Posted on 09/26/2015 7:25:21 PM PDT by Biggirl
Many conservatives viewed the prospect of the Pope’s visit to the United States with a mixture of hope and trepidation: hope, because the Pope’s visit would force heavy media coverage of religious issues; trepidation, because of Pope Francis’ mixed record on issues ranging from climate change to illegal immigration.
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Here is 7 ways I can’t care what he says. ZZZZZZZ
His whole tour has been a joke. I bet if the apostles Peter or Paul were given the opportunity to speak to groups of foreigners they wouldn’t talk about the weather, call unbelievers their brothers and sisters, or call the Messiah’s death on the cross a failure...............
Slapping the people who try to play by the rules isn’t exactly the Christian thing to do.
Capiche?
I seem to remember that hypocrisy was something Jesus particularly despised.
The pope is a coward - he knew he wouldn’t get good press clippings if he attacked the secular establishment and their idols of abortion and gay marriage.
In his first address in Philadelphia Pope Francis centered on freedom, but in Cuba Francis showed his hypocrisy and lack of morals when not a single time pronounced the words liberty or freedom. In Cuba we saw the real Pope Bergoglio. While the Pope brags to be the voice of the poor and the oppressed in Cuba he was the voice of the oppressors. Francis beg for a meeting with Fidel Castro with was described by the Vatican as very friendly and familiar while he did not accept to receive a representation of the pacific dissidents of the Stalinist regime who are the true voice of the enslaved Cuban people. At the end of the meeting with Castro the Pope expressed his deep appreciation for the genocide of the Cuban people who after 56 years make a country that had the higher standard of living in Latin America in 1959 to the poorest and most oppressed in the history of this hemisphere.
As professor Carlos Eire stated: "As Newsweek has observed, seventeen years ago in his homily in Havana, John Paul II mentioned “freedom” seventeen times and “justice” thirteen times. In his homily, Francis did not mention “freedom” or “justice” once. All that Francis said about Cubans was that they are “a people which has its wounds, like every other people.” In other words, Francis told Cubans that they are no worse off than any other people on earth after fifty-six years of economic and political repression, and that they really have nothing to complain about. The closest he came to upbraiding the Castro regime or to calling for an end to the enslavement of the Cuban people was to say: “service is never ideological, for we do not serve ideas, we serve people.”
My correlation is
1. Pope slaps conservatives around
2. Results in Boehner stepping down.
In my world, I enjoy that. Let him do some more slapping so maybe we can get rid of McConnell too
bingo....said the same thing to my wife last night and my mother today (and I’m a practicing Catholic)...
-tell the U.S. it must stand up for the dignity of people but say NOTHING on the topic when you meet with the castro brothers...
-tell the U.S. it must accept more immigrants and refugees meanwhile say nothing to your home nation of Argentina about doing the same...
- say nothing to leaders of corrupt nations causing people to flee...
-talk about the ills of society but say nothing on the topic of the body parts of murdered fetuses being sold...
my mom said “you have to pick your battles” to which i responded “when you choose to lecture to a sympathetic crowd but say nothing to the cause of the problem when the opportunity arises you are a COWARD”...
tomorrow my in laws will hear the same...
John Paul II also went to communist Poland, stared down their oppressive leaders and stood with the people....eventually he got his way and met Lech Walesa in prison...
It is lucky that Francis’ Spanish accent made it indecipherable to understand. The reaction would be a embarrassment for the Catholic Church. What the media is spoon feeding the populace has been cleaned up. The leftist media in America loves the core of his Communist screed, and like all useful idiots will carry his water like they carried Jim Jones’ Kool Aid. As for gay marriage and abortion, the Left has that covered. The Communist core is the Mother Lode.
Given the same opportunity as this man was given, would not just about every conservative you know, every devout Christian (Catholic or Protestant) you know, take the opportunity to TEACH America about the Good News of Christ, about the rampant evils of abortion and sodomy and divorce and sin in America, about how we should use our freedom wisely, and about the particular Church he leads (such Mary, Infallibility, saints, etc.)?
Sad.
He’s the head bishop of one particular denomination. There are thousands of other denominations whose leaders almost never make news for some reason. He is not the leader of all Christians everywhere, by any means.
My thoughts exactly.
But Yertle is a Southern Baptist and I doubt he'd take anything the Pope had to say with any seriousness, whereas, Boehner being a semi-practicing Catholic, apparently was moved.
Or he was drunk...I'm not sure which.
Boehner...not the Pope.
Yes
Pack up your pope crap and hit the road.
ZZZZZZZZ...That’s what I do when I hear is voice.
Frankie is MOST BORING speaker in the world.
I can’t forgive Francis for kissing Castro’s butt.
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