[ilgipper]

The commie pope must go. No more South American radicals can be put into that role again. What a fool.

[bray]

Why do Conservatives stay in the Catholic church. It has been infiltrated by Marxist priests and bishops for decades.

Pray America is waking

[C. Edmund Wright]

Wonderful piece....and this is what leftist do....they infiltrate formerly conservative organizations and turn those institutions to the left.

We’’re seeing it in the Catholic Church....where it’s been going on for a long time...as well as in the Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian denominations and others. Even in Joel Osteen’s church.

Maybe the organized church is not the future of “the church” - as in the body of Christ.

[21st Century Crusader]

Some have said the antiCHRIST would be a Pope.

[kenmcg]

Who ever thought this imposter would be following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ? He is doing to the Catholic Church what Obama is doing to the country. They are both commie/Marxists.

[SaveFerris]

Ah, he’s keeping it? Let the spin begin.

[livius]

Unfortunately, all this is too true. The other very alarming thing - having read the interview in which he says many of these things - is that the Pope is not a very smart man. He thinks he knows everything and is willing to offer a sentimental, statist or even Marxist opinion on everything, from economics to global politics...but he rarely mentions the thing that he is supposed to be doing, which is heading a religion that is fundamentally at odds with statism and relies on individual conversion and individual adherence to the moral law and faith in the revelation of God in His Son, Jesus Christ.

The few times he ventures into religion, of course, he reveals his ignorance and ideology there, as well.

I wish he would be removed from us. He is destroying the Church.

[ScottinVA]

The pope himself later announced that he was keeping the hammer-and-sickle crucifix and taking it home, saying, “I understand this work. For me it wasn’t an offense.”

Oh.. the pope understands that work, all right... and the ideology behind it. Does anyone else think Evo Morales took His Popeness behind closed doors and apologized for Bolivia's role in taking down that other Argentinian marxist, Che Guevara?

[exit82]

Will he accept Jesus crucified on a swastika?

What would be the difference?

[Alex Murphy]

Last week the Marxist quasi-dictator of Bolivia, Evo Morales, presented Pope Francis with a gift — a carved wooden hammer-and-sickle cross on which the figure of Christ is crucified. The Vatican announced that the pope had not been informed in advance about the gift. And some commentators said that photos of the pope and Morales show that the pope was actually offended. That was a false — probably wishful — interpretation. The pope himself later announced that he was keeping the hammer-and-sickle crucifix and taking it home, saying, “I understand this work. For me it wasn’t an offense.” And “Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi . . . said he personally wasn’t offended by Morales’ gift” (the Guardian)....

[Gamecock]

Because he is a commie?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I can’t think of a more fitting symbol for his papacy.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

It has become quite obvious that Pope Benedict was told to resign or be removed from office.

The Commies have taken over the leadership of the Roman Catholic church.

The Roman Catholic Pew Sitters have a choice. Fight the leadership and remove them from office or leave the Roman Catholic Church.

As the Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, etc have had to do, now the Roman Catholics must do.

Roman Catholics cannot stick their head in the sand and hope Pope Francis gets ok.

[tacticalogic]

The cross the Romans built proved powerless against Him.

That one isn't going to do any better.

[Theo]

Honestly, I don’t understand why anyone would be offended by this. It’s representing Jesus being crucified on an instrument of torture. That is accurate, isn’t it?

[ScottinVA]

THIS Pope would've rightly rejected such an offensive symbol as a communist hammer and sickle out of hand.

[Raycpa]

For me both the cross and communism represent death which was conquered by Christ.

[Chicory]

Well, all this is well and goid, except for the fact that THE POPE DID NOT TAKE IT TO ROME!!!!!!! (Sorry for “shouting”—I can’t do the code stuff on the iPod.)

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/francesco-sudamerica-42284/

The Pope basically treated the gifts as an embarrassment to the Bolivians. He indicates that he was grateful to receive a gift, but was never happy about it, then he left the gift in a chapel, offered to Mary. He acted the way a mother would to receive a totally inappropriate gift from a child who knows no better: she loves the child, but hates the present.

[Buckeye McFrog]

He is not upset with the gift, he merely found the visuals embarrassing and inconvenient.

[OldSmaj]

I'm not Catholic.

Not that it matters.

But this guy is really beginning to disturb me.

He is all over the place and I'm not talking about his travels, either.