Posted on 12/24/2017 7:12:08 PM PST by Sir Napsalot
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in Christmas Eve remarks Sunday likened the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem to the migrations of millions of people today who are forced to leave homelands for a better life, or just for survival, and he expressed hope that no one will feel “there is no room for them on this Earth.”
Francis celebrated late evening Christmas vigil Mass in the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, telling the faithful that the “simple story” of Jesus’ birth in a manger changed “our history forever. Everything that night became a source of hope.”
Noting that Mary and Joseph arrived in a land “where there was no place for them,” Francis drew parallels to contemporary time.
“So many other footsteps are hidden in the footsteps of Joseph and Mary,” he said in his homily. “We see the tracks of entire families forced to set out in our own day. We see the tracks of millions of persons who do not choose to go away but, driven from their land, leave behind their dear ones.”
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Does he not know WHY Mary and Joseph traveled to Bethlehem?
the swarms of the filthy raping Muslim migrants? He talking about those migrants?
Weren’t they going to Bethlehem to be counted in the census? Therefore, they were complying with a law.
F this socialist, South American Jesuit.
Right, Joseph and Mary broke the immigration law waaaaay back then, too.
*** Eye Roll ****
???? This Pope doesn’t even make sense!!
Had NOTHING to do with migration !!...They were in route to PAY TAXES if he bothers to read God’s Word.
they were going to his home town as prescribed by roman law. So in order to follow the teachings of the bible all immigrants should go back to their home towns and make the pope happy
Idiot Pope. They were going to Bethlehem TO PAY THEIR TAXES! Not live off the social safety net of the Western World!
Moron. The man is an utter MORON!
Will the Lord not rid us of this meddlesome Priest!
The Census was organized for Roman TAXES!
They were paying their taxes!
The Obama of the Catholic church
This Pope is an idiot.
Pope Recommends Today's Migrants Go Home and Pay Taxes!
Even this “pope” isn’t above twisting a biblical story to make a political point.
No. Mary and Joseph were working stiffs traveling to go pay confiscatory taxes to their government. They were not immigrants, illegals, or migrant workers. They had a lodging problem, not a wealth or foreigner problem.
When is this pope going to tear down his walls and open up his door for Today’s Migrations then?
Because being kept in the dark and fed excrement like a mushroom is the opposite of what God intended.
No. No, it really isn’t. But the Pope must know that, so he takes the faithful for fools.
This Pope has never once read the Bible.
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