A sovereign nation has a right to stop invaders. The pope is simply a one world Marxist.
What Bible says about illegal immigration
Posted on 04/20/2015 1:36:03 PM PDT by NYer
Following his April 19 Regina Caeli address, Pope Francis lamented the deaths of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea and appealed to the international community to offer assistance.
The Pope spoke out after a new disaster in which as many as 700 people may have perished in a ship bringing refugees from Libya toward Europe.
“I make a heartfelt appeal to the international community to react decisively and quickly to see to it that such tragedies are not repeated,” he said as he requested prayers.
He added, “They are men and women like us, our brothers seeking a better life, starving, persecuted, wounded, exploited, victims of war. They were looking for a better life.”
Bishop Nunzio Gallantino, the secretary-general of the Italian bishops' conference, had lamented that Europe is "elegantly washing its hands" in the face of a continuing migrant crisis. Italy, which has absorbed 23,000 immigrants already this year, is asking for more help from other European nations. Nearly a half-million would-be migrants are reportedly prepared to leave Libya for Europe in the coming weeks, and nearly 1,000 have perished in the Mediterranean this year in efforts to reach Europe.
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It’s politically incorrect, but the only hope is to essentially re-colonize Africa.
These people are trying to escape ISIS, ping!
ISIS may be an added incentive to get out of Africa, but I suspect even without ISIS a lot of them are primarily trying to get to the EU Gravy Train.
Didn’t the Pope call on the USA to open its borders to immigrants? Now he can open up the Vatican to immigrants.
If the Kenyan was Pope, he’d just throw open the doors to the Vatican and ship them in by the thousands. Then the citizens could figure out how to deal with thousands of new muzzles who were determined to annex Italy into the caliphate - whatever caliphate they happened to serve. In the end it’s all the same death cult. Spreading them all over the world isn’t going to solve any problems. How about laying some woopa$$ on the “extremists” causing all the mayhem over there???
Hey Pope old boy, let them move into The Vatican.
Yep. Let the EU make North Africa another Workers’ Utopia in their own image.
It is the job of the Pope to speak of the poor. I think that those who died were indeed poor and very desperate.
He should speak to the poor AND humbly accept a few thousand of them into the Vatican.
Now that would be a genuine act of mercy.
I agree. It’s just that he speaks so much about so much. It seems he sometimes says contradictory things. Benedict thought before he spoke.
Pope should preach by example and pressure Italy to receive every African willing to migrate to Italy. Francis should do for the Muslims migrant/conquerors the same Pope Pius XII did for Jews. (Christians are being slaughtered by the Muslims before they could escape from their tormentors’ followers of the “religion of peace”) His Holiness PIUS XII ordered to open all convents, monasteries, churches, and Catholic Colleges and universities in Nazi occupied Europe, including the Vatican and Pope’s summer residence, to hide and give asylum to Jews during the Holocaust.
Yes, it would prove to every nation that he practices what he preaches. He shouldn’t be afraid to do what you suggest.
You are correct in both your observations.
A sovereign nation has a right to stop invaders. The pope is simply a one world Marxist.
What Bible says about illegal immigration
The Croats didn't get the message.
The Pope did his outmost, although unsuccessful, to help the Jews living in Croatia.
In 1942, Croat Jews were being brutally persecuted by the Nazi-installed dictatorship. On August 4, Chief Rabbi Miroslav Freiberger of Zagreb, Croatia’s capital, sought more assistance from Pius XII. Already, the Vatican unofficial diplomatic representative in Croatia, Msgr. Joseph Marcone, who was acting on Cardinal Maglione’s instructions, and Archbishop Alois Stepinac opposed the anti-Jewish persecutions.
In his letter, Chief Rabbi Freiberger appreciated the limitless goodness that the representatives of the Holy See and the leaders of the Church showed to our poor brothers. (Actes, VIII, p. 611). Throughout the war, the Chief Rabbi continued to express his gratitude to the Vatican for helping Croatian Jews’.
Israeli senior diplomat and now Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, Pinchas Lapide, with access to Yad Vashem’s archives, has stated in his book, “Three Popes and the Jews”, that “The Catholic Church relief and rescue program under the pontificate of Pius XII was instrumental in saving the lives of as many as 860,000 Jews from certain death at Nazi’s hands. That was more than all other Churches, religious institutions and international rescue organizations put together.”
The Israelis recognized the lives saved by planting a forest, in commemoration, of as many trees in the Negeb, SE of Jerusalem. This forest was shown to Pope Paul VI during his first state visit to Israel.
At the end of the War, the World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, Albert Einstein, and many other prominent Jewish leaders expressed their deep gratitude toward Pius XII and the Catholic Church. On the death of Pius XII (1958), Golda Meir, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave a heartfelt eulogy for the Pope before the UN Assembly.
In his scholar book, “The Last Three Popes and the Jews”, Lapide said that Pius XII was one of the few world leaders outside the Jewry itself who was quick to recognize the danger of Nazism. Lapide demonstrates convincingly the consistent and active protection provided to the Jews in Europe by the papacy. In Lapide’s words:
“When armed force ruled well-nigh omnipotent, and morality was at its lowest ebb, Pius XI commanded non of the former and could only appeal to the latter, in confronting with bare hands, the full might of evil.
A sounding protest, which might turn out to be self-thwarting-or quiet piecemeal rescue? Loud words- or prudent deeds? The dilemma must have been sheer agony, for whichever course he chose horrible consequences were inevitable. Unable to cure the sickness of an entire civilization, and unwilling to bear the brunt of Hitler’s fury, the Pope, unlike many far mightier than he, alleviated, relieved, appealed, petitioned-and saved as most efficient he could by his own lights.
Who, but a prophet or a martyr could have done much more?
The Talmud teaches us that ‘whoever preserves one life, it is accounted to him by Scripture as if he had preserved a whole world.’
If this is true-and it is as true as that of most Jewish of tenets, the sanctity of human life-then Pius XII deserves that forest in Judean hills, which kindly people of Israel proposed for him in October 1958. A memorial forest with 860,000 trees.” (Emphasis added. “Three Popes and the Jews.” pp.267-269)
There are African Christians dying at sea because the Muslims throw them overboard before landing in Italy.
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