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Pope: Catholics Don't Have to Breed 'Like Rabbits' (would've loved to enter U.S. via Mexico border)
NewsMax ^ | 1/19/2015

Posted on 01/19/2015 3:55:33 PM PST by Yossarian

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis is denouncing what he calls the "ideological colonization" of families and the developing world, where he says progressive, Western ideas about birth control and gay rights are increasingly being imposed by groups, institutions or individual nations — often as a condition for development aid.

No, he said, Catholics don't have to "be like rabbits" and have more children than is safe or responsible.

The Pope said there are plenty of church-approved ways to regulate births. But he said most importantly, no outside institution should impose its views on families.

Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, he said: "Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonized."

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Francis said he would have loved to have entered the U.S. via the Mexican border, saying it would have been a "beautiful thing, as a sign of brotherhood and of help to the immigrants."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: francis; popefrancis
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Even when the Pope makes a step or two forward, he always finds a way to make a leap or two back.

Here he gets it right that natural birth control is good, although using the insulting language of the alternative "breed like rabbits". If anything is countering the demographic collapse of the west, it is productive families.

And then he gets something right again when he says "Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonized."

And then he goes and takes a giant leap backwards, completely obliterating the previous point, showing solidarity with the illegal invasion of the USA, saying that he'd love to pull off an idealogical stunt.

May Francis's power over the opinions of the people of the world be limited!

1 posted on 01/19/2015 3:55:33 PM PST by Yossarian
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Pope: Catholics Don't Have to Breed 'Like Rabbits'

No, we'll leave that to the Muslims.

2 posted on 01/19/2015 3:56:43 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Yossarian

He seems to be a man suffering from some “cognitive dissonance”.


3 posted on 01/19/2015 3:57:17 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Yossarian

This Pope talks too much. He reminds me of the current US President.


4 posted on 01/19/2015 3:57:54 PM PST by MAKOTHEDOG
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This Pope talks too much. He reminds me of the current US President.

They're both left-wing ideologues who have been given the Bully Pulpit.

5 posted on 01/19/2015 3:59:41 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

And both their ‘common man’ acts are just that. They are champagne socialists.


7 posted on 01/19/2015 4:04:35 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Yossarian

Pope Face-Palm I


8 posted on 01/19/2015 4:05:42 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: MAKOTHEDOG

yes - they are both hard leftists and both love to hear themselves talk


9 posted on 01/19/2015 4:06:35 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Steely Tom; plain talk

My thoughts exactly


10 posted on 01/19/2015 4:08:33 PM PST by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: Yossarian

Jesuit.
‘Nuff said.


11 posted on 01/19/2015 4:08:52 PM PST by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: Yossarian
"Catholics don't have to "be like rabbits" and have more children than is safe or responsible."

Correction:

People on welfare don't have to "be like rabbits" and have more children than is safe or responsible.

12 posted on 01/19/2015 4:09:03 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Yossarian

“Francis said he would have loved to have entered the U.S. via the Mexican border,”

Maybe someone will explain to me (again) what a great pope this Jesuit is


13 posted on 01/19/2015 4:11:46 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Yossarian

Those verses in Romans about respecting the government and obeying the laws apparently are not operative for this pope.

They’ve been replaced with “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”.


14 posted on 01/19/2015 4:14:14 PM PST by Pelham (WWIII. Islam vs the West)
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To: Yossarian

Is the pope Catholic? No, really, is he?


15 posted on 01/19/2015 4:17:25 PM PST by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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To: Yossarian

Maybe he meant breed like Mexicans


16 posted on 01/19/2015 4:23:10 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: BykrBayb

Frankly, I have started wondering if he is anything.


17 posted on 01/19/2015 4:24:51 PM PST by MamaB
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To: MamaB

I don’t practice Catholicism anymore, and it’s because of communist idiots like this awful pope and his “American” cardinals and bishops.


18 posted on 01/19/2015 4:35:33 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Everytime the cash register rings in a gun store, a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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To: Steely Tom

If the pope is so concerned about the poor, perhaps the Vatican should sell off some of its art treasures. Not likely.


19 posted on 01/19/2015 4:38:05 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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If the pope is so concerned about the poor, perhaps the Vatican should sell off some of its art treasures. Not likely.

Like in The Shoes of the Fisherman.

20 posted on 01/19/2015 4:40:13 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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