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Pope Denounces Trump’s Border Policy as 'Immoral'–but
Townhall.com ^ | June 23, 2018 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 06/23/2018 5:43:06 AM PDT by Kaslin

"Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border…Speaking to Reuters, the Pope said he supported recent statements by U.S. Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents 'contrary to our Catholic values' and 'immoral.'" (Reuters, June 20, 2018)

“During their meeting the Pope thanked comrade Fidel Castro for his contributions to world peace in a world saturated with hate and aggression." (Cuba’s Communist party paper, Sept 21st 2015.)

“What?!” Nikita Khrushchev gasped on Oct. 28th 1962, as recalled by his son Sergei“Is he (Fidel Castro) proposing that we start a nuclear war?! That we launch missiles from Cuba?!...But that is INSANE!..Remove them (our missiles) as soon as possible! Before it’s too late. Before something terrible happens!” commanded the Soviet premier.

Well, so much for the Fake News Media, Fake Academia, and Hollywood/ Camelot's fairy tale of: “JFK standing up to the Russians in Cuba!” In fact, Khrushchev’s panic that Fidel, Raul and Che might get their fingers too close to the buttons is what got the missiles out.

“Of course I knew the missiles were nuclear- armed,” responded Fidel Castro to Robert McNamara during a meeting in 1992. “That’s precisely why I urged Khrushchev to launch them. And of course Cuba would have been utterly destroyed in the exchange."

But this is hardly the first time that this Pope, who habitually hails mass-murderer/war-mongers Castro and Che Guevara, has denounced Donald Trump. "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." (Pope Francis after holding a showy mass in Ciudad Juarez for the Mexicans who died trying to cross the U.S. border, Feb. 18, 2016.)

But AH! Upon one of his many fond visits to Stalinist Cuba Pope Francis held an even showier mass in the company of Castro and with Che Guevara as the backdrop. Never mind that about 20 times as many Cubans have died trying to escape Castro’s Cuba as died trying to escape East “Tear Down this Wall!” Germany. Never mind any of that. 

And what makes this death tally in the Florida straits more horrible (and the Pope’s hypocrisy more revolting) is that prior to Castro and Che Guevara’s destruction of Cuban society, the prosperous island nation took in more immigrants per-capita (mostly European) than the U.S.

You’d never guess this from the Fake News media, Hollywood or your professors, but in 1953 more Cubans vacationed in the U.S. (and voluntarily returned to Cuba) than Americans in Cuba. Yes, for pre-Castro Cubans the U.S. was a “tourist playground.”

“What?” you say. But you’ve always heard that it was the other way around? That Cuba was a tourist playground for Americans? Indeed it was—but the tourist traffic went both ways, as befit a nation described by a 1957 UNESCO report thusly: "One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class. So check it out here--and please click links for thorough documentation.

Point is, during the 1950s and based in Florida, Sheriff Joe Arpaio would have been lonelier than the Maytag repairman.

In fact, the affection by Argentine Pope Francis for the Stalinist regime co-founded by his compatriot Che Guevara (and for Communism in general) became so flagrant that Yale professor, world-acclaimed Catholic scholar and National Book Award Winner Dr Carlos Eire long ago dubbed him “Papa Che.” 

“It is the communists,” Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica two years ago, “that think like Christians. Christ has spoken of a society where the poor, the weak and the excluded are those who make the decisions.” Castro’s captive (literally!) press was quick to spread this bit of gratifying news.

“I am not Christ or a philanthropist,” wrote Che Guevara in a letter to his mother. “I am all the contrary of a Christ -- In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm. 

Yet, as mentioned: an enormous image of Che Guevara formed the backdrop to Pope Francis’s showy mass in Havana in Sept. 2015.

Outrageously enough, the Castro regime has received the most papal visits recently of any Latin American nation, equaling the number of papal visits to Brazil, with a population of 200 million, 130 million of them declared Catholics. In contrast, Cuba has a population of 11 million, only a tiny fraction of which are practicing Catholics. Someone’s got some serious “‘splainin'” to do for this papal fetish of constantly visiting Stalinist Cuba and chumming around with her Stalinist rulers.

Interestingly, more Popes (three) have recently visited Cuba -- a nation with many more crypto-voodooists than Catholics -- than have visited Mexico (with 97 million Catholics). Hello? And as Joan Rivers used to ask: “Can we talk?” (about this glaring and –for many—disgusting incongruity.)

Many view the Papal motivation for visiting Cuba similarly to the motivation of Beyonce, Conan O’Brien, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, and Jeff Fake’s etc. etc. etc.. The Popes get plenty of press and get to poke Uncle Sam in the eye. In this respect, they seem no different from all those loud-mouthed, Castro-hugging celebrity and political popinjays.



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To: Kaslin
Fascinating. That’ll teach ‘em: Fatima’s 100 year dash “ends” with a communist pope crossing its finish line.

Guess we shoulda seen that comin’... I wonder what comes next.

No human, natural or preternatural agency can destroy the Church or Christian civilisation;
when evil becomes unbearable to the individual who trusts God, or to society, God will work a miracle if necessary to overcome it.
--Fr. Gerald Culleton, The Prophets and Our Times (1941)
21 posted on 06/23/2018 7:05:00 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Kaslin

Does the Vatican have boarders? Can I just immigrate there and throw myself on the mercy of the Church to provide for me? Can I illegally vote in the college of Cardinals to determine who will be the next Pope?


22 posted on 06/23/2018 7:08:56 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: GBA
Dang it... I hit Post by mistake. I meant to say:

“The Church’s 100 year dash with Fatima “ends” with...”

23 posted on 06/23/2018 7:11:24 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Oh but you see, he means BUILDING walls, for the FUTURE. EXISTING walls are OK.


24 posted on 06/23/2018 7:13:47 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Kaslin

Morals are what he decides they are every morning when he gets out of bed with the boys.


25 posted on 06/23/2018 7:14:04 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Kaslin

I read a story yesterday that put some light on all these controversial things that Pope Francis seems to be saying. I am not a big fan of PF as he speaks in ways that open him up to the manipulation of his comments in support of the news media’s political agenda.

The writer claimed that in every instance, the news media takes things out of context when it involves a subject that they want to bolster. Such is the border wall controversy and the children. Apparently, Pope Francis said that all countries need to step up when people are starving or fleeing their own country [not just the USA], and children need to be kept with parents. I don’t know how accurate the article was, but he also said that Obama’s administration had similar policies and so it was not just the current administration. He supposedly also commented that he did not have any personal knowledge of Trump, and so was not suited to comment about his or his policies as to morality.

The article claimed that at the exact, same time that the news media cherry-picked the border issue comment, PF had mentioned the brutality and immorality of abortion; he also mentioned that marriage is between a man and a woman. So, the news media is up to their tricks in picking out phrases that seem to support their liberal agenda, and ignoring those that do not.


26 posted on 06/23/2018 7:15:38 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Kaslin

This from the faker who lives behind a giant wall.

27 posted on 06/23/2018 7:16:14 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Kaslin

Does anyone else find it ironic that advice from the Catholic Church regarding children is perhaps misguided?


28 posted on 06/23/2018 7:19:05 AM PDT by ps425dc
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To: Kaslin

The emperor with no clothes on speaks and says someone else is naked, while pretending he himself is not.


29 posted on 06/23/2018 7:19:55 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Kaslin

Hey, Popey. Ever heard about obeying the laws of the land?

And how about separating children from their parents while they’re being molested by your priests? Is that immoral?


30 posted on 06/23/2018 7:30:24 AM PDT by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go straight to the comments.)
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To: Kaslin

Oh, and separating babies from their mothers by ripping them from their wombs?


31 posted on 06/23/2018 7:31:52 AM PDT by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go straight to the comments.)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04

It is NOT Trump’s policy. It was concocted by the Clinton DOJ in the Flores Settlement. Separating kids from the adults is mandatory by settled law.


32 posted on 06/23/2018 7:35:01 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: patriotsoul
Back in the post World War II era, sponsoring a refugee meant finding them a place to live, a job and even providing temporary financial assistance from the coffers of your church, synagogue or other charity until they became self-sufficient.

Today, it means picking them up at the airport and driving them to the public welfare office so they can pick up a housing voucher, sign-up for all the benefits available and maybe even register to vote (Democrat) of course.

33 posted on 06/23/2018 8:00:39 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Kaslin

Bum-rushing a foreign nations borders isn’t immoral?


34 posted on 06/23/2018 8:20:25 AM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: Kaslin
The COMMUNIST "pope" lives behind a massive wall, protected by his own personal army of armed guards. He doesn't let ANY illegal aliens in, or live within his own private kingdom. And this HERETIC, COMMUNIST "pope" has the unmitigated gall to denounce our President and our nation's moral, God given right and obligation to defend its CITIZENS and to protect our national sovereignty/borders; and to label said action as "immoral"

Nothing Francis, the COMMUNIST, HERETIC, HYPOCRITE says is worth listening to, following, or obeying.

This godless man is bereft of the truth of God and His Holy Word; Woe to those hapless, countless millions of Roman Catholics who blindly follow this HERETICAL, false prophet "pope" because he is leading them straight to hell through his unbiblical, heretical teaching and doctrine.

35 posted on 06/23/2018 8:32:28 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: libh8er

you’re not offending me- i’m a practicing Catholic and tell everyone i know i think this guy is a hypocritical coward...


36 posted on 06/23/2018 9:11:50 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Kaslin

This , so called, pope, small letters on purpose, is nothing more than a political tool of the new world order. He cannot be the antichrist but is sure trying out for the false prophet. Catholics must not have an impeachment clause or this moron would have been ousted by now.


37 posted on 06/23/2018 9:48:48 AM PDT by fish hawk (MACA Make America Christian Again)
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To: Kaslin

Send all the the kids to the Pope. Let him take care of them. No joking. Send the rest of the illegals to Europe. They say they need workers because of a population decline. Plane tickets are a lot cheaper. They wouldn’t need the Muslims then. We need to get out of the asylum business totally. There are lots of other countries that should pick up the load.


38 posted on 06/23/2018 9:58:28 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: VideoPaul

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WHAT IS THAT?


39 posted on 06/23/2018 10:19:45 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (What people will submit to, equals the exact measure of injustice which will be imposed upon them.)
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To: Kaslin

40 posted on 06/23/2018 10:21:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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