No kidding, which side is more hostile?
Posted on 09/24/2015 6:16:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Francis beseeched Americans to end hostility toward immigrants in a historic speech before the U.S. Congress on Thursday, weighing in forcefully on a divisive issue that is stirring debate in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Bringing a message that America's power and wealth should be used to serve humanity, the 78-year-old pontiff said the United States must not turn its back on "the stranger in our midst."
"Building a nation calls us to recognise that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility," Francis told the Republican-led Congress in Washington a day after he met with Democratic President Barack Obama.
Francis, born in Argentina to an Italian immigrant family, delivered a wide-ranging speech that addressed issues dear to liberals in the United States but also emphasized conservative values and Catholic teachings on the family...
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Syria and Iran need to build real nations.
“Bringing a message that America’s power and wealth should be used to serve humanity”
LMAO- why? this nation hasn’t served humanity??
hey pope- maybe you should bring this message to corrupt central American leaders who force their citizens into poverty which then forces them to flee.....
better yet, maybe you should’ve taken the castro brothers to task for oppressing people when you had the last week- sort of the way Pope John Paul II did with communist regimes including the one in his home country...
effing coward...
This is of course the same “state” that was officially Neutral during WW II if I recall. When I see one of he heads of the Vatican denounce that I might listen to them on matters of foreign policy ... but I doubt it.
Pope of the NWO
How about we have the same policies the Vatican has on immigration ? Fair is fair.
I have no hostility to immigrants.
I have major hostility to illegal aliens.
Note to Pope
Immigrant is to illegal alien
as
House guest is to home invader
Sorry Pope, they are not immigrants, they are illegal aliens/invaders. I quit listening to this assclown in the funny hat when he got on his “global warming” hobby horse.
How is it hostile to provide welfare, food stamps, education, earned income credit, and social services 24/7 to people whose very presence is a violation of our laws 24/7?
That sounds the opposite of hostile to me.
Perhaps Vatican City should end its hostility to immigrants. I’m sure it could provide a home for at least a thousand young Muslim males. Come on, Pope Francis! Let’s see some compassion for poor, downtrodden immigrants! Or are you just a hypocrite?
Who said we’re hostile? We’re just not letting them take our jobs and money. We’ll send them home with a smile and well wishes.
How ‘bout we send to you, Francis? You can feed, clothe, and bunk them. Caveat: In addition to your Welcome Wagon, you might want to have more police and a lot more prisons ready.
Okay chief. Can do. You just tell your pal, Obama, to end his hostility towards my family, my paycheck, my Constitution, MY BILL OF RIGHTS and my country!
This guy can go directly to Hell.
Sorry all you catholic posters, but this creep does not deserve any respect.
America has been overly generous to immigrants - especially illegal immigrants and we don’t need no lecture from some left wing secular pope to tell us how to care for the poor.
He needs to open up the Vatican to all the middle eastern refugees. They’ll turn St. Peters into a mosque and chop off his head.
Punk!
Stop raping boys.
The Catholic Church is a hierarchy with official political positions that include open borders and socialism. No other such group would be allowed to have caucus threads on FR, but not only are they allowed to designate a caucus, but there is an official policy on FR that bans ‘Catholic bashing’.
FreeRepublic’s founder is Roman Catholic.
Is there any doubt at all that 0 and the pope talked a lot before this visit?
The Pope has his side in the same problem raised by Raspail in “Camp of the Saints” - a much misunderstood book - and Raspail was himself a devout Catholic. It is a tragic conundrum.
From a Christian point of view there really isn’t a choice - if the poor want to come, they should be allowed to come. Americans comfort and prosperity and cultural values (other than Christianity) don’t figure.
Christianity is a HARD HARD creed. In Raspails book the cost is prosperity, and more so, culture and identity. But there is no consistent way to avoid the sacrifice and remain Christian, in Raspail’s and the Popes analysis.
If you have a way out of this I would like to hear it. Raspail was a very smart man and he couldn’t figure it out.
No kidding, which side is more hostile?
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