It is really odd, the statement about manufacturers of weapons. Didn’t this Pope call a few months ago for the west to intervene to save Christians in the Middle East who are being persecuted?
Intervene how? With flowers and pamphlets?
And, as this author says: how exactly were the western nations supposed to intervene in Auschwitz? Bombs? Oh well, some things just don’t make sense.
And, as far as the pot calling the kettle black on Auschwitz, let’s look at the Pope’s homeland of Argentina -
Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Francis) of Argentina, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones: why don’t you explain why it took Argentina until the end of WWII, when the result was clear, to declare itself on the side of the allies. You might explain why hundreds of Nazis were permitted to hide in Argentina, to include Adolf Eichmann.
And you might explain this from US Secretary of State at the time, Cordell Hull: “Hull ordered the confiscation of Argentine goods, cessation of foreign trade with her, avoidance of any of US ships landing at Argentine ports, and he denounced Argentina as the “nazi headquarters in the occidental hemisphere”.” (Galasso, Norberto (2006). Perón: Formación, ascenso y caída (1893-1955). Buenos Aires: Colihue. ISBN 950-581-399-6. (Spanish) pp 198-200)
Pope: Why didn’t Allies bomb railway lines to Auschwitz?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3302720/posts
I have a little spare cash laying around. Does anyone know of any good arms manufacturers I could invest in?
This is pied piper type of stuff. Play to pacifist sentiments while supporting NWO. The idea is to extinguish national sovereignty and create a monster NWO police state. The first people to go to the camps will be these stupid leftist dupes.
If only he WAS a laughingstock!! He is becoming very dangerous to the Catholic Church.
The Argentine mope is already the world’s laughing stock. He jumped the shark...... several times.
It's all the more painful because his predecessor is easily one of the top five Catholic theologians of the past century. :-(
Certainly he uses the very same pabulum terms and phrases that the very shallow liberals on campus and on cable use....
The Pope smokes dope.
He will of course now disband his security detail; as they may have weapons which he has deemed to be immoral.
The old Pope-a-Dope
TOO LATE!!
Oh and for the "because he's the pope he can do no wrong" crowd here on FR, Just tell yourselves and anyone else that will listen*, "He really didn't say/mean that. It's just the press misinterpreting what he said in Italian." Yeah right.
*pretty much nobody
Francis **ALWAYS** steps in it. Reliably.
Dare I say “infallibly”?
(Strictly speaking, manufacturers like Beretta are corporations and don't attend any church, temple or mosque.)
Is there a reference to his full remarks? I haven’t been able to find it, only quotations from Al-Reuters and the MSM.
Keep in mind Obama’s visit to the Pope in March of last year. All of his climate change, gun control statements have been since timed with Obama’s pushes on these topics. Obama pushes gun control after Charleston and the pope makes his gun manufacturing statement at the time.
One has to wonder what sort of NSA eavesdropping information Obama and ValJar might have brought with them to that meeting. If they had Angela Merkel and other world leader cell phone info...no doubt they have the popes.
The Vatican now has their own “Obama”.
Maybe he’s suffering from dementia.... If so The Church needs to get a leash on him.
Using deadly force to repel an unjust aggressor is moral. Catholic doctrine 101. The pope is not fit to be pope and should resign.
Once I saw the wind blow the cape of a Swiss Card and I saw he was packing what looked like a .45 1911. Who konws, probably a Beretta. A bit untrusting though, I think.