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Pope Francis: Menace or Farce?
The Weekly Standard ^ | 9/19/2015 | Jonathan V. Last

Posted on 09/20/2015 10:55:00 AM PDT by ebb tide

It’s only been two and a half years since Francis assumed the chair of St. Peter, yet he’s already compiled an entire dossier’s worth of . . . interesting . . . incidents.

For instance, the Holy Father seems to have a habit of appearing to endorse all sorts of left-wing political causes. There was the time he posed with environmental activists holding an anti-fracking T-shirt. And the time he posed for pictures holding a crucifix made from a hammer and a sickle. And the time he held up a poster calling for the British to hand the Falkland Islands back to Argentina.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: epa; francis; globalwarminghoax; popefrancis; romancatholicism
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Menace or Farce?
1 posted on 09/20/2015 10:55:00 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Why not both? Also - communist.


2 posted on 09/20/2015 11:02:43 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: ebb tide
and/or - both?

Several papal elections have produced popes that were hailed in the Press as wonderful new modernizing with it not magisterial popes and then the Press was later disappointed to find out that the new Pope was actually Catholic. This time it is the Catholics who are disconcerted and the Press that is right.

3 posted on 09/20/2015 11:09:42 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.The MSM)
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To: jocon307

This was a good part “[The Pope] then goes on to blame the great migration [from the Middle East] to Europe...on deforestation. The migrants are, he said, “the people who come from the country because they have been deforested.”

Yeah, that’s the ticket!


4 posted on 09/20/2015 11:10:32 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307

Clown.


5 posted on 09/20/2015 11:11:12 AM PDT by AdaGray
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To: jocon307

Because nothing says "mercy" and "joy" like a seven-story high neon picture of a communist mass-murderer.

Cuba!

6 posted on 09/20/2015 11:11:57 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: jocon307

Since Islam radicals like ISIS are so focused on destroying and descerating all religious and cultural artifacts, i wonder how they’d feel it we placed a bomb under their liitte black meteorite in Mecca?


7 posted on 09/20/2015 11:16:48 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: ebb tide

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3338878/posts


8 posted on 09/20/2015 11:30:55 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: sparklite2

My apologies. My search did not catch that.


9 posted on 09/20/2015 11:38:35 AM PDT by ebb tide (What a crock. Talking about global warming with a communist, dictator/mass murderer.)
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To: ebb tide

The Weekly Standard: Menace or Farce?


10 posted on 09/20/2015 11:39:33 AM PDT by ex-snook
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To: ex-snook

The facts, mam. Just the facts.


11 posted on 09/20/2015 11:42:18 AM PDT by ebb tide (What a crock. Talking about global warming with a communist, dictator/mass murderer.)
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Enclosed was a papal blessing for Pardi [a woman] and her wife.
12 posted on 09/20/2015 11:44:49 AM PDT by ebb tide (What a crock. Talking about global warming with a communist, dictator/mass murderer.)
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To: ebb tide

Menace, farce, AND heretic.


13 posted on 09/20/2015 11:53:22 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: ebb tide
"Enclosed was a papal blessing for Pardi [a woman] and her wife."

That would be news - Source?

14 posted on 09/20/2015 11:53:34 AM PDT by ex-snook
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“Enclosed was a papal blessing for Pardi [a woman] and her wife.”

That would be news - Source?

http://www.christianpost.com/news/pope-francis-blesses-lesbian-author-writing-childrens-books-on-gay-families-144231/


15 posted on 09/20/2015 12:38:32 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: ex-snook

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/28/pope-francis-sends-letter-praising-gay-childrens-book


16 posted on 09/20/2015 12:39:56 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: jsanders2001
Since Islam radicals like ISIS are so focused on destroying and descerating all religious and cultural artifacts, i wonder how they’d feel it we placed a bomb under their liitte black meteorite in Mecca?

I think that's already been thought of/predicted....(starts at 16:33)

Link

17 posted on 09/20/2015 12:46:54 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie)
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To: 60Gunner

The Vatican needs to sell ALL of its vast real estate holdings and give that money to the poor. Only then will the Pope have any credibility when he bashes capitalism and preaches against “ economic terrorism” and faux climate change. This Pope still has many pedophiles in his church and continues to protect them. The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church is astounding: Managing and growing the largest most profitable multinational corporation on the planet while having a full blown Marxist as CEO.


18 posted on 09/20/2015 1:10:18 PM PDT by slapshot ("Tan, drunk and stupid is no way to govern Mr. Boehner".)
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To: ebb tide

At church this morning, in Dana Point CA, they had a lifesize cut out print of the Pontiff. We were encouraged to stand with for photo opportunities.

I offered to stand next to the cardboard print, only if I could face the opposite direction.

My wife did not think it was a good idea.


19 posted on 09/20/2015 1:14:36 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: ebb tide

Marxist idiot?


20 posted on 09/20/2015 1:24:31 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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