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OPINION: Pope Francis Is the Catholic Church's Obama - God Help Us
Fox Nation ^ | 05/04/2013 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 12/08/2013 8:10:41 PM PST by Carbonsteel

Pope Francis is undergoing a popularity surge comparable to the way Barack Obama was greeted by the world in 2008. And just as President Obama has been a disappointment for America, Pope Francis will prove a disaster for the Catholic Church.

My fellow Catholics should be suspicious when bastions of anti-Catholicism in the left-wing media are in love with him.

Much is being made of his ‘compassion’ and ‘humility,’ but kissing babies and hugging the sick is nothing new. Every pope in recent memory has done the same, yet only now are the media paying attention. Benedict XVI and John Paul II refused to kowtow to the liberal agenda, and so such displays of tenderness were under-covered.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: adamshaw; pope

1 posted on 12/08/2013 8:10:41 PM PST by Carbonsteel
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To: Carbonsteel

Nailed it.


2 posted on 12/08/2013 8:12:37 PM PST by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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To: Carbonsteel

Alrighty, someone please tell the rest of us uninformed what egregious act or statement has Pope Francis made or said that merits being compared to a fraud like Obama.


3 posted on 12/08/2013 8:15:20 PM PST by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: chae

No, he did not nail it. Here’s a keen insight into all of this.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365720/agreeing-pope-francis-michael-novak


4 posted on 12/08/2013 8:15:56 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Hostage

The reasons are legion. Francis has outed himself as a Socialist, Humanist, anti-traditionalist.


5 posted on 12/08/2013 8:20:16 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12----No king but Christ! Don't tread on me!)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

I don’t trust him.


6 posted on 12/08/2013 8:23:00 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Hostage

Well for one, he recently called for the end of capitalism.


7 posted on 12/08/2013 8:23:12 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Carbonsteel

In before the “misunderstood” “misinterpeted” comments.

Aren’t the Pope’s statements interpeted by the Vatican?


8 posted on 12/08/2013 8:25:54 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

That combination is irreconcilable!


9 posted on 12/08/2013 8:31:03 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Carbonsteel; markomalley

You are reading a mistranslation. Check markomalley’s posts


10 posted on 12/08/2013 8:35:11 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Graybeard58

And there was a mistake in the translation.


11 posted on 12/08/2013 8:36:00 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Graybeard58

The exhortation is mostly about evangelization. Have you read it?


12 posted on 12/08/2013 8:36:30 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Carbonsteel

The comparison to Obama is over the top. And I say this as someone who has developed no fondness for this Pope yet.


13 posted on 12/08/2013 8:37:33 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Carbonsteel

Could this be the false prophet that “glorifies” the Anti-Christ?


14 posted on 12/08/2013 8:43:24 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Carbonsteel

Pope Francis is a genuinely good man who is shaking up some of the corruption in the Curia, and revitalizing the Church. If he starts comparing himself to Obama, well, maybe Obama will take the hint and change tack on a few things? (Hey, we can hope).


15 posted on 12/08/2013 8:50:16 PM PST by spiritplumber
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To: Arthur McGowan

Me thinks it’s contrived to impart a halo effect to Saint Obama.

The Leftist Press knows no bounds and has no decency.

We should caution our fellow Freepers to be skeptical and question the sources.


16 posted on 12/08/2013 8:51:50 PM PST by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Carbonsteel

Ping for later


17 posted on 12/08/2013 8:52:13 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Hostage

Adam Shaw is not a lefty. He’s attacking the Pope from the Right.


18 posted on 12/08/2013 8:58:34 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Steelfish
Reading the new exhortation by Pope Francis after the wildly misleading presentations of it by the Guardian and Reuters...
19 posted on 12/08/2013 9:55:20 PM PST by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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