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VATICAN IN FULL DAMAGE CONTROL MODE AFTER POPE FRANCIS JUSTIFIES ISLAM ATTACK IN FRANCE
Now The End Begins The Magazine Of Record For The Last Days ^ | January 16, 2015 | | Geoffrey Grider NTEB News Desk

Posted on 01/16/2015 11:53:54 AM PST by Lazamataz

THE VATICAN IS FURIOUSLY BACKPEDALING AS THEY TRY TO CLARIFY SOME EXTREMELY CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS BY POPE FRANCIS

When speaking of the Charlie Hebdo murders at the hands of Islamic terrorists, Pope Francis said “You cannot provoke; you cannot insult the faith of others,” the pontiff added.

Some say his statement seemed to condone last week’s terror attack at a French newspaper, CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported Thursday. On a flight to the Philippines, the pope took questions, and raised eyebrows.

A French reporter asked about the attack at Charlie Hebdo, which was carried out by Muslims outraged over the paper’s mocking of the prophet Muhammad.

Francis condemned those who kill in the name of religion, but then said, “If my good friend says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It’s normal.”

This statement has outraged people all over the world still mourning the 15 deaths in France at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Francis was obviously saying that the Islamists were justified in doing what they did because their “prophet” was insulted, hence the reference to his own mother being insulted.

The Rev. Thomas Rosica, who collaborates with the Vatican press office, issued a statement early Friday stressing that the pope was by no means justifying the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

“Pope Francis has not advocated violence with his words on the flight,” he said in a statement.

You can hear the whirring of blades of the spin machine in the Vatican from all the way over here in America…


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Sorry about caps in the headlines but that's how it was posted over there.
1 posted on 01/16/2015 11:53:54 AM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

No need for whirring blades. The Pope made clear that that the use of religion to kill is unacceptable.


2 posted on 01/16/2015 11:55:44 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: Lazamataz

This pope is a total idiot. Not only a Commie Marxist and clueless with regard to economics, but an imbecile of the first order.


3 posted on 01/16/2015 11:56:04 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: Lazamataz

“You can’t make fun of religion” + “Global warming is definitely manmade” = The Pope had quite a week!

I liked him before. His true colors are peeking out now.

:(


4 posted on 01/16/2015 11:56:39 AM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: Steelfish

He said even sillier things about global warming.


5 posted on 01/16/2015 11:56:45 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: Steelfish
The Pope made clear that that the use of religion to kill is unacceptable.

Riiiiight.

But punching, we should EXPECT that.

6 posted on 01/16/2015 11:58:16 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Lazamataz

Dang!


7 posted on 01/16/2015 11:58:30 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Lazamataz

This poop guy is a big of an embarrassment to Catholics as Obama is to Americans


8 posted on 01/16/2015 11:58:49 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Lazamataz; All
It seems...Pope Francis, Is to the VATICAN;
as pResident O'Bama, Has been to the USA.

9 posted on 01/16/2015 11:59:37 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

This guy must be a democrat running for higher office.


10 posted on 01/16/2015 11:59:49 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: mbarker12474

there is silly and there is STUPID.


11 posted on 01/16/2015 11:59:58 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: CGASMIA68

Looks like he blew it on the infallibility front.


12 posted on 01/16/2015 12:00:04 PM PST by Sasparilla (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Lazamataz

Bring back Benedict before this fool finishes off what’s left of the Catholic Church.


13 posted on 01/16/2015 12:00:20 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: Steelfish

“The Pope made clear that that the use of religion to kill is unacceptable.”

But he seemed to imply that if your religion is insulted you should take revenge with physical force.


14 posted on 01/16/2015 12:00:25 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Steelfish

If he would have stopped there I’d agree with you.

He then went on to analogize the terroristm attack that murdered a bunch of people in the name of Islam, to someone punching a person who made a verbal slur against someone’s mom.

That is what has people in disbelief about his immediately prior statement.


15 posted on 01/16/2015 12:00:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Surprised the owner of this website missed the Pope "hey let's appease Islam" story!

Well, I guess not even you can read every story that posts here. :)

I agree with your 'Dang!' comment. The whole thing is surprising. Marxism, perversion, and evil seem to be infesting every corner of this world these days, and it is one of the reasons I repeatedly say that this is Satan's time.

16 posted on 01/16/2015 12:01:06 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: skinkinthegrass

I think we feel the same


17 posted on 01/16/2015 12:01:24 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Lazamataz

punching is now apparently the equivalent of murdering a dozen people with automatic weapons.


18 posted on 01/16/2015 12:01:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lazamataz

With his comments on global warming and now this it makes me wonder if Pope Francis is running for the Democratic nomination for president. Hillary might have a fight on her hands, lol...


19 posted on 01/16/2015 12:02:04 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: Lazamataz
>"“If my good friend says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It’s normal.” "

A lil headchopping envy?

For 1800 years the "Church" would murder you in the most gruesome way for simply owning a bible.

20 posted on 01/16/2015 12:02:04 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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