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.
I just don’t know
What Direction
We are Headed,
But it Ain’t good.
And we compare you to a communist.
There are many who don’t, and tend to follow the rules of the Vatican, rather than the bible.
I’ve met some catholics I consider Christian though.
F**k you Frankie.
This Pope is an abomination and should be kicked out and flocked for his blasphemy.
Sounds like frank is fixin’ to join the 2020 democrat clown car.
I had to go through the experience of leaving the church of my youth when they turned their back on scripture. I have been greatly rewarded because each Sunday I am fed by the true word of God.
“They are one and the same.”
No, they are not. You are mistaken. The Church does not have the power to save, only Christ, and He alone can save.
“I disovered that Ugo Boncompagni/Pope Gregory XIII was my 12 Great-Grandfather, and Pope Paul III, born Alessandro Farnese was my 14 Great-Grandfather.”
What happened to the priest’s vow of celibacy? How could those you mentioned have fathered children if that be the case? Hmmm?
bump
We’ve had enough of this POS on Free Republic.
Screw that $hithead.
Please, no more stories about this A-hole.
Paolo Farnese
Ranuccio Farnese
Costanza Farnese
Lucrezia Farnese
I was shocked to find any Italian in my family to begin with since my mother was born in Canada, and my father in Holland. The Italian line started on my mother's side in 1655 in New York City, when Pietro Caesaro Alberti married Judeth Jan Menjie who had been born in Amsterdam, Holland. Unbeknownst to my mother, there was Dutch on that side too. Pietro Albert's mother was a Medici. And eventually as you go back, there's de Medici's, Orsini's, and Farnese's.
Ancestry.com just updated my DNA breakdown to: 59% England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe; 35% Germanic Empire (had no idea of that); 2% Sweden (no idea of that); 2% Ireland and Scotland; and 2% Norway (no idea of that either). My mother wouldn't believe it if she was alive today. She thought she was French Canadian, and that's it. She always told me we didn't have any relatives on her side of the family.
I'd always thought I was a first-generation American, but her side of the family came here, some on the Mayflower, and others from England and other European countries, and settled in New Amsterdam...Kinderhook, the Albany/Troy area and Dutchess County, NY...in the 1600's. My 10th great-grandfather on her side is Peter Minuet, once Governor of New Netherland, and the guy who bought Manhattan Island from the Indians.
I only started all of this in June, and am not close to even being done. Of course once you get past the actual DNA lines that link you to your ancestors, it's anybody's guess if the information you're getting is factual, because there's no real way to verify it. After the late 1600 and mid 1700 lines, the DNA peters out.
Rome has had wake up calls in the past to leave their false dogmas and embrace Christianity.
Seems their still stuck in their error.
The Nazis were socialists who turned fascist once they achieved power.
Yes. They are. You are mistaken. The Church is the Body of Christ which He established for the salvation of souls.
He’s an idjit. And a false Dope, I mean, Pope. Benedict was forced out and he probably still has the office. I wish Jesus would return and save the world from this imposter, and from the baby killing, Trump hating Demoncrats.
I don’t see any mass exodus happening - he knows that Catholics can be just as hard-core left wing as anyone else and those who aren’t will hold onto the anchor rope until they rest on the bottom.
He’s gone full AOC on us.
It is obvious that Frankie hasn’t consulted with the real pope, Georg Ratzinger about Nazis.
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