The Pope has stated that every Christian is “called to reflect God’s gaze towards our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters,” except that he does not differentiate among migrants. Is the pope referring also to drug dealers among refugees, criminals, rapists and jihadists? All of them have been found to be among the unvetted hordes illegally entering into Western countries.
Until the pope dismisses his own security detail and issues an open invitation to his Vatican quarters to all illegal, unvetted economic migrants, he should not be preaching open-door migration.
Last year, Pope Francis asserted that “failure to integrate migrants can create serious problems.” Note how he puts no responsibility on the migrants to integrate, but on the host countries to integrate them. He continued:
“I am always reminded of the tragedy of Zaventem: those who did this were Belgians, but the children of migrants who were not integrated, who were ghettoized. Welcome, accompany, promote and integrate.”
The pope was referring to two suicide bombings that took place at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, on March 22, 2016.
He also stated “the conviction that in each of them we encounter the Lord Jesus,” but one should wonder how he would explain such a “conviction” to a parent whose child has been raped, murdered or both by jihadists. Last February, the Pope celebrated “unity in diversity” as Muslim persecution of Christians escalated worldwide. His repeated insensitivity to the vast tally of victims is unconscionable.
Pope Francis: Immigration ‘Reveals the Beauty of Diversity,’” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, October 10, 2022:
ROME — Today every Christian is “called to reflect God’s gaze towards our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis declared Monday.
Immigration is a “very important challenge,” the pontiff told a group of pilgrims in the Vatican. “It highlights the urgent need to put fraternity before rejection and solidarity before indifference.”
The pope went on to say that we are called “to live and spread the culture of encounter, an equal encounter between migrants and the people of the country that welcomes them.”
This, he said, “is an enriching experience, as it reveals the beauty of diversity.”
It is also fruitful, he asserted, “because the faith, hope and tenacity of migrants can be an example and a spur for those who want to commit themselves to building a world of peace and well-being for all.”
To increase fraternity and social friendship, “we are all called to be creative, to think outside the box,” Francis proposed. “We are called to open new spaces, where art, music and being together become instruments of intercultural dynamics, where we can savor the richness of the encounter of diversity.”
The pope prayed that his hearers might experience “the joy of being with migrants, of being at their service, and of doing so with faith, animated by the Holy Spirit, in the conviction that in each of them we encounter the Lord Jesus.”……
milo minderbinder says
Christine Douglass-Williams writes,
“The pope prayed that his hearers might experience “the joy of being with migrants, of being at their service, and of doing so with faith, animated by the Holy Spirit, in the conviction that in each of them we encounter the Lord Jesus.”……
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My neighbor summed up the Pope’s thought, “We should allow these people in, I just don’t want “them” living near me!”
Check Burry says
He is wrong man in wrong job, rather like joe.
haroldpom says
Muslims don’t do “diversity, tolerance and inclusion”, they do Islam.
somehistory says
Lot of utter hogwash.
“in each of them we encounter the Lord Jesus.”…” Say, pope dude, just where in the Bible did Jesus say that He could be “encountered” in any people? Or where did He say He could be “encountered in” any individual person? Just which of His disciples wrote those words for us to all know He said them?
Where in the Gospels or the letters written to other Christians, do we find even the *idea* that we “encounter” Jesus in other people?
Did you not realize pope, that the word “encounter” used as a verb means this:
“unexpectedly experience or be faced with (something difficult or hostile):”
Many persons, yes, many, are experiencing such an “encounter” …meeting the hostile “migrant” can be especially difficult.
Jesus did not, repeat did not, indicate that when we meet people, we are “encountering” Him in them. People may show traits and attitudes that indicate to us that they believe in and serve Christ Jesus, but this is not “encountering” Him in that person.
And these so-called “migrants” don’t believe in or serve Jesus Christ, so they are not even showing any traits or attitudes aligned with our Lord and Savior.
Yes, they wish to lord it over us, to be our over-lords; but they don’t wish to “save” any of us. Their desire is like their father’s desire…”steal, kill and destroy.”
so, pope, I’d advise you to either learn something about Christ before speaking, or just be quiet. Because, pope, you are a false prophet. And you lie like the cheap carpet your fav buds drag out in public and kneel on as they plan their preying.
Raja says
Somehistory,
You are right. This guy is twisting the scriptures to play to the gallery of Islamists and globalists.
All I can say is, his days are numbered.
2 Peter 2:
1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;
3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;
He is probably referring to Jesus’ words: Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers You Do unto Me – Matthew 25:31-46. But again, he is giving a spin to the Scriptures. Islamists are not where close being considered brothers of Christ. On the contrary they are followers of anti-Christ, the devil. May be the Byzentines lost to islam because of this kind of muddled mixing of Scriptures with politics. Here the nincompoop is just trying to rewrite history. Statecraft et al is best left to politicians who are placed by God in the “seat”. This evil person should mind his own business, which he doesn’t do anyway.
somehistory says
thank you, Raja, esp for the reminders from Peter. I just love the way he looked at things and expressed God’s Word for us.
and you are right: Jesus meant those such as His apostles with whom he walked and ate and lived while performing His ministry as being His “brothers.” He did not mean people who are persecuting Christians and murdering them all over the place. These are some He told about when He said “some would imagine they are working for God” when persecuting “His brothers.”
Raja says
Somehistory,
Thanks for the reply. We are on the same page in matters of faith and counter jihad.
God bless!
somehistory says
thank you, Raja. It seems that we are. such a wonderful gift is the Light of Truth…”a lamp for our feet and a light for our roadway.”
and you also.
somehistory says
thank you, James.
I agree. and when he speaks, does he say anything about his being Christian, and being unable to perfectly follow Christ? Or does he just ride on his infamy as “pope”?
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
You are correct.
May I also submit that “dope” Francis, judging by his words / actions as a commie globalist, is a Christian in name only.
somehistory says
I’m sorry. I didn’t see the reply button just below your comment. thank you, James. I agree, in name only. I have other names for him, none being anywhere near Christian sounding. None considered foul or curse.
wpm says
A man who lives in a walled palace protected by arm guards 24/7 all paid for by donations by Catholics wants fellow Catholics to accept a people who want them either convert them to Islam ,or enslaved by Islam, or killed by Jihadist according to their “preachers” and “Holy books”. The Pope is another member and the new world order elite ,his job should be protecting his flock, defending his faith and his peoples faith from people who want to kill Christianity .While Christians in the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia are murder enslaved, or driven off their land he wants to import more of these violent cult following people to Europe ,people who pray and plot the fall of the Christian faith and cultural daily ?He thinks if we give them nice things housing, health care, welfare, schooling they will adopt a western cultural lifestyle and accept “Christ in their hearts”? It has not worked for 1400 years why should he work now? Would hard core Nazis hearts turn to Christ if the French English, Russian and Americas invited them into their countries and gave them everything they wanted for free in the 1930s??
Walter Sieruk says
Pope Francis saying that “Immigration reveals the beauty of diversity” is revealing that he’s full of balderdash ‘
It’s very easy for him to talk like that .For pope Francis living within the strong tall border walls of Vatican City along with the Swiss Guards and other Vatican police and security forces to protect him is very safe from crime and Islamic terrorism which comes ,in part , from uncheck and unvetted immigration .
haroldpom says
The most effective and fastest way to send a country into decline is to import alien populations en masse, letting them concentrate in a city, creating very strong identity communities with no plans for integration into the host culture. Welfare isolates them without integrating them, they also gain the right to vote, and in a few years you have balkanized a culturally stable territory.
tim gallagher says
When it comes to islam, which is dominated, as expressed in the Koran, by a hatred of non-believers, and is an enemy of diversity, and seeks to impose islam on all people everywhere, the Pope’s words are complete garbage. He lives in a fantasy land when it comes to islam. It is foolish to import Muslims, who hate diversity and are always at war with non-Muslims everywhere, into any non-Muslim country. And this Pope should know that, as a Christian, hey, the Muslims hate you. Take a look at all the murders every day, as reported here at Jihad Watch, of Christians by Muslims in so many African countries and wake up to reality and stop going on with your dangerous Pollyanna like attitude towards islam
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Coming from the head of a faith that did everything to obliterate religious diversity in both Europe and the Americas
Scotsman48 says
This wee Popey dude sure is a Taco short of a Combination Plate as he lives behind a MASSIVE WALL built to keep the islamic warriors OUT and yet he wants us to take islamic warriors INTO our homes… Is this guy The Anti Christ or what?.
Sure glad I was not brought up in that garbage… Be careful of those who speak for God.
More and more people are straying from the Church and returning to God…
Lenny Bruce.