Pope Francis: Menace or Farce?

The Weekly Standard ^ | 9/19/2015 | Jonathan V. Last

[ebb tide]

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

I've heard about those life-sized cut-outs posted in many Catholic churches. It borders on idolatry.

Never heard of it before with former popes, Catholic popes that is.

[terycarl]

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.

Oh, good grief....

[Salvation]

It’s not theirs to sell.

[xp38]

Well we do have an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

[xp38]

Cardboard cutouts of the pope also tend towards the farcical side of this threads question.

[ebb tide]

[Dqban22]

We saw in U.S. Pope Francis incarnated in the classic corrupt Latin American demagogue faking extreme humility to cover a totalitarian mindset. For Francis, the U.S. and the capitalism system are the main responsible for the exploitation and misery in Latin America. In U.S. he condemned the death penalty of vicious criminals who enjoyed so much protection that the law conferred almost unlimited appeals taking decades to finally be applied the sentence.

In Cuba we saw another Francis, despicable, heartless, unmoral, cynic, making fun of the Cuban tragedy while embracing the Castro brothers responsible for the death of tens of thousands of innocent Cubans, and the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands political prisoners, while more of 20% of the population was forced to go in exile-more of 30,000 died trying to cross the Florida straits in makeshift rafts in their quest for freedom. In Cuba Francis did not dare to condemn the death penalty condoning with his cowardly silence the thousands of political prisoners murdered by the Stalinist regime for the crime of demanding freedom and respect for the human rights of the enslaved Cuban people. After being judged by Kangaroo tribunals al style of Stalin’s, the Cubans patriots were put to death by Castro’s infamous firing squads in less than 24 hours, many were martyrs of the faith that died shouting Long life Christ the King! and Viva Cuba libre.!