Posted on 02/08/2017 7:32:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Pope Francis said says society should not create 'walls but bridges' to encourage good relations among people, adding it was wrong to be spiteful and say 'I'll make you pay for that'.
US President Donald Trump has promised to build a wall on the border with Mexico and have the Mexicans pay for it. The Argentine-born pontiff did not mention Trump or that specific wall in his comments on Wednesday.
Speaking at his weekly general audience, Francis spoke of a Christian calling 'to not raise walls but bridges, to not respond to evil with evil, to overcome evil with good'.
He then improvised and added: 'A Christian can never say 'I'll make you pay for that'. Never! That is not a Christian gesture. An offence is overcome with forgiveness, by living in peace with everyone.'(continued)
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Good Fences make good neighbors
Lock him up.
“Francis spoke of a Christian calling ‘to not raise walls...”
Oh brother.
Why doesn’t the Pope tell Mexicans not trepass.
He’s an idiot. The wall will keep drugs out as well as jihadis. And the wall around Vatican City?
Hmmmm. Wonder what the pearly gates are attached to?
He is not a pope. He is full fledged left wing activist in a white robe. Hopefully the wall will keep him out too.
Ass clown
At this rate, this WILL be the last Pope EVER and the end of Roman Catholicism. He has and is doing more to destroy the church than ANY of it’s former enemies; falsely preceived to be and real enemies.
Good one and yes, it sure does!
This man is a preening Leftist idiot. What is often a virtue among individuals — forgiveness — is generally irresponsible when applied to entire communities because the deserving, undeserving, and evil are all mixed together. And forgiving people who are violating your laws and degrading and wrecking your country is wrong, wrong, wrong because it is an abandonment of one’s larger responsibilities.
‘Lighten up, Francis.’
Okay, PeeWee.... :)
The Catholic faith will live on in me, for as long as I last.
What is more likely to happen is for us, believers, to be snatched away and for the Pope and his lackeys to enjoy a tumultuous seven years of total power over the world. Then the end will come for them.
Good one! I would say Go away Francis, do not pass go and don’t collect diddily
on ur way out de door!
crazy news about crazy people.. entertaining...
The Pope wants more illegals populating his Catholic churches.
Mr. pope, I urge you and your fellow men to stop having butt sex.
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So sick of this! It’s so damn shallow! Put it on a bumper sticker but it does not address the complex issues. Drugs, gangs, drunk drivers, murderers and rapists do come across our borders. And were supposed to just let them in? And if people are hurt then what? It’s okay Jesus will fix it? What the hell is this guy talking about? He overlooks evil yet asks us to make ourselves victims of it. Its ridiculous. I can’t stand him. Too bad he can’t be fired. E
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