Posted on 02/24/2016 8:54:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Dear Holy Father,
As everyone by now knows, because of Donald Trump's position on immigration and his desire to build a wall along America's southern border, you said of him that he is "not a Christian."
In the wake of quick and furious backlash, you attempted to qualify--some say "walk back"--your remarks. Yet the Vatican's subsequent remarks made it crystal clear that you did indeed mean to reject Trump's claim to be a Christian.
After assuring the public that your comments should in no way be understood as "a personal attack" or "an indication of voting," your spokesperson at the Vatican added that "the Pope said what we all know, when we follow his teaching and his position: that we should not build walls but bridges. He has always said this, continuously, and he has said this about the issues of migration in Europe, many times.
"Therefore the key point is welcome--the building of bridges instead of walls--that is characteristic of this Pontificate. It must be interpreted and understood in this way" (emphases added).
So, Holy Father, the reporter who initially questioned you about Trump's stance on immigration in effect got it right: Trump is indeed in favor of deporting millions of illegal immigrants, and he is indeed in favor of erecting a wall. Admittedly, Trump does not intend on separating families, as this reporter dishonestly said. But you never spoke to this aspect of Trump's policy; you spoke only to Trump's view on the construction of a wall.
And now we know that you didn't express a problem with people who only want to build walls. You believe that anyone who wants to build walls per se is not a Christian.
Fr. Francis, it brings this Catholic no satisfaction to suspect that the heir to Saint Peter is using this holy office to advance a political agenda. How can such suspicions not arise? After all, you made the unprecedented move to single out an American citizen--an American presidential candidate with millions of supporters--as a faux Christian for wanting to secure his country's borders.
Moreover, not only have you refrained from questioning the Christianity of such leftist politicians as, say, President Barack Obama; you have been photographed smiling ear to ear with this man who has not only supported the slaughter of the tens of millions of unborn human beings who would otherwise have been born if not for Roe v. Wade, but who three times voted against the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act.
The latter, in case you didn't know, is a law that would have provided protections to infants who survived botched abortion attempts. As things currently stand, such infants must be allowed to die.
This same person also bequeathed to us his infamous "Affordable Care Act" -- more ominously, and accurately, known as Obamacare--a law for which not a single member of American's other national party voted and which requires Catholic and other Christian employers to subsidize both contraceptive and, worse, abortion services for their employees.
And it also coerces all taxpayers to do the same.
Again, from you, Your Holiness, we heard nothing.
Obama is the first president to have endorsed "same-sex marriage."
Yet I don't recall you saying of Obama that he is not a Christian.
Of course, Obama is hardly the only politician in the United States who has supported such things. The point, though, is that you have never challenged the Christian bona fides of anyone who has advocated on behalf of such policies.
Christians throughout the Middle East and Africa are being butchered, enslaved, raped, and pillaged by their Muslim oppressors--and yet, Holy Father, you choose instead to use your global influence to shame the West about "climate change," "inequality," and the West's reluctance to allow still more immigrants into its lands.
Nor do you ever, ever emit a syllable to the immigrant about his responsibility, his duty, to express gratitude--lots and lots of gratitude--to his hosts.
Speaking as a Roman Catholic Christian, Your Eminence, I confess to finding the uniquely harsh nature of your judgment concerning Donald Trump's religiosity and the fact that it was a position on, of all things, border security that aroused your ire to be deeply troubling.
Your moral priorities as a man, and a Christian, are wildly out of order.
Given that you have resources in exposure and influence that most of us can only dream of, this is a real tragedy for the countless millions of victims the world over whose plight may have been altered if only you spoke on their behalf.
Remember, as a wise man once said, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Sincerely,
Jack Kerwick
Let’s be frank, Francis. Why are YOU jumping into the politics of The United States of America?
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Great letter.
The Pope is a communist. Nuff said.
A willing dupe at the very least, and probably a commie.
Bad combination no matter how you slice it.
Very well said
And besides the Fraudulent “Christian” Obamas who else has this charlatan of a Pope failed to condemn or question? Chinese leaders? European? Castros? Middle Eastern?
How about North Korea? What other fake or un-Godly “men” and women does Francis conveniently skip over?
Jack needs to expand his letter to include all the “devout Catholic politicians” who openly support abortion and yet still manage to take communion. Like virtually all religions, money and power “buy indulgences” from the stated tenets of each of them. And like just like the Catholics, the Mormons look the other way for Harry Reid and Mitt Romney. An “ordinary Mormon” would have been excommunicated long ago for doing and saying what these two do.
Indeed.
Sigh...
What the Pope said, was along the lines of “Those that focus on just building walls and not also building bridges are not Christian” when asked a direct question by a member of the press...
What the press then reported was “Pope said those that build walls are not Christian”...
And still folks are going off on nonsense, Pope’s statement is a pretty innocuous and accurate statement... Not an attack on anyone as I read it, and fairly accurately represents the Christian world view. Yet the press portrayed it as an attack on Trump and so everyone is going off which is just silly.
The press misrepresents nearly everything any Pope ever says, I don’t think I have ever gone back to a Pope’s original quote, regardless of which quote it was, or who was Pope at the time, and found that what the MSM reported the Pope said to be remotely what he actually said.
Whoa. Powerful.
There are many disaffected Catholics and, imo, with good reason.
The Pontiff’s venturing into waters he has no business being in - he’s an expert on global warming, carbon emissions, American politics, which ‘faiths’ worship the same God, and the list goes on.
He needs to lead people to Christ and his concern need only be of the fate of the billions of souls that are now lost or in danger of being lost. Period.
What ever happened to ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God’? C’mon Pope Francis, get back in the game.
He does so with the mindset of all Marxists... to drive this country into the ground.
On the same plane trip the Pope suggested that contraception could be used in light of the Zika virus and an ‘event’ that never happened involving Saint Pope Paul VI and nuns in The Congo.
Pope Francis managed to defame a Saint and undermine the Church’s 2000 year old teaching on contraception all on one plane ride. It’s time to start holding him accountable.
Continued cries... of ‘wait, wait, wait... nuance,’ doesn’t cut it once he has confused the faithful on half a dozen or more occasions.
What about all those democrat politicians like Biden?
Why should the leader of the Church that Christ created have to bow to Jack Kerowack?
and no, I didn’t read the letter.
Too bad, it was an excellent letter.
RE: Why should the leader of the Church that Christ created have to bow to Jack Kerowack?
Because even a leader is human and flawed and it is the responsibility of the faithful to point the flaw out when they see it.
In another life, he would probably be a Che Guevara or a Hugo Chavez.
Thank You Jack.
Now
We challenge Pope Francis to visit North Korea and tell them to tear down the DMMZ and allow peaceful reunification
assuming you want to lecture non Catholic politicians on matters of morality, which would be welcome
BTW, Pope,don’t hide your crucifix when you talk to non-Catholics. Feel free, no compelled, to “offend” them by displaying your faith
I don’t think Trump is Christian either, and I don’t care. I WOULD care if he were Muslim. Then I would certainly start a crusade against him.
That being said, I wonder why Obama hasn’t come out and admitted his Muslimism. He could use that to cry about how he can’t get anything done being black AND muslim with all the prejudice and hatred in the USA. It’s the perfect get out of jail free card.
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