Posted on 02/18/2016 10:36:41 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Pope Francis, apparently desperate to reach out to the Catholic Churchâs growing base in Latin America, spent the day slapping Americans in the face from across the US-Mexico border.
In Ciudad Juarez, one of the most violent cities in the Western Hemisphere thanks to the drug cartels, the pope walked up a ramp covered in flowers toward a cross âerected⦠in memory of migrants who have perished trying to reach the United States just a stoneâs throw away,â according to Reuters.
Funny, he never did that while visiting Cuba to pay tribute to those who died attempting to escape that Communist hellhole. He reserved his spite for a nation with one of the most generous immigration policies on the planet.
The pope then blessed three more small crosses, at which âshoes of migrants who diedâ were laid. âWe cannot deny the humanitarian crisis,â Pope Francis intoned. âEach step, a journey laden with grave injustices: the enslaved, the imprisoned and extorted; so many of these brothers and sisters of ours are the consequence of trafficking in human beingsâ¦Injustice is radicalized in the young; they are âcannon fodder,â persecuted and threatened when they try to flee the spiral of violence and the hell of drugs. Then there are the many women unjustly robbed of their lives.â
He concluded, âLet us together ask our God for the gift of conversion, the gift of tears, let us ask him to give us open hearts like the Ninevites, open to his call heard in the suffering faces of countless men and women. No more death! No more exploitation!
This came shortly after the pope said that capitalism cut against God, and that God would punish âslave drivers of our daysâ supposedly exploiting workers, adding, âThe flow of capital cannot decide the flow of people.â
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Your church has endured worse. I presume that it will continue on; until the end times...
Pope Stephen VI (896â897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955â964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032â1044, 1045, 1047â1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294â1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378â1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492â1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513â1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523â1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
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