The pope did not look happy about it.
Frances thinks if he feigns “bewilderment” we’ll forget that he’s a Marxist.
The pope should take it. Then take a photo of it with a brief explanation of how it is blasphemous. Then melt it down and make medals depicting the martyrs to communism on them. He should then bless those medals and send them back to Bolivia - to the opposition party.
Maybe it’s full of Bolivian Marching Powder.
Shoe fits.
There’s a whole lotta bewildering going on there.
Sickening.
Why wouldn’t he like it? It’s just a visual expression of his own encyclical.
Actally, I like it. How many Christians have been slaughtered by communists?
This Pope is the product of a country which has had a dysfunctional left wing government for around 100 years. He is a product of that dysfunction. He is a socialist and a Jesuit. That means that politically he is a left winger, and religiously he is an anti-traditionalist. Summing it up, he is a disaster for the Catholic Church.
It said in this article that the Pope stopped at the memorial to this priest. So I doubt if he disagreed with the gift.
“Fr. Espinal – whose “communist crucifix” was the model for Morales’ gift to the Pope – was a journalist who advocated for human rights and democracy, continues to be a source of controversy in Bolivia.
While en route from the La Paz airport to the presidential palace, Pope Francis stopped to pray at the location where Fr. Espinal’s corpse was found after his March 21, 1980 kidnapping and murder.”
So he stopped at the location of the death of the priest who originally started the “Communist Crucifix”. I couldn't hear what he said on this video, but he did take the cross into his hands. So if he had any qualms about the Communist Crucifix, he doesn't have any qualms about Communism.
Seems appropriate to me.
No one can defend this false "pope" any longer.
As a former Catholic (I am now an Evangelical servant of Jesus Christ), one of the most men who commanded my respect was the intellectual and lyrical Irish Priest, Father Malachi Martin.
If you listen to the last interview he gave, as a Catholic, before he died, then you must conclude that Francis (Jorge) is a heretic, and if you support Francis (Jorge), then so are you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn--7GTffn8
Martin is brilliant. He was an Exorcist. His book "Hostage to the Devil" was actually biographical. It is terrifying, and it testifies to the presence of Satan in all our lives.
If you don't have Jesus Christ as your Saviour, all is lost, literally.
Commies might have killed a few hundred million of their citizens but they knew how to say the cheap words and lies the Pope likes to hear...
Call out the Poorly Translated folks!!!
While some have claimed he expressed irritation, muttering the words “eso no está bien” (“this is not right”), Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the pope was more likely to have uttered “no sabía eso” (“I didn’t know that”) in bemusement at the origins of the present.
Who could tell given the Pope’s comments about capitalism.
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Put it around his neck. It fits.