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Pope, under heavy guard at Vatican, says refugees like “baby Jesus, who could not find shelter”

Dec 25, 2016 5:08 pm By Robert Spencer

“The painful experience of these brothers and sisters reminds us of that baby Jesus, who could not find shelter, was born in a stable in Bethlehem and was later brought to Egypt to escape Herod’s threat.”

There was heightened security at the Vatican last night for Midnight Mass. Why? Aren’t Muslim migrants just like “baby Jesus, who could not find shelter”? Was the Pope afraid that the baby Jesus would scream “Allahu akbar” and blow himself up in the middle of a crowded St. Peter’s Square?

Pope Francis makes these facile and fatuous comparisons while living comfortably behind heavy guard and the Vatican walls. The people he is trying to guilt-trip into dropping all opposition to the Muslim migrant inundation are the ones who have to pay the price for his ostentatious virtue.

“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)

“On the Ground The Vatican’s Nativity scene is a reminder that refugees’ struggles are like those of baby Jesus, the pope says,” by Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2016 (thanks to Darcy):

The life-sized figures of Mary and Joseph were to be expected. What drew the longest gaze from visitors to the Nativity scene on St. Peter’s Square this Christmas was the strange pile of crushed masonry in front of the stable.

The shattered stonework came from the cathedral in the central Italian town of Norcia and was retrieved after an earthquake struck Oct. 30 and wrecked the church.

A metal cross toppled from the peak of the cathedral that day. Placed next to the stones, it is a reminder not only of Norcia’s fate, but also of the many tremors that shook central Italy this year and claimed hundreds of lives.

When the church in Norcia is rebuilt, the cross will be placed back on the roof.

“The cross is a beautiful addition to the Nativity scene since it reminds us that we must never forget what happened in the mountains this year,” said Franco Montuschi, 69, a Roman who was visiting the scene.

If the display summed up a year of shocks, it also reflected Pope Francis’ talent for serving up strong symbols of the world’s troubles.

This Nativity was a twist on the usual tableau of the birth of Jesus. Designed by an artist from Malta and depicting village life on the Mediterranean island, it included fishermen and a typical Maltese fishing boat.

Inaugurating the scene this month, Francis said the boat was a reminder of the migrants who have risked their lives sailing across the Mediterranean to Europe from north Africa this year.

While more than 175,000 people made it across by December, 5,000 or so others died trying. It was the deadliest year for migrant crossings.

“The painful experience of these brothers and sisters reminds us of that baby Jesus, who could not find shelter, was born in a stable in Bethlehem and was later brought to Egypt to escape Herod’s threat,” the pope said….

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  1. Michael O'Neill says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 5:14 pm

    The Holy Family returned to Nazareth when Herod died.

    These Muslim migrants have no intention of ever going back.

    • bc says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 3:27 am

      The whole birth of Jesus story is pure myth anyway. There was no rational reason for them to go to their alleged home village . The Romans did not operate that way.
      The pope is in error Jesus was not seeking accommodation his parents were, he was not born (allegedly)

      • Pong says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 5:02 am

        “The whole birth of Jesus story is pure myth anyway. There was no rational reason for them to go to their alleged home village . The Romans did not operate that way.”
        There is a bigger problem with this story. Joseph and Mary were righteous jews according to the testaments. Every door in a jewish house has a mezuza attached to the right side of the frame. Every door, except for ….stables. Under no circumstances a religious jew would spend the night in a room, which had no mezuza. Also, there is no way that the royal family would have not find a proper place to stay. They would more then welcomed in any house.
        New testament was written by people waguely familiar with judaism. As a result, many similar mistakes. Another reason of cause, that God was drunk, when he inspired the wrightings.

        • cynthia says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 5:35 am

          its up to u to beleive,,if u are a unbeleiver,u better keep quiet as Jesus is not a myth,i have seen many lives change and is still changng because of Jesus christ,christians love jesus as he came to save he world,in India the hindu believe in all type of trees,snakes,and some hand made gods,they have no wisdom,they need to have the holy spirit in them,to be wise,the muslims shout allahu akhbar and kill,so what is better,Jesus the son of god who came to save us from our sins and to be be saved.

        • Holo says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 5:40 am

          We are talking about the Pope, not Christian doctrine.

        • DFD says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 2:58 pm

          To Pong,

          When Rome ordered a census, you’d better appear at the censoral registration office in the town assigned to you/your area.

          Further, if every Jewish household had a mezuza or not, means absolutely nothing. If there’s no room, there’s no room, and you take shelter where ever you find it. Particularly with a pregnant wife!

          Finally, neither Maria nor Joseph were royalty.

          Where on earth do you get your ideas from? About Christianity or at least the nativity.

        • STJOHNOFGRAFTON says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 6:07 pm

          1 Corinthians 2:14 describes your closed minded attitude to the Holy Spirit inspired truth of the Gospel: “The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned”.

          1 Corinthians 1:18 also describes your plight: “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God”.

        • Kepha says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 8:03 pm

          A large number of Rabbinic usages (such as mezzozot) were not crystalized until a couple centuries after Christ’s birth, and in Mesopotamia rather than in ‘Eretz Yisroel. The biblical injunction to mezzuzot (Dt. 6) speaks of them as aides memoires, not as a mark of the only places proper for Jews to lodge. Keep in mind as well that in the Rabbinic literature, there is much dissparagement of Amme’-ha-‘eretz, who were people who did not observe the whole of the Rabbinic tradition. Jesus’ conflicts with the Pharisees, the usages of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a number of archaeological finds should caution us about seeing Rabbinism (as expressed in its full-blown form) as the “normative Judaism” in 1st century ‘Eretz Yisroel.

          As for Jesus being mythological, if Christian, Jewish, and pagan Roman sources all speak of him as crucified under Pontius Pilate (granted, Josephus may have been a secret convert to Christianity who used Luke; but the same is unlikely of the Emperor Hadrian in his reply to Pliny the Younger), I’ll tell Bultmann, Allegro, and the whole of Marxist propaganda as the mythology, not Jesus.

        • Richard says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 8:44 pm

          Pong, Finger out, you better keep playing with your Ping Pong.

        • Michael says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 11:19 pm

          Would they stay in a Succa during Succoth?

      • Jere Joiner says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 10:14 am

        Totally wrong. It’s up to you whether to believe Jesus was the Son of God, but the fact of his birth, life and death is a historical fact. Have a nice life in your disbelief otherwise.

      • Mirren10 says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 12:56 pm

        bc says

        ”The whole birth of Jesus story is pure myth anyway. There was no rational reason for them to go to their alleged home village . The Romans did not operate that way.”

        Below would appear to belie your contention.

        http://www.comereason.org/roman-census.asp

        In any case, what does your remark have to do with hypocrisy of the Pope, who on the one hand demands we should all welcome ‘refugees’ with open arms, but on the other hand, is careful to protect his own skin ?

        • Phil Copson says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 3:32 pm

          Whether the Jesus/Bethlehem story is factual, or even whether Jesus existed at all is utterly irrelevant; the facts of the case are that the Western world has created an economic model in which the most advanced civilisation the world has ever known is financing it’s own destruction by handing over it’s wealth to one of the most barbaric cultures ever created, in exchange for crude oil which the indigenous inhabitants of Arabia were too dim to find and exploit for themselves.

          In a forlorn attempt to gain influence in order to maintain the supply of this oil and secondly, to try to recoup some of the money spent on purchasing it, the West then sells weapons-systems of unbelievable potency and destructive power to people who oppose the very existence of any non-Islamic civilisation.

          Using money which we gave them in the first place, the Arab world has purchased massive influence within international organisations, financed the undermining of national governments, and set about the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East.

          The final genocide of Christians in the Middle East is well under-way, and the destruction of Israel is coming closer to being realised with the complicity of cowardly, suborned, and infiltrated Western governments.

          It is a moot point whether large but flaccid and cowardly Europe – prevented from defending itself by an establishment of vicious Left-wing Quislings – will hold out longer than small but determined Israel.

    • john mckinney says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 8:18 am

      the Pope is a bithering idiot.

      • Toxick1 says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 10:06 am

        Well put. Hard to believe the “leader” of millions of people could come out with something so blatantly stupid.

      • Truth Hurts says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 10:21 am

        Yes, a blithering idiot!
        But in comparing baby Jesus with the refugees, baby Jesus didn’t go around killing people just because they didn’t believe in him. Baby Jesus grew up and gave his life so that we may have eternal life if we so choose to accept and follow him.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 9:21 pm

          Here you go, Timothy:

          blith·er·ing
          ˈbliT͟HəriNG
          adjectiveinformal
          senselessly talkative, babbling; used chiefly as an intensive to express annoyance or contempt.
          “a blithering idiot”

          I think the term is more used in Britain than in the US. A favorite of my English mother. The term dates at least back to the mid-19th century.

      • Anne Smith says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 12:48 pm

        Well he must be as he doesn’t even seem to understand the Gospel which explains that Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem at the command of Augustus, the Roman Emperor to register for the census.

        They were not refugees fleeing from anywhere. They took a cricuitous route home to avoid the slaughter ordered by Herod, who was a sort of subsidiary ruler in the area.

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 10:56 am

      This pope is NUTZ!

    • Joseph Toth says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 8:14 pm

      The Pope is just a clown. He is just trying to protect his ass from isis. You don’t see him ranting and raving about all the Christians being put to death by isis .And there are quite a few Catholics among them..

  2. Steve Klein says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 5:20 pm

    I doubt Pope Francis would recognize Jesus if he met him, face to face.

    • Mak says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 6:23 pm

      I’m not a Christian but wow that’s funny. And I’m sorry it’s funny. It shouldn’t be.

      Seriously: The notion of what Jesus preached isn’t about laying your neck out for your enemies to strike. In fact suicide is a mortal sin in Christianity and Judaism. Perhaps someone should point that out to the pope in the scriptures?

      Preaching something good shouldn’t be turned into something dumb.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 25, 2016 at 9:37 pm

        True, Mak.

    • abad says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 6:40 pm

      It may sound funny and I must confess I laughed, but it is far more tragic than anything else.

      Really, Francis knows nothing about “refugees” or Baby Jesus. And that is precisely what is so sad.

      Merry Christmas everyone.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 25, 2016 at 9:43 pm

        Merry Christmas to you, abad, and to everyone else here!

        • linnte says

          Dec 25, 2016 at 11:47 pm

          GI, I hope your Christmas was beautiful and filled with joy. This my first Christmas since being a kid, and knowing WHY Christmas, made this one so special.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 6:31 pm

          I am so glad to hear that, Linnte! My husband and I had a wonderful Christmas–thank you for your well-wishes.

      • Sassy says

        Dec 25, 2016 at 10:41 pm

        I don’t laugh when I see him. Quite the contrary, I cringe. He abandoned his flock in distress.

      • particolor says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 4:55 am

        I think he May learn something now ! Don’t mention “Refugees” and the Baby Jesus in the same sentence in front of the “People of Peace”

    • Saleem Smith says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 8:55 pm

      If Pope Francis really believes that the Quran is a divine book and that Muhammad the prophet of Islam was a legit messenger of God then shouldn’t he abandon Catholicism and covert to Islam? Pope Francis is clearly a careerist theologian who has thrown his flock to the wolves.

      We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Mohammedanism is a pack of lies much like Pope Francis’s words as they relate to Islam.

      • Dennis says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 12:22 am

        Thank you Saleem!

      • abad says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 2:14 pm

        Bingo.

        Francis is indeed a career theologian – IOW academicizing Catholic Christianity – he really should convert to Islam at the rate he is going he might be better at that

      • Real McCoy says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 9:17 pm

        Well said Saleem, you hit nail on the head, brother Saleem.

      • Kepha says

        Dec 27, 2016 at 11:14 am

        Absolutely!

    • Terry says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 2:10 am

      I left the Catholic faith because of this idiot..

      • Truth Hurts says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 10:33 am

        It is great that you finally woke up to the truth about Catholicism.
        You cannot buy, win or give enough of anything in order to get into heaven. All you must do is to accept Jesus into your heart, try to live as God instructs us to in the Bible, and ask for forgiveness when we fail (which we as humans will all do, but Christ expects this that is why he died for us and took our sin onto himself). God bless you!

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 6:38 pm

          This is not about Catholicism itself–just that the current pontiff is woefully ignorant when it comes to Islam. There are, sadly, many Christians of other denominations who are just as clueless–this is not a Catholic thing.

          And then there is Robert Spencer–a devout Catholic who is as savvy as they come.

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 7:42 am

      Nor would Jesus recognise the Pope. No Popes in the Bible.

    • Carolyne says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 1:24 pm

      Or more likely, would Jesus recognize the pope?

      • particolor says

        Dec 30, 2016 at 7:14 pm

        Just look for an Old Geyser in white robes kissing Muslims Feet !!

        • Phil Copson says

          Dec 31, 2016 at 9:07 am

          “Geysers” are for heating water – try “geezer”……

        • particolor says

          Dec 31, 2016 at 8:03 pm

          Geysers blow a lot of hot water and Steam in the air !!

  3. Jaladhi says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 5:29 pm

    Is this Pope for real or somebody masquerading as a Pope!

    • R Russell says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 7:50 pm

      He’s a Jesuit – that explains it

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 25, 2016 at 9:47 pm

        Not all Jesuit’s are dhimmis.

  4. Franklin says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    pope JUDAS ISCARIOT

    • abad says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 7:13 pm

      I can think of any number of past Popes who, if they heard Francis comparing the Baby Jesus to a bunch of Hoodlum Muslims, he would be tried for blasphemy and quite possibly given the stake if you know what I mean.

    • Thomaspj Poovathinkal says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 6:02 am

      Jesus The Lord said, “COME TO KNOW THE TRUTH……”

    • Truth Hurts says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 10:37 am

      Exactly Correct!

  5. utis says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 5:46 pm

    Clearly, the College of Cardinals does not vet the Pope for clear-headedness or even sanity to this day. No wonder the Borgia pope got in.

    • Salome says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 6:38 am

      Chances are that even the worst behaved of the popes would have drawn the line before uttering this lunacy.

  6. mortimer says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 5:48 pm

    The difference Frank conveniently forgets is that JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH were not planning to highjack airplanes and fly them into skyscrapers or commandeer 18-wheelers to drive into Christmas markets or fabricate bombs to throw in the doors of churches or buy machetes to slash people at a bus stop or make suicide vests to wear in St Peter’s Basilica during a crowded church festival like Christmas or Easter.

    The difference between me standing at a bus stop and the pope in the Vatican is that I don’t have tough, fierce Swiss Guards defending my life when the jihadists GO ON A KILLING SPREE.

  7. Sam says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    Does this idiot called POPE have any knowledge of history of Christians vs Muslims throughout history? I would say does he have any knowledge about anything.

    Why doesn’t he dismantle the Vatican walls and accept the Muslim immigrants in?

    He needs to read JW on a daily basis but I know he won’t. I would say he is more stupid than OBAMA, an almost impossible thing to be as a leader of a country and/or leader of a religion.

    • Vyx says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 8:45 pm

      I suspect he is a member of the New World Order, like Merkel, Obama, Clinton, Soros, Blair and so on.

      They are part of the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ crowd.

      God help us all.

  8. Risto Kantonen says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    I see, so the Pope is still reporting from the peak of mount stupid. Seeing as this genius didn’t take up on my suggestion to parade at some of the warzones in the middle east in a pope mobil sans armour, there is now another once in a lifetime opportunity for the Pope to lead by example. He should lead this wonderful little candidate group that is competing in the Darwin awards 2016 competition. It’s called The Civil March http://civilmarch.org/

  9. Wellington says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    I’m so tired of this man.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 3:12 am

      I wonder how close the Vatican police allow the refugees to come to the pope. I wonder if the families brought into the Vatican are under surveillance or frisked regularly.

  10. somehistory says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 6:37 pm

    When they were handing out brains, he thought they said pains, and replied, “I don’t want any.”

    Jesus Christ, someone this pope doesn’t know, and likely never will, said, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.”

    This pope guy has a heart full of lies, nonsense, and garbage he is trying to sell as Christianity. If he can only get his hearts’ desire…islam accepted by anyone claiming to be Christian… he will smack his ugly lips in satisfaction. Working hard for satan the devil, he is.

    Jesus, while an infant, wasn’t looking for anything. His parents were taking care of His needs…He was a baby, after-all And His parents were following Divine Direction and Instructions on what to do to keep the Holy Infant alive. Neither Mary nor Joseph had any designs on causing anyone to bow to satan or killing them for not doing so..

    The pope is a creep and no one should be listening to any thing he says or giving money for his support.

    • abad says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 7:48 pm

      A truly frightening thought:

      That most Catholic Church lay persons are far more devout Christians and put Christ first than Francis does.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 3:14 am

      Agree with Somehistory: Frank also forgot that Jesus said, ‘BE WISE AS SERPENTS’.

      Since the Islamic terrorists are snakes, to catch a snake, you must think like one. Frank thinks the terrorist snakes are not snakes.

  11. Daniel Harris says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    Looks like the Catholics have found their Obama.

  12. Berengaria says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    Pope Francis & his eyes, like a Blind Person’s eyes! He is indeed, a wily Jesuit on a Mission, but not necessarily a Mission for Christianity!
    He Bounded into the UN to sign up for the UN Agenda on Sustainability, along with Obama, a soul mate of Marxism.
    The Liberal College of Cardinals have betrayed Christians by placing a Crafty Con Artist on the Throne of St. Peter. May God Help Us.

  13. The RationalVoice says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    All religious people are deceiving themselves and most don’t even practice it because they get a reality check early in life but a few fools try to put it in to practice like Merkel and Popeye Francis

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 9:51 pm

      The idea that appeasing savage Muslims is somehow mandated by Christianity is quite mistaken, RV.

    • JawsV says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 10:15 pm

      No, “all religious people” aren’t deceiving themselves. Mohammedanism is the exception because its not really a religion. It’s a totalitarian political ideology with a religious component.

  14. Rita says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    I seriously wish the Jihadists would take this impostor of a Pope, media whore, Islamophile who seems to loathe Christians/Catholics (remember he left the Christian families behind and only took muslim “refugees” on his plane back to Italy). They are welcome to him – I dont want to see this dirty old goat with a fetish for snogging muslim feet (and bumbs no doubt) any longer !!!

  15. R Russell says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    Does the pope not know that IS has brought out a new periodical – not so wordy as Dabiq- it is called Rumiyah which being translated means Rome. The Muslims have planned or capture Rome for centuries. With a pope like this just up the hill their goal will be much easier.

    • Rita says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 10:33 pm

      This pope collaborates with them ! He will open the gates !

      • Real McCoy says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

        Rita look at the Pop eyes, you will hear more of him later.

  16. Angry Aussie says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 8:05 pm

    I attended Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. One of the notable prayers of the fathful was for Pope Francis to be divinely guided in his decision making. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it certainly seemed like a desperate prayer for a quick papal GPS reset to get him on the right track.

    • Anthony says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 11:04 pm

      i am a Catholic and one thing for sure he ain’t St Francis, but we pray that the Holy Spirit will reset his GPS so that he can get back to the right track.

      Merry Christmas y’all.GBU

  17. Vyx says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    Technically speaking, he mentions refugees from North Africa. I suppose that includes Christians, and he could be referring to those individuals.

    However, he has not been one to help Christians fleeing those areas, only Muslims, so I guess that’s kind of a stretch.

    To quote the President Elect… so sad.

  18. Denise Smith says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    He is a manipulator probably how he wormed his way to the top. Look at me, look at me I am helping the poor fakeugees such a try hard, bible warns against vanity.

  19. reyol says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    The Pope is a Liberation Theologian. His “religion” is to help the oppressed against their oppressors. The Catholic Church with Francis at it’s head must help the oppressed Mohammedans against the oppressive Christians. The Church must help the oppressed Socialists against the oppressive Capitalists. The Church must help the oppressed Third World against the oppressive West (which the Church helped build). It also must help the oppressed Earth against the oppressive denialists. Everything is inverted with this pope. The Mohammedans can do no wrong and the Christian West can do no right except to commit suicide. Everything the Mohammedans do will be justified or the blame shifted to the Christians.

  20. gravenimage says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    Pope, under heavy guard at Vatican, says refugees like “baby Jesus, who could not find shelter”
    ……………………………..

    Right–because Mary and Joseph reacted just like these “refugees” when they had to shelter in a manger:

    “Migrants burn down asylum center for not getting Ramadan breakfast wake-up call”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/migrants-burn-down-asylum-center-for-not-getting-ramadan-breakfast-wake-up-call

    Oh, wait–no they didn’t…

    • jayell says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 6:01 am

      Very good point here. According to the title at the top of this article, the Pope is under heavy armed guard, presumably because of these ‘refugees’ – who, we are simultaneously told by this icon of infallibility, are to be seen as like the baby Jesus (and Mary and Joseph?). Now, since when does a new-born baby + parents and donkey necessitate those around having an armed guard? Or is the Holy Father privy to verses in the gospels that have been long denied to us lesser mortals?……. “And the angel Gabriel appeared unto Mary and spake ‘Take thou this AK47…….” I think I might see a similarity there…..

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 6:44 pm

        Exactly, Jayell.

  21. Rob says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    Like the ‘celebrities’ who were going to take refugees into their own homes, or the wealthy Left that lectures the plebs from their gated communities about ‘multiculturalism’ OR indeed the Hollywood luvvies that were set to move to Canada, if Trump won.
    Lofty words from positions of privilege!

  22. gary fouse says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 12:41 am

    The baby Jesus never blew anybody up. He never raped anyone. He never killed anyone.

    And I would advise His Holiness not to hand that lamb over to any of the migrants.

    • Rob says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 2:37 am

      Never set fire to the stable.

  23. Benedict says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 12:55 am

    Shame on this idiot of a pope comparing Baby Jesus to the migrant refugees. He let down his own flock by leaving them to be butchered by ISIS, doesn’t say a word when they are ill treated in other muslim countries, had a muslim during washing of the feet when there were no muslims present during that period in time. He needs to go. I as a practicing Catholic cannot stand this pope he is in the news for all the wrong reasons.

  24. linnte says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 1:25 am

    Pope said baby Jesus couldn’t find shelter. I happen to think the stable was the most perfectly appropriate shelter of all. Perfect because GLORIOUS God who created ALL, took on lowly flesh. Jesus wasn’t born in a mansion made of gold, which he certainly deserved, but a stable that represented his humanity. Perfect.

  25. CrossWare says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 2:27 am

    Let’s face it, the church is losing members left and right. Even still religious ones figure it out they do not need a whole parasitic organization to connect to God. So the priests (Catholics and others) looking for a new market…
    What do they see: while their power is decreasing due to increased intelligence, the Muslims are still stuck on their 7th century level, their “church” economy is intact. Bright future for imams, wealth and unlimited power: point to any person or building and proclaim you want it gone and low IQ indoctrinated masses running to kill anybody or blow up anything. Of course the Pope and his parasitic organization wants this. They want to get away what they perceive as the sinking ship and move over to a more “stable” religious organization.

  26. Mark A says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 2:27 am

    One huge difference: although Joseph, Mary and Jesus sought refuge from Herod in Egypt, they went back to Nazareth after Herod died. Today’s migrants to Europe and North America don’t show any indication of returning to their former places of abode.

    And while Joseph, Mary and Jesus were taking refuge in Egypt, they didn’t express any interest in conquering Egypt, attacking Egyptians or subverting Egypt from within. Many of today’s migrants to Europe and North America have those specific goals in mind.

    In the Gospels, Jesus made no mention of conquest, enslaving “infidels”, creating “dhimmis” or making continual jihad against the “infidels” until Christianity was the world’s only religion. In the Koran and hadith, Mohammed advocated all those things and now the adherents of his “religion of peace” are determined to carry out Mohammed’s requirements,

    I’m Catholic and I am continually dismayed at Pope Francis’ refusal or inability to see the obvious consequences of mass Muslim migration.

  27. Old Man Bob says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 3:04 am

    Are you freeakin kidding me? When did Jesus ,Mary or Joseph ever advocate blowing up the stable that sheltered them and took them in when no one else would or endorse taking out the inn keeper and his wife for not having enough chocolate and nutella? POOP Francis is clearly God’s chastisement of the Catholic Church for the errors of it’s past.. what an idiotic em-Bare-ASS-ment to all true Catholics !

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 7:05 pm

      Yes–a reference to this grotesque story:

      “Germany: Muslim migrants burn down hall, screaming ‘There isn’t enough Nutella, Gummibears, and chocolate’”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/germany-muslim-migrants-burn-down-hall-screaming-there-isnt-enough-nutella-gummibears-and-chocolate

  28. Barry says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 3:24 am

    He took the name of Francis, in honour of St Francis of Assissi who is remembered as the saint who led a very humble life, wearing humble clothing and basic sandles. What he seems to have forgotten is that St Francis also strapped on armour and sword and went off to fight the then new threat of violent anti Christian Islam. He also forgets or ignores that the colorful papal guards had their origin in defending the papal states and their inhabitants from the invading Islamic armies, which centuries ago got to the walls of the Vatican before being repulsed and driven back. It is forgotten that the lands now ocupied by Islam is where Christ was born and carried out His mission. I find it significant that Islam’s first military conquests were aimed at the region where Christ was born and where he established the Christian faith. Islam’s first ambition was the eliminate the influence of Christ in the region of His birth. I am sure the origins of Islam come from a dark subteranian place.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 7:07 pm

      Francis was not a fighting saint–but he did join the Crusaders, go to the Holy Land, and preached to the Muslims there, at great risk to his own safety.

  29. f c king says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 3:36 am

    We need a pope that will call for crusades to counter this global jihad being waged against non-muslims.
    Jesus did not spread his word by the sword and order followers to murder non-converts.
    I’m not religious at all, but attended catholic elementary school. The nuns never taught us to hate non-catholics, and kill them if they did not convert co their faith. Mo and his followers do just this. They kill to spread their faith and their book tells them to.

    We actually do need a crusade against the islamic invasion, just like in “the good old days ” of dark-ages religious war. There is a jihad going on against now, if anyone hasn’t noticed.

  30. Ali Bey says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 4:07 am

    Pope Francis and Prince Charles. What else?

  31. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 4:56 am

    Pope Francis is only another all-too-common virtue-signalling hypocrite.

  32. Joseph says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 6:22 am

    I think this Pope is demented!

  33. citycat says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 6:52 am

    Baby Jesus? Pardon my hysterics.
    Brothers and sisters and migrants and refugees.
    Muslims now the unmentionables?
    The blind leading the blind. There are none so blind as those that refuse to see.

  34. Jerry says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 8:31 am

    So grown cowards with iphones are like the baby Christ. Someone should ask the pope, what do the countless victims of muslim aggression remind him of, lambs for slaughter? What do the multitude of women and children who have been raped and groomed by muslim men remind him of? What do the countless Christians who are murdered and discriminated against for islam remind him of? And the thousands of civilians murdered by muslim terrorists? What do the millions of people who have sacrificed their civil rights and safety for muslims remind him of? What do the military personal who have died fighting islamic brutality remind him of? What do the muslim women who have had their faces mutilated for muslim intolerance remind him of? What do the muslim girls who are forced into unholy marriages or honor killed remind him of? What does the muslim god that preaches murder and hate remind him of? What does the 1400 year tradition of muslim violence against non-muslims remind him of?

    There’s a time for just action and there’s a time for compassion. Now is the time for just action. The western world is under attack. The last thing we need now is a moral coward who defends the enemy.

  35. Sibila says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Geez, sweet Lord! hope the holy father reads all this. He suppose to be a smart and reasonable man ..

  36. sog says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 9:19 am

    You could only equate the Holy Family with the Refugees if, along with the Holy Family, a couple of “bad uncles” went along too. The Pope is off his rocker equating the Holy Family including sinless individuals with a massive quantity of invading refugees made up of good people mixed with murderous jihadists.

  37. William says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 9:28 am

    Maybe just as Obama is American, so the Pope is Catholic.

  38. Tradiguy says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 9:43 am

    The pope is supposed to be the mouthpiece of God on earth – this creature who is on the throne of St Peter is not even a Catholic let alone a pope. Tha Catholic Church was destroyed in the main at the Vatican council in ’68 but our Lord promised that the ‘gates of hell shall not prevail against his church ‘ so we have all hope for the restitution of the church in its full majesty.

  39. Florida Jim says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 9:51 am

    Perhaps the refugees were a gift from Satan to confuse good people?

  40. Allan says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 10:51 am

    OK, so if the Islamic colonists are like baby Jesus, then who in the Islamic societies from which they fled is playing the part of Herod?

  41. John A. Marre says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 10:52 am

    If I remember right, “there was no room for them at the inn.” Nothing at all like “refugees not being able to find shelter.” Apparently this man hates the Christian tradition so much that he is willing to equate the birth of Jesus with the arrival of individuals seeking to convert Europe to non-Christian.

  42. God Almighty says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 11:09 am

    The Pope is a dope with no scope.

  43. Cecilia Elis says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 11:57 am

    Robert Spencer wrote: “Aren’t Muslim migrants just like “baby Jesus, who could not find shelter”? Was the Pope afraid that the baby Jesus would scream “Allahu akbar” and blow himself up in the middle of a crowded St. Peter’s Square?”

    Robert, fortunately I did not read your post prior to attending Midnight Mass … In context, that is one of the funniest statements I have ever read, the imagery of which I most surely would have recalled during the liturgy. Never having been thrown out of a religious celebration, albeit I have come so very close before, I suspect that this time I would have crossed the solemnity line. So, to you, thank you for my first Christmas gift, the gift of laughter.

    May God, Who laughs with you, continue to bless us with your scholarship, wit, writing, courage and truth. Likewise, may He grant you a well-deserved awareness of His Presence with you.

    To you, Marc Louis, Pamela Geller, Raymond Ibrahim, Christine Williams, other contributors and JW readers, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 7:15 pm

      I second your wishes, Cecilia!

  44. Hector Archytas says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 12:02 pm

    As historical document, only the Gospel of Mark (dating maybe at 40 AD ) and John who started at the baptheme have any credibibility.
    The nativity story of Luke contradite the one of Matthew. Quirinus was a governor in 6 AD and the census was about land ownership for taxation purpose.Those stories are oral tradition added to fill a blank. Read Bart Ehrman.

    Concerning the speculation about life of Jesus in Egypt, the version of pagan philosopher Celsus in “Contra Celsus” of Origin is far more credible. And, it shows a very poor man and an economic migrant going in Egypt to get a better job in his early aduthood where he had the chance to learn magic.

    There is no case in those story for refugee and immigration or welcoming economic migrant.

    The pope is at the center of the refugee fraud which is destroying European demographic since 1951.

    There is no moral ground for refugees either economic or political to take a part of our living space to set up a familly at our exepnse driving us to extinction.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 7:19 pm

      This story is not really about whether you find the Gospels credible or not–it is about a well-known, influential public figure minimizing the threat of Muslim invaders by comparing them to innocent peaceful people fleeing violence.

  45. alan winters says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 2:11 pm

    So, how many of these refugees has the Vatican admitted? Maybe these hypocrites want a place like Germany, with all their refugees.

  46. fedupAmerican says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    Babies widows and orphans. If we believe the Pope and Obama that’s all the immigrants are.

  47. LilyDarcey says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 2:43 pm

    This socialist Pope is a product of where he came from. Watch this video. It will show you exactly who this Pope is and that he is nothing more than a socialist infiltrator who was placed in the Vatican to bring down the Catholic church. However, this was not just a plot to bring down the Catholic church, but to bring down all of Christianity. This video is on YouTube, and it rather surprises me that YouTube, being progressive liberals tend to want to silence this sort of information. I would also recommend reading “Shadow World” by Robert Chandler. It discusses how Marxism has infiltrated the Catholic church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlbSP8Nrhhg

  48. myaegel11 says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    Robert Spencer cites Matthew 15:14 in regards to Pope Francis. I hope he’s not encouraging people to leave the Catholic Church, that is, the One True Church for it is better to cite(Mat.11:10) than to incite(Acts 13:50). Jesus didn’t promise us perfect popes(Isaiah 22:15-22, Luke 16:1-13, 22:34). Legitimate criticism is perfectly fine(Gal.2:11-12).But to leave the Church(1Tim 3:15, Rev.12:1) and incite others to do so(Gal.2:13-14) is highly unrecommended(Mark 9:42) especially since there’s nowhere else to go(John 6:68-69). For the Catholic Church was established(Mat.16:18) by the One(John 10:30) who is “Faithful and True”(Rev.3:14, 19:11).

    Mark(1Pet.13)

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 7:24 pm

      Robert Spencer is himself Catholic. Criticizing the Pope is not the same as urging people to leave the Church.

  49. Louise M. says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 5:20 pm

    The Pope ? Wich Pope ? Benedict XVI resigned. The Globalist sneaked Imam Judas I
    in his place.
    Before that, Bergoglio was an atheist communist Jesuit. He is used playing games.
    A con artist…

  50. Louise M. says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    Mr Poop, let’s make a deal. Do what you preach, and then we’ll listen to you again.

    Ready ?: ALL refufees, like little baby Jesus, are now welcome into the Vatican. Open border Vatican NOW !

    Until then, shut up…or we may think you are just a hypocrite. A whited sepulchre.

  51. Father J says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Pope Francis is a liberal kook.

  52. SuchindranathAiyerS says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 11:51 pm

    Like any Indian Judge or Mohandas Khilafart Gandhi and Bandit Jabberlal Neckscrew, the Pope has neither any idea of reality, nor the slightest sympathy for the victims of crime (aka Islam).. I suspect he might cheer as the Moslems set fire to the Sistine Chapel and welcome martyrdom if Jesus’ enormous harem is raped and his flock are nailed to the cross and set on fire!

  53. Dacritic says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 12:03 pm

    The Pope is a joke.

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