Pictured above is the very high wall surrounding the Vatican which prevents people from coming in. TEAR IT DOWN and then talk to me about opening our borders. Like his leftist brethren, he is a hypocrite.
Posted on 09/25/2015 9:10:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I expect this will occur the day the pope throws open the gates of Vatican City to all who wish to live there.
Invoking Martin Luther King Jr. and his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Francis made an impassioned plea for the refugees fleeing Syria, saying the crisis is “of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War.”
Noting his own status as “the son of immigrants,” the pope pivoted to a more sensitive subject: The flow of illegal immigrants across the United States’s southern border.
He urged compassion for immigrants, warning not to repeat “the sins and the errors of the past” by turning them away.
“On this continent, too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones, in search of greater opportunities. Is this not what we want for our own children? We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation,” Francis said, according to his prepared remarks.
“Let us remember the golden rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,’ ” he added.
“This rule points us in a clear direction. Let us treat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated. Let us seek for others the same possibilities which we seek for ourselves. Let us help others to grow, as we would like to be helped ourselves.”
Several Democrats applauded as Francis declared, “We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.”
Most Republicans did not join in the applause, with GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a son of Cuban immigrants, among the exceptions.
The old Cheech and Chong joke about the papal stance on sex — “He no playa the game, he no makea the rules” — applies here. Vatican City is a self-governing enclave of Italy, and yet, you need a pass to get into the area and a permit to live there.
Perhaps the pope could allow 100,000 Syrians to set up camp in St. Peter’s Square? Nothing like showing “compassion” for the immigrants. Of course, the idea is ridiculous but so is telling us to open our border to allow millions to come in. Will the Vatican send cash to help us take care of them?
The pope doesn’t get it. The world is full of countries that murder their own people, oppress their personal and political aspirations, or are at war with one or several of their neighbors. There are also dozens of civil wars. Nations like the U.S. and those in western Europe are the exception to the rule. Most of the rest of the planet is a dark, miserable, dangerous place for humans to live.
The west has spent a thousand years carefully, even painfully, building up institutions, traditions, and habits of thought that have allowed us to construct societies that, for most, answer the basic human yearning for freedom and security. The addition of millions of people unfamiliar with these institutions and traditions — and unwilling to learn them — would fundamentally alter and undermine the societies in which they settled.
To those who built those societies and those trying to maintain them, this would be radically unfair and, dare I say, immoral. The pope is cashing checks with his heart that the rest of us can’t afford. I would suggest he change his definition of “compassion” when it comes to the mass migration of people.
This from a guy who has his own private army and a 50 foot wall around his palace........................
Pope Francis won’t open Vatican borders.
So he’s a liberal hypocrite. It takes one to know one.
No accident this FNG pope is intermeddling in this election cycle. More globalist puke.
I got a better idea. We’ll load every one of those illegals on an Air Force C-5A Galaxy and fly them direct to Rome, with directions to the Vatican, and his ‘hole-in-the-headliness’ foot the bill.
It’s like what a long forgotten comedian once said about the Pope’s position on birth control, “he ah no playa the game, he ah no make the rules!”
I believe in generosity to those less fortunate. I suggest that papa frank tear down the vatican walls, sell those gold candle sticks and priceless art work and give it to the poor countries. That would be the Christian thing to do Comrade frank.
The Pope is a Northern border bigot?
It IS open to all.
This Pope is a disgrace to American Catholics ....
Maybe his beanie is too tight.
Bingo.
Raebie suggests the Pope go back to Italy and rag on his own country.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/02/us-italy-immigration-idUSTRE56143O20090702
Better idea....Governors of border states dispatch National Guard troops to the border to close it.
Let the Feds’ sue. All the time bottled up in court the border will be closed.
JUST DO IT ! DO IT !
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As a Catholic, I have to say this Pope appears intellectually lazy and suffering from an almost strange hubris. He has his lefty advisors and mirrors what they say. He’s long on platitudes and soft on hard facts. Disappointing. I don’t think God intended us to be dangerously ignorant.
Another random thought: I don’t blame him for having leftist views in the sense that he can’t help where he came from, however, as a Pope I would think that it’s your responsibility to educate yourself on facts. I’m also suspicious of his appointment and what sort of machinations were involved in choosing him. Something stinks.
Of all the idiocies the Pope spewed, this notion that what happened to the Indians in America is an argument for OPEN BORDERS is the most idiotic. (Except for all the others.)
What happened to the Indians is an argument AGAINST uncontrolled immigration! I’m sure if the Indians had been able to halt immigration, they would have.
Pictured above is the very high wall surrounding the Vatican which prevents people from coming in. TEAR IT DOWN and then talk to me about opening our borders. Like his leftist brethren, he is a hypocrite.
That’s it! My kids deserve to go to school and live in the Vatican! Pope Francis, tear down your wall!
Past time to go back to your little walled in city-state, Francis.
He's not much different from the rest of the liberal trash who don't mind inflicting the third world garbage on civilization, since said liberal trash live in gated communities, travel with armed guards, etc. Jorge Busho comes to mind. Pity he doesn't have to suffer job and financial uncertainly because of the messycans he allowed to invade the US.
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