Pope Francis appears to be demanding that Christians welcome criminals, invaders, and Sharia supremacists into their nations, or else he will declare them un-Christian. He seems to be completely unconcerned about facts such as the following: 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.
And in the U.S., 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 initial immigration ban.
Pope Francis has never expressed any concern about any of this. Of course, he has claimed risibly that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” This has become a superdogma in the Catholic Church: if you don’t believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace, you will be ruthlessly harassed and silenced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the hierarchy elsewhere as well. The bishops of the Catholic Church are much more concerned that you believe that Islam is a religion of peace than that you believe in, say, the Nicene Creed. And so what possible reason could there be to be concerned about these “refugees”? It’s a religion of peace!
The U.S. Catholic bishops, of course, have 91 million reasons — indeed, 534 million reasons — to turn against the truth and disregard the safety and security of the American people: “In the Fiscal Year 2016, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) received more than $91 million in government funding for refugee resettlement. Over the past nine years, the USCCB has received a total of $534,788,660 in taxpayer dollars for refugee resettlement programs.”
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
It was not always thus. For centuries, in fact, as I detail in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, the Catholic Church was at the forefront of efforts to resist jihad aggression in Europe. In it, you’ll discover:
- The Pope who was a true precursor of Pope Francis: he was harshly criticized by the Romans for failing to keep them safe from jihad attacks;
- The Pope who answered a Byzantine Emperor’s call for help against the jihadis not by scolding him about how Islam was peaceful, but by calling on the rulers of Europe to send troops;
- The Medieval Pope who called Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, a “son of perdition,” and called for Christians to unite against the advancing jihad;
- What happened when a Mongol ruler sent an emissary across Central Asia and into Europe to meet the Pope and seek an alliance with the Christians against the forces of jihad;
- The Pope who haughtily refused to come to the aid of the Christian Byzantine Empire when it was mortally threatened by jihadis, because of doctrinal differences;
- The Pope who took a solemn oath at his consecration to “extirpate the diabolical sect of the reprobate and faithless Mahomet”;
- The Pope who touched off worldwide Muslim riots by noting that “God is not pleased by blood”;
- Much more.
Click here to order The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
“Pope: Christians can’t pick and choose which neighbor to love,” by Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service, November 8, 2018:
VATICAN CITY — The commandment to love one’s neighbor does not mean Christians get to choose who gets help and who doesn’t, Pope Francis said.
“It is not about pre-selecting my neighbor,” he said. “This isn’t Christian, it is pagan.”
Christians must encounter everyone with the heart and eyes of Jesus, listening to and being near those in need, the pope said before reciting the Angelus Nov. 4 with people gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
The pope reflected on the day’s Gospel reading (Mk 12:28-34) in which Jesus says the greatest of all the commandments is to “love the Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength,” followed by the commandment to “love your neighbor as yourself.”
The two commandments — like two sides of the same coin — cannot be separated and, therefore, must both be lived, the pope said.
However, he said, Mark does not worry about specifying who qualifies as a neighbor in his Gospel account because one’s neighbor “is the person I encounter on my journey during my day.”
“It is about having eyes to see (this person) and the heart to desire his well-being. If we practice seeing with Jesus’ gaze, we will always be ready to listen and near those who are in need,” he said.
While people’s needs require an appropriate response, they demand first and foremost a loving and caring approach, he added.
Someone who is hungry, for example, “needs not only a bowl of soup, but also a smile, to be listened to, and also a prayer, perhaps done together,” the pope said.
The day’s Gospel reading calls on Christians to not just address people’s most urgent material needs, but above all to be attentive to their need for friendship, meaning in life and tenderness, he said. “It’s about avoiding the risk of being a community that is made up of many initiatives but few relationships,” offering many services and little fellowship, Pope Francis said.
The “throwaway culture” has become a pandemic today, and it leaves migrants and displaced people without a voice and at the mercy of those who exploit them, Pope Francis said….
Notmoron says
Is the name Asia Bibi in this man vocabulary?
gravenimage says
*Good question*.
BC says
When and if JC said that he was obviously referring to neighbours of the day, who would have been people of the same race and religion. He could not possibly imagine the neighbour being of an utterly alien race(s)
and religions.
Well we know that the pope is a fool
mummymovie says
He is not a fool- Nobody is that big of a moron.
Francis is an imposter Pope and a deceiver; an agent of islam and the “hijra”:
He is intentionally and actively working to bring about the downfall of Western Civilization, and lead us all to full subjugation by muslim invaders through demographic replacement, jihad, and slaughter, or conversion to islam.
His work is the devil’s work.
Mark Berlinger says
From evidence published on the pages of Jihad Watch, a compelling argument is made for your hypothesis. Bergoglio’s comments in context on this 1400-year clash of civilizations prove him the Pope of Islam.
vlad says
“This Man” is “Pope Dhimmi, the First. Satan appointed him as the Judas Goat for humanity.
J D S says
There is also “turn the other cheek” In my opinion Jesus did not intend for us to become so docile that we just stand by and allow ourselves to be murdered by terrorist or our “Neighbors” whomever they may be and the “love them but not what they do” may not fit either…Each of us must come to terms with the commandment to love our neighbors…..Jesus loved us even as he was on the cross giving his life for our sins as the ultimate sacrificial lamb.
If we stand by as Christians, loving our “Neighbors” if one considers terrorist as neighbors, yet allowing our Neighbors or Muslim Terrorist or anyone else, to murder us then eventually there would be no Christians left to carry on the work that Jesus left us to do especially if Muslims are allowed to carry out their plan to rule the world with their Islamic religion (WHERE WOULD CHRISTIANITY BE IF THAT??) HAPPENED?
Possibly the Pope needs to re think his suggestion or decree or whatever he is saying.
j_not_a says
If you (and by that I mean anyone) do a little background on the social customs of the day in Jesus’s time, slapping a person’s face was deeply insulting. When Jesus said turn the other cheek, he did not mean subject yourself to relentless physical harm or advocate masochism, he meant to ignore others’ insults and ridicule in regards their Christian faith and not to respond in like but to repay such with acts of kindness when at all possible.
Howard says
I bet that she is a persona non grata in the church…causes too much waves..rocks the boat
G-d protect her and her family
Roger woodhouse says
It is becoming very difficult if not impossible to make comments now.Does RS know this?
Manue Comnenus says
This Pope is turning his face from the great danger the whole Europe is now.
He made several mistakes and still does to the detriment of Christianity. He brought Muslim immigrants instead of Christians why begged him to help them. He left them in the refugee camps in Greece, after he promised them 24 hours prior to help them.
He washed the feet of Muslims on the Holy Thursday. He forces the churches to welcome homosexuals in the parishes and to look with understanding and acceptance to the gay/lesbians.
He punishes the bishops and the clergies who dear to criticize islam or to oppose homosexual presence in the parishes across the world. See Archbishop and Nuncio Vergano. And he is the Vicar of Christ!
Lord have mercy on His Church.
Henricus says
Not only did he wash the feet of muslims, he kissed them !
Z says
The Bible also says let he who is without harm into your home.
Translation: if they’re dangerous keep them out.
Hudson says
Do you have chapter and verse on that? Doesn’t sound like the Bible to me.
Roger woodhouse says
It is becoming very difficult if not impossible to make comments now.Does RS know this?
gravenimage says
Yes–a lot of people are still having trouble posting–myself included.
Andy says
Hey pope, when are you going to start turning the other cheek for prosecuted Christians?
5 Reasons the World is Turning to the Nationalist Populist Right!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQczeniXInc
j_not_a says
Matthew 10:16 “I am sending you out like sheep amongst wolves, therefore be as shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves”
Matthew 7:6 “Do not throw what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls to swine, that they may trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces”
The Poop is advocating exactly what Jesus exhorted his followers NOT to do. I wonder if he even really READS his Bible.
gravenimage says
Good quotes.
Rufolino says
This Pope lives in a dream world, where all you have to do is extend love to everyone.
In 1940 he would have told Mr.Churchill that he had to love and understand the Germans, and welcome any arriving Nazis.
He would have told Churchill that his first duty was to come to peaceful terms with the Nazis by exercising humility, and by trying to understand them better.
karl anglin says
At least Vatican City has a wall built around it.
vlad says
That’s only there to keep the Christians out.
Ernie says
+1
Westman says
“But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.” 1 Corin 5:11
Did this Pope not shield and promote a pedophile? Is this form of “neighborly love” really what Jesus intended?
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” – Jesus, Matt 10:34
“… if you intermarry with them and associate with them, then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.” Joshua 23:12-13
If two Popes, “infallible”, declare Islam to be, for one, evil, and for the other, good, then either one Pope is evil or neither is infallible.
Andrea says
Papal infallibility, in Roman Catholic theology, is the doctrine that the pope cannot err when he is in Cathedra, that is, when he intends to make an instruction and decree for the guidance of the whole Church. He cannot err when he teaches in matters of Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture. Obviously Islam does not fall in these matters. So, Popes also can say stupid things. Cheers from Madrid.
boakai ngombu says
RE: “Sacred Scripture” Papa does err when he fails to teach (warn) YOU SHALL NOT MURDER. (5th Commandment)
Papa does err when he ignores the lesson about murder in Gen. 4 about Cain and Abel
Aaron Aukema says
Incorrect. Islam holds that Christ is not God, therefore, it is an heretical sec, and its memebers must be converted and the errors refuted. This was the consistent and authoritative teaching from 630 to 1962.
Any faith that presumes to teach on Christ falls within the Pope’s jurisdiction. Francis is showing that he has indeed rejected the Catholic faith. Not really sure what he accepts, aside from Marxism.
j_not_a says
To Aaron A Christ is NOT God the Father he never claimed to be, he always said he came to earth to do his Fathers work and prayed to Him constantly for strength and guidance and said not my will but yours be done. Why would he need to pray to another entity for anything if he were God himself? The trinity is a false doctrine.
mummymovie says
Exactly.
Thank you.
FYI says
I don’t think the islamic apologist and pro-NWO politician,Mr Bergoilio{or “francis” as he likes to call himself}is in any position to lecture anyone on christianity{and definitely not catholicism as the old marxist has demonstrated in his writings that he doesn’t appear to follow it:he has even been asked to resign…THAT’s how bad a “pope” he is…}
The “listening pope” of the “listening church” has great difficulty hearing.
The pope who loves the poor,as CEO of the Multibillion dollar corporation he runs,has difficulty understanding the concept of the transfer of wealth.Imagine all the migrants you could feed with that lolly fraudulent frankie!It’s what Jesus would want from the Whited Sepulchres in Rome:get read of the vatican’s undeserved wealth.Kick the cardinals out and give their apartments to the hungry poor I say!
His holiness needs to do some reflecting himself:
1.”If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose their faith in me..”
{Matthew 18 v 6-7.has francis and his cronies not noticed they are responsible for causing so many to lose their faith?Emptying out the churches?islamic “prayers” even permitted!!}
2.”Remove the evil man from your group”
I Corinthians 5 v 13
Cardinal mc Who?Why not do what frankie does:promote such men instead …
3.”Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made know”
Matthew 10 v 26
It’s a bit late in the day to start burning documents and covering up stuff….
So what does the great man in Rome think is the solution?
“We need smiling Christians” Pontifex tweet oct 31
clap-happy,naive,easily manipulated,kumbayaa merchants:Just what the NWO ordered!
Aw shucks!
somehistory says
The Apostle John, much beloved by Christ Jesus, wrote in the Bible that if someone does not “bring this teaching, never allow him into your homes.” (2 John 1:10). In fact, he said not even to “greet” these people.
However, the pope, who has set himself up as judge of Christians says : “a prayer, perhaps done together.”
He should pay attention. He should read the news. He should read this site. He would find that saying “a prayer” with a moslim can get one fired, fined, and even stabbed. One does not even need to say “a prayer” with a moslim to be beheaded. Just refuse to accept their foul creed or attempt to witness to “the Good News about the Christ.”
No one has to listen to this fool. And no one should listen to him. He is a “false teacher” listening to “the teachings of demons” and trying to mislead Christians into worship of satan’s beast. The Bible in numerous places warned us about him and his kind. “Wolves in sheep’s clothing,” and a fake shepherd who misleads the flock of God.
nicholas tesdorf says
The Pope prefers to keep his neighbours at arm’s length with large tall walls around the Vatican
Salah says
There’s no such thing as “Pope Francis.” His name is Jorge Bergolio, he’s an ANTI-POPE. Everything he says or does has absolutely no value to the true Catholic.
The only living Pope is Benedict XVI, period.
alex smythe says
His real name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio, but I think that Super Mario of Nintendo video game fame would probably be a better pontiff, judging by what we’ve seen from Pope Francis thus far.
vlad says
100% Correct.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is “pope Dhimmi the First, Satan’s appointed Judas goat for humanity.
Arnold Jackson says
Mr. Pope, tear down that wall (that was erected around Vatican City to keep out Muslim invaders).
gravenimage says
+1
Helen Weir says
If it is wrong to “pre-select” one’s neighbors, why is Pope Francis–along with the whining throng of open borders activists–effectively trying to “pre-select” ours?
Mark Swan says
Absolutely Helen Weir.
How many hard working taxpayers have been wronged here by this scheme.
Bringing serious harm upon people to get money—is shameful.
This medaling attempts to supersede National purpose.
Mark Swan says
This This “meddling” attempts to supersede National purpose.
gravenimage says
Pope: Commandment to love one’s neighbor “is not about pre-selecting my neighbor. This isn’t Christian.”
Pope Francis appears to be demanding that Christians welcome criminals, invaders, and Sharia supremacists into their nations, or else he will declare them un-Christian.
…………………..
That seems to sum it up. Demanding that people surrender their safety and that of their children or they are not real Christians.
Perversely, one finds Jihadists making just the same claims–that if one does not want to be raped and murdered by Muslims, that one is not a true Christian.
Of course, Christianity is not a suicide pact–and as Robert Spencer points out, most previous popes didn’t think that it was.
battle4urhome says
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Quran (18:65-81) – This parable lays the theological groundwork for honor killings, in which a family member is murdered because they brought shame to the family, either through apostasy or perceived moral indiscretion. The story (which is not found in any Jewish or Christian source) tells of Moses encountering a man with “special knowledge” who does things which don’t seem to make sense on the surface, but are then justified according to later explanation. One such action is to murder a youth for no apparent reason (v.74). However, the wise man later
christianblood says
battle4urhome
Great analysis!
Thank you!
gravenimage says
Brennan is no longer head of the CIA, and hasn’t been for almost two years now.
christianblood says
What kind of Pope is this? Why doesn’t he join ISIS?
Ernie says
This Qur’an kissing “pope” already did ( join ISIS ) a long time ago , ” christianblood “. He is part of the problem ,….not of the solution………..
christianblood says
Ernie
You are right and the sad thing is, he is leading millions of Catholics into false, pro-islamist propaganda and lies!
Lydia Church says
***FINALLY…..(drumroll)….. SOMETHING TO SHUT HIM UP!!!
Guess what? Today is our lucky day!
I have just finished perusing the laws of the Bible and I have GREAT NEWS!
POPE FRANCIS IS WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!
We DON’T have to let anyone in, we DON’T have to help ‘anyone,’ and we DON’T even have to let them stay, and all of that according to the BIBLE!!! Just the opposite of what he is claiming!
(Which should be no surprise of course.)
Since pope francis quotes all those Old Testament verses about welcoming and helping strangers, foreigners, aliens, immigrants, refugees, and whatever else they are called, all of this came with CONDITIONS!!!
Now firstly, this was the Law given to Israel back then. Some of it applies to the church and some of it does not (such as Temple sacrifices, etc.) as things have been fulfilled in Christ. But since Christians use the whole Bible to apply the ‘spirit’ of the law, and much about God’s beautiful character are revealed there, and some of those pesky issues are explained if one would only read it all, in this case we can’t use one part and not the other regarding welcoming immigrants.
So it was okay for Israel to have immigrants living among them, but the law was that THEY HAD TO OBEY THE LAWS OF GOD AND THE LAND ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES!!! IF THEY DID NOT, THEY WERE TO BE DEPORTED (AT BEST)!!!
So if one wants to apply the situation to Christian Europe, the deal would be you would have to screen the immigrants first and only allow in those who already agree with the whole counsel of the Bible at this point, and then, if they said yes but later did not, you could deport them! You don’t have to let anyone in. Orban is doing it exactly the right way!
See below:
“You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation OR ANY STRANGER WHO DWELLS AMONG YOU (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people.” Leviticus 18; 26-29
(Note that this included serving false gods, and applies to allah today.)
“Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘Whoever of the children of Israel, OR OF THE STRANGERS WHO DWELL IN ISRAEL, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.”
Leviticus 20; 1-2
(Note: They would sacrifice their babies and children alive into the fire, so yes, they did deserve the death penalty. Interesting similarity to abortion. Note again, worshiping false gods is forbidden.)
“You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God.’ ” Leviticus 24; 22
“For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Exodus 23; 31-33
(Note again, it is NOT the ‘same’ god.)
“One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.’ ”
Numbers 15; 16
If they did not obey the law, they were OUT!
No charity, no nothing!
(By the way, I may have said Deuteronomy instead of Leviticus 18; 22 and 20; 13 at certain times regarding another sin and just wanted to clarify that too.)
Now for the church…the church is supposed to help the needy Christians as first priority, then if there is anything left they may, but are not obligated, to help the unsaved in a charity sense. See Acts.
So….
CHECKMATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
: D
somehistory says
You have made use of the Holy Scriptures as they are meant to be used. You have applied the verses as they are meant to be applied.
Jesus, in quoting Isaiah, said that there would be those who “listen” and those who have “shut their ears.”
The guy at the vatican is wrong, but he, in all probability, will refuse to “listen and learn and benefit” himself. So the Judgment that is coming to him will be on his own head.
Lydia Church says
Yes, I agree.
In the Bible, we read where Jesus went out into the wilderness and was tempted by the devil. Three times satan came tempting Him. Each time, the devil misquoted Scripture to Jesus. And each time, Jesus correctly quoted the Scripture back and added the verse that provided the Biblical refutation of what the devil claimed. “It is written…”
The same thing goes on today all over the landscape. The devil deceives most of the world by twisting Scripture, and the rest by false religion, and only a very tiny fraction by getting them to believe that he doesn’t exist.
In the Bible we are told to put on the full armor of God (Ephesians 6) and take up the ‘sword of the Spirit’ which is the Bible, the Word of God.
“For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4; 12
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3; 16-17
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation,
*************and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints…”
Ephesians 6; 10-18
Blessings!!!
j_not_a says
Well done.
Ernie says
Good job Lydia Church ; thank you very much !
Lydia Church says
You are welcome!
It is my pleasure.
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j_not_a says
Well done.
Dapto says
Pope Charlatan doesn’t believe in jesus he believes in Satan and his 40 thieves.
Terry Gain says
My neighbour does not include anyone who wants to deprive me of my rights or kill me because I do not accept his fake God or his evil inventor.
CogitoErgoSum says
And please tell us why so many Muslims have left their homes to move to Europe. Didn’t they like their neighbors?
boakai ngombu says
they left because they were corrupted by their neighbors. they are defiled by their new neighbors.
loki says
I have never heard this pope expound on the Christian virtue of gratitude when addressing refugee issues, namely, the one gives and the other takes. Islam despises Christianity and the culture and history of the west. If there is no mutual respect, gratitude perishes and turns to resentment.
rightrightright says
Christ instructed us to love your neighbour as yourself. Not more than yourself. If a person or group of people are known to intend to kill you and you persist in ‘loving’ your probable murderers, then you are in breach of Christ’s teaching.
Someone please tell phoney popey that.
duh swami says
If you invite Drac’ullah into your house, expect to get bit…
Arthur says
a quote for imam Bergoglio, 2 Thessalonians, chapter 3:
6 Now, my brothers, we tell you to do this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have nothing to do with any lazy brother who is not living the way we taught you.
7 You yourselves know how you should be like us. We were not lazy when we were with you.
8 We did not eat anyone’s food without paying for it. But we worked very hard day and night because we did not want to trouble any one of you.
9 We have the right to be helped. But we wanted to show you what you should do in this matter.
10 Even when we were with you, we told you this, `If any man will not work, do not let him eat.’
11 We hear that some of you are lazy. You do not work, but you trouble other people.
12 We say to such lazy people, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, `Do your work quietly. Earn your own food.’
dan christensen says
Be happy that the pope is not your neighbor. He would direct all migrants to your home – never his own.
In this way he would pre-select his neighbors, as the truly genuine hypocrite he is.
How many of his neigbors in the vatican State are migrants?
Peter says
Jesus never said or put out example that you have to sacrifice people to potential death, discrimination, hate, slavery or JIHAD RAPE!!! WHAT POPE IS SUGGESTING IS UNCHRISTIAN…. IT IS EVIL.
Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says
Your neighbor is that person right in front of you, yes, them.
Cease standing on their shoulders to stare at those thousands of miles away, stop thinking numbers mean more than this poor individual you can now no longer see.
J.W.K. says
The eyes are the mirror to the soul, or so I’ve been told. His are as creepy as can be. Pope Jorge’s smile is like the one on a donkey as it was busily chewing thistles. Still his sheeple follow lockstep…how sad.
mexipina says
jorge isnt even qualified to be a pope he is a fake who protects child molesters, murders, rapist, pedophiles, and traffickers
SamB says
“…[P]ope Francis has never expressed any concern about any of this. Of course, he has claimed risibly that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” This has become a superdogma in the Catholic Church: if you don’t believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace, you will be ruthlessly harassed and silenced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the hierarchy elsewhere as well.” Thanks for highlighting this Robert and yet there are those who are not prepared to accept that the Papal system is ensnared in beguiling humanity. Was Bishop Riveira not right by claiming the Catholic Church germinated Islam? I remarked before that the correlation between Islam and Catholicism is distinct there no doubt that this is empirical evidence and this articulation re is enough to indict the Papal system and Islam as injurious to man.
Ecosse1314 says
Yeh right. You have made this ridiculous claim many times. Each time you have been shot down in flames. The RC Church for over 1000 years have fought Islam tooth and nail. The only sad thing is the present pontiff is a sad old senile marxist.
gravenimage says
Very true, Ecosse.
Sentinel says
Pope Francis is obviously not acquainted with Matthew 23:33 in which Jesus refers to the pharisees and scribes as “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?”
Pope Francis should really stop equivocating – it is true he is a Jesuit after all but this is embarrassing even to the Jesuits.
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. Got that Pope Francis?
patriotliz says
@Notmoroan,
If Asia Bibi is killed by the Muslims, she would be a martyr for her faith…doubt that the Pope knows about her or even cares.
The number of non-combatant Christian martyrs at the hands of Muslim murderers are too numerous to count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=51&v=KGc1rFapIvA
Endlesspath says
Pope Francis is a false Pope. Francis was selected by the establishment globalists based on his South American leftist philosophy & background. The reason for Pope Francis’s selection is to push the globalist/SJW philosophy so that it could be given a semblance of “religious credibility”.
Seriously, what Pope would push the Climate Change=Man-caused Global Warming=ACC agenda?
Pope John Paul II was the last true Pope.
Hudson says
There has never been a true Pope. They’ve all been leaders of an un-biblical cult. There is no evidence in the Bible for a position called Pope. And there is nothing in the Bible that supports the superstitions and rituals of the RCC.
Wellington says
Hudson: I am not religious in the least but your assertion that “There is no evidence in the Bible for a position called Pope” would be refuted by any informed Catholic by reference to Matthew 16:19.
Yeah, you can say this passage means this, that or something else than Catholics have asserted it means through the centuries, including many very substantive Catholic people, but what you cannot assert, as you erroneously did, is that there is no evidence in Scriptures for the institution of the papacy. Yes there is.
Carolyne says
And is there evidence in scripture that this Pope whom you claim is authorized to be a moral leader, that a Pope and his henchmen are to possess gold, jewels, great works of art, magnificent palaces, etc? With servants to wait on him hand and foot? Come on now, you know there isn’t. Christ’s mode of transportation was a donkey, not a Boeing 747.
Mark Swan says
The “primacy of Peter” doctrine asserts that Jesus gave Peter, and Peter’s successors, authority to function as the sole custodians of true Christian teaching—it is asserted, this primacy is for all time. Supporters of this doctrine point to one key passage of scripture, in which Jesus said, “you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church… I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven” (Matthew 16:18–19).
A careful study of this passage and other scriptures, however, reveals something very different from what the doctrine above has in mind. In the original Greek text, Jesus’ statement is actually a play on words. The Greek word for “Peter” is petros (meaning a small stone), and the Greek word for “rock” is petra (a huge rock or mountain). The Bible clearly shows that Jesus Christ is the Rock (see 1 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Peter 2:4; see also Psalm 118:22; Isaiah 28:16). He was referring to Himself as the petra, and to His disciple Peter as the petros.
Scripture also shows that the Church was not founded on Peter alone, but was “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone” (Ephesians 2:20).
Jesus described His petros—Peter—as a foundation stone of the Church, along with the other apostles and prophets. However, Jesus Christ and His teachings would remain the true foundation of the Church. This is the true meaning of Matthew 16:18–19.
Attempts to twist this verse into a statement of Peter’s exclusive authority are simply not biblical. This is why the Roman claim for power based on Peter’s supposed primacy has never been accepted by the Eastern Orthodox churches, and why it was rejected by the Protestant reformers (see Civilization Past & Present, Wallbank, p. 133).
What does the Bible reveal about Peter’s role in the early Church? Peter is placed first in lists of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:1–4; Luke 6:13–16). He was often the spokesman for the group (Matthew 16:13–16), and he gave the first sermon on Pentecost (Acts 2). Peter, along with James and John, was one of three in the Jerusalem Church (Galatians 2:9).
Peter, Paul and Barnabas made observations about doctrine at a conference in Jerusalem, but James—not Peter—chaired the conference and rendered the final decision (Acts 15). Peter was the apostle to the Jews, and Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles—but neither one is listed as above the other (Galatians 2:7). Paul even corrected Peter (Galatians 2:11–14). Peter refused homage when it was offered (Acts 10:25–26); no one kissed his ring. The Bible reveals that Peter was a leader among the apostles, but he neither had nor claimed primacy over the others.
The Petrine theory holds that Peter’s successors are to decide doctrinal matters for the Church. Yet, at the Council of Nicaea in 325ad, records show that the Roman bishop, Sylvester I, did not attend and exercised no primacy. The Council of Nicaea was called and presided over not by a Roman bishop, but by the Emperor Constantine. As emperor, Constantine held the title of Pontifex Maximus in the pagan Roman religion—a title that Roman bishop Leo I would adopt a century later when arguing for the Petrine primacy over all other bishops.
In 451ad, however, the Council of Chalcedon rebuffed Leo, and decreed that the bishops of Rome and Constantinople had equal authority. By 1200ad, Pope Innocent III was claiming to be the “Vicar of Christ,” and the Supreme Sovereign of the Church and the world (Halley’s Bible Handbook, p. 776).
For about 600 years during the Middle Ages, Roman bishops pointed to the “Donation of Constantine” as evidence of their right to preside over all the other bishops, but the document was later proven to be a fraud (Kung, p. 50).
Scripture and history both show that the early Church did not recognize the Roman theory of Petrine primacy. Rather, it was ambitious Roman bishops who developed the doctrine to gain power over other bishops and their churches.
Jesus Christ warned that at the end of the age, many would be deceived by false teachers claiming to represent Him (Matthew 24:3–5). Paul warned that in the latter times hypocritical teachers would spread lies (1 Timothy 4:1–3) and would delude people into believing ancient heresies and unbiblical traditions (2 Thessalonians 2:1–15).
These long-standing warnings are coming alive today!
j_not_a says
Absolutely
Michael Francis Poulin says
I am a traditional Catholic, but I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic hierarchy and laity is, for the most part, about as biblically illiterate as can be…
Trying to have a discussion with most Catholics concerning Scripture is like arguing with trained seals at Seaworld.
In response to the lawyer’s question, “who is my neighbor?” Jesus clearly taught, through the parable of the Good Samaritan, that is was the man who ACTED neighborly who was the neighbor – and so he tells the lawyer to go and “do the same.”
It is typical of the Catholic hierarchy to teach directly against what Jesus said.
The mistake that everyone on earth is your neighbor can be partially traced from a theological supposition by Augustine that has no biblical support – he just made it up…and this error has echoed down through Catholic theology ever since..with hardly any opposition…
Sorry Catholics, but papa Bergoglio is your typical “I know better than Jesus” ecclesial mafia moron who thinks people who want to slit your throat and rape your daughters is your “neighbor.”
Bernard L Hudson says
I agree with your comment on Catholics not knowing scripture. It used to be forbidden for Catholics to even read scripture or possess a Bible. I was given a New Testament the day I joined the Air Force, and found that the superstitions and rituals of Rome are nothing like biblical Christianity. That why I fled the cult of Rome, it’s a pagan organization that keeps people in spiritual bondage.
Jan Favre says
My next neigbor is the most endangered one, the persecuted Christians by Moslem.
Billy Chickens says
Loving one’s neighbor does not mean actually liking everyone in the entire world. It means LOVING them which translates into wanting what’s best for them….so that they do not go to hell. Loving them means praying for their conversion to Christ so that they will stop being murderous thugs raping and killing THEIR neighbors, one of which might be me.
dan christensen says
“..to love one’s neighbor “is not about pre-selecting my neighbor…”
How clever an arrangement!
If a migrant wishes to scrounge, he just places himself in close vicinity of the intended victim and tell him “I am your neighbor – love me”.
The clever victim could justly reject the’kind’ request by answering “Then you are my neighbor – if you love me, kindly remove yourself from my person”.
Logic can turn many religious statements into boomerangs. That’s why logic is so despised by clerics.
mortimer says
For Christians, the most important Islamic doctrine is AL WALAA WAL BARAA (Islam’s motive):
ISLAM HAS A DOCTRINE OF HATE: ‘AL BARAA’ = Islamic Apartheid, Shunning
‘Baraa’ is HATRED towards Kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’…Al Bughoud or Al Mu’adaat (hatred) is the opposite of Al Muwalaat (love towards Muslims). Baraa is:
– To Hate
– To keep distance from
– To be enemy to
– To desert
– To decline to help
– To disrespect
– To put down
– Not to ally with
– Not to support
Allah ordered Muslims to have Baraa (to be cleansed) from the dirty kufaar and from kufr and shirk.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca. – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/
-Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq said:
“There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite (kufr=wrong belief)- any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.” (W-B is ‘Islamic apartheid’)
– Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani said: “Thus, it is clear that Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara calls on Muslims to “love” their fellow Muslims and hate the non-Muslim (or Kafir).”
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”: “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr (wrong belief), just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.”
– from [Chap.iv] “The Islaamic Concept of al-Walaa’ wal-Baraa’” by Khalid El-Gharib: “… to SHOW ENMITY to those who show enmity to Allaah and His Messenger”.
(Note: Muslims are to visibly demonstrate their ENMITY or HATRED towards the kufaar)
– from a lecture given by Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal (H.A.): “The implication of al-Baraa is that one HATES for the sake of Allah (SWT)…Al-Baraa means to recognize who your enemies are and to HATE them and EXTERMINATE them in their Endeavour to get rid of your Deen, al-Islam…Al-Baraa is to HATE the people who propagate Baatil (falsehood)—the Muslim should HATE them and (at least desire to) KILL them when the time comes.”
(Note: not ‘if the time comes’, but ‘WHEN the time comes.)
– “Killing a Kafir who is fighting you is OK. Killing a Kafir for any reason (i.e. criticism of Islam), you can say, it is OK – even if there is NO REASON for it. You can poison, ambush and kill non-believers. You must have a stand with your heart, with your tongue, with your money, with your hand, with your sword, with your Kalashnikov. Don’t ask shall I do this, just do it.”Abu Hamza al-Masri (Egyptian born British Cleric)
– “As a Muslim, I must have hatred for anything non-Islam” – Anjem Choudary.
– “The matter is clear on this issue. It is obligatory to disassociate and absolve oneself from the disbelievers and their religion. The issue of al-Walaa wal-Baraa is from among the greatest obligations in Islaam.” (Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan, 2005, p. 308)
– Obligation to Hate Kufaar: “With regard to matters of love and hate in the heart, the Muslims’ attitude towards non-Muslims is based on the latter’s attitude towards Allaah. If they worship Allaah and do not associate anything in worship with Him, then they love them. If they associate others in worship with Him, or disbelieve in Him, or worship others alongside Him, or are hostile towards His religion and hate the truth, then it is obligatory to hate them in our hearts.” – Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
Linda Rivera says
The ANTI-GOD, CHRIST HATER, DARK Pope is EVIL.
Traditionalpriests website have declared the POPE IS A FALSE PROPHET.
Walter Sieruk says
Pope Francis forgot that to say the Jesus never taught Christians to be naive or to just “give away trust” to others with no valid reason to trust them them at In fact .Jesus taught “Be ye wise as serpents yet harmless as doves.” Matthew 10:16.
By the way its very easy for the pope to say such things since he lives safe from crime in his home behind the tall strong walls that are borders that surround the small nation of Vatican City.
Celtic says
What a joke – the neighbour in the biblical sense was never meant to be the one who denies Christ!
Carolyne says
Folks, this is 2018. Does anyone still believe that this is ignorant Socialist was sent by God and that he has any moral authority? I consider the position of Pope to be some kind of joke on the gullible. I would rather follow the lead of my dog Charlie who is a great judge of people, a talent this bouncer from Argentina does not have.
dragaozao says
You’re right, your holiness. But… you see, there’s no commandement telling me to be a fool. So… I`ll try to be a good chistian within reason.
tony46 says
Oh…..All of the sudden you are Christian now….!!!
Michael Francis Poulin says
Oh, and don’t forget Francis was the man who lifted Benedict’s sanctions against MacCarrick, and even promoted the man after clearly knowing he was a child molesting homosexual predator…as Archbishop Vigano has testified at great risk to himself.
This is how Francis operates, gather the Church’s greatest scumbags around himself and then places them in authoritative positions…
and don’t forget his recent selling out of millions of Chinese Catholics into the clutches of the murderous communists…
Evelyn Hall says
What an irony. At this rate and with this mindset in the face of all the evidence, it will be the Pope himself who brings down the Catholic Church.
I wonder what the numbers of Catholics leaving the Church look like.
Does the Pope imagine for a moment that the Vatican will be spared?
UNCLE VLADDI says
He’s really saying “Kamerades, you have no rights to self-defense at all. Allah will get you anyway, so you’d better just SUBMIT to it now and get it over with early. You especially don’t have any right to freely associate with – and without – whomever you want to or not. Who are you to say you should resist evil men?! The Bible specifically tells you “Resist Ye Not Evil men!” So let evil win! That’s what Jesus wants – and he’s on your side, so trust him! It will all work out fine in the afterlife! After all, you do not know – only Allah knows! Whee!”
Felix Quigley says
Carolyne says
Nov 11, 2018 at 1:04 am
Folks, this is 2018. Does anyone still believe that this is ignorant Socialist was sent by God and that he has any moral authority? I consider the position of Pope to be some kind of joke on the gullible. I would rather follow the lead of my dog Charlie who is a great judge of people, a talent this bouncer from Argentina does not have.
Carolyne you say that Pope Francis is “ignorant socialist”. For some reason you leave out the indefinite article. But anyway that is a small matter here because you seem to leave out all reason and learning.
No the Papacy is not at all socialist, marxist, socialist revolutionary. It remains the same Marxist and communism hating entity it ever was…you poor fool you.
It is past time to call
you suckers on this issue
j_not_a says
What the heck do I have to do to get a comment of mine to show up?