Looks like the pope-a-dope wants the end of the world to come real soon. Sorry, old man in a dress and red shoes, but the end of the world will come soon enough, without you encouraging the subhuman savages to make it come.
This is the end of the liturgical year when the readings focus on end times.
There is no story here, just ignorant reporters.
I didn't get that impression at all, not even close, although among evangelicals there has long been a saying, directed to the Lord, "even so, come [return to us] quickly".
I don't have a problem with the sentiment expressed in that way... See possibly Revelation 22:20
This pope eschews the red shoes, I've read somewhere. (I've been waiting to write eschews shoes for some time now, hehhehheh...)
Aah, but maybe you are referring to the 12'ers' when you mentioned encouraging the subhuman savages?
I think I see what you meant. You were referring to those among the Shia sects who make it out to be that they must create world-wide chaos to set the stage for the long lost '12th imam' to return?
The way those people put it, Jesus will be the sidekick in that "show"... the second banana, so to speak.
They are wrong, across the board. It's not at all fair to blame Christianity for how Islamicists have corrupted and perverted that which came to the world that was of God, long before mad Mo hi-jacked and flat-out stole (and then corrupted) everything he could get his hands on...
The article ended with Mr. Bergoglio (aka Pope Francis) quoted, alleged to have said (translated into English, I assume);
"We are called to live the present," Francis said, but always ready to meet God whenever he may call.At the end of the world, Francis said, "Jesus' triumph will be the triumph of the cross, the demonstration that the sacrifice of oneself out of love for one's neighbor, in imitation of Christ, is the only victorious power and the only stable point in the midst of the upheavals and tragedies of the world."
The Pope also warned against an unhealthy curiosity to know details of the future, with recourse to psychics and horoscopes, saying they distract us from what is really important in the present.
We are called rather "to watchfulness," Francis said, that keeps us focused and ready at all times.
"In our days," he concluded, "there is no lack of natural and moral disasters, as well as adversities of every kind."
"The Lord tells us that everything passes and only He and his Word remain as a light to guide and strengthen our steps," he said.
I appreciate Mr. Bergoglio putting in a good word for the Word, there at the end, although I confess to having some degree of disquietness for just how it appears he included mention of sacrifice of oneself out of love for one's neighbor, when it appears that various powers that be (including Bergoglio) are apparently seeking to force the Western world to take in wave after wave of Islamicists --- and have those people (who hate our guts for not converting to Islam, who hate our guts and everything else about ourselves for our own actively resisting their efforts to convert the world to that system of governance, which delves into every single aspect of life, including just 'how' to brush one's own teeth!) for our own actual & nearby "neighbors".