Last month, human rights experts urged “Pope Francis to speak up for Christian refugees facing persecution from Muslim migrants detained on the Greek island” of Lesbos. The Pope has been an outspoken advocate for the massive influx of Muslim refugees into the West over the past few years, and he still is. He recently “negotiated the relocation of 50 migrants from Cyprus to Italy after bringing 12 Syrian Muslims from three families home with him following his first trip to Lesbos in 2016.”
But the Vatican has failed to reveal if there will be Christians among the refugees. Francis earlier insisted that “all refugees are children of God.” Christians are rarely among them. When they are, they’re beaten, abused and discouraged.
Back in September, the Pope urged Hungary “to be more open to needy outsiders.” Hungary is governed by a Christian constitution, and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban has repeatedly indicated that he does not intend to fling his country’s doors open to unvetted Muslim migration.
Now Pope Francis has come out swinging. He has unequivocally condemned “religious persecution” as “unacceptable,” “inhuman,” and “insane,” without even mentioning the current Muslim genocide against Christians in Africa.
While Pope Francis preaches “dialogue” with the worst jihadis, including the Taliban, you won’t see him participating in dialogue with Taliban and Islamic State jihadis. His trips are carefully planned and he is surrounded by personal security. He engages in “dialogue” only with the smooth purveyors of jihad, such as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whom the Pope called “a man of peace,” and the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar.
The Pope is so widely known to be a partner to Islamic supremacist leadership thugs that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan requested that he “mobilize the Christian world” to support the jihad against Israel.
“Pope Francis: Persecuting People for Their Religious Faith Is ‘Insane,’” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, January 4, 2022:
ROME — Pope Francis condemned religious persecution Tuesday, insisting on the universal human right to publicly profess one’s religious beliefs without interference.
“How is it possible that many religious minorities currently suffer discrimination or persecution?” the pope asked in a new video. “How can we allow that in this society, which is so civilized, there are people who are persecuted simply because they publicly profess their faith?”
“Not only is it unacceptable; it’s inhuman, it’s insane,” he added.
The Vatican website presenting the video noted that religious freedom is violated in a third of the countries around the world and that “more than 646 million Christians live in countries where religious freedom is not respected.”
Tuesday’s video is the latest installment in a series of messages announcing the pope’s prayer intention for the month, in this case, prayer for an end to religious discrimination and persecution. The pontiff also noted that religious liberty is not just freedom of worship but freedom to profess and practice one’s faith in a public way.
“Religious freedom is not limited to freedom of worship—that is to say, that people can have a worship service on the day prescribed by their sacred books,” he asserted. “Rather, it makes us appreciate others in their differences and recognize them as true brothers and sisters.”
“As human beings, we have so many things in common that we can live alongside each other, welcoming our differences with the joy of being brothers and sisters,” he continued. “And may a small difference, or a substantial difference such as a religious one, not obscure the great unity of being brothers and sisters.”
“Let us choose the path of fraternity,” he said. “Because either we are brothers and sisters, or we all lose.”
“Let us pray that those who suffer discrimination and suffer religious persecution….
Wellington says
So glad Urban II and many other Popes didn’t think as Francis does. Also, and as I have mentioned many times, generalizations without examples are worthless. Why didn’t Francis give specific examples? I think it might have to do with the fact that the vast majority of such examples could be leveled against the Islamic world.
This Pope is abysmal and destructive. He is simply awful.
john smith says
Wellington says,
“This Pope is abysmal and destructive. He is simply awful.” I will go a step further than that and say he is simply evil, I firmly believe this. The pope like many on the left believe themselves to be the most caring compassionate of human beings, but how can they be when they have chosen to take the side of that which is truly evil.
muslims for example believe that by murdering infidels they are participating in something that is holy and righteous, they do not realize they are doing something that is evil.
Exactly the same applies to this pope. He believes by helping those who intend to slaughter us (even if he is unaware of this fact) he is undertaking the will of God.
But by supporting evil, even if it is hiding under the guise of righteousness, evil is still evil.
revereridesagain says
I don’t care what the old fool says. A lot of you still have to believe he is “infallible”.
Bud says
“Infallibility” of any pope is extremely limited. As a practicing Catholic, I can disagree with him in any area that is not dogma of the Church. Pope Pius IX in 1854 and Pope Pius XII in 1950, gave us the dogma regarding the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, respectively. Thales are the last two dogmatic teachings of the Church.
I am saddened and extremely concerned by Francis’ statements and words in a number of areas. I take solace in remembering the Jesus Christ is the Head of His Church, and He has it all under control.
Bud says
Correction: “These are the last two dogmatic teachings….”
and
“ I take solace in remembering that….”
Dan says
We only have to believe the Pope is infallible on matters of Church Doctrine, and there were a VERY limited number of those.
The Virgin Birth for one, and Christ rising from the dead as another.
Regarding all this social justice, take the vax, climate change, Islam is a religion of peace b.s. Catholics can tell the “Pope” to take a flying leap.
gravenimage says
revereridesagain. papal infallibility only ever referred to matters of doctrine.
somehistory says
some things stand out: Christians are not yet in the minority in the U.S. There is some discrimination against Christianity in the U.S….such as antifa burning Bibles and the baker in CO facing so many times in court for not baking a cake for homosexuals, the little lady florist facing court for not wanting to supply flowers for a homosexual “wedding.” the b and b “chapel” having to close for the same reason, and other stuff.
However, Christians are being persecuted horribly in pakistan, china, nigeria, and other places by mozlums and communists. The pope guy has nothing to say about these in particular.
mozlums are a minority in some places, but even in those places, they are the ones that are committing terrorism against people of other faiths…defacing churches, rapes at Christmas celebrations, etc.
And many of the culprits are said to be “mentally ill,” so here the pope guy is picking up on that and calling the persecution “insane.” What a jerk.
Doomer says
Redpill: ” Observe what the person DOES, and Not what he SAYS.” His actions show he is only a talker.
While PIUS XII, during WW II, he didn’t say much against the Nazis, but,
he did all he could,and the Catholic church saved 860,000 Jews.
Again:
Redpill: ” Observe what the person DOES, and Not what he SAYS.” I Prefer Pius 12 to this talker.
It is not I who say it, it appears in this article by “jewish virtual library”:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/860-000-lives-saved-the-truth-about-pius-xii-and-the-jews
Doomer says
Had it not been for Pius XII,instead of 6 million Jews killed,it would have been ALMOST 7 MILLION.
BexarKat says
Deacon Dominiek Oversteyn attempted to prove Pius XII did much more for the Jews than he was given credit for. However his research concluded only 714 Jews were saved from death by the Nazis, Throughout the Holocaust, Pius XII was consistently besieged with pleas for help on behalf of the Jews.
In the spring of 1940, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Isaac Herzog, asked the papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Luigi Maglione to intercede to keep Jews in Spain from being deported to Germany. He later made a similar request for Jews in Lithuania. The papacy did nothing.
Within the Pope’s own church, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna told Pius XII about Jewish deportations in 1941. In 1942, the Slovakian charge d’affaires, a position under the supervision of the Pope, reported to Rome that Slovakian Jews were being systematically deported and sent to death camps.
In October 1941, the Assistant Chief of the U.S. delegation to the Vatican, Harold Tittman, asked the Pope to condemn the atrocities. The response came that the Holy See wanted to remain “neutral,” and that condemning the atrocities would have a negative influence on Catholics in German-held lands.
In late August 1942, after more than 200,000 Ukrainian Jews had been killed, Ukrainian Metropolitan Andrej Septyckyj wrote a long letter to the Pope, referring to the German government as a regime of terror and corruption, more diabolical than that of the Bolsheviks. The Pope replied by quoting verses from Psalms and advising Septyckyj to “bear adversity with serene patience.”
On September 18, 1942, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, (the future Pope Paul VI), wrote, “The massacres of the Jews reach frightening proportions and forms. Yet, that same month when Myron Taylor, U.S. representative to the Vatican, warned the Pope that his silence was endangering his moral prestige, the Secretary of State responded on the Pope’s behalf that it was impossible to verify rumors about crimes committed against the Jews.
Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, president of the Polish government-in-exile, appealed to the Pope in January 1943 to publicly denounce Nazi violence. Bishop Preysing of Berlin did the same, at least twice. Pius XII refused. The Vatican knew in 1942 that the Holocaust was occurring. Jewish and Catholic scholars (The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission) met in 1999 and after reviewing the evidence of Pius XII’s public inactivity toward mitigating the destruction of Europe’s Jews, they determined the Pope was indeed personally aware of the ongoing attempted extermination of the Jews.
However, your point is taken but if I may argue it, I think had Pius XII and the Cardinals of the Church had vociferously protested, perhaps only one or two million Jews would have been murdered and not 6,000,000
Wellington says
BexarKat: Pius XII worked behind the scenes to save hundreds of thousands of Jews. For instance, he gave instruction to Cardinal Roncalli, the future John XXIII, who was then papal legate to France, to issue fake baptismal certificates to French Jewish children to pass them off as Catholics. He wrote to the Hungarian dictator, Admiral Horthy, to save Hungarian Jews and which Horthy largely acted upon. Pius had many Jews (and non-Jews) hidden in churches throughout Italy.
Jewish leaders of the day were largely of the opinion that speaking out against Nazism was counter-productive. For example, when Dutch Catholic bishops publicly criticized Nazism in May of 1943 the Nazi response was to round up Jewish converts to Catholicism and send them off to concentration or death camps but they left Jewish converts to Protestantism alone. (Source: The Oxford Companion to World War II, p.889).
The site, jewishvirtuallibrary, details Pius’ many behind the scenes efforts to save Jews. Also, Pius did speak out against Nazism at times, for instance in his Christmas message of 1942 which was a very thinly veiled attack against Nazism and which infuriated Hitler. It seems that most of the criticism of Pius revolves around his being silent, which he ordinarily was, but for great good reason. The reality is that Pius saved more Jews than any other person in history. BTW, I am an agnostic and not writing any of this from a Christian or Catholic perspective.
marc says
Thank you for sharing.
Doomer says
I am not Catholic, and don’t claim to know all,but I can only guide myself by what happened when OTHERS Condemned the Nazis.
Truth is,Pius XII did denounce the terror and killing by Germans in his FIRST papal encyclical in 1939 ( the year he came to power).
In “Summi Pontificatus” of 20 October 1939.
It was condemning the oppression,killing of the POLES. The Nazis had invaded Poland in Sept 1939.
The Vatican used its press and radio to tell the world in January 1940 of terrorization of the Polish people.
RESULT:
The Nazis became even worse, killing more clergy and even more Polish intelligentsia. It was a bloodbath. Pius learned Public Condemnation would have No Effect on the Nazis.
1) I checked about Deacon Dominiek Oversteyn ,it refers to 714 Roman Jews. But you do know the Pope has authority to give orders, and SECRET orders, to all the clergy to do this or that.
That is what he did. Sun Tzu:” All war is based on deception”.
2) In the Jewish Virtual Library article it says,not sure if you have read it:
First,Sun Tzu:” Know your enemy and know yourself”.
“”The saddest and most thought provoking conclusion is that whilst the Catholic clergy of HOLLAND
protested more loudly, expressly and frequently
against Jewish persecutions
than the religious hierarchy of any other Nazi-occupied country, more Jews
– some 107,000 or 79% of the total – were deported from Holland; more than ANYWHERE ELSE in the West.”
Van Kessel’s view is therefore borne out by the experience of Nazi Holland: protest merely made for more reprisals.”
You stated:
a) “In October 1941, the Assistant Chief of the U.S. delegation to the Vatican, Harold Tittman, asked the Pope
to condemn the atrocities.”
b) “Yet, that same month when Myron Taylor, U.S. representative to the Vatican, warned the Pope that
his silence was endangering his moral prestige”
c) “Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, president of the Polish government-in-exile, appealed to the Pope in January 1943
to publicly denounce Nazi violence. ”
d) “Bishop Preysing of Berlin did the same, at least twice. Pius XII refused. ”
The evidence we have is a Public Denunciation would have made the Nazis do even worse, like in the case of Holland.
AGAIN, Sun Tzu:” Know your enemy and know yourself”.
I read that it was because of what happened in Holland that Pius refused.
3) Also: NAZISM as an IDEOLOGY (had Already Been Condemned by the preceding POPE,in the 1937 encyclical,
written in German ( not Latin): Mit Brennender Sorge (“With Burning Anxiety”).
a) It condemned the ideas of Nazism, but did not say Hitler or Nazis.
Everybody,including the Nazis, knew it meant National Socialism.
b) Written in German instead of the customary Latin, Pius’s encyclical had to be SMUGGLED into GERMANY, where it was SECRETLY printed.
Sun Tzu:” All war is based on deception”.
Sun Tzu:” Know your enemy and know yourself”.
c) Throughout the night of March 13 and into the early morning of March 14, 1937, the encyclical was delivered BY HAND
to priests, who read it during Masses on Passion Sunday, March 14, 1937.
By evening of the same day, police had confiscated almost every copy of the encyclical in Germany.
4) Plus,we have the evidence by historian MARK RIEBLING
“Church of Spies: the Pope’s secret war against Hitler”(2015),
that Pius XII participated not in one but THREE plots to KILL Hitler ( the last one being that of STAUFFENBERG (who was a devout Catholic).
Again,Sun Tzu:” All war is based on deception”.
You see,the Catholic church,or at least Pius XII, had accepted the idea of Thomas Aquinas:
If by KILLING one man, the TYRANT, you can Save Many,a multitude,the People, from Oppression ( like for example: killing MAO or STALIN or even Hitler),
then it is permissible to kill the tyrant.
Regarding Riebling’s book, it has been endorsed by this JEWISH HISTORIAN:
BEFORE writing his comment he,as a historian,would have CHECKED the sources, and validity of documents in the book.
Sir MARTIN GILBERT, official biographer of Winston Churchill
“While the Pope hesitated to publicly provoke Hitler in foolhardy way,
he had NO HESITATION in SECRETLY OPPOSING the Third Reich and its crimes.
The record of the assistance Pius XII provided, through his representatives, to the German resistance,
and the actions they took, under his guidance, is extraordinary. Without minimizing the complicity of individual Christians, or the role of Christian anti-Semitism, Mark Riebling shows that the Vatican took a very powerful stance against the Nazis.
It is especially important for Jewish people—and I am Jewish myself—that this information is now being gathered for all to see.”
Martin Gilbert is a Real Historian,he has also written:
“The Second World War: A Complete History”
“History of the Twentieth Century”
“The Holocaust: The Human Tragedy”
“The First World War: A Complete History”
“Israel: A History”
“In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands ”
Another HISTORIAN has stated:
“Michael Burleigh, author of “The Third Reich: A New History”
“In this exciting and original work, Mark Riebling has unearthed VITAL NEW SOURCES,
and he writes elegantly and persuasively on a fascinating subject that has remained hidden in history’s shadows.”
Doomer says
This is a follow up to my First comment on the comment by Bexar, here is the 2016 National Geography documentary,
where the content of MARK RIEBLING’s book “Church of Spies”(2015) ,about the THREE plots Pius XII participated in, plots to Kill Hitler
( the last one was Operation Valkyrie, with Stauffenberg, a devout Catholic ), is given.
I found it in Dailymotion,it is 1h 30 min,in 2 parts:
Part 1 of “Pope vs Hitler”:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x80ws4h
Part 2 “Pope vs Hitler”:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x80ws1q
gravenimage says
True, Wellington:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/860-000-lives-saved-the-truth-about-pius-xii-and-the-jews
By the way, I am not Catholic either–I just want credit where it is due.
BexarKat says
There really is no need for Francis to mention Islam. I think he believes that Islam is the ONLY religion being persecuted today.
nicholas tesdorf says
Pope Francis would not dare mention Islam as his funding could be cut off.
gravenimage says
Where are Muslims funding the Papacy?
Clive Delmonte says
The Pope should take out his Koran and move forward to page 2.
tim gallagher says
This Pope is a bad joke. Since Islam persecutes all non-Muslims in any place that it has managed to grab power, this fool should spend his time calling on Muslims to stop their appalling persecution and especially the persecution and murder of so many Christians, the people that this Pope is meant to defend. Since he won’t call out the obvious evils of Islam, unlike some previous Popes, I find that he is hopeless and useless. He either doesn’t know anything about islam’s evils, which is unforgivable, or he refuses to tell the truth which is also unforgivable and pathetically gutless.
gravenimage says
Pope Francis says ‘religious persecution’ is ‘inhuman,’ ‘unacceptable’ and ‘insane,’ without mentioning Islam
Now Pope Francis has come out swinging. He has unequivocally condemned “religious persecution” as “unacceptable,” “inhuman,” and “insane,” without even mentioning the current Muslim genocide against Christians in Africa.
……………….
No–he *doesn’t* mention this. Instead, his only focus is on *our* society:
“How is it possible that many religious minorities currently suffer discrimination or persecution?” the pope asked in a new video. “How can we allow that in this society, which is so civilized, there are people who are persecuted simply because they publicly profess their faith?”
“Not only is it unacceptable; it’s inhuman, it’s insane,” he added.
……………….
Who is being religiously persectuted by the state in Italy?
More:
In his video message, the pope said religious freedom is not just about allowing freedom of worship but also “makes us appreciate others in their differences and recognize them as true brothers and sisters.”
……………….
So perhaps this is not about *real* religious persecution at all, but just about “filthy Infidels” who don’t fully “appreciate” the horrors of Islam?
somehistory says
Absolutely, g..
If the pope was truly Christian, and a “leader” and a “Shepherd,” he would be aware of the fact that Jesus Himself distinguished between “His brothers” and others who were not His brothers.
In Matthew 25, Jesus tells us that when He *returns,* He will “separate people, one from another, the same way a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,” And He puts the “sheep on His right,” and tells us that these “sheep” have done “good to His brothers.” They are given eternal life.
The “goats” have opportunities to “do good” but they refuse …they don’t visit His brothers in prison, or feed them, give them a cup of water or clothing. The “goats” go into destruction.
Jesus said these things to show that He has brothers on earth and that the rest must “do good” in order to have the blessing of eternal life.
Can anyone say that mozlums “do good” to anyone who fits the description of Christ’s brothers? In fact, mozlums make a concerted effort to wipe out Christianity, slaughtering them in so many places, and where they have not yet begun, in this present day, to do as they are in Africa, they *preach* their hatred and threats to do those things until there are no more Christians.
Some might say that the Jews are Christ’s brothers…as He was a Jew. But, if those are the people He meant when He spoke of His brothers, they too are targeted by mozlums for wiping out.
If the pope really served Christ, he would know these things and would not *preach* that we welcome and embrace those who wish us…all of us…Christians, Jews, and everyone else…only evil.
I don’t see that those who have made themselves “children” of the devil (“You are from your father, the devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father,” Jesus Christ at John 8) are our “brothers and sisters,” and I’m not about to “appreciate” anything having to do with islam.
We are told to “Hate what is bad.” And islam is bad through and through. In my opinion, so is the pope.
Hoi Polloi says
I think you are noting a primary problem; that of the refusal to recognize the directive to discern just who is a brother and the resulting demand from others that all Christians consider all people their brothers. The Bible is very clear that Jesus was speaking to Brothers in Christ. It matters because when forgiveness is commanded, it applies to those in a walk with God who recognize His laws and are walking toward, not away from Him.
Rape of a child (that ludicrous marriage biz) is to be punished by death.
Jim says
I do think that for some reason, Francis does not love the Jews as much as the Muslims. But Muslims have attacked Christians for 1400 years. Jews have not persecuted Christians, but rather the reverse. And Islam has also persecuted Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and almost all religions. Perhaps the Pope thinks that if he is nice to the Muslims, they will reciprocate. Christians observe the rule, Do unto others as you would have them do onto you. But that is not a commandment in the Muslim scriptures, as Robert Spencer and Bill Warner often say. So, the pope, if that is his strategy, will probably not have much influence on the jihadis. Muslims who do not take Islam seriously might be influenced by him, but they do not have much influence on the jihadis. And there are so many of them in the flood of Muslims migrating to the West. Does one really need so many people of this particular faith, no matter how charming most of them may be? As Mark Steyn has said, how many ethnic restaurants do we need from each ethnic group. That is the usual example given for the benefits of diversity.
Hoi Polloi says
Francis: “The various forms of ill-treatment that many women suffer are acts of cowardice and a degradation of all humanity. We must not look the other away. Women who are victims of violence must be protected by society.”
So as noted above, where he could speak out against islam, he himself looks the other way, and makes this the burden of “society,” instead of addressing islam’s teachings and practices.
Catholic women have a duty to call him out on his years-long message that they accept as “brothers and sisters” those who condemn women to less than human status.
E. Maria says
Francis is ‘not’ a Roman Catholic pope, but a ‘Masonic Socialist.’ This guy is evil as evil gets and supports evil.
He also speaks from both sides of his mouth and this is to win both sides. He’s a Muslime sympathizer, supports the LGBTQ plus, believes the ‘3’ major religions are equal to Christianity, supports Muslime immigration, climate change and the Green new deal.
This guy ( I believe) will usher in the anti-christ. We Orthodox Catholics do not follow his, ‘Ape catholic church….
Linde Barrera says
To E. Maria-Can you please tell us if you know why Pope Benedict from Germany who preceded Pope Francis was removed from his office as Pope? I think it was because Pope Benedict spoke out against Islam. But I need clarification on that point. Thank you.
somehistory says
I believe it was contributor James Lincoln, who posted about g. soros paying the cardinals to put Benedict out to pasture and install this fake “Francis.”
GreekEmpress says
I never understood why and how that happened either, and would definitely like to know more.
abad says
Pope Francis is neither a Catholic nor a Christian, he is a Moslem.
My Catholic friends tell me he needs to go.