Pope warns media over "sin" of spreading fake news, smearing politicians

reuters ^ | 12/7/16 | Philip Pullella

[ColdOne]

Media that focus on scandals and spread fake news to smear politicians risk becoming like people who have a morbid fascination with excrement, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Francis told the Belgian Catholic weekly "Tertio" that spreading disinformation was "probably the greatest damage that the media can do" and using communications for this rather than to educate the public amounted to a sin.

Using precise psychological terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.

[SkyPilot]

TRANSLATION: You people are getting too close to our Illuminati Satanic global pedophile networks.

[allendale]

This Pope is revealing more about himself than he realizes.

[Lisbon1940]

When he says smearing, he means it.

[BenLurkin]

But calling Nixon “tricky Dick” was okay.

[WKUHilltopper]

The pope is nothing but sin. Commie SOB.

[circlecity]

As commented earlier, this is the same pope who has his cronies using the press to smear and threaten the Cardinals who wrote and disclosed the 5 dubia questions.

[jetson]

Pope, just go do Pope stuff.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Using precise psychological terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.

Odd. Is he now criticizing the homosexuals HE hired as pope into HIS priesthoods and into HIS socialist-communist governments?

[niteowl77]

Using precise psychological terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.

The guy is apparently on a mission to "out-Luther" Luther.

Mr. niteowl77

[CGASMIA68]

This guy sucks

[Cicero]

Look in the mirror, Francis. What do you see there?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Wow. He also got the ‘commie talking points memo’. Interesting, huh?

[pepsionice]

Empty suit.

[chris37]

I really can’t think of words low enough to describe this person.

[treetopsandroofs]

Popey’s and the Fraud’s handlers are the same people.

[Cicero]

(Vatican Radio) Before judging others we should look first in the mirror to see how we, ourselves, appear. That’s what Pope Francis said at Monday morning’s Mass at the Santa Marta guesthouse in the Vatican.

Vatican Radio, June 20, 2016

[maine-iac7]

Leave gov’t things to Caesar, Pope - ever read the Bible?

[Palio di Siena]

f this fraud.

[mikeandike]

It seems like the Pope quickly jumps on every left-wing bandwagon that comes along. People like that aren’t usually known for deep reflective thought.