Pope Francis delivered a prayer during his Good Friday via crucis, in which he chastised the world’s Christians for their behavior, for bringing so much violence into the world:
Christians ought to express shame for the actions of those who are leaving future generations a world “fractured by divisions and wars,” Pope Francis said.
The pope invoked Jesus of Nazareth, saying “our gaze upon you is full of shame, repentance and hope.”
“Before your supreme love, shame pervades us for having left you alone to suffer for our sins … shame for having chosen Barabbas and not you, power and not you, appearance and not you, the god of money and not you, worldliness and not eternity,” Francis said.
Christians feel shame for all the people, including some clergy, who “allowed themselves to be deceived by ambition and vainglory, losing sight of their dignity and first love,” and those who have left future generations a world “fractured by divisions and wars” and “consumed by selfishness,” the pope said”.
Francis also spoke of the repentance that “springs from the certainty that only you (Christ) can save us from evil, only you can heal us from our leprosy of hate, selfishness, pride, greed, revenge and idolatry.”
Thus did this pope, who has consistently been a stout defender of Islam and Muslims, the man who has claimed “there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism,” that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence,” that “Islam is a religion of peace, one which is compatible with respect for human rights and peaceful coexistence,” chose to dwell one-sidedly on the guilt of Christians. And just a little more than two weeks ago, Pope Francis had chastised those Italian voters who had supported anti-Muslim parties, including La Lega, in the recent election, insisting that “fear” (their fear of Muslim migrants) was not a good basis for policy. Others disagree, pointing out that when it is justified, apprehension (a more acceptable-sounding synonym than “fear”) can be as sound a basis for policy, and sometimes a good deal sounder, than the absence of fear. It was Churchill who had “feared” Hitler and the Nazis all through the 1930s, having recognized that appeasement would never work, while those who thought they could make a deal with Hitler — the Cliveden Set, Lord Halifax, Prime Minister Chamberlain — did not. It was “fear” of Stalin’s plans that led the Western democracies, sensibly, to such measures as the NATO military alliance, and the same intelligent “fear” of Communist expansion also led to American subsidies to the non-Communist parties in France and Italy in the late 1940s and early 1950s, so as to prevent the takeover, through free elections, of those countries by their very large Communist parties.
Now the Pope, not content with his defense of Islam, nor with his ahistorical deploring of “fear” as a basis for policy, tells the world’s Christians that they ought to express shame for the actions of those among them who are leaving future generations, the Pope claims, a world “fractured by divisions and wars.” He never mentions Islam.
How are Christians today responsible for a world “fractured by divisions and wars”? Let’s just remind ourselves of some, most, almost all, of those “divisions and wars” that the Pope has overlooked. There is the Syrian civil war, that has gone on for seven years, between different groups of Muslims, the Alawites supported by both the Shi’a Iranians and the Lebanese Shi’a militia Hezbollah, fighting various Sunni rebel groups, from the secular to the Salafi, not to mention local branches of Al-Qaeda and ISIS. About half a million people have been killed to date. There is the proxy war in Yemen, between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with the Saudis wantonly bombing civilians in San’a, Yemen’s capital, and the Houthi (Shia) rebels just as wantonly lobbying Iranian missiles into Riyadh. There is the cold war between four Arab states, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt, which have imposed a land, sea, and air blockade of tiny Qatar, because of its support of the Muslim Brotherhood and its overtures to Iran. There are two Islamist groups in Nigeria, Boko Haram and a local branch of the Islamic State, kidnapping Christian girls, burning down Christian villages, murdering Christian worshippers. In Algeria, Muslim Arabs, though they have at long last officially recognized the Berber language, still allow it to be taught in less than 15% of the schools; no attempt is made to preserve or revive the Berber culture. In Egypt, Hamas (the “Palestinian” branch of the Muslim Brotherhood) and the Islamic State from bases in Sinai have attacked Egyptian police and soldiers. Muslim militants from IS, and other groups too, have bombed or burned Coptic churches and killed worshippers. A Sufi mosque was attacked by the Islamic State in the northern Sinai; 305 worshippers were murdered.
There are Muslim Turks attacking Kurds in western Syria, just as Muslim Arabs have been murdering Kurds for decades. Saddam Hussein, of late and unlamented memory, killed 182,000 Kurds, some with poison gas, and moved large numbers of Arabs in so as to “arabize” formerly Kurdish lands whose previous owners had been killed. In Iraq, the Christian population has plummeted from 1.4 million in 2003 to 200,000 today, both because of endless killings of Christians by Muslim terrorists, and because of the subsequent flight by Christians who leave the country for the safety of the West, never to return. As for the Yazidis, the mass murders and mass rapes of members of this small and ancient religious group, by the Muslims of the Islamic State, constituted attempted genocide, and it was only intervention by the Americans, British, and Australians that managed to save the Yazidis from annihilation. Up to 10,000 may have been killed, half a million became refugees, and 7,000 Yazidi girls and women were sold as sex slaves in Sinjar, and the slave markets of Mosul and Raqqa. Some of the Yazidi girls and women were simply taken by ISIS fighters as their due; after they had had their fill, they would pass the girls around for others to enjoy to their heart’s content; other Muslims bought them as sex slaves (they had price tags attached). They would be raped by their buyers, and after a while, passed around to others to enjoy.
The Shi’a Muslims in Iran have persecuted Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Baha’is. Some have been killed. The leader of the Jewish community in Iran, Habib Elghanian, was executed just a few months after the Islamic Republic had been declared, on May 9, 1979, on charges of being a “Zionist spy.” In 1981, all eight members of Iran’s Baha’i National Spiritual Assembly were executed in a campaign to stamp out the religion. The Baha’i report that “since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Baha’is have been systematically persecuted as a matter of government policy. During the first decade of this persecution, more than 200 Baha’is were killed or executed, hundreds more were tortured or imprisoned, and tens of thousands lost jobs, access to education, and other rights – all solely because of their religious belief.
The Baha’i International Community reports: “Government-led attacks on the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority have re-intensified over the last 12 years. Since 2005, more than 1006 Baha’is have been arrested, and the number of Baha’is in prison [where some have been given 10 and 20-year sentences], has risen from fewer than five to more than 100 at one point. It is currently 97.” Their only crime is that they have been Baha’i.
As for the Zoroastrians, a representative of the Zoroastrian minority in the Iranian parliament has protested acts of “insult and defamation” against his community and called on the government to protect the rights of Zoroastrians and prevent inflammatory speech against them by the country’s influential clerics and local authorities.
According to the Middle East Institute, “in a letter to Ali Shamkhani, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Esfandiar Ekhtiari, a Zoroastrian lawmaker, complained that the community’s Sadeh mid-winter celebration this year was ‘attacked by elders that are supposed to be enforcing and promoting the law.'” He added that these individuals “beat the drum of religious divisiveness in a way that was intolerable and does not seem to be ending.”
“While Ekhtiari did not identify the individuals responsible for inciting hatred toward the Zoroastrian community, Iranian clerics and intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) and the Basij Force often harass and persecute followers of religious minorities, including the Zoroastrians.”
Christians, too, suffer severe discrimination in Iran, especially in educational opportunities and employment. There is the constant fear of physical harassment by Muslims, and of the clerics who incite hatred toward the Christians. Christians have been beaten, been forced to work without pay (or face being denounced publicly on some trumped-up charge). The worst treatment is meted out to converts to Christianity from Islam, who are ordinarily disavowed by their families, can lose their jobs, can be publicly humiliated.
In Pakistan, Sunni Muslims have persecuted Christians, Hindus, and Shi’a Muslims.The Hindu population of Pakistan has gone from 15% in 1947 to 2% today, the result of persecution, including murder, that led many Hindus either to flee to India or to convert to Islam. Christians have been accused of blasphemy by their Muslim neighbors, and been sentenced to death, purely on their (doubtful) testimony. Asia Bibi, for example, made the mistake of drinking from the same glass as her Muslim neighbors used. They then claimed she had spoken ill of the Prophet — how likely is that, given that she would know that could be cause for her own execution? — and she, this illiterate 45-year-old lady and mother of five, was sentenced to death. She is still in prison, waiting for the sentence to be carried out. Churches have been firebombed, Christians killed for any reason or no reason, on the testimony of a Muslim who might have a number of possible motives, including a desire to get rid of a business competitor, or to help oneself to a convicted Christian’s property, or to terrify local Christians into fleeing, leaving land to be taken, or as in the case of Asia Bibi, because her Muslim fellow workers (berry pickers) just didn’t like her and chose to manufacture a claim of “blasphemy.” When the Muslim head of the (Pakistani) Punjab, Salman Taseer, dared to call for a review of the blasphemy laws and asked that Asia Bibi be pardoned, he was executed — by his own bodyguard. Twenty years ago, the Catholic bishop of Faisalabad, Bishop John Joseph, in complete despair, committed suicide to protest the horrible persecution of Christians by Muslims in Pakistan. Nothing has changed since his sacrificial protest. Christians are still killed, by judicial murders under the blasphemy laws, and by violent attacks from Muslim militants, on individuals, families, and on churches. Do you think Pope Francis has given much thought to Bishop John Joseph, and the reason for his protest?
Sipah-e-Sahaba, a terrorist group of Sunni Muslim terrorists in Pakistan, takes great delight in murdering Shi’a professionals (doctors, engineers, lawyers), and attacking Shi’a mosques and schools. For these Sunni militants, Shia are not real Muslims at all, but Infidels; indeed, they are the worst of infidels, for they deceive people into thinking they are Muslims. Of course, the Sunni-Shi’a schism is 1400 years old, and Shi’a Muslims have also, when given the chance, persecuted Sunnis, most obviously in overwhelmingly Shi’a Iran. In Lebanon, the Shi’a Hezbollah, who have come so far so fast, have been known to bully Sunnis who, decades ago, used to do the same to the Shi’a. In Iraq, the Sunni despot Saddam Hussein violently suppressed the Shi’a Arab uprising, killing — it is believed — hundreds of thousands in the south.
In Afghanistan, too, the Shi’a Hazara have been attacked by the Taliban, and were saved, just, by the American forces that invaded Afghanistan in 2001. But as only a few thousand American troops remain in that country, those attacks have been renewed with fervor. Sometimes the Islamic State “claims credit,” sometimes the Taliban, sometimes what is mysteriously called “the Haqqani network” (which is a Taliban-linked group based in Pakistan). It hardly matters who was guilty for which particular attack: all three groups want to kill Shi’a.
We could go on in our tour d’horizon of Muslim murder and mayhem around the world. But let’s skip over Bangladesh and Indonesia, and come back to the newest field of battle: Europe. Tens of millions of Muslims now live in Europe. What have they brought that has made Europe a better and more peaceful place? Unlike all the other, non-Muslim immigrants (Chinese, Hindus, black African Christians, Eastern Europeans) the Muslim immigrants have great difficult in integrating with their host societies because, though Pope Francis will no doubt find this hard to believe, they don’t want to integrate on the Infidels’ terms; they want the West to accommodate them. After all, Muslims are told “you are the best nation” or “best of peoples” (Qur’an 3:110) while non-Muslims are the “most vile of creatures” (Qur’an 98:6). Their rates of unemployment and of criminality are many times higher than those for any non-Muslim group, immigrant or indigenous, in every country where they have managed to gain admittance.
Muslim migrants are a great drain on the taxpayers in the generous welfare states of Western Europe. They take full advantage of every possible benefit: free or highly subsidized housing, free education, free medical care, family allowances, unemployment benefits somehow received even when they have not worked at all or worked very little. They have been linked to large-scale crimes against huge numbers of women: the sexual attacks by hundreds of Muslims on more than a thousand German women in Cologne during a New Year’s Eve celebration, the grooming-gang scandals in the United Kingdom that the police have been so reluctant to investigate, and that may have involved more than a million English girls and their Pakistani Muslim groomers. Then there is the constant threat of terrorism. Muslim terrorists have struck London, Manchester, Paris, Nice, Toulouse, Madrid, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Copenhagen, Malmö, Stockholm, Helsinki, Moscow, Beslan, Mumbai, Delhi, Beijing. In America, Muslim terrorists have attacked in New York, Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Bernardino, Fort Hood, Orlando, Chattanooga. There have been more than 35,000 attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11/2001 alone.
Let’s return to Pope Francis, and his Good Friday claim that Christians nowadays have a lot to answer for. Where, among the Christians Pope Francis chastises, are there examples of practices that can be found in Muslim states, such as:
Secret police, state terrorism, terrorism by Muslim groups and individuals, torture as an instrument of state policy, mass murder, rape, sex slavery, sex-slave markets, deportations, disappearances, assassinations, indiscriminate bombing of civilians, chemical warfare, suppression of ethnic minorities, including mass killings, forced conversions to Islam, harassment, persecution, and murder of non-Muslim minorities (Christians, Hindus, Baha’is, Zoroastrians, Buddhists), executions by both the state and private vigilantes for “blasphemy” against Islam, murders of government officials who criticize blasphemy laws, sectarian violence of Sunnis against Shia, and Shia against Sunnis, and much more in the same horrific vein.
Perhaps Pope Francis can tell us where, among what group of Christians today, one can find anything like the Muslim practices listed just above. He might, if he dared not address the world’s Muslims, at least have had the decency to address “all people everywhere” rather than just Christians, in his indictment; he might have said something to the effect that “we ought to express shame for the actions of all those, of whatever faith, who are leaving future generations a world ‘fractured by divisions and wars.’” He may still, willfully, refuse to recognize publicly those mainly responsible for a world “fractured by divisions and wars.” But those who understand perfectly well that the responsibility for these “divisions and wars” is overwhelmingly that of Islam, and of Muslims, would at least not have to endure the Pope’s finger-pointing in exactly the wrong direction. He’ll have many more chances to speak about the distempers of our giddy globe. May he at least start to be “inclusive” in his assignment of guilt. Given this Pope’s proclivities to never blame what he keeps calling “authentic Islam” for anything, such inclusivity would be an outcome devoutly to be wished.
VRWC member77 says
Bergoglio is a Marxist thuggish punk. The Catholic Church is significantly hemorrhaging membership as a result of this fool’s utterances. Are there ANY decent individuals in the hierarchy who can disable this monster?
mortimer says
Hugh Fitzgerald’s article here is devastating. Pope Frank is a naïve Pollyanna. Roman Catholics have no choice but to send their tithes and offerings to clergy or religious MILITARY ORDERS such as the Knights of Malta and tell their bishops why they are doing it.
No Roman Catholic, who understands JIHAD and the THREAT Islam poses to the church and Christians in general, will be able to SUPPORT and FINANCE this very naïve, Marxist pope.
In fact, there are NO Christian leaders calling for wars. THAT IS NOT THEIR JOB !
Only CAREER SOLDIERS and CAREER DIPLOMATS have the expertise and knowledge of WORLD AFFAIRS to be able to call for war. Many career soldiers and diplomats are in fact devoutly Christian. They understand the moral, political and legal issues of warfare. I don’t think Pope Frank ‘gets it’.
The pope does not even want to authorize military force when CHRISTIANS ARE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE.
The pope’s stance is UNCONSCIONABLE.
Bill says
“The pope does not even want to authorize military force when CHRISTIANS ARE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE.
The pope’s stance is UNCONSCIONABLE.”
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a Communist masquerading as a cleric. He will dissemble and lie and give some phony description of his beliefs claiming he is not Communist, but he is being dishonest. I think he gave it all away early on when he said Communists stole the flag of Christianity and that Communist philosophy made them Christians. He equates the two. He cannot hold that equivalency without also having a comfort level with the slaughter of millions in the name of his Communist beliefs. Do you expect him to care about the slaughter of Christians that might still respect the sanctity of individual life, rights and freedom? He has sold out the Catholic Church in China to control of the government totalitarians. His tacit support and sympathy for the Islamic invasion and destruction of the West is obvious. As Islam cuts its bloody path through Africa, he turns both blind eyes to it.
Andy says
Hello Pope Francis,
POPE, Please make time in your schedule to go to HYDE PARK .
I’m going to hold a Christian prayer at speakers corner Hyde park
For further information: https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-and-do/speakers-corner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc5f4MfKvhU
Jayell says
Hello Andy. When are you going to Hyde Park? I’ll be there with my camera. I’ve still got my shots of Hong Kong’s huge ‘umbrella demonstration’ for democracy and free speech. They’ll look good next to Khan’s Thought (sorry!) ‘Metropolitan’ Police turning up to educate you about ‘law and order’ if you say anything about the Religion of Peace that Pope Francis (or the legendary Sadiq of City Hall) wouldn’t like because your evil words might provoke a violent reaction that would put London ahead of New York on the murder ratings. Oh, sorry, Khan’s already achieved that.
Donna says
During Hitler’s reign, the Pope financed him! This religion is a farce! Get out your bibles and history books! It is a mock on the people through Satan’s lies!
gravenimage says
I don’t think blaming the victims makes the Pope a pollyanna–it is rather worse than that.
Rob Porter says
Mortimer, You are far too charitable about this disgusting Pope Francis. He is not simply a “naïve Pollyanna”, he is a disgraceful liar regarding both Christians and Muslims and about Islam either utterly ignorant or a lying fraud. I’d lay my wager on the latter. Having waged war against “unbelievers” for 1,400 and murdered more than 270 million, Muslims are vilest of murderers, their savage cruelty in Iraq and Syria testament to a Satanic ideology that has no redeeming features, yet this ding-dong stupid Pope accuses Christians of cruelty.
“Christians ought to express shame for the actions of those who are leaving future generations a world “fractured by divisions and wars,” Pope Francis said. 81 to 90 million Indians murdered by the Muslims on the subcontinent, the entire Hindu population of Afghanistan wiped out by the Muslims and millions more murdered from Afghanistan to Spain yet this mental case Pope talks this imbecilic rubbish. But no, to this disgusting Pope it is not Muslims who are “leaving future generations a world “fractured by divisions and wars.”” The man should be institutionalized.
Alice says
Naive? I don’t think so. More like paid off by Soros.
Vlad says
Pope Dhimmy, the First.
He is Satans appointed Judas Goat for humanity.
NOT MY POPE.
Bill says
Mine either. That is why I will not dignify him with the title. To me he is simply Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Communist from Argentina and now living in Italy.
Donna says
My all is the Lord Jesus Christ! The Pope is a joke!
Prophecy says
My sentiments exactly, Donna.
Carolyne says
Were I to believe in mythological beings such as a devil, I would have to say that this Pope is his representative.
On the other hand, since Pope Francis recently said there is no hell, the basis on which Christians are threatened to obey, then there would be no devil, either.
And with no devil to fight against in one’s daily life, then obeying the Pope would be unnecessary. In fact, he would be unnecessary. The church, any church, would not need to exist since there would be no devil to egg sinners on.
If the Pope believes there is no devil, does he also believe there is no God? Doesn’t that make the Pope a bit redundant?
Lydia Church says
Now for the Catholic controversy.
(sigh.)
My heart goes out to you in love.
Everything the Bible says is TRUE.
But most Catholics don’t even know what it says.
I challenge all of you to get a Bible, just the OT and NT and a KJ Version.
Read it through in less than a year. It is only about 1,300 pages.
You will see what I’m saying.
But let me point out some things below.
1. The one and only thing that can save you is coming to Jesus yourself. You get alone for a day. After reading the Bible, like the gospel sections, pray to God. Just to Him. Repent of your sin and ask Jesus to give you the power over sin. Ask Him to forgive your past sins. Tell Him you receive His sacrificial atonement death for your sins. Believe that He rose physically in victory over sin and death, and He now gives you power over sin. Turn to Him and pledge your whole heart to Jesus. This is how you are born again, by grace through faith in Christ as a free gift. It is the one and only way of salvation. When I did this I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. No ritual can save you. Jesus tells you to come to HIM. See Matthew 11; 28 and Revelation 3; 20. What do you have to lose?
2. This goes back to #1. Jesus is our only Redeemer. But many will be shocked to know that the official catholic church documents declare Mary to be a ‘co-redeemer’! That would mean that we now have more than one Savior, which is saying that Jesus is not enough. The Bible says that Jesus is enough. Isaiah 43; 11
3. We are not to add to the Bible. 1 Corinthians 4; 6 We are not to take away from it. The early church leaders had already determined the books of the Bible and they are found in the Protestant Bible today. It is God’s Word that has the final authority, not man’s word. Avoid teachings not found in the bible. Matthew 15; 8-9
4. We are only to pray to God. There are no other mediators. Jesus is the only one. There is no reason to go elsewhere. 1 Timothy 2; 5
5. We are not to pray to the dead, even if they are in heaven and righteous. Leviticus 19; 31, Isaiah 8; 19, 1 Samuel 28.
6. All Christians are destined for sainthood and are a royal priesthood. 1 Peter 2; 9, Acts 26; 18 (Sanctification process is the Holy Spirit cleansing you and making you holy. It’s for all Christians and God bestows it, not man.)
7. Mary was a virgin until after the birth of Jesus and then Mary and Joseph had children so Jesus had half brothers and sisters. Matthew 12; 48-50, 13; 56, Mark 3; 35, 6; 3, Luke 8; 21 (Jesus is not speaking of spiritual brethren since He is comparing with spiritual brethren. The passages clearly show the family situation.) There is also no evidence of the immaculate conception of Mary or ascension of Mary. What happens is all of this leads to Marian worship. The Bible warns against worshipping ‘the Queen of Heaven’ in Jeremiah 7; 18, 44; 19.
8. The church cannot save you since that would be man saving man, and only God can save. When you get saved you become part of the church and Jesus holds those keys, no one else, no earthly roster or membership list. Isaiah 43; 11, Revelation 3; 4-5.
9. The way of salvation is narrow, not broad. Matthew 7; 13-14, 21-23, Luke 13; 24
10. Jesus warned against repetitious prayer! Matthew 6; 7
11. Call no religious man ‘father’ but only God. Matthew 23; 9
12. Religious pomp and hypocrisy, elitism, hierarchy condemned. Also clergy over laity.
Matthew 23, Mark 12; 38-40, Revelation 2; 6 (nicolaitans=clergy over laity)
13. Jesus died once and for all, communion is not the body and blood, only symbolic.
Matthew 26; 26-28, Mark 14; 22-24, Luke 22; 19-20, Hebrews 7; 27, 9; 12, 25-28, 10; 10,12,14,18, 1 Peter 3; 18
14. Not to worship Mary. Luke 11; 27-28
15. Jesus is the Head of the Church. “And He is the head of the body, the church…”
Colossians 1; 18, Ephesians 5; 23
16. You must be born again as an adult. John 3, 1 Peter 1; 3, 23
17. Jesus is the one and only way of salvation.
John 14; 6, Acts 4; 12, 1 Timothy 2; 5-6
18. Baptism without belief in Jesus is meaningless and we are not to be baptized unless we ‘believe with all our hearts’ in Jesus. Acts 8; 35-38
19. Water baptism does not save you; not necessary for salvation. Acts 10; 44-48
20. Salvation is by the grace of God, not of works.
Ephesians 2; 8-10, Acts 15; 11, 2 Timothy 1; 9, Romans 3; 28, Titus 3; 4-8
21. Jesus is the only Mediator between God and man, our High Priest and only priest, priesthood fulfilled in Christ, no need for priesthood like in Old Testament anymore.
1 Timothy 2; 5-6, Hebrews 7; 27, 9; 12, 25-28, 10; 10,12,14,18
22. Personal relationship with Jesus a necessity for salvation.
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 3; 20
23. Peter was not the first ‘pope.’ Peter was one of many foundations like John, James, Paul and others. There was no actual ‘pope’ until the time around Constantine. Who, by the way, brought in a lot of pagan practices from the surrounding religions at the time. Research this and you will see.
Just turn to Christ alone and He will save you! Jesus plus nothing equals salvation, Jesus plus something gets you nothing. That is an insult to Him.
Do not put your trust in any man made organization, the Holy Spirit has departed a long time ago along with the true church of Jesus. The things you see today would not be going on there if it were ‘God’s church’. The same goes for any other church group in apostasy, as we are in that time now. Just turn to Jesus and read the Bible! Have faith that God can meet you in that and He will.
Charles says
VRWC member 77, you are wrong. Bergoglio is not a Marxist and here is why: Instead of blaming all Christians for wars and violence he would have blamed the ruling classes of the mostly Christian West …as well as the ruling class of Islam dominated countries since the 7th century.
Not Dumb Enough says
Of course he judges Christians, Catholics are not Christians, they are Socialist Communist PIGS. We should have fed him to the Lions at the Coliseum. They don’t call it ROMAN Catholics for nothing. They get along with Muslims very well because that religion is aIdeology along with Catholics and don’t have the same Jesus, Mary, Peter, Paul, Mark, or any other true Patriarchs that the Christians and Jews have. They have counterfeited religions of the world.
Wellington says
Your comment is replete with massive ignorance and prejudice and you reveal far more about yourself than you realize. Your name calling, i.e., Catholics are “Socialist Communist PIGS” is absurd on its face (for instance, have you no idea how many millions upon millions of conservative Roman Catholics there are?). As for Catholics getting “along with Muslims,” have you no knowledge of the Crusades or Popes like Urban II and Innocent III? And Catholics not having “the same Jesus, Mary, Peter, ………,” is a remark so inane and inaccurate that I would suggest you reduce the name you use here at JW by deleting the word, “Not,” from it.
Salah says
+1
gravenimage says
I second Salah here, Wellington.
Isabellathecrusader says
Thanks for sticking up for Catholics, Wellington. God bless you. And lest we forget folks, Robert Spencer is a Catholic. Calling him a Socialist Communist PIG is simply inane.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Isabella.
And great to see you posting again. Hope you are well, and a belated Happy Easter.
Isabellathecrusader says
Hi Graven,
Good to see you too, hon! This was a very powerful Lent and Easter has been amazing. Thanks and right back atcha. : )
Lydia Church says
Okay, so Robert, are you a Catholic or not?!
I see so many saying this, I don’t assume and see no evidence honestly of anything at all. In fact, if I had to lay down my bets on the table I would wager that you were an agnostic.
Of course I always promote biblical Christianity. But whatever you may be, you are appreciated here and we all know you are doing important and great work for human rights, democracy, truth, justice, and many things of virtue! Keep up the good work!
(I am just a wee bit curious…)
( ;
dumbledoresarmy says
Seconding Gravenimage here.
Lovely to see you, Isabellathecrusader.
I’m sure you’ve been busy and doing great stuff. Are you still with ACT for America?
Happy Easter ! Christ is risen!
gravenimage says
Lydia, Robert Spencer is a devout Melkite Greek eastern rites Catholic, who allies with other Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Agnostics, Atheists, and others against Jihad.
Hugh Fitzgerald–the author of the above piece–is an Atheist and close friend and longtime ally of Spencer’s.
Truth says
“I would suggest you reduce the name you use here at JW by deleting the word, “Not,” from it”
…… and replace it with the words “More Than”.
Mike9a says
You passed the test, you can renove the Not
Strangerinastrangeland says
Christians are facing a war with Islam, not of their making, all over the World. We read the same Bible. We worship the same God. Why do you want to pursue an intercine conflict?
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Why do you want to pursue an intercine conflict?”
Because he/she is a troll. Remember, don’t feed the trolls.
Wellington says
As I’ve written before at JW, while regularly responding to trolls is not a good idea, neither is never responding to them. Sometimes ignorance and evil need to be countered.
No Muzzies Here says
Not Dumb Enough – you are more than dumb enough. You have enough dumbness to give 99% of it away, and still be extraordinarily dumb.
Catholicism was here first, and all other Christian denominations came into existence long after Catholicism was founded.
You are so dumb that you can’t write a coherent paragraph. You know nothing about punctuation. Even less about the meanings of words.
You have no idea about Catholicism, and you wish for the death of the Pope. You should be banned.
gravenimage says
Not Dumb Enough, this is ridiculous. Robert Spencer is a devout Catholic–does any of this describe him, or millions of other Catholics? Of course not. You may have to rethink your username…
Carolyne says
While am an Atheist, I think it very unsuitable to call Catholics names. Their faith is strong, although I don’t share it. They have a right to it, just as much right as does Lydia Church in her diatribes
Being civil to each other, regardless of religion, or none, is a good place to start.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Carolyne!
Alice says
If my only choice was being a catholic, I to would be an atheist, since I’m a Christian, I do believe in God. This do called pope really needs to be removed.
There’s many good Catholics in the world, his followers are not.
Wellington says
Devastating and extensive rebuttal by Hugh Fitzgerald. The present pontifex maximus is a disgrace to the Roman Catholic Church, to Christianity in general, to the West and to humanity. And I think it quite arguable that he has passed the threshold of being “merely” a very confused man to a bad one. I simply do not know how it would be possible to be an informed and sensible Catholic and yet still have an admiration for this Pope. Something’s rotten in the Vatican.
Westman says
Do you suppose that Pope Francis is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease as his sermon fits 1917 to 1946 better than today? What war is being conducted in the name of Christianity? When have Christians been more passive than the present day?
This pontif is pushing US Catholics further away from the church. I wonder if this is how great religions of the past died – from irrelevance and eccessive costs within a wealthy society. Francis has essentially said that Islam is morally equivalent to the Catholic church which just continues to degrade Catholic Christianity toward irrelevance.
Bill says
He definitely said Communism is morally equivalent to the Catholic Church. His path to irrelevancy with me began with those statements and has only become worse with his subsequent statements, actions and failures to act. I would consider him terminally naive, a joke, or a farce, but he is capable of causing so much grief and suffering that I cannot dismiss him so easily that way.
Carol (the 1st) says
This video is from 2015 but it encompasses a lot of things (just as Hugh’s article has) AND in the last 3 minutes we have another IMAGINE song to boot:
Mr.L: Imagine No Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN_o0Vh35bo
davdka says
How and by whom was this treasonus madman planted in the Vatican?
surely a subject worthy of exploration, straight out a conspiracy enigna.
Raven Wenner says
Fr Malachi Martin, dead 17 years, said that the NWO and and the “the Superforce” (Freemasons in the Vatican) would eventually get a pope elected who would endorse their values, and facilitate “apostasy in the Church”; the “St Gallen Mafia” boasted that they did exactly that in getting Cardinal Bergoglio elected. The late Fr Martin said that “a Pope under the influence of Satan” was in prophecies both from La Salette and the 3rd secret of Fatima. Google “Malachi Martin, last pope” to hear his eerily prophetic interview by Bernard Janzen on You-tube.
James says
He should become a muslim already and be done with it. Then he can transform the st. Peters bascilica into a giant mosque just like the hagia sophia.
Benedict says
If the Pope would heed his own canon that says “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil” he would hate Islam – not least for the sake of Muslims – because Islam is an odium generis humani.
According to orthodox Christian theology no one finds favor with God by adhering to any law, SHARIA included, and this is the Gospel the Pope should proclaim to the Muslim world.
The Pope is a traitor to the church he is supposed to be head of and it is evident to anyone with a minimum of biblical knowledge.
Westman says
Francis is very reminiscent of Justin Trudeau, a boy-man who hasn’t grown up to think for himself and additionally, Francis has no experience carrying the responsibility of a real father. They both spout marxist rhetoric from the ideologies of their youth.
Maybe the Cardinals, knowing his speeches would never change from what they already heard, chose Francis to minimize substantive statements that cause trouble for the church – as a caretaker Papacy. Perhaps there are unseen puppet strings?
Carolyne says
There have always been and are “Puppet strings.”
C says
The dhimmi pope expressing his dhimmitude.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Maybe a group of Cardinals, who recognize Francis’ wrong thinking and words, should threaten a schism and force him to “retire.”
Aaron says
Their just like him
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Nope. They are not all just like him. Read up on it. Read up the Filial Correction (http://www.correctiofilialis.org/). Read up on the Dubia. Try this story titled, “Four “Cardinals” officially ask “Pope” to Clarify Amoris Laetitia — Francis Refuses to Answer!” at: https://novusordowatch.org/2016/11/four-cardinals-francis-refuses-answer-amoris-laetitia/
And, hey, take a look at this Cardinal:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/13/archbishop-vienna-many-muslims-want-european-conquest/
Carolyne says
You can count four cardinals. How many are there all together? hundreds?
gravenimage says
Carolyne, there are 214 Catholic Cardinals as of last month.
115 Cardinals–all of those under the age of 80 and hence eligible to vote–took part in the election of the current pontiff. Not all of them voted for him, obviously.
CogitoErgoSum says
Here are the words of Pope Pius X concerning a group in France, Le Sillon, who wanted to bring Catholicism into greater conformity with socialist ideals:
“We wish to draw your attention, Venerable Brethren, to this distortion of the Gospel and to the sacred character of Our Lord Jesus Christ, God and man, prevailing within the Sillon and elsewhere. As soon as the social question is being approached, it is the fashion in some quarters to first put aside the divinity of Jesus Christ, and then to mention only His unlimited clemency, His compassion for all human miseries, and His pressing exhortations to the love of our neighbor and to the brotherhood of men. True, Jesus has loved us with an immense, infinite love, and He came on earth to suffer and die so that, gathered around Him in justice and love, motivated by the same sentiments of mutual charity, all men might live in peace and happiness. But for the realization of this temporal and eternal happiness, He has laid down with supreme authority the condition that we must belong to His Flock, that we must accept His doctrine, that we must practice virtue, and that we must accept the teaching and guidance of Peter and his successors. Further, whilst Jesus was kind to sinners and to those who went astray, He did not respect their false ideas, however sincere they might have appeared. He loved them all, but He instructed them in order to convert them and save them. Whilst He called to Himself in order to comfort them, those who toiled and suffered, it was not to preach to them the jealousy of a chimerical equality. Whilst He lifted up the lowly, it was not to instill in them the sentiment of a dignity independent from, and rebellious against, the duty of obedience. Whilst His heart overflowed with gentleness for the souls of good-will, He could also arm Himself with holy indignation against the profaners of the House of God, against the wretched men who scandalized the little ones, against the authorities who crush the people with the weight of heavy burdens without putting out a hand to lift them. He was as strong as he was gentle. He reproved, threatened, chastised, knowing, and teaching us that fear is the beginning of wisdom, and that it is sometimes proper for a man to cut off an offending limb to save his body. Finally, He did not announce for future society the reign of an ideal happiness from which suffering would be banished; but, by His lessons and by His example, He traced the path of the happiness which is possible on earth and of the perfect happiness in heaven: the royal way of the Cross. These are teachings that it would be wrong to apply only to one’s personal life in order to win eternal salvation; these are eminently social teachings, and they show in Our Lord Jesus Christ something quite different from an inconsistent and impotent humanitarianism.
—–“Our Apostolic Mandate” Pope Pius X (1910)
NOTE: Pope Pius X was declared a saint by the Catholic Church in 1954.
PS: Some believe that In 1846 Our Lady of La Salette warned of two worn-ridden Popes yet to come. I don’t believe Pius X was one of them.
CogitoErgoSum says
Correction: “worn-ridden” should read “worm-ridden”
Raven Wenner says
The Late Fr Maachi Martin warned in one of his interviews with Bernard Janzen about “A pope under the control of Satan”. You can look for it on YouTube. He describes a man very like Pope Francis, acceptable to the NWO, progressives in the church. and darling of
the media.
Thomas Hulting says
The next thing you know, Pope Frank will be lobbying for the State to fully fund the International GLBT Soccer League, complete with $500 Million stadiums in every major city! And soon, I suspect, he’ll get behind the International Organ Harvesting Coalition to Reduce Poverty! Heaven forbid that he would START a Bible Study!
Remember, this is the SAME Pope Frank who uttered, “Who am I to judge,” regarding Sodomites. And, he’s the SAME Pope Frank who characterized Mahmoud Abbas as an “ANGEL of peace!” This is the SAME Pope Frank who tells YOU to discard capitalism (the ONLY system in the history of mankind that has resulted in shared prosperity), yet he presides over an organization that has MORE amassed wealth than MOST countries, while he continues to tell YOU to sacrifice MORE! Yeah, that’s it! YOU sacrifice MORE, pray to relics (the bones of dead people and the plastic statues on your dashboard), pray to Mary MORE than you pray to ANY person of the Trinity, and embrace Liberation Theology, wherein if you have something that I think I need more than you do, I am within my “rights” to take it (STEAL it) from you!
When do you suppose that Pope Frank will begin to invite Muslim “refugees” to live en masse inside the Vatican WALLS with him? You go, Pope Frank!
CogitoErgoSum says
As a Catholic, I agree with you except for the part about praying to relics and plastic statues. Those are merely aids to assist me in prayer and meditation. As for Mary, I know only God answers prayers and that’s why the Hail Mary ends with the line, “Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.” We ask her to pray to God for us because she is so close to God. Anyway, that’s what I was taught at my Catholic school so long ago. Many are confused about all this, including Catholics.
Isabellathecrusader says
Cogito,
Thomas knows that but it’s so much more fun to throw a rattlesnake in the middle of a Pampered Chef party and see what happens. Dominus Vobiscum.
Carolyne says
If a prayer were sincere, why would one need a plastic stature, made in China, likely, to assist you? Why does one curtsy to a plaster statue? Much of Christianity forbids the worship of icons such as a statue of Mary or Jesus and Protestant churches do not house them. I suppose no Protestants need the assistance of a glob of plastic.
CogitoErgoSum says
Why keep a picture of your deceased mother or father? Why set up a statue to Lincoln or Jefferson or to Lady Liberty? I don’t belittle people who don’t do such things; why do you belittle those who do? BTW, I don’t curtsy to any statue; I know it’s not real, but I will show respect for the ideals certain statues represent. I don’t need a statue or an icon for my prayers (or my patriotism) to be sincere.
Isabellathecrusader says
Carolyne, if you don’t understand how something works just ask us. You embarrass yourself by making up things about Catholics off the top of your head that don’t bear any resemblance to the truth and that make you seem like a haughty, condescending snob. I’m sure you are not that way so feel free to ask me about the subject and I’ll be happy to explain it to you, unless of course your goal here was to rag on Catholics and try and make them look bad.
Carolyne says
Not at all embarrassed, dear one. You should be embarrassed for believing such nonsense.
By the by, the holiday you just celebrated was a pagan holiday. Usurped to make Christianity more acceptable to the Roman pagans. And I don’t recall reading that Jesus ever went to Rome. Yes, I know all about Peter supposedly going to Rome. Whom do you worship? Peter or Jesus?
For myself, I don’t worship plastic bobble heads on dashboards.
Isabellathecrusader says
Carolyne,
You’re not embarrassed about saying stupid things about Catholics when it’s obvious you don’t know what you are talking about? It’s interesting that in a post from 4/4 at 12:52 pm you said:
“While I am an Atheist, I think it very unsuitable to call Catholics names. Their faith is strong, although I don’t share it. They have a right to it, just as much right as does Lydia Church in her diatribes
Being civil to each other, regardless of religion, or none, is a good place to start.”
And then this nonsense above. Which is it, dear?
Btw, it is an established fact that Robert Spencer is a practicing Catholic so one wonders why you would come on his site and deliberately insult his religion when you feign to be against Islam and proudly proclaim yourself an Atheist. If you are against all religions that’s your prerogative, but if you want to get into a pissing contest about what’s true, who’s better and which belief system is superior let’s not forget that atheistic communism slaughtered more human beings on the planet in the 20th century than any other belief system in the last 500 years.
gravenimage says
Islam is a lot more dangerous than gay soccer.
Wellington says
Easily arguable, gravenimage, the quote of the day. My compliments.
gravenimage says
🙂
Salah says
“Pope Francis Chastises the World’s Christians”
We should read:
“Anti-Pope Bergolio Chastises the World’s Christians”
Lydia Church says
The world’s Christians chastise antichrist pope francis!
Aaron says
What’s wrong with this guy
Can’t he see Islam is a problem
And a threat against Christian
They declared war on Christians
World wide
Or is he Muslim
CogitoErgoSum says
I would say he is a socialist. He sees capitalism as akin to mortal sin and it is the communists whose thinking is closer to that of Christ’s. However, as another Pope, Pius XI wrote, “No one at the same time can be a good Catholic and a true socialist (according to the Wikipedia article on Christian Socialism).
Westman says
It took the Catholic church over 500 years to apologize for what it did to Galileo so it will probably be about 2068 when it apologizes for Pope Francis throwing Italy to the wolves – if there is still a nation with the name of Italy.
Westman says
2518 replaces 2068
Westman says
Still wrong. House arrest was 1663, half-pie forgiveness in 1992, after 329 years. Expect admission of responsibility around 2347.
DFD says
“…in which he chastised the world’s Christians for their behavior…”
Hmh, not bad. Normally it’s white males, particularly elder ones who are supposed to feel guilty. Well, most guilty. Now, it’s all Christians.
I get it! It’s progress!
b.a. freeman says
…shame pervades us for having left you alone to suffer for our sins…
—
i’m sorry, your popiness, but *i* didn’t leave Him alone to suffer for my sins; *i* pounded in the nails!!! Jesus died to free me from sin, *not* because i didn’t do or haven’t done something. my *sin* pounds in the nails! *i* am responsible for His death! what part of christianity don’t U understand?
Carolyne says
Mr. Freeman, if you are responsible for Christ’s death, how old are you, anyway?
I find this the least intelliable.
Carolyne says
Intelligible.
brane pilot says
This is the most evil pope since the one that cozied up with Adolf H.
gravenimage says
This is a myth, brane pilot. The Catholic Church was actualy able to save a lot of Jews during the Holocaust.
Carolyne says
Actually, Gravenimage, you pointed this out to me some time ago. You are correct. Many Jews were saved by false baptismal documents, given them by the Catholic Church.
Isabellathecrusader says
They were saved by Catholic majority communities all over Europe by nuns and priests hiding Jews in basements and attics of monasteries and convents, by townspeople taking children into their homes who were “nieces and nephews”, and by making false documents and setting up elaborate networks to help them get out Nazi occupied countries. A couple of interesting people who helped the Jews were Fr. Hugh Flaherty, the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican and Irene Gut Opdyke, a young Polish woman who hid Jews in the basement of the Nazi commander’s house where she worked as his housekeeper. In fact here are a few names that you can look up to find out more about the subject:
Agnes Walsh
Bernhard Lichtenberg
Christoph Probst
Giorgio Perlasca
Giovanni Ferrofino
Jacques de Jesus
Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
Mother Riccarda
St Maximilian Kolbe
Stanisława Leszczyńska.
What did all these people have in common? They all rescued Jews during WWII and they were all practicing Catholics. You know Carolyne, maybe you would like to educate yourself on this subject instead of repeating the thing about plastic statues and plastic bobble heads, unless maybe you just like the word plastic. If so you should find something that it accurately applies to instead of being lazy and accusing Catholics of praying to it. Just for the record, we don’t pray to plastic. But then I think you already knew that.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Carolyne and Isabella.
don vito says
This pope it seems, wants to turn the kufr world in carrion for the vile saracens. Not a good idea for our posterity.
Cheer Bear Girl says
I am now thoroughly convinced that Pope Francis is not a Christian. He’s a globalist shill and enemy of the faith.
JM says
Pope Francis said “It is the Communists who think like Christians.”
He should read Richard Wurmbrand’s book Marx & Satan, to educate himself on the anti-Christian roots of collectivist ideology. And he would also benefit from reading Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, both of whom predicted the horrors and untold human carnage that would occur as a result of the “death of God”.
One wonders if Francis’ wisdom about communism was gleaned from picking up a dog-eared pamphlet on liberation theology left on a bus stop bench in Argentina 50 years ago.
Then again, his wisdom about Islam comes from his deep interfaith dialogue with the very esteemed Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb, current Grand Imam of al-Azhar University, who assured the pope that Islam is peace. This is the same Imam who graced the pages of JW recently, with his virulent and paranoid ramblings about Jews being at the bottom of the chaos in the Islamic world.
If Francis had a shred of compassion for his fellow Catholics, he would clarify his positions once and for all on his endless list of openly heretical, or at the very least confusing, utterances. He is supposed to ensure proper interpretation of dogma and articles of faith. If he’s unable to do that because he’s too busy tending to matters of this world like global warming, then at least he should respond to the calls of millions of Catholics for clarification on his statements.
The pope has zero respect for the 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide. He has even less respect for Muslim converts to Christianity, 3,000 of whom have pleaded for clarification in an open letter on why they should have risked their lives to leave Islam for Christianity, if it makes no difference which religion they belong to, as the pope suggests.
Still, the pope is simply taking current trends to their logical conclusion, taking his cue from Vatican II, which declared that Muslims and Christians worship the same one God:
“But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place among whom are the Muslims: these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.” ..
Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium 16, November 21, 1964.
This glib and flippant sentence directly contradicts the sacrifice and testimony of countless martyrs over 1,400 years, who died for the Christian faith rather than accept the Muslim god Allah who they saw as demonic. It seems that the current pope has no respect for these saints either.
But Francis does have endless respect and admiration for Communist dictators and Muslim taqiyya artists, being apparently oblivious to the anti-Christian animus that inspired both of these totalitarian ideologies. One can only hope that he’s as clueless as he seems. Otherwise, he’s the worst traitor in the history of the papacy.
Jenny H says
Why does this Pope say such idiotic things? I thought Jesuits were the intellectual, religious order of the Catholic Church, that they were taught logic and critical thought. He is a disgrace and and a spiritual minnow.
Carolyne says
One man’s logic is another man’s nonsense.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Pope Francis Chastises the World’s Christians
Christians ought to express shame for the actions of those who are leaving future generations a world “fractured by divisions and wars,” Pope Francis said.
……………………
Does it matter that Christians are responsible for none of the major conflicts in the world today–that, in fact, it is Muslims who are responsible for the vast majority of these conflicts?
Not to this appalling pontiff, apparently.
Lydia Church says
Christians have no guilt, so why any shame?
He should express shame for all the muslim terrorism that he bankrolls, of which he does bear the guilt!
There is no outcry for islamic persecution of Christians by him either. But for what does not exist, he has outcry.
mummymovie says
Frank needs to ditch the silly hats and robes, dawn some street clothes, get his lazy ass out of his sheltered non-reality zone behind the Vatican walls, and hit the streets of Molenbeek, or one of Paris’s Muz-infested suburbs… ON FOOT, so he can get a taste of what it’s really like out there.
He’s not channeling the advice of God; only the bull pucky in his pompous, arrogant, misinformed old skull.
Too bad keeping his mouth shut isn’t part of his job description.
JM says
To mummymovie
Pope Francis is known for giving the slip to his elite personal army of Swiss guards in the middle of the night, and in disguise, to spend time with the poor and destitute in the streets. Somehow, these little escapades often find their way into the press, which increases the pope’s standings in the global humility rankings.
It’s a safe guess that the pope’s audience with the downtrodden and oppressed in the safe, walled, and prosperous streets of the Vatican are less, ah…radical than the jihadists in Molenbeek, Belgium, who would instantly take Francis hostage as a first step.
mummymovie says
Thanks for enlightening me, JM.
That settles it, then: If Francis really is hip to the street then, he is undoubtedly an agent of the Sorosi-Kalergian forces.
JM says
To mummymovie
You’re always welcome. I’m not sure how street-wise Bergoglio really is, or if it’s all a bluff.
After all, he does have a PR guy who arranges his humility fests.
I see only three possibilities here:
1) Pope Francis is cynically abusing the world’s confidence in him to advance an evil, sinister agenda;
OR
2) He is utterly incompetent, cannot explain himself in clear sentences, makes one confusing remark after another, and is unable or unwilling to clean up the mess he makes by explaining himself clearly afterwards;
OR
3) He is hopelessly naive about Islam (and communism), in which case he’s endangering millions of his followers.
In the first case, the pope is evil.
In the second case, he is incompetent.
In the third case, he is naive.
Only being evil would really disqualify him from being the pope, I suppose.
But incompetence and naivete are a close second.
After all:
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Best wishes
Lydia Church says
bullseye!
Jenny H says
(before the televised beheading.)
Grrrrrrr....... says
This is really a hard hitting article. Thanks! ✝️?BAM!
Chatillon says
It is important, indeed crucial, for faithful Catholics to maintain faith in the Papacy founded by Our Lord and the present occupant of the office.
“Infallibility” is not the same as “indefectability.” If the Pope’s comments are deliberately vague or contrary to Church tradition and history, as they glaringly are in this case, he is not speaking ex cathedra, hence it solely his opinion.
Shame on him for bringing the faithful to such a point of confusion, one of many it might be added.
Terry Gain says
Thank you Hugh Fitzgerald for cataloging the violence which is destroying the lives of our fellow human beings. All of it, or at least almost all of it, is the work of Muslims and yet this Pope’s Easter message is to criticize Christians. Where on earth are Christians waging an offensive war on Muslims?
My Pope is clearly wrong to be blaming Christians for the devastation and suffering caused by Muslims. This Pope has been silent as Christians have been massacred in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Nigeria. His failure to speak out against this genocide carried out by Muslims speaks volumes about him.
So what is his problem? Is he senile or is he a traitor? In either case this Pope needs to be replaced before he does more damage.
JM says
To Terry Gain
Yes, this Pope is doing an enormous amount of damage.
Here’s my favorite explanation of Islam, and the extreme danger it represents to non-Muslims.
I wish the Pope would ponder this, instead of engaging in interfaith dialogue with Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Dean of Taqiyya at Al-Azhar University.
Daniel Greenfield explains Islam 101:
“Every devout Muslim is an “Islamist”. Islam is not a personal religion. It is a religion of the public space.
A “moderate” Muslim would have to reject Islam as a religion of the public space, as theocracy,
and that secularism would be a rejection of Islam.
Nothing in Islam exists apart from anything else. While liberals view culture and religion as a buffet that
they can pick and choose from, it is a single integrated system. If you accept one part, you must accept the whole. Once you accept any aspect of Islam, you must accept its legal system and once you accept that, you must accept its governance and once you accept that, you lose your rights.”
Source:
http://tundratabloids.com/2017/11/denmark-police-intervene-to-rescue-danish-immigration-minister-from-rejected-muslim-settler-mob-at-asylum-center/
Best wishes
Isabellathecrusader says
The Red/Green Axis is alive and well. That should be no surprise to anyone who understands how the Vatican/Soviet Compact went down. Lenin knew that the biggest obstacle to establishing communism in the early part of the last century was the Catholic Church. He had his agents recruit communists to infiltrate Catholic seminaries so it should be no surprise that when 1960 rolled around archbishops and cardinals who were communists and worked their way up through the ranks were in a position to make major changes to the liturgy and rules and regs during Vatican II. If you don’t believe me read Bella Dodd’s excellent biography, School of Darkness. She admits to recruiting a thousand agents herself. If you look at the changes in the Church and then remember that communists have been inside for almost a hundred years the things going on in our world start to make sense.
Raven Wenner says
This is true and explains the scandals caused by bad clergy in the church. Bella Dodd was converted by Archbishop Fulton J Sheen who is up for sainthood, God bless him. He was a prophet about the future of the USA if we lost our faith.
Granddaddy says
If the Pope proves anything with this idiocy, it is that it’s a lot easier to criticize Christians than Muslims.
janwoG says
Not to forget, that Christians prayed 2000 years a corrupted Lord’s prayer which the Pope needed to correct.
FYI says
“Is the Pope Catholic?”
This one most definitely isn’t,having revealed himself to be a great heretic.
Is he even a Christian?
Apparently not:his constant bragging about his great love of the poor and his well-publicized foot-washing-the refugees stunt,for example, is actually quite at odds
with the Gospel{“”Do not make a BIG SHOW of it like the hypocrites do…they do it so that people will praise them”Matthew 6 v2} ..and we see how the falsely pious frankie likes to make a big show of it and everybody praises him for his great love of the poor.The irony of loving the poor whilst being in effect the CEO of the multi-billion dollar Vatican city is of course completely lost on francis.
If you are Catholic and can somehow manage to keep your faith(what remains of it)then that is pretty amazing:but you will have to forget about fraudulent francis and the Vatican even bothering to defend Christians or catholicicm any more as we see in Mr Bergolio’s comments constantly disparaging Catholics and Christians.
Mr Bergolio is a proven heretic according to the teachings of his own church:recently,the Jesuit genius,decided that there is no hell but souls simply “disappear”{perhaps the way some clergy simply disappeared into thin air in Mr Bergolio’s Argentina..}
Many within the RCC{at least those familiar with catholic prophecy and who have “eyes to see and ears to hear”) know that the “smoke of satan” that Pope Paul VI referred to is in full operational mode under Mr Bergolio and his Circus of Heresy:he is very likely the false prophet of Revelations,trying hard to look like a lamb but,in his attacks on Christians and catholics,”speaking like a dragon”.Also,there is a famous prophecy of St francis of Assisi predicting a false pope( a destroyer):Mr Bergolio’s adoption of the name francis to create the illusion that he is somehow to be connected in the public mind with an actual saint who genuinely loved the poor,one of the good guys, is pure luciferian genius.
{Lucifer is smart alright and his followers are deviously cunning:they can even appear as “angels of light”
“Even satan can appear as an angel of light” {2 Corinthians 11.14}
(Like when the angel “jibreel” who in islam is called “the enemy of the Jews” appeared to the “prophet” muhammed in a cave …yes,one of those “angels”)}
A great way to deflect from his heretical mission is to distract the faithful with a screen of well-publicized good works while he and his cronies(promoted to more senior positions in the church)…construct a catholic church,not based on Christ…but in their own image.
The next step from Rome should be very,very interesting as the one referred to in 2 Thessalonians 2 makes his appearance on the world stage,his way having been prepared by the false prophet.
Everytime you see a picture of a smiley,phoney, francis with his famous ,panglossian,”thumbs up” gesture try imagining the caption underneath…”Suckers”…..”Easily fooled, huh?..”Thumbs up if you are dumb enough to fall for frankie’s deception”.
What Mr Bergolio(the False shepherd) and his friend Fr Ratzinger(the Failed shepherd) don’t get is that they are top of the list in terms of God’s Judgement for causing a massive loss of faith,for
“Judgement begins with the household of God”
1 Peter 4 v 17
Of course ,to know this,Mr Bergolio would need to know the Gospel and it is quite clear he doesn’t.
The Vatican and its false pope will be #1 on God’s Hit List…
Eric jones says
Hear. hear.
Eric
Pieter says
In many islam countrys CHRISTIANS ARE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE, this martyrs are the seed of the real Church, this pope is a traitor of the Christianity.
infidel says
Sorry to say this and I have lots of respect for Catholics.. BUT THIS POPE HAS REALLY GONE MAD!!! REALLY…He is behaving like Mad Maama and her best friend THE TURD.
Geppetto says
A manifestation of the onset of senility or a willful refusal to take any accusations against his Muslim contemporaries, fellow worshipers of a supreme deity, who enjoy being his puppet masters, at face value.
Savvy Kafir says
I was pleased when Bergoglio became Pope Francis, because of some of his progressive views. And, although not a Catholic myself, the nature-loving, animal-friendly Saint Francis has always been my personal favorite — so I thought Bergoglio’s choice in naming himself was a good omen.
Unfortunately, Pope Francis has the sickness of political correctness, and the willful ignorance regarding Islam that accompanies it. He has become a high-profile defender & enabler of the enemies of Western Civilization; and, unless he wakes up, that suicidal policy, and the damage it causes, will be his legacy, more than anything else.
R Russell says
I read part of the pope’s prayer. I don’t know whether to be sorry for him or wary of him, for he is dangerous.
The words he uses in his prayer are not the words of a man who has been forgiven. A man whose shame and guilt have been taken from him. If he really is a Christian, he has to ask himself why he still feels these emotions. Jesus died and rose again to remove our guilt and shame and if Pope Francis hasn’t experienced this freedom then he needs to get before God and ask for them to be taken away.
Until he does this, I think he will continue to project his sin onto the Christians of the world as he blames them for all the violence in the world.
Eric jones says
The fact that Francis continually projects sin onto Christians may stem from the possibility that Francis himself has never repented for his sins. Francis must have lied every time he took confession!
Eric
DP111 says
This lib theology radical marxist is not the pope.There can only be one living pope. Ths man is an anti-pope.
His goal is to destroy Catholicism, just like other marxiists joined the church to further radical marxism.
Eric jones says
Here. here.
Eric
Isabellathecrusader says
Amen!
Eric jones says
I have been compelled to make more than one comment on this article. I am not a Catholic myself but I have family members who are. I have attended Mass with my cousins many times. Watching this desecration of the Catholic Church is beyond words.
Its clear that Dope Francis is the best apologist Islam has ever had. His attacks on Christianity are so frequent and alarming that they cannot be due to error or lack of understanding. His attacks are never even stated as questions. His attacks against Christianity are direct accusations.
Not only is Dope Francis an anti pope he is anti Christian. The first requirement of Jesus is repentance. It is my belief that Francis has never repented; has never told the truth in confession. His soul is in danger. He does not have the sense to give a damn.
Eric
Richard Courtemanche says
Criticizing Christians?? I guess those massacred by Muslims in the Middle-East didn’t do enough. Have heard the pope speak much about that. Neither infallible not stable perhaps.
Chand says
“…………….shame for having chosen Barabbas and not you, power and not you, appearance and not you, the god of money and not you, worldliness and not eternity,” Francis said.
How true. Greed and selfishness is destroying the planet and us. Wars and jihad too, of course. We should listen and reflect. And not just abuse and curse. He isn’t the Pope just by chance or lottery. This person must be quite learned and sincere to become the head of all Catholics.
Isabellathecrusader says
You will know the by their fruits.
gravenimage says
The appalling Muslim apologist Chand always wants Infidels to be tormented by unearned guilt. *Ugh*.
Tony46 says
“”At the end, the Lord won’t send us a Shepherd but a Destroyer”
Prophecies on the last Pope.
(Saint Francis of Assisi)
gravenimage says
I don’t believe this quote has anything to do with Saint Francis of Assisi–instead, it is from the silly fake “Malachy prophecy”.
d.p569 says
This pope is not only wicked (demonic), but he is ignorant of history. Two of the greatest crusaders against the Islamic invasion of Europe were King Sobieski of Poland and Queen Isabella of Spain. Both were Catholics, and this nasty little man is, intentionally or not, defecating all over their legacies.
Raven Wenner says
Hear, hear.
T says
Pope Francis -Review of Quotes
2015 -“THERE IS NO PUNISHMENT FOR LOST SOULS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ6hYG6xOqc2017
2016 -“MOTHER EARTH GAVE US LIFE AND SAFEGUARDS US ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Miq6ENsPI
2017 -“JESUS MADE HIMSELF THE DEVIL”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90DxKFFjp4Q
All dated-sourced-real
FULL CHRONOLOGY of POPE FRANCIS Quotes/Headlines – 3/13/13 – present
https://thewildvoice.org/pope-francis-chronology-perspective/