Posted on 10/25/2021 7:25:00 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Pope Francis had high praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday, predicting that she will “go down in history as one of the great leaders.”
The pope said the Merkel administration constitutes “an interesting milestone in world politics and a call to women who feel a political vocation.”
Asked about Merkel, who will soon step down as chancellor of Germany after 16 years, the pontiff praised her for her realistic approach to government, asserting she “is not a fanciful woman” because her ideals “become reality.”
At the beginning of October, the pope and Merkel held their final meeting for 45 minutes in the private library of the Vatican Apostolic Palace.
This is not the first time Francis has praised female politicians for their unique contribution to the field, even when they have adopted controversial positions contrary to Catholic teaching.
In February 2016, Francis lavished similar praise on Italian politician and abortionist Emma Bonino, dubbing her one of Italy’s “forgotten greats.”
According to her own claims, Bonino performed more than 10,000 illegal abortions during her career, devising an abortion machine from a bicycle pump and a pickle jar. The founder of the Center for Information on Sterilization and Abortion, Bonino agitated for the legalization of abortion in Italy, which was finally achieved in 1975.
A protégée of George Soros, Bonino built a career as a parliamentarian for the Radical Party and later became a European commissioner and Italy’s foreign minister.
During her political career, Bonino worked to legalize recreational drugs and promoted nudism, same-sex marriage, transgenderism, the abolition of the armed forces, and the liberalization of pornography laws.
George Soros, who has invested massive sums into promoting immigration into Europe, personally awarded Bonino the Fred Cuny prize in 2015.
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Yepp ... another great socialist.
I won’t give a penny to the Catholic Church as long as a political ideologue remains the nominal leader.
how about those MUZZIE migrants... Germany? Don’t let the screen door hit yah where nature (presumably) split yah, Merkel. Good riddance.
But the Marxist Jesuit Pope praises the neo-Socialist EU slime ball outgoing PM. It figures. All the “lost” charity case migrants are but grist to Bergolio’s paedophiles and ripoff artists.
Hungary’s President had a lovely year 1200 letter he sent to the Pope over this same subject. So they (the commies) call him a.... Nazi. Hah-— he’s no Socialist. They lose in that name calling.
Pope Fubar will go down in history as one of the world’s worst popes 🤪
Years ago we stopped giving to Peter’s Pence, the Bishop’s Appeal, or anything else other than our parish and a few select charities.
Starve the Beast.
Hasn't happened yet...but I have faith! (end sarcasm)
Interesting—something else to disagree w this Pope!
She has done more to destroy Germany than any chancellor since Hitler. Frank is a Communist jackass.
WHO cares a fig about HIS opinion???
I’d love to cannonize this Marxist, for sure. He just might fit!
And he’ll go down as the greatest POPE to have destroyed Christendom!
one communist praising another communist.
I no longer consider myself a Roman Catholic. I’m a Christian.
This thing pretending to be a “pope” is a homosexual, communist loving heretic. I hope the muslims burn the vatican and all of this pathetic man’s world to the ground, salt the ground and turn Vatican City into a giant sewer.
Will Go Down in History as One of the Great Islamic Leaders’
Wrong again IMHO, both will go down as punctuation marks of history given enough time. Probably not very long either.
I am Catholic and all I can say about this guy is he’s lost the plot!!
And Francis may be an addition to the first section of the “Divine Comedy” of Dante.
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