Pope asks Iraq leaders to use dialogue to avoid further warfare (with WHOM???)

Fox News ^ | 29 June 2014 | Fox News

[ScottinVA]

Pope Francis asked Iraq leaders to use dialogue to avoid further warfare there, during his weekly address in St. Peter's Square after Mass -- his first major public ceremony since health problems forced a spate of canceled appointments.

"The news from Iraq is unfortunately very saddening. I join the bishops from that country in calling on the rulers to preserve national unity and avoid war through dialogue," he said. "I express my closeness to the thousands of families, especially the Christian ones, who have had to leave their homes and are in serious danger. Violence generates more violence. Dialogue is the only path to peace. Let's pray to the Virgin Mary to look after the Iraqi people."

Francis appeared to hold up well during the more than 90-minute Mass in St. Peter's Basilica to honor Saints Peter and Paul.

The Vatican has played down the cancellations, including one last-minute on Friday because 77-year-old Francis had an unspecified "mild" health problem.

The Vatican has played down the cancellations, including one at the last minute on Friday, attributing them without elaboration to some mild health problem.

Francis, often chuckling, chatted with each of 24 archbishops kneeling before him to receive a white woolen band symbolizing shared episcopal power.

[ScottinVA]

How clueless does the Pope have to be to fail to understand you can NOT engage animals such as those in ISIS in "dialogue." Having "dialogue" with a group of rabid baboons would yield better results.

[raybbr]

With John Kerry, of course.

[livius]

It’s hard to imagine that anyone could be that naïve. The map of the “New Caliphate” doesn’t include Rome, but I noticed ISIS had produced a revised one this morning...which now includes Spain.

Not that this will get the attention of His Holiness, either; he seems to believe that the only thing necessary is to get out there, make a peace symbol, and sway back and forth singing “all we are saying, is give peace a chance.” Check to make sure he’s not wearing bell-bottoms under his cassock.

[ScottinVA]

There’s quite the stark difference between Frank and John Paul II. JPII actually WORKED to secure freedom.

[VitacoreVision]

The Vatican Church has been an embarrassment ever since Vatican II. Repeal Vatican II -- lets get the Traditional Catholic Church back.

Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)

Mission
The main goal of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X is to preserve the Catholic faith in its fullness and purity, to teach its truths, and to diffuse its virtues, especially through the Roman Catholic Priesthood. Authentic spiritual life, the sacraments, and the traditional liturgy are its primary means of bringing this life of grace to souls.

Vision
The spirit of the SSPX is missionary; it reaches out across the world – through its priests, religious, and a growing number of families, young people, and all its faithful – to establish and maintain true and lasting devotion to the Catholic faith. The SSPX thus desires, prays, and works for the salvation of all, trusting that this is possible with God’s help.

Values
The SSPX firmly believes that the Catholic faith changes individual lives as well as society; that faith promotes order, justice, culture, and peace; that it offers real and lasting happiness. Despite the widespread unbelief rampant throughout the world today, the SSPX, through the priesthood, continues to unfold and distribute the treasures of Catholic Tradition. This courageous and unrestrained gift of self for the glory of God and the good of souls constitutes the core value and motivation of the SSPX.

[bunkerhill7]

Pope Chamberlain

[KC_Lion]

The Pen Maybe Mightier than the sword.

It is NOT however Mightier than a couple of Daisy Cutters.

[Westbrook]

> How clueless does the Pope have to be

I am afraid this pope is beyond clueless.

He is showing himself a complete IDIOT.

[dforest]

Do ya think and ISIS savage holding another man’s head in his hand would convince this Pope that a person has to have their whole body attached for his mouth to work?

[bert]

A pope can never go wrong by touting peace.

The fact he is irrelevant is no matter, he is on record for peace

[angcat]

I bet this Pope is going to declare Islam a religion of peace. If he does I’m finished with him as well. He is a socialist to boot.

[libstripper]

He’s got to be smoking his underwear. The College of Cardinals really came a cropper with this air headed doofus.

[ScottinVA]

Do ya think and ISIS savage holding another man’s head in his hand

Especially if that head is that of one of his priests or bishops?

[ScottinVA]

So.. help me with this one, because I haven’t been Catholic for decades.. are the Jesuits the RCC’s version of community organizers?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Dialogue is the only path to peace

Right. The Christians sit passively by and get slaughtered while everyone talks. When they are all dead or converted, then there "peace."

[Truth29]

"Do ya think and ISIS savage holding another man’s head in his hand would convince this Pope that a person has to have their whole body attached for his mouth to work?"

Well, Obama released one from Gitmo who had a picture of himself with a row of heads stacked in front of him, so maybe he is just channeling his inner Obama...

[Fitzy_888]

Just Yesterday...

REUTERS: Pope says communists are closet Christians
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0F40L020140629?irpc=932

[Fitzy_888]

Just wait until the Pope shows up on our southern border and symbolically waves in all of Central America.

[ScottinVA]

REUTERS: Pope says communists are closet Christians

Ahhh.. so THAT'S why Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ceausescu, Honecker et al directed the murder of all those hundreds of millions of innocent people. Because they were getting in touch with their inner Godliness.

Truly amazing. Quite a bright one, that Pope.

[ScottinVA]

Just wait until the Pope shows up on our southern border and symbolically waves in all of Central America.

Yep. Standing side-by-side with Nancy "Opportunity From Crisis" Pelosi.