Posted on 11/16/2019 7:53:37 AM PST by ebb tide
VATICAN (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is attacking politicians who oppose the homosexual agenda as evidence of "Nazism," while launching his strongest attack yet on capitalism and repeating his call for the abolition of the death penalty.
“It is no coincidence that in these times, emblems and actions typical of Nazism reappear, which, with its persecutions against Jews, gypsies and people of homosexual orientation, represents the negative model par excellence of a culture of waste and hatred,” he said in his address to the International Association of Penal Law at the Sala Regia in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican Friday.
Pope Francis: "[W]hen I hear a speech [by] someone responsible for
order or for a government, I think of speeches by Hitler in 1934, 1936."
"And I must confess to you that when I hear a speech [by] someone responsible for order or for a government, I think of speeches by Hitler in 1934, 1936," he said. "In the last century we saw so many brutalities against the Jewish people, and we were all convinced that this was over. But today the habit of persecuting the Jews, brothers and sisters, is here reborn. This is neither human nor Christian."
Condemning the "punitive demagogy "in several countries, Francis called upon the legal community to prevent such behavior from degenerating “into an incentive to violence or disproportionate use of force."
"They are inadmissible behaviours in the rule of law and generally accompany racist prejudices and contempt for socially marginalized groups."
The pontiff was addressing 600 delegates at the 20th International Congress of Penal Law, the oldest association of specialists in criminal law, which brings together university professors, lawyers, magistrates, researchers, students and criminal law practitioners. The theme of their Nov. 13–16 congress is "Criminal Justice and Corporate Business."
Pope Francis addresses 20th International Congress of Penal Law
The pope went on to denounce the "idolatry of the market," blaming "global financial capital" for "the origin of serious crimes not only against property but also against people and the environment."
"It is responsible for organized crime, the over-indebtedness of states and the plundering of the natural resources of our planet."
He also raised the specter of "ecological sins," raised at the recent Amazon Synod: "We are thinking of introducing ecological sin into the catechism."
"[T]he Synod Fathers proposed to define ecological sin as an action or omission against God, the community and the environment," he noted, going on to define "ecological sin" as "a sin against future generations and is manifested in acts and habits of pollution and destruction of the harmony of the environment" and attacking global corporations for "ecocide."
The Synod Fathers proposed to define ecological sin as an action or omission against God.Tweet
"An elementary sense of justice would imply that some behaviors, of which the corporations are usually responsible, do not go unpunished. In particular, all those that can be considered as 'ecocide,'" he said.
"In this circumstance, and through you, I would like to appeal to all the leaders and contacts in the sector to contribute with their efforts to ensuring adequate legal protection of our common home," he continued.
Repeating his call for the abolition of the death penalty, the Holy Father pleaded with jurists "not to execute the aggressor."
Lambasting the "punitive irrationality" of the justice system, he asked jurists to "seriously reconsider the life sentence."
"I have indicated that between the punishment and the crime there is an asymmetry and that the fulfilment of an evil does not justify the imposition of another evil as an answer. It is a question of doing justice to the victim, not of executing the aggressor," he stressed.
In the Christian vision, the model of justice finds perfect incarnation in the life of Jesus, who, after being subject to injustice, brings a message of peace, forgiveness and reconciliation. These, he said, are values that are difficult to achieve but necessary for the good life of all.
At the 19th Congress of the International Criminal Law Association in 2014, the Pope warned that increasingly harsh sentencing does not solve social problems or reduce crime and that crime is frequently "rooted in economic and social inequality."
Calling for the abolition of the death penalty as well as life imprisonment, the Pope denounced what he called a "penal populism" that promises to solve society’s problems by punishing crime instead of pursuing social justice.
hes proving himself to be as prophesied...
“Pope Francis is attacking politicians who oppose the homosexual agenda as evidence of “Nazism,””
And gay pedophile priest are what?
I would think the Lord is calling Catholics out and to become Christians. He is making the fallacy of the Vatican plain for all to see, they’ve had the wool over the eyes of many for a very long time.
God never gives us a trial without the accompanying strength to deal with it.....I try to keep on believing.
He;s a low life who gave legitimacy to the Argentine junta when it was conducting a mass murder. Now he is flipping the finger to 2000 years of Christianity to rush to the defense of men who bugger each other in the azz. In his spare time he lauds islam and helps flood Italy with savages from the moslem turd world.
Another of Obama’s regime change targets was the Catholic church. Pray for our Catholic fellow Christians. Like our nation, they are under an occupation government in their church that despises them and flips them the finger.
He dances well for his masters.
Seems to me that the Church was more tolerant to actual Nazis that it is now to conservatives.
Surely the Catholic Church is in it’s last days.
Boom...
Well, I don’t want to go down that road. I believe in the church and that Catholics are Christian. We all believe in the Lord Jesus as our Savior.
No doubt
Stan Laurel
Can anyone remember the last good story written about the Catholic church under this Pope?
Keep the faith. He is only a man and the Church has seen corrupt popes over the centuries and has survived. He doesn't represent the Catholic Church I belong to in my eyes.
St Francis had the holiness to go to Holy lands to convert the Muslims not "dialogue" and "accompany" them.
St Francis is no Bergoglio, and you disparage the good saint's name.
Every time I see a photo of this fraud, he has that stupid shit-eating grin on his face.
Hitler created the Nazi Brown Shirts with butch homo males because the butch homos were in Hitler’s words the most aggressive and energetic to carry out the goals of the Nazi cause. There have been books written about the homosexual origins of the Nazi political party. The butch nazi homos hated the girly homos. The girly homos joined the communist groups. The butch homos joined the Nazi groups. When the Nazi party decided to kill the homos it was because the homos in the Nazi party were too strong and were a threat to the entrenched leadership. Other homos were killed because they were girly and the butch homos were ultra happy to kill their “lessor” counterparts.
Is it possible a certain church leader has been compromised? Perhaps as payment for not being exposed with his fellow pedophiles this leader is required to preach the globalist line ala George Soros?
Is Francis trying to drive away Catholics?
Other popes have sought to minister to all groups, including Nazis. Francis seems to be trying to divide groups.
Why?
Was he riding a pale horse?
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