Posted on 07/31/2016 7:17:24 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Pope Francis encouraged hundreds of thousands of young people at a global gathering of the faithful Sunday to "believe in a new humanity" that is stronger than evil and refuses to see borders as barriers.
His appeal came at the end of World Youth Day, a weeklong event being held in southern Poland this year that draws young Catholics from around the world every two to three years for a spiritual pep rally.
The youth gathering was Francis' main focus during his pilgrimage to Poland, but over five days in this deeply Catholic nation he also prayed at the former Nazi Auschwitz death camp and implored God to keep away a devastating wave of terrorism now hitting the world. He also met with Poland's political and church leaders.
For a second straight day, a huge crowd filled a vast field Sunday in the gentle countryside outside the city of Krakow to see Francis, who was visiting central and eastern Europe for the first time. Security was very high throughout the pope's visit, coming at a time of terror attacks in Western Europe.
Many of the faithful had camped out overnight after an evening of entertainment and prayer with the pope in the same field Saturday night that drew 1.6 million people, according World Youth Day organizers.
Sunday's faithful numbered at least in the hundreds of thousands. The Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, referred to an estimate by Polish authorities of 1.5 million at Sunday's closing Mass.
The pope used his several encounters with the young pilgrims - from mega-gatherings to a private lunch with only a dozen people from five continents - to encourage a new generation to work for peace, reconciliation and justice.
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This fake Pope is determined to be the last Pope.
he can’t deal with the current humanity?
brainwashed Globalist if you ask me
The Gospel of John Lennon.
Will the Pontiff bother to mention Christ?
Or will Salvation be just an afterthought (if it’s thought about at all).
"Refugees" in France slit the throat of a priest this week.
As far as Jorge is concerned, the "new humanity" is more important.
Jorge may be the False Prophet of Revelation.
Oh a “new humanity” ? And how Mr “pope” ?
By the grace of the global big world ? Under the big brave global government ?
This pope must have some ties
He been watchin’ too much Sci-Fi.
Sounds very ecumenical. How quaint.
Borders are necessary to have small enough entities to have effective social structutures.
Plus the Pope is ignoring the Principle of Subsidiarity teaching of his very own Church ,which holds that the smallest unit necessary to handle an issue should not be supplanted by a larger one.
Thank God the Church allows for limited Papal infallibility. This Pope would be a disaster.
Francis the talking mule?
Agreed, he’s looking more and more like it every time he speaks.
The other day he said to be weak. Now he says be strong? I need a scorecard.
Mr. Ed for antipope!
Meet Pope anti-christ.
The Pope by nature of his office is a globalist. By disposition he is a socialist. Yet he is no psychologist. Inherent human nature essentially does not change. Perhaps values and behavior can occasionally be modified but not often. Responsible politicians are correct to secure their borders, preserve their heritage and oppose the free migration of non vetted immigrants from alien cultures. This Pope like most Western leaders has forgotten or never learned the hard lessons his ancestors learned with much blood at Tours, Constantinople, Malta, Vienna, Lepanto the Reconquesta and countless other bloody encounters. Islam is simply not compatible with the values, institutions and practices of the West. The very definition of peace is different. Many Catholics are silently suffering this papacy.
Cerially.
I’m surprised he hasn’t called for a “New Age Catholicism”, that has a feminine goddess and embraces atheistic socialism.
I haven’t identified as catholic for a loooong time. It’s a bad, bad time to be a catholic.
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