“Pope Francis installed new cardinals…. putting his stamp on the future of the Roman Catholic Church with men who share his vision for social justice, the rights of immigrants and dialogue with Islam.”
The Pope has been a powerful promoter of Islam, going so far as advance theological reforms in Catholic schools to promote a “common mission of peace” with Islam. He largely ignores the gross human rights violations against Christians, women, minorities and apostates that are justified by normative Islam. He has not called on the leaders of Islamic states and mainstream Islamic leaders to condemn the Islamic texts that sanction such abuses. Instead, he has stated that “Christianity and Islam have more in common than people think…and the two religions defend common values that are necessary for the future of civilization.” Meanwhile, he turns a blind eye to the genocide in progress against Christians in Africa and the Middle East, and advocates that “it’s not fair to identify Islam with violence.”
On issues of suicidal immigration policy, the Pope has been “guilt-tripping Christians into accepting mass Muslim migration into Europe while ignoring the history of Islam.”
Fortunately, not all cardinals are working alongside the Pope in all this. Cardinal Robert Sarah — prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments — compared “the modern influx of Muslim migrants to the invasions of barbarian tribes that ultimately brought down the Roman Empire in a.d. 475.” Cardinal Sarah also asserted that “it is a false exegesis to use the Word of God to promote migration.”
Clerics who have fought for social justice and defended the rights of the poor and immigrants were also prominent among the new cardinals.
We can all approve of fighting for genuine social justice and the rights of the poor and actual refugees; but this does not require putting free nations at risk through open-door, unvetted immigration in the midst of the global jihad. The Pope has yet to tear down all walls around the Vatican and refuse his own personal security, but that is exactly what he expects from the citizenry.
“Pope installs new cardinals to set future direction of church,” by Philip Pullella, KFGO, October 5, 2019:
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis installed new cardinals on Saturday, putting his stamp on the future of the Roman Catholic Church with men who share his vision for social justice, the rights of immigrants and dialogue with Islam.
Ten of the 13 bishops elevated to the high rank are under the age of 80 and so are eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope from their ranks.
Francis has now appointed more than half of the 128 cardinal electors, increasing the possibility that the next pope will continue his progressive policies.
Over six years he has appointed more cardinal electors than those still alive who were named by former Pope Benedict and the late Pope John Paul combined.
At a ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica, known as consistory, Francis gave the new cardinals their trademark red biretta, or hat, and asked them to always be compassionate with others and loyal.
The geographical distribution of the new cardinal electors reflects Francis’s desire to give more clout to small national churches outside of Europe and North America, countries on the periphery of world political power. Nearly 50% of the cardinal electors now come from the developing world.
“I think that the pope wanted to make visible the churches that were almost invisible,” said Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, of Rabat, the capital of Morocco, which is overwhelmingly Muslim.
Romero, 67, is one of four new cardinal electors who are steeped in experience with Islam.
The others are Cardinal Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, 67, the Spanish head of the Vatican’s department for inter-religious dialogue; British Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald, 82, one of the Church’s foremost experts on Islam and the Koran, and Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, 69, the archbishop of Jakarta in Indonesia, the country with the world’s largest Moslem population.
Clerics who have fought for social justice and defended the rights of the poor and immigrants were also prominent among the new cardinals….
John Butler says
How can Christians have ANYTHING in common with Islam; a cult created by Satan, intended to destroy Christ’s church ?
mortimer says
JB asks a pertinent and wise question: is there anything in common with Islam and Christianity? The list of contradictions between Christianity and Islam is very long.
The pope is unaware of the PRIME DIRECTIVE of Islam TO FIGHT OTHER FAITH COMMUNITIES UNTIL VICTORY is achieved.
Primarily, Islam is a death cult whose intent is the ultimate destruction of Christianity and all other religious opinions.
“Fight (q-t-l = fight to the death) against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given (namely against Christians and Jews) as believe in neither Allah (the god of Islam) nor the last day, who do not forbid what Allah and his apostle (Muhammad) have forbidden, and do not embrace the true faith (of Islam), until they pay JIZZYA (extortion) out of hand and are utterly subdued” (Koran 9: 29)
Pope Francis is one of the greatest fools alive today. He is demanding of Christians that they allow themselves to be duped.
Jon Sobieski says
Goog question. How is it possible that I, a layman, and you, a layman, know that Islam is evil, yet the Catholic Church is clueless about Islam?
Ted says
I have often wondered the same.
Wonder if it could be related to their misunderstanding of Christ’s teaching, e.g.”love your enemies”.
Even though we can love them it doesn’t mean we have to identify with their demonic religion.
We need to study this ideology to appreciate it’s diabolic message or we might get sucked in and destroyed.
Islamists use the first rule in Satan’s playbook: lie and deceive (and smile while doing so).
Peggy says
Do you think that you are able to understand what the Bible is actually saying that the people who have devoted their lives to understanding it?
I think the Pope is well aware of what Islam is and isn’t but he has joined it. Impossible for you or I to understand the Bible better than the experts.
mortimer says
Jon, it is definitely NOT the whole church that is clueless. Many studious clergy have done their homework by READING UP ON ISLAM. They are fully aware of the danger, because they are KNOWLEDGEABLE. Francis considers himself a SPONTANEOUS expert. He is like the student who believes he can ACE THE ALGEBRA EXAM using INTUITION because he has not studied.
This is the mindset of a lazy dunce. Francis is pompous. preposterous, virtue-signalling know-nothing in the matter of Islam.
A truly virtuous man would STUDY ISLAM THOROUGHLY before speaking out about it.
Carl says
The pope is not uninformed, he is a diabolically evil man with a blend of cowardly personality traits. Traits which, I’m sure, opened the doors into his soul.
Peggy says
An idiot cannot rise to the top. The Pope is not ignorant but evil and is taking the Church down with him.
Trick_or_Treat says
The next increment of the the Great Falling Away, the Great Apostasy – and it’s all happening right before our eyes. And it is not just the Roman Catholic Cult, the sane thing is happening simultaneously with the Protestant and Anglican hierarchies.
But Jesus and his word will remain the same tomorrow, as it is today, and as it was yesterday.
Tom says
With this Pope in place Catholicism has become nothing more than yet another globalist vehicle.
There are now two clear factions in the Catholic church those who support the globalist agenda of Pope Francis and those who want to maintain the church as it has been for over two millennia, a monument to Jesus Christ and his teachings.
Yes the teachings of Christ included taking care of the poor and needy, but this Pope has taken that philosophy and extended it to include a global agenda of equalization of wealth from the affluent west to the third world and way beyond the means of the west to maintain, which will result in poverty world wide.
As Churchill said “The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Mario Alexis Portella says
Indeed!
somehistory says
These can be called “yes men.”
In the “time of the end, many will fall away from the faith, giving attention to misleading inspired utterances and teachings of demons.”
It is not only the “time of the end,’ but especially the time for all of Christ’s children to “stay awake.”
and “Do not be misled. God is not to be mocked, for whatever a man is sowing, this also he will reap.”
Mr. Cohen says
In this short article, Yossi Kuperwasser [a retired
Brigadier General of the Israeli Army] explains that the
Palestinians are not serious about peace with Israel,
because the Palestinian government refuses to stop
[or even reduce] the monetary rewards it pays to terrorists
who kill Jewish civilians [including Jewish teenagers and children]:
Still no partner for peace
by Yossi Kuperwasser
https://www.jns.org/opinion/still-no-partner-for-peace/
Paul Kiernan says
Many aware Catholics are deeply disturbed by the current pontificate.
Our current pope is dangerously misleading the world. Our church has been intentionally infiltrated by anti Christian and pro Islam and pro Neo Marxist and free mason agencies.
Many Catholics see current pope as an anti pope. This is a very weak time for my church. It is very painful to see as so much good is and has been done around the world. For example over half third world charity is Catholic.
Trev Adams says
For all the Catholics out there who are dismayed by the false teachings of their hierarchy, it may pay you to study this.
Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” John 3 3
Now is the time to come out of her and begin a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and check out all the other Scripture verses you have been blinded to. You say we were not blinded but you must have been to stay in this cult.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, many in leadership positions in Protestant denominations are about as bad as this Pope.
mortimer says
A perspicacious observation by Christine Douglass-Williams: “The Pope has yet to tear down all walls around the Vatican and refuse his own personal security, but that is exactly what he expects from the citizenry.”
The pope has no children or wife who will be persecuted under Islam and so personally he literally has ‘no skin’ in the game.
For Francis is an Utopian, purely intellectual process. He’s betting everyone else’s capital, but none of his own in this reckless gamble that weakens the church, making it subservient to Sharia law.
Kilauea says
The Pope is just a man. And a very fallible man at that. From his statements he doesn’t appear to be very spiritually aware of the times in which we live. He and Hillary were both backed by Satan. Apparently the Lord of Darkness had more sway with the College of Cardinals than with the American people.
CogitoErgoSum says
These are pictures from the Paul VI Audience Hall where the Pope sometimes addresses the public:
https://imgur.com/a/HlZf3
Do you see the serpent?
Wellington says
With respect, CES, that is an architectural fluke. So many times people read way too much into things—assassinations of very public figures are one example and extreme weather phenomena are another. I think you can add certain architecture to this list too—as here.
CogitoErgoSum says
Wellington, I would agree with you about being skeptical when it comes to things that occur in nature, such as seeing the face of Jesus in a cloud, but when it comes to things that are made by man I tend to think there is a purpose or intention behind what I see. I think the architect who designed that building wanted to send a message and whoever it was within the Catholic Church that approved of the design was too foolish and naive (maybe) to recognize what was being done right out in the open. I’d say the architecture and the artwork in that building are representative of what has happened over the past 50 years is still happening within the Church right now. Some people see it and others don’t … or don’t want to see it.
Wellington says
Thanks for your reply, CES, but I must say that I don’t think the architect who designed the building in question was anything but another mediocre and dull architect, so many from that profession doing major aesthetic damage from the 1920’s onwards (Art Deco arguably being an exception here).
I mean just look at the rot posing as architecture that was constructed in the 1960’s alone (e.g., all those ugly yellow brick rectangular structures with aluminum windows whether for schools, shopping centers, etc.). You see design and intention while I “only” see deficiency and slavish dedication to the original culprit, i.e., the Bauhaus school of architecture dating back to the Weimar Repubic (1919-1933). Sometimes, you know, a cigar is just a cigar.
CogitoErgoSum says
Wellington, you may be right. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar … and sometimes it’s a prank that explodes in your face. Whatever type of cigar this particular building is, it stinks to high heaven.
A big smile to you, my friend.
FYI says
What you see in Rome today is what Pope Paul VI was talking about in 1971 when he said “The smoke of satan has entered the church”
It was NOT the Catholic faith he was talking about:it was the RCC Administrators.
Just look at Mr Bergoglio and his henchmen.
“It is a mistake for the church to hold on to old traditions or to have clear answers for everything”
pope francis
A mistake?To hold on to traditions?To have clear answers{,..what about the catechism}?
Do you see the mindset of vatican 2:DESTROY the Catholic Church.
The abandoning of traditions by the likes of Bergoglio is what has emptied catholic Churches!
Here is a TRUE catholic voice..{Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano}
“We are in a truly dark moment for the universal church.The supreme pontiff is now blatantly LYING to cover up his wicked deeds”{regarding the mccarrick case}
Strong words indeed!
gravenimage says
CogitoErgoSum, this is just really, really ugly architecture and sculpture. I am no fan of either, but this is more about poor taste and the ugliness of most modernism than it is about evil in the true sense.
CogitoErgoSum says
Whether it was intentional or not, I can’t help seeing the Pope sitting there between the fangs of a serpent. It just seems like those serpent-like shapes are too much of a coincidence to me. I think the architect pulled a fast one. Even the outside of the building looks like the head of a snake. I suppose that’s just how art can be; different people can see different things in the same piece. At least we agree that the building and the sculpture are both ugly. 🙂
gravenimage says
Certainly true, CogitoErgoSum.
Wellington says
As I have mentioned several times here at JW, the ultimate harm Francis will be guilty of is appointing bishops and cardinals who think like him. Francis will be even more disturbingly influential from his grave than he has been above ground.
gravenimage says
Yes–this will extend this suicidal madness beyond his death.
Clarino says
Dialogue involves speaking and listening on both sides.
There is no more chance of having a dialogue with islam than with a crocodile : it will look at you, but it will not talk and not listen; it is merely focusedon how to consume you.
Lotus says
Ah, but Pope Francis thinks he is Dr Dolittle.
ntesdorf says
The Pope is stacking the Vatican with hand-picked Yes-Men who are also Islamophiles. Islamophiloes are much more dangerous to your health than Islamophobes.
Wellington says
In agreement with you on both points.
Chris D says
Where was the Pope and the Catholic Church when millions of Greek and Armenian Christians were slaughtered for being Unbelievers 1914-1922?!
How does the pope find common ground with Christians being murdered daily in Africa for being Christians?
Even Christian Aid Workers last week were slaughtered by Islamics following Sharia Law.
I don’t remember the Pope even commenting on that?
gravenimage says
Actually, the Catholic Church did try to stop the Armenian Genocide:
https://aleteia.org/2017/04/24/secret-archives-show-vatican-tried-to-stop-armenian-genocide-2/
And weak as Pope Francis has been on the genocide of Christians in general, he has condemned the Armenian Genocide–which is more than many Western leaders have done.
Lydia Church says
The devil’s puppet has his agendas in place and now he is just putting his puppets in place who will uphold them. All of those puppet strings are ultimately pulled by the devil. It is clear.
And Christianity and islam have absolutely nothing in common. What fellowship has Christ with the devil? None. Exactly.
J D S says
The ONLY, repeat ONLY connection the pope should have with is lam is to: Do what Jesus left with his apostles—disciples: Bring them under his mission: SAVE THEM and the whole world from the evil one.
I can’t believe the worlds Roman Catholic population is standing still for their popes antics. I admit that I know very little of the workings of Roman Catholicism but surely there is a way to recall a pipe when he goes awry..
NOTE: The word catholic indicates “universal” so the word catholic does not really mean “Roman Catholic, something the world seems to have FORGOTTEN.. I am not a ROMAN Catholic but am part of the Holy Catholic church..The Church leadersthat Jesus let us to build..
J D S says
OOPS…last line should read: the church that Jdesus left us to build
CogitoErgoSum says
While this may not be directly related to Pope Francis’ attitude towards Islam, I think it does have something to do with the Pope’s attitude towards religion in general. I hope this man from the Amazon was able to get across his message to the Pope at the Synod currently taking place in Rome, but for some reason I am doubtful about that. I don’t think he’s saying what the Pope wants to hear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMc1DPfgFzw
James says
It is likely that the Pope wants Islam to be a partner with the Catholic church. but actually, Catholics have more in common with Protestants and Orthodox Christians or Jews than with Muslims. What is his obsession with Islam? Does he really think that he is coaxing them to be pro-Catholic? That seems like a great illusion. He should really not be Pope. He is supposed to be the defender of the faith, not its nemesis. He wants to turn the cheek, but how many cheeks does Christianity have? And what happens when that has failed`? When are the Muslims going to start making the same concessions the Pope is making to them?
gravenimage says
+1
FireFox says
This anti-Christ Pope continues to spread the smoke of Satan with his Islamic allies.
Sadly, this Pope is not stupid.
He has simply embraced this anti-Christ evil.
Is his hope now to be leader of the New World Order Religion?
How can the church simply stand by and watch this heresy??
It’s easy to see the arrogance of the “childless” leaders: Merkel, Macron, May, and Junker entertain inviting in masses of the sworn enemies of freedom for political gain; but the Pope entertaining those same masses whose god vehemently hates Christians and Jews, and whose entire dark history exemplifies that hate with 1400 years of invasions, murder, rape, enslavement, and genocide of the kufar.
It is so hard to accept this is even happening.
Trev Adams says
Mate, you have hit the nail on the head.
Hello Hello says
The Faces of Evil
Ade Fegan says
If you can negotiate with it …. it ain’t islam
Giacomo Latta says
I hope Cardinal Romero is up-to-date on his jizya payments.
JoBo says
This stupid old bastard is a traitor to the West.