienable right” to live wherever you want, and certainly not to move into the lands of those whom your faith has taught you to despise, and to do what you can to appropriate those Infidel lands for Islam. And what does “aspire to a better future” mean for Muslims if not a world where Islam everywhere dominates, and Muslims rule, everywhere.
Georg says
Everyone can’t simply go where they like as I can’t simply go into my neighbor’s fridge if I’m hungry.
It’s been tried. It doesn’t work.
KrazyKafir says
I dare say, this disgraceful Pope is the world’s biggest dhimmi stooge. Bar none.
That one guy says
So this Pope is a globalist insider intent on destroying Christianity by all means available. Islam, and particularily the Jihadi sect of Salafism is an excellent tool toward that end. This is all right out of the Communist Playbook, Communism being yet one more tool congruent with establishing a New World Order. After all, the whole purpose of Communism is to destroy Christianity and the belief in God in order to replace The Almighty with Man as being God, and worship of the State, which is comprised of Men, as the only true religion and arbiter of human being. The New World Order, once established, will dispatch all of these Useful Idiots (Communists and Muslims) in the same fashion as the Kulacks were.
The Endtimes and the End Game are approaching fast.
Annak says
Totally agree, all is unfolding before our very eyes.
Creepily, he us behaving as we would expect the prophecied false prophet to behave, and openly too!
Could he be the one who leads the world to worship the ‘beast’ the beast who had a mortal wound ( end of Ottoman Empire)?
somehistory says
I believe we will soon find out. Recall in Genesis when God confounded the languages of the people building the Tower and *why* He said He had to act then?
With technology, man has advanced much further than just cooperating to build a tower “to the heavens’ in order to escape God’s Laws. And the prophecies Jesus gave, as well as the ones He pointed us to, are all happening…as you said, before our very eyes.
Michael says
It is incumbent upon every Christian to understand the times we live in. I would gladly have gone my entire life never having known about islam and jihad. In fact I find it difficult to stomach most of the time. But the Lord Jesus Himself told us when we see these sorts of things taking place, we should “Look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28) If we are not looking around, we won’t know when to look up.
And to think of the Lord Jesus actually entering in and putting all to rights. It makes one shudder with a kind of pure and sobering joy. Many would call me an escapist or a fool and it is their right to do so. But I’ve found nothing credible or cogent to contradict His existence, death and resurrection.
And I also know that every single islamic teacher that says He did not die on the cross, that He is not God incarnate, is a false teacher. Every islamic jihadi that thinks he does service to God by oppressing and murdering Christians will find one day that Christ is the avenger of His beloved. It is coming, and perhaps soon.
somehistory says
This tool of satan the devil is saying we must invite the sword to meet our necks. He is a false prophet…maybe one of the major components of the one foretold in Revelation 13. He is taking on the role with such gusto.
I, as a believer in Jesus Christ and His commandments, recognize just how wrong is this pope’s preaching. Because everything he says is in direct opposition to Christ and His Father. That makes him a liar and a child of the devil.
Mark A says
I’m Catholic but I cannot agree with Pope Francis on bringing refugees into Europe and other western countries.
Europe has already seen the results of virtually unrestricted migration and it’s not an appealing vision.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Muslim countries have refused to take any of these migrants because, they say, there are terrorist among them. That has proved to very true.
We can best help these migrants by providing assistance in their own countries, not by bringing them into our countries..
August West says
Papal Magisterium….
The Pope is divinely inspired. It is not our place to even question the Pope!
If you question his divinely inspired proclimations, then you are living outside of Catholic teachings.
Islam=Peace
End of discussion.
Now put your money into the collection basket and give.to Catholic Charities.
Ginger says
Well done. Even at my most sarcastic I couldn’t have put it better!
Cam says
The pope isn’t divinely inspired. He’s just a man like everyone else. Which means he can be just as stupid as any other man, regardless of his position. Don’t be so stupid.
Frank says
Don’t YOU be so stupid. You obviously know very little about Catholicism. No Catholic believes the Pope is ‘divinely inspired,’ … this pope, or any other one.
We believe that ONLY when speaking officially, formally, on matters strictly of Faith and Morals, popes are guided and protected by the Holy Spirit from teaching error … because Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit, and always to be with us, Himself.
Popes … ALL popes … can be just as stupid and wrong as the rest of us on science, economics, politics, environmentalism, etc. etc. etc. All areas other than faith and morals are outside their competence and jurisdiction. We are free to disagree with them.
Normally we give a serious hearing to what our popes have to say, out of respect for their position and office. Just as most Americans try to do with most Presidents, regardless of party.
Sometimes, though, buffoons find their way into both offices.
Kelly says
The Associated Press is reporting this today, but when did the Pope say it?
People will keep bringing it out over and over to get what they want.
The last I heard the Pope say on this is that it is satanic to kill in the name of God, calling all religions to join him in that statement.
Has AP reported that?
Rich says
This airbag again? Is he still around?
Charli Main says
“He said each refugee “has a name, a face and a story, as well as an inalienable right to live in peace and to aspire to a better future” for their children.
So, send them to Saudi Arabia, their spiritual homeland. Why come to hostile, Islamophobic Europe when you could be living in Allah’s paradise on earth, surrounded by your Muslim brothers ???
or could it be that these people are not refugees but economic parasites determined to spend the rest of their lives sucking of the Kaffirs.
David says
The pope looks like he’s cleaning the guy’s shoes! What a travesty! The pope kissing a muslim’s foot! Who owns whom?
Kay says
The ones who are already here, evangelize them (unless there’s a reason to send them back). The ones who aren’t here yet, don’t let them in! Stop O’s crazy policies!
jewdog says
The Pope is like those Christian “Scientists” who advise against medical treatment for the gravely ill. When advocates go against humanity and common sense for the sake of religious doctrine, it’s probably wise to either ignore them or reinterpret the doctrine.
TheOldOligarch says
More idiotic prattle from Pope Dhimmi I.
abad says
Francis does not know any better.
He is one of the most ignorant religious leaders in the world today – and he is more pro-Islam than pro-Christian.
Wellington says
Shaping up as the most disastrous Pope in history.
John Marst says
Never a word about Christians in the Middle East, or course, who are being exterminated or exiled. Maybe this dhimmi should call for them to be welcomed in their own lands. I will take this clown seriously the day he announces plans to open a Catholic church in Mecca. I would even accept a simple call for the acceptance of Christianity in Saudi Arabia or Iran, but of course, the psychotic Allah and his “messenger,” the twisted and morally bankrupt Muhammad, have forbidden such tolerance. And who is this dhimmi to say otherwise?
Tony46 says
St. Francis of Assisi doesn’t agree with you , Francis.:
The historical fact is that during the Crusades, he went to Egypt and try to CONVERT the muslims and stop the killing.
You have tried neither.
..
patriotliz says
Each refugee has a Name: Mohammed.
What a waste of a Pope. A self-hating suicidal Catholic who totally ignores the history of Islam.
#notmypope
#PopeFrancisStepDown
Dave says
This pope is a total nutjob. How can inviting terrorists into our countries be security against acts of terrorism? It’s an open invitation to the terrorists to commit them in our countries instead of in their own.
Paul Ashley says
In addition, he ignores the fact that cultural jihad exists as the “good cop” alongside the “bad cop” of terrorism. Islam is fighting on multiple fronts and terrorism is merely one.
TH says
What fantasy land or planet does this Pope inhabit. Being disconnected to reality is a clear sign of mental illness.
Frank says
It was one thing to elect the first Polish pope, then the first German pope … as ‘firsts’ in centuries and centuries, other than Italians.
But an _Argentinean_ (and a _Jesuit_? Ignatius Loyola he ain’t.) ??!!
Rufolino says
This foolish pope should try being a poor old man living alone in a Moslem suburb of Paris, or any other Moslem suburb. (Instead of living in a palace surrounded by sycophants and a high wall.) He would change his ridiculous views !
Kay says
What is known about the bomb in NY?
An hour (or4) ago–
Champ says
NYPD finds likely pressure cooker 4 blocks from blast that hurt 29 …
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/17/explosion-new-york-chelsea-neighborhood/90605526/
Creole Gumbo says
At first glance of this photo it looked as if he were placing his head forward for decapitation.
This guy is a disgrace for trying to advance Islamic superiority. Disgusting.
Lioness says
I would have agreed with him if he said to “welcome CHRISTIAN refugees”, but I know very well he means muslims.
Carolyne says
The pope’s statement makes as much sense as saying, “In order to avoid a fire, bring in pyromaniacs.”
But then, I have no reason to trust the word of a man who looks like Gomer Pyle and wears a dress.
Paul Ashley says
“Counterintuitively, the Pope says that “our greatest security against hateful acts of terrorism” is to bring the refugees in.”
“Counterintuitively” is too kind a word. “Insanely” or “stupidly” is far more apt.
RICHTHOFEN says
Poor, deluded fool
mortimer says
Pope Guido Sarducci is on drugs.
Ray M says
The Pope has either lost his mind or his very naïve as most of the liberals are. He should see a doctor very soon. He may have had a very bad stroke.
Charles M. says
Time to reinstate the ex-pope.. Ratzinger was a saint compared to this nut job.
Ofcourseiamnotyetanothermuhammed says
Once in South Africa, where 1% of the population are moslim, while talking to a friend at 4:30 in the early morning I was sitting in my car on a side of the street and 2/3 of the street and the entire sidewalk and grass was available to pedestrians and cars. Yet… a moslim guy in white robe, with his hands behind was walking towards us. He came closer and instead of saying GOOD MORNING he started shouting loudly at me that I was blocking his way with my car…. he was walking to a mosque and we already heard a very loud howling (azan?) and my friend told me they can not sleep every night as at around 4:00 they begin their loud howling in a country of 99% non-moslim.
Ciudadano says
The Pope is right. Welcoming and protecting refugees is the christian thing to do. The problem is that legitimate refugees like christians and yazidis, who are subject to genocide at the hands of jihadist, cannot or are afraid to apply for refugee status, instead the ones applying are sunni muslims, most of whom, are not legitimate refugees and are just taking advantage of the opportunity. Even worse many of those sunni refugees are the ones repressing,beating and killing legitimate refugees in the refugee camps and shelters.
Welcoming refugees is ok as long as you take legitimate refugees, not abusers and oppurtunistics pretending to be refugees.
G. H. says
There’s big money involved in letting in the Muslim terrorists…um… “refugees”. Soros is shelling out loads of money to Catholics or Catholic groups who will take the bait & push for having “mercy” on these poor terrorists/ISIS members…er…”refugees”. There is a big push for bringing them into diocese in America. Sadly, the “shepherds” are opening the gate for the wolves to enter & they are brutally killing the sheep!!! The “shepherds” are well paid, so all ends well, don’t you know!?! Wink! Wink!
Where are the good shepherds to stand up against the evil & protect the sheep?!?
Magdalene says
How is all this working so far?
Tony46 says
Francisco the deceiver.
And you go against Scripture:
2John 1:10-11
. 10-If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11-for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds”
Great condemnation to those who deceive. You should know.