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Pope Francis: Rejection of refugees “rooted ultimately in self-centredness”

Feb 22, 2017 11:01 am By Robert Spencer

Self-centeredness? Let’s see.

Somali Muslim migrant Mohammad Barry in February 2016 stabbed multiple patrons at a restaurant owned by an Israeli Arab Christian; Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan Muslim migrant, in September 2016 set off bombs in New York City and New Jersey; Arcan Cetin, a Turkish Muslim migrant, in September 2016 murdered five people in a mall in Burlington, Washington; Dahir Adan, another Somali Muslim migrant, in October 2016 stabbed mall shoppers in St. Cloud while screaming “Allahu akbar”; and Abdul Razak Artan, yet another Somali Muslim migrant, in November 2016 injured nine people with car and knife attacks at Ohio State University. 72 jihad terrorists have come to the U.S. from the countries listed in Trump’s immigration ban.

What’s more, all of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. The Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. On May 10, 2016, Patrick Calvar, the head of France’s DGSI internal intelligence agency, said that the Islamic State was using migrant routes through the Balkans to get jihadis into Europe.

But concern about all that is rooted in self-centeredness. In spreading this nonsense, the Pope is endangering his own people, particularly in light of the papal idolatry that is rampant in the Catholic Church today.

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

“Pope Francis: ‘the protection of migrants is a moral duty,'” Vatican Radio, February 21, 2017:

…To welcome.  “Rejection is an attitude we all share; it makes us see our neighbour not as a brother or sister to be accepted, but as unworthy of our attention, a rival, or someone to be bent to our will” (Address to the Diplomatic Corps, 12 January 2015).  Faced with this kind of rejection, rooted ultimately in self-centredness and amplified by populist rhetoric, what is needed is a change of attitude, to overcome indifference and to counter fears with a generous approach of welcoming those who knock at our doors.  For those who flee conflicts and terrible persecutions, often trapped within the grip of criminal organisations who have no scruples, we need to open accessible and secure humanitarian channels.  A responsible and dignified welcome of our brothers and sisters begins by offering them decent and appropriate shelter.  The enormous gathering together of persons seeking asylum and of refugees has not produced positive results.  Instead these gatherings have created new situations of vulnerability and hardship.  More widespread programmes of welcome, already initiated in different places, seem to favour a personal encounter and allow for greater quality of service and increased guarantees of success….

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  1. concerned canadian says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 11:05 am

    Popey needs to live among the general populace in areas they are affected most.

    I would love to see a video with thousands of real people saying the truth.
    We are scared. We are affected by migrants.

    Otherwise media portrays it all as right wing fake news

    • mortimer says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 6:03 am

      Pope Francis has a screw loose.

      • Bill says

        Feb 23, 2017 at 8:49 am

        Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an extreme left wing/Communist politician. As soon as one looks past his manufactured veneer of “Pope” trappings, he is entirely predictable and understandable in that light. He does not have a screw loose, He is no dope. He uses the mantle of Catholicism to spread the only gospel he believes in, all from his personal bible, “The Communist Manifesto”.

        • Rob says

          Feb 23, 2017 at 8:43 pm

          I couldn’t agree with you more. He is forcing the “Islamophobia” myth down the throats of Catholic clergy who are instruct to then spew that poison onto their Catholic flocks. Assuredly “Pope” Francis holds in condemnation those past Popes and Christian faithful who fought and died to stop past Muslim drives to conquer Europe.

      • Adrian Johnson says

        Feb 24, 2017 at 7:10 am

        Pope Francis is a liberal Jesuit ( an oxymoron these days) which means he’s all in favour of the NWO, UN, and EU agendas . He is purging the conservative elements in the Vatican Curia and is advised by cardinals influenced by George Soros to be a “green” pope. Back in Argentina Bertagoglio praised the UN-linked “United Religions” Initiative which boosts a “reverence for Gaia”, mother earth. This Pope is not Catholic, not is he the principle of unity, but fosters dissension and betrayal of Church Dogma . He is a creature of the NWO, and is betraying the Church by splitting it the late–ex-Jesuit Fr Malachi Martin drew attention to prophecies that the last Pope of this era would “be under the influence of Satan” and the description of that Pope matches Pope Francis.

  2. Beagle says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 11:13 am

    Religious groups sucking up taxpayer dollars to resettle migrants in the US is a very profitable and self-centered scam. Quite a few religious groups make millions of dollars in profit importing hostile migrants who become a huge drain on the treasury. Pope Francis is protecting a source of revenue while virtue signaling to his fellow utopian globalists.

    • mousey says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 12:24 pm

      Beagle, i did not know that.

      On the site: united states conference of catholic bishops (http://www.usccb.org/about/financial-reporting/upload/financial-statements-2013-2014.pdf) is the 2014 and 2013 Financial Statements for USCCB. Apparently, since 1975 they’ve received $ from us gov’t to assist in the resettlement of refugees immigrating to the United States, and in 2014 were reimbursed $10,798,023. ( It also says USCCB incurred sub-recipient expenses under the 2014 government contracts of $68,442,579 –whatever that means. What are sub-recipient expenses?)

      That they get money for immigrants coming in puts a new understanding on the situation for me…i was just thinking the pope had some mental illness.

      • mousey says

        Feb 22, 2017 at 12:27 pm

        so the total government contract and grants revenue for 2014 was $79,590.512.

      • Shmooviyet says

        Feb 22, 2017 at 1:55 pm

        @mousey: mental illness a distinct possibility as well! A publicity hound deceiving millions of his followers (or hundreds, depending on his reach) is sick with self-absorption and greed.
        I won’t go near the once-tiny Methodist church my grandparents helped build, since we discovered how deeply they were benefitting from ‘re-settlement’ aid. So much per head, etc.
        The more they make, the looser their ties to all truths.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 22, 2017 at 7:17 pm

        And it is not just Catholic charities that do this–Lutheran charities do this all the time, as well. I’m sure there are others, as well.

        • mortimer says

          Feb 23, 2017 at 6:09 am

          Upper-level Christian clergy do not live with the migrants and so they are safe from any effects of supremacism. The poor and disadvantaged live near the SUPREMACISTS… many are angry, many are organized in groups, many are prepared to defend the Sharia supremacism they are promoting with ‘street patrols’.

          In Europe, churches are being vandalized by Sharia fanatics who have been caught on camera. A priest was decapitated at the altar while saying mass.

          Frances lives in a world of fantasy.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 24, 2017 at 2:16 pm

        Shmooviyet, why would these folks all be “mentally ill” in exactly the same way? This degree of “political correctness” is pretty crazy, though…

  3. Bill says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 11:14 am

    Jorge Mario Bergoglio just doing his best to foster and incite mayhem, murder, disorder and chaos, all to pave the way for the implementation of global Communism, the only “religion” he is interested in.

    • Eric Jones says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 6:35 pm

      This is right up Francis’s ally Mayhem, murder disorder. Francis was a bouncer before he became a priest.

      Eric

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 24, 2017 at 2:27 pm

        Timothy, Eric is right:

        “Pope Francis Was Once A Nightclub Bouncer”

        http://news.sky.com/story/pope-francis-was-once-a-nightclub-bouncer-10425827

  4. tony46 says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 11:21 am

    ”At the end, the Lord won’t send us a Shepherd, …but a Destroyer”
    (St Francis of Assisi’s prophecy)

    • Kay says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 3:18 pm

      What is this from?

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 22, 2017 at 8:13 pm

        Kay, this is part of what Francis was reported to have said on his deathbed about the last days.

        • Kay says

          Feb 23, 2017 at 9:05 am

          thanks

        • Kay says

          Feb 23, 2017 at 9:09 am

          I wonder now why Jesuits were not supposed to take positions of power. Is it possible that St Ignatius also foresaw something? Does anyone know?

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 2:42 pm

          Kay, I believe this was a point of humility for St Ignatius and the other Jesuits:

          “Jesuits are bound by oath not to seek higher office in the Roman Catholic Church, and now one of them has been elected to its highest office: Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Pontifex Maximus.”

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/why-the-first-jesuit-pope-is-a-big-deal/2013/03/14/16f701c4-8ced-11e2-adca-74ab31da3399_story.html

          I think the idea is supposed to be that Bergoglio did not *seek* the papacy, but accepted it when elected out of obedience to the church. (Whether one buys that or not is another issue, of course).

    • FYI says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 4:52 am

      Francis is very much a deceiver.He is educated enough to know the error of equating the islamic “allah” with the Christian God.He certainly knows this and yet he promotes this falsehood.
      The One World Religion requires somebody who will falsely claim that all versions of God are the same.
      Someone like francis.
      He spends a lot of time undermining the faith of Catholics and failing to defend Christendom.

      If he loves refugees so much I suggest that he invites them to the Vatican and spend some of the enormous sums of money the RCC has to help them.

  5. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 11:57 am

    “Self-centeredness” is used here in agreement with philosophy of altruism to which this pope, as well as all previous ones wholeheartedly adhere to and support. “Self-centeredness” (egoism) they call “evil” because it contradicts the most basic tenant of their creed. By the way, on “self-centeredness” they absolutely agree with all Mohammedans as it is condemned also by sharia, and that common denominator in agreement with them is perhaps the biggest magnet they are so much attracted to Islam. Call it the race to achieve bigger, the most total altruism (philosophy of SACRIFICE) under the sky.

    • Kay says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 3:19 pm

      ??

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 8:17 pm

      True, Voytek.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 8:43 am

      Last night on Hannity the guest was a man, a minister I think, who was insisting he was commanded by Jesus or God or some supernatural being to help refugees. It was his Christian duty. Hannity said, and I thought it an excellent point, that if it were his Christian duty, shouldn’t he be making the sacrifice rather than taking millions of dollars from reluctant taxpayers who had no part in it and then he took the credit?
      I have no argument with him f he didn’t use tax payer money and resources i.e. health care, food stamps, housing, education . No God commanded me to do this and I don’t want my money used for it.

      So, Mr. Pope, if you are not self-centered, use the Catholic Church’s money for these barbarian refugees instead of instructing others to confiscate our tax money to throw down the drain of multi-culturalism.

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 23, 2017 at 8:43 am

        It wasn’t Hannity. It was Tucker Carlson.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 24, 2017 at 2:50 pm

        Carolyne wrote:

        I have no argument with him f he didn’t use tax payer money and resources i.e. health care, food stamps, housing, education . No God commanded me to do this and I don’t want my money used for it.
        …………………..

        Carolyne, this would still be an issue even if these fools spent their own money on bringing Muslims to the West and paying for their maintenance–we would still be subject to being raped and murdered by them, and would still have to pay police and security, court costs, and prison–and, in the long run, having our societies turned into Muslim hell holes.

        The initial costs of bringing in Mohammedans are the least of it.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 8:47 am

      I believe you will find, Voytek, that the Koran instructs Muslims to help other Muslims and to kill non Muslims, not help them.

      No one has the right to be “Altruistic” with my tax money, especially to help those who would kill me. Altruism by Islam does not extend to all, but to only Muslims. Read a little and learn.

  6. copakeman says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 12:07 pm

    There are none so blind as those that will not see.

    Why subject the civilized world to these animal, killers, murderers, rapist, anti homosexual (death penalty), NO women’s rights (except to be enslaved by men), I am surprise these peaceful muslims don’t make more of their women (slaves) suicide murderers This war against Christians and Jews has been going on for 1200 years. Wake up Mr Pope ! Open up Vatican City to a few million refugees?, I am sure the refugees? will appreciate your generosity.

  7. Phil Copson says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    Our responsibility to our fellow men starts and ends with assisting them to live in peace in their own countries. Anything beyond that is an act of generosity not to be abused.
    To be allowed to migrate to another country is not a right, it is a privilege that cannot be extended to those who harbour antipathy and animosity towards the host country.
    Were there a mass movement backed up with calls from the Pope, the political classes, and the media to take in the Tutsis and Hutus during the fighting in Rwanda, or any move to take families from Beirut ? These had a far better claim to be considered as “refugees” than a bunch of chancers from Sudan, Senegal, Somalia, Eritrea, Chad etc etc etc.
    Refugees are either civilians from a war zone, or minority groups suffering persecution. The vast bulk of those entering the West are neither, and have absolutely no business to be here. By taking in large numbers of Muslims on hijra , Governments are deliberately preventing genuine refugees from minority groups from being rescued and are complicit in genocide.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 8:54 am

      Phil Copson, I think we need, but not have a duty, to assist them to live in their own countries, but we cannot make Muslims peaceful. By the nature of their religion they are not, nor can they ever be so long as this evil philosophy exists.

      I am also not so sure these people are “Refugees from a war zone,” as much as Jihadis posing as refugees from a war zone. They mostly look like strong, well-fed young men out for a fight. I see very few women and children or old people among the hordes invading Western Europe. I do not feel a responsibility to help those who want to rape and behead me. Perhaps you do but do not use my money to do so.

      • Phil Copson says

        Feb 23, 2017 at 9:28 am

        Carolyne – you are not reading what I wrote – I say they should stay in their their own countries, and you say “No, you’re wrong there – they should stay in their own countries”

        • Carolyne says

          Feb 23, 2017 at 11:36 pm

          No, you said they should stay in their own countries and live peacefully and I said they should stay in their own countries but they are incapable of living peacefully or peaceably.

  8. Wellington says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    Perhaps Francis should consider a tour of several European countries where he could visit the victims of Muslim refugees, for instance all the women who have been raped and those who have been maimed for life by devoted followers of the religion of peace and tolerance.

    But he won’t.

  9. somehistory says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    Personal message to the *pope*: I’m happy to tell you this, fool, just to let you know, you evil liar, that the devil’s children are not my “brothers and sisters.”

    Anyone who says what this lying fool says deserves to be mocked and then ignored. He has no business trying to *guilt-trip* Christians into doing something Jesus said not to do.

    Jesus Christ said not to “throw pearls before swine,” and not to “give what is holy to dogs.” He told Christians to be aware of “false Christs” and “false prophets” and to avoid “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

    This lying *pope* would have all of us do all of the things Jesus said not to do, and ignore Jesus’ words about falsehoods and lies… and put our lives and the lives of our children and families in danger.
    And one day soon, sooner than he could possibly expect, he will “reap what he sows” so freely. He is ‘sowing wind and will reap the whirlwind.’

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 8:55 am

      Excellent, somehistory, excellent.

      • somehistory says

        Feb 23, 2017 at 8:36 pm

        Thank you, Carolyne.

  10. The RationalVoice says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 12:58 pm

    The utterances of religious “leaders” has long been regarded as pious, naïve nonsense and the present problem with Muslims only highlights this
    Only a fool would mistake economic migrants for refugees particularly those who suffer least from this problem like the Pope,luvvies,politicians of the liberal/left etc How many have given a room in their house like they said they would at the beginning of this.
    I would say close to none.
    Social care in Britain is being cut back and hospitals and GPs are stretched to breaking point. This is no time to be “holier than thou”
    The World not just the West should help those victims of famine, drought overpopulation
    and war in or close to their country not as Merkel has done invited them to Europe and made people smugglers very rich.
    Netherlands,France Germany, Italy and Sweden need to show contempt for their current leaders and sling them out democratically to avoid the violence in Europe getting even worse

    • Phil Copson says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 4:51 pm

      Quote: “Netherlands,France Germany, Italy and Sweden need to show contempt for their current leaders and sling them out democratically to avoid the violence in Europe getting even worse…”

      Does this have to mean via the ballot box ? When leaders are plainly not reflecting the popular will or acting in the common good, but have instead embarked upon the lunatic destruction of their people, then it is the democratic duty of their deputies to over-throw them, just as it is the duty of an officer to intervene when his commanding officer is plainly no longer fit to command.

      Who cares that Cameron or Sarkozy are no longer the Prime Ministers of their countries ? If Merkel were deposed on “health” grounds, would there be a popular uprising to restore her ? Of course not, people would get on with their lives as usual. So why is there this “sacred cow” concept that the career of one politician is more important than the ruined lives and futures of the populace ?

      What is a politician or a civil servant anyway ? Simply somebody who can’t tell the difference between real life and a piece of paper. Get shot of the demented demagogues, tear up their treaties and agreements, and let’s have a Common-sense Revolution.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 22, 2017 at 8:21 pm

        Merkel just needs to be voted out.

        Your idea that a coup is no different than someone losing an election is quite false. Throwing out civilized democracy because of Muslims is foolish–and unfree state would be *more* vulnerable to Islam, not less.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 22, 2017 at 8:24 pm

          That should have been “an unfree state…” or “and unfree states”.

        • Wellington says

          Feb 22, 2017 at 8:40 pm

          Phil Copson, gravenimage, here and on many other threads, reminds me of Robespierre, who was also only too willing to destroy freedom in order to save it

        • Mark Swan says

          Feb 23, 2017 at 12:42 pm

          I don’t think Phil Copson, says anything more than why doesn’t something give here,
          if we do not see our peoples devided and ready to degrade, we are enjoying a false
          sense of security, it can not go on the way it is without widely accepted leadership.

          This world is hurting so badly for genuine leadership.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 12:12 am

          Agreed, Wellington.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 12:23 am

          Dear Mark, I very much agree that the world is hurting for real leadership. There are a few bright lights–Viktor Orban in Hungary, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, and to some extent Donald Trump in the US and Marine Le Pen in France.

          I also agree that the denial of the Jihad threat that so much of the West is still mired in is utterly suicidal.

          But I do not agree agree with Phil Copson that anything at all that breaks this complacency–including political coups and violence in the streets–is ipso facto a good thing.

          It is not just that we have to stand against Islam–we also have to stand up and defend our own civilized values.

          We have created the most civilized societies in the world–in fact, the most civilized societies *in history*.

          If we foolishly betray our own values–including democracy and the rule of law–I believe we will not just have lost what we have taken centuries to create because of Islam, I think we increase our chances of losing what we have created *to* Islam.

        • Phil Copson says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 6:10 am

          I said that Merkel’s deputies should relieve her of her leadership, ie – they should sit her down and tell her that she has to go for the common good, and relieve her of her office. That is not a call for bloody revolution. But if she won’t go quietly, then – seriously – at what point should she, or a Trudeau, Rutte in Holland, or Lofven in Sweden be compelled to leave by force ?
          When hundreds are dead and thousands robbed and raped ? When Christmas is banned from government buildings and pork is banned from school meals ? When your children are forced to attend a mosque ? When people are turned out of their homes to make way for migrants ? When the ISIS flag is flown in Times Square and city streets are taken over by Muslim marchers calling for beheadings ? Because all these things have happened.
          Or shall we leave it until a major city has become a Third World enclave run under Sharia Law, and from which the authorities are banned – a type of “solution” that has been suggested already by several European politicians ? Or do we leave it until Sweden, Paris, or Dearborn falls ?
          Because either there is a point at which people should defend themselves or there isn’t. And if there is no point at which a people should defy their governments, is that a democracy or a dictatorship ?
          If no party will act in the interests of the people, then the revolution is already upon us, and it’s by the bureaucrats against democracy.
          Tearing up treaties and agreements? Donald Trump’s plans to tear up the the Iran deal, the Paris agreement, and various trade deals appears to be an excellent idea, and hasn’t led to any blood-bath that I’ve heard of.
          For a real coup d’etat, check out the EU’s forcing the Greek and Italian Prime Minsters from office.
          For an attempted coup d’etat, the moves to thwart Trump’s Presidency – the refusal to work with the administration on the part of city officials, administrators, judges, educators, immigration officers etc is intended to amount to just that.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 3:12 pm

          Phil, thank you for your reply.

          I am not sure I would count on Merkel’s deputies to remove her, in any case–most of them are likely in general agreement with her policies.

          There are ways to fight without going to the point of illegally removing someone from power. Large demonstrations, pressuring politicians, filing lawsuits–little of which is being done now.

          Ordinary citizens need to stand up far more than they already have.

      • Mark Swan says

        Feb 24, 2017 at 3:18 am

        I Absolutely Agree gravenimage, thank you.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 3:04 pm

          🙂

  11. John Hawk says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    The refugee racket is one of the biggest scams going, and the Catholic Church is a prime beneficiary. That’s about as self-centered as it gets. This dhimmi isn’t interested in anyone’s safety or well-being, and his record of Islamic appeasement demonstrates as much.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 8:59 am

      And that picture of him often used where he is kissing foot always makes me sick to my stomach. What an idiot. Go to your church, Pope, and leave the real work to those of us willing to do it. Number one on the agenda should be expelling barbarians who have invaded civilized countries.

      • Phil Copson says

        Feb 23, 2017 at 9:22 am

        There is a “Christian duty” to endanger civilisation.

        • Mark Swan says

          Feb 23, 2017 at 12:45 pm

          Can you explain what you mean here?

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 12:26 am

          Actually, Phil, the Christian West has bravely stood against the encroachment of Islam many times–it is only lately that so many religious leaders have become mired in the same “political correctness” that warps so much of the secular West, as well.

        • Phil Copson says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 4:15 am

          Yes, aware of that thanks. Unfortunately, I missed off the question mark at the end of the sentence, giving exactly the opposite effect of the one intended.
          It should have read: “There is a Christian duty to endanger civilisation?” meant as a sarcastic query of the Pope’s position on mass immigration.

          regards,
          Phil.

        • Custos Custodum says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 2:00 am

          Western democracies and their MSM-addled, union-educated electorates are quite simply running out of democratic emotion.

          “But the thing which is really required for the proper working of democracy is not merely the democratic system, or even the democratic philosophy, but the democratic emotion.”

          (G.K. Chesterton, “Heretics”)

          P.S.: Yes, Chesterton indulged in the casual anti-Semitism of his days, but it was Chesterton who almost alone thundered against the enormous crime of eugenics in 1922, at a time when all the soi-disant “better classes” in Europe and North America were solidly in favor of murdering or re-breeding the lower orders.

        • Phil Copson says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 3:56 am

          Oops! – Mark – there was supposed to be a question mark after that.
          The Pope’s position is that he is supporting an irresponsible mass migration.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 3:17 pm

          Thanks for the clarification, Phil. Yes, a question mark would have completely changed the meaning.

        • Mark Swan says

          Feb 24, 2017 at 3:42 pm

          Yes thank you Phil Copson, I’m sorry to have bothered you about it, I know your
          a good man, never doubt it.

  12. Richard Paulsen says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    Female journalists in Iran have to sit on he floor according to the law.
    https://twitter.com/islamlie2/status/834214925161598976

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 9:04 am

      Yes, a few years ago Ashley Banfield donned those rags and knelt on the floor to interview some dirty old imam. I felt ashamed of her as a woman.

  13. Campos Mário says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    He is a traitor. Just it .

  14. Campos Mário says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    The fake shepherd Bergoglio … the witch from the ex-RDA Merkel …and the last socialist elected president of France , Hollande: the three main traitors of the Christian West.

  15. jewdog says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 2:04 pm

    Guilty as charged. My desire to protect myself and my family is self-centered.

    • vlparker says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 6:54 pm

      Damn right.

  16. Angemon says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 2:06 pm

    Faced with this kind of rejection, rooted ultimately in self-centredness

    “Self-centredness”? OK, Frankie, answer me this: what do I stand to win by welcoming in my country people whose core values are at odds with mine? What do I stand to win, other than an increase in taxes, to welcome people who consider living off my work as a sacred duty? What do my mother, aunts, female cousins and friends stand to win by welcoming people who consider a sacred duty to rape them for not dressing “properly”?

    • Angemon says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 2:10 pm

      Ups, posted too soon. “Self-centredness” can be a good thing, and altruism can be a disease:

      https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/10/14/too-much-of-a-selfless-good-thing-pathological-altruism/

  17. Cretius says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    This Pope is an ignorant fool.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Feb 24, 2017 at 2:04 am

      NO. Frank is not entirely ignorant, although his insight does seem limited.

      Above all, Jorge Bergoglio is a loyal tool at the beck and call of much smarter globalist totalitarians on their jihad for world domination.

  18. JawsV says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    No, it’s called self-preservation you dumb pope. Keep kissing the Moslems’ feet Dhimmi. Then go back behind your wall.

  19. Sam says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    I CAN NOT STAND THIS FOOL CALLED POPE! WHAT A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY!

  20. Nate says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 3:11 pm

    ‘“Rejection is an attitude we all share; it makes us see our neighbour not as a brother or sister to be accepted, but as unworthy of our attention, a rival, or someone to be bent to our will”’

    Sadly, he wasn’t talking about the Islamists.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 9:09 am

      And that is the description of the Pope and his cardinals who love to cross-dress in red. Certainly unworthy of my attention.

  21. marina says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 3:22 pm

    This disgusting pope should go live in Malmo for a month.

  22. Kay says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 4:02 pm

    Pope, and yet what is he teaching of Jesus?
    And how can they believe if they don’t hear?

  23. ChzzMonkee says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 4:11 pm

    I think it’s wondwrful the Pope is going to liquidate all of the Vatican’s treasures in order to take care of the migrant refugees in Italy and the rest of the world.

    What a Mensch!

  24. common sense says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 4:51 pm

    This non Pope could teach the devil a few tricks.
    Christine Waters should visit Brussels without a hijab or her security escort and Frankie in his robes.

  25. Berengaria says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 5:12 pm

    Pope Francis the Fickle has made a mockery out of his sacred duty to the Church, Founded by Jesus Christ. He Personally went to the UN & signed the Birthright of Catholics away to the Muslim World. I detest this evil Jesuit, who is no more Roman Catholic than Obama is ROMAN CATHOLIC.
    May God Deal with this Fraudulent man, who Praises the Cruelty of Islam against his own Catholic Flock.

    • Kay says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 7:49 pm

      He Personally went to the UN & signed the Birthright of Catholics away to the Muslim World.
      ———-
      What does that mean?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 8:44 pm

      Like Kay, I’m not sure what you are referring to, Berengaria. More information, please.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 9:13 am

      I do not believe Jesus founded the Catholic Church. Jesus did not wear women’s clothing, nor did he “Store up his treasures” while others were starving. This is the history of the Catholic Church. Did anyone ever see a skinny Cardinal? Also, when Popes move to Rome, they always seem to bring with them a nun who has been his long time “Housekeeper.”Hmmmm.

  26. Regual Llegna says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 6:10 pm

    The chances that this liberal Pope help other people with his own two hands are null. He is causing the dead of many people!!!! only in a diferent way that the muslims.

  27. Eric Jones says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 6:18 pm

    No Francis. Rejection of refugees is ultimately rooted in *self preservation*. I have observed that when some people want to take advantage of you they will tell you not to be suspecious.

    Eric

  28. gravenimage says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 6:49 pm

    Pope Francis: Rejection of refugees “rooted ultimately in self-centredness”
    ………………………

    How *dare* we not want Muslims to rape and murder us and our neighbors? How “self-centered”!

    More:

    …To welcome. “Rejection is an attitude we all share; it makes us see our neighbour not as a brother or sister to be accepted, but as unworthy of our attention, a rival, or someone to be bent to our will”
    ………………………

    So–not wanting Muslims to harm us means we are trying to ‘bend them to our will’? How “coercive”…sarc/off

    More:

    …what is needed is a change of attitude, to overcome indifference and to counter fears with a generous approach of welcoming those who knock at our doors.
    ………………………

    So–Muslims don’t have to change their attitudes in wanting to rape and murder us–we just have to overcome our fears of this being a bad thing…

    And note: the image of someone “knocking at our door” has two very different connotations–one is asking us for help and sanctuary; the second is fascistic thugs come to oppress and harm us.

    The Pope would have us consider Muslims flooding into the West to be the former, when it is actually the latter.

    More:

    For those who flee conflicts and terrible persecutions, often trapped within the grip of criminal organisations who have no scruples, we need to open accessible and secure humanitarian channels. A responsible and dignified welcome of our brothers and sisters begins by offering them decent and appropriate shelter…
    ………………………

    And if those flooding in actually represent those “criminal organisations” themselves? Silence…

    More:

    The enormous gathering together of persons seeking asylum and of refugees has not produced positive results. Instead these gatherings have created new situations of vulnerability and hardship. More widespread programmes of welcome, already initiated in different places, seem to favour a personal encounter and allow for greater quality of service and increased guarantees of success….
    ………………………

    In other words, this having “not produced positive results” refers not to Muslim migrants waging violent Jihad and attempting to impose brutal Shari’ah law, but instead to our not giving the invaders *enough* of a welcome.

    Entry, welfare, free housing, free medical care, and free education is not enough. Nothing will *ever* be enough until we serve as sources of Jizya and slave labor for them…

    • Wellington says

      Feb 22, 2017 at 7:16 pm

      Excellent and definitely on point, gravenimage. Actually on many points as is your laudable wont.

      Damn, you would have made a fine attorney (and for the correct causes to be sure). Of this I have no doubt.

      Always good to read what you have to say since what you have to say is never something a reasonable and informed mind can or should dismiss.

      From an East-Coast guy to a West-Coast gal (said reference to “gal” being just one more description, I am sure, that would be described as sexist by the ever clueless and fascistic Left), I hope you and yours are doing well in a world which may very well be spinning out of control, thanks entirely to the forces of non-freedom, among them being Islam, the Left and those bastard traditional authoritarians in places like Moscow and Beijing.

      • Kay says

        Feb 22, 2017 at 7:52 pm

        +1

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 24, 2017 at 1:26 am

        Wellington wrote:

        Damn, you would have made a fine attorney (and for the correct causes to be sure). Of this I have no doubt.
        ………………………

        That means a great deal to me, Wellington. I have always tried to be logical and rational–something I had to strive hard for, since I did not grow up with this at all. And I have never believed that passion and reason are or should be at odds.

        And I don’t mind being called a “gal” at all–I don’t find it insulting–just the opposite, especially from someone I admire.

        I’m doing well–still fighting the good fight. Hope you and your wife and others loved ones are well, also.

        And thank you, Kay–hope you are well, too!

        There are so many good people here in our virtual community–it is heartening on the darkest day.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 9:18 am

      A Catholic Pope of Rome who criticizes “Bending to” one’s “Will,” is delusional. Has he ever heard of the auto da fe? An afternoon reading history books wouldn’t hurt him.

  29. abad says

    Feb 22, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    Pope Francis, just like Hillary Clinton, and Obama, have refused to set a foot in Syria.

    And history will call all three out on this every single time during the reign of ISL.

    If anything, Pope Francis is just as bad as Hollyweird when it comes to speaking about politics.

    Pope Francis should stick to his job of speaking on matters of faith and morals in the Roman Catholic church. He is out of line once again.

  30. Jack Holan says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 10:27 am

    I don’t believe for an instant that Pope Benedict voluntarily resigned from Head of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis is the consummate tool for the Islamic Jihad to the detriment of Christians Christianity Jews and ALL other infidels. I suggest that Francis practice what he preaches. Give orders to his Swiss Guard to stand down and let all ‘refugees’ who want to enter Vatican City and the Vatican itself to do so. Give them full rein of were they want to go just as in all of Europe. Keep your doors unlocked. They surely won’t harm you. The statement made about burning Rome and the Church when they beheaded the 25 Christians on the shores of Libya is over a year and a half old.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 24, 2017 at 12:12 am

      Jack Holan, I have read and I believe it to be true, that the reason for Benedict’s resignation was that he made several public statements critical of Islam and its history. This was unacceptable to the Vatican powers that be because they had other plans, which we now see in the person of Pope Francis. At least Benedict wasn’t murdered as many believe the first John Paul was. He seems to be living peacefully at Castle Gandolfo although he isn’t often seen.

  31. Mark Fortier says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 11:50 am

    Now I understand why I have been seeing some increased criticism of Jihad Watch by people who are not liberal democrat trolls but of former supporters! This picture is framed with such an obvious ignorant anti-RCC, anti-christian bigotry so completely out of context! This is an action that is a mimic of Jesus washing His disciples feet that is re-enacted every Good Friday across the world!

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 11:53 pm

      Of course we know the origin of the foot-watching ritual. Easter is coming in April and I will again find it distasteful. Did Jesus wash the feet of his sworn enemy who wished to behead him? This pope of Rome is a dedicated fool and he makes me gag.
      As for being anti hypocrite, well yes, I suppose I am.

  32. SoCalMike says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    What a despicable so-called pope.
    His silence in the face of Christian genocide at the hands of jihadi supremacist Muslims is perhaps the most disgusting display of any pop ever.
    He really deserve not just strong criticism but punishment for betraying the people he claims to represent and speak for.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 23, 2017 at 11:59 pm

      SoCalMike, I have made it quite obvious that I have no respect for this man who calls himself pope. And the reason is exactly as you have stated. All of his compassion seems to be directed toward Muslims while the fate of Christians is never even mentioned. He is an evil, evil man.

  33. LR says

    Feb 24, 2017 at 1:53 am

    “Faced with this kind of rejection, rooted ultimately in self-centredness and amplified by populist rhetoric, what is needed is a change of attitude, to overcome indifference and to counter fears with a generous approach of welcoming those who knock at our doors.”…

    I agree that indifference to human suffering and need is a bad thing…Compassion is often called for to help people in need…but, it is simplistic, naive, and possibly potentially dangerous to welcome ANYONE who might ‘knock at our doors’…

    Too much of the news, and simplistic statements in regards to our complex societal/cultural problems does grow tiresome.

  34. angelo says

    Feb 24, 2017 at 11:37 am

    The Pope’s request for migrating immigrants is only a Band-Aid solution. The true question as to WHY people are abandoning their Islamic country needs to be addressed. It is precisely because of religious persecution for Christians and Muslims. Does not Islamic theology teach that their “god” allows for murder, lying, rape and stealing of non muslims ? What needs to happen, if we are to live in peace, is for an Islamic Reformation. They need to reform and castigate those who advocate that Islam is the only true religion and that others are heritics and dogs worthy of murder.
    The Pope needs to address this issue and not take the easy way out by saying “come on over”.

    • Phil Copson says

      Feb 24, 2017 at 6:25 pm

      I think that the facts are that it is predominantly Muslims who are leaving Muslim countries – especially in N.Africa and the Middle East – and that the persecuted minorities are woefully under-represented.
      From what I read, any members of a minority religion will be in greater immediate danger of assault, exploitation and murder if they try to leave their communities, and cross majority Shiite/Sunni territories to live among Muslims on people-traffickers’ boats and in refugee camps, than if they stay.
      This is a truly horrible dilemma – to stay on the sinking ship of the dwindling, endangered Christian/ Zoroastrian etc communities, or risk death trying to reach the lifeboat of a new life in the West ?
      As the population of religious minorities steadily shrinks, so the danger to those remaining increases. Who would want to be amongst the last hundred in a Christian village in Nigeria or Somalia ?
      Has anybody got information on whether religious minorities are leaving Indonesia ? Are they being forced to leave, prevented from leaving etc ?

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 24, 2017 at 9:18 pm

        True, Phil–it is also the case that in many parts of Dar-al-Islam that Infidels like Christians and Hindus make up only a tiny remnant of the population, since many of them have already been driven out, forcibly converted, or murdered.

  35. Benedict says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 8:48 am

    So what if one is self centered. They are taking care of themselves. Who is taking care of the Christians that are being ill treated in muslim dominated countries. This idiot of a pope does not care. In the light of his behaving so, it is good to be self centered.

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