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Pope Francis book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptics
Newsday ^ | November 23, 2020 | AP

Posted on 11/23/2020 5:50:39 PM PST by ebb tide

Pope Francis book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptics

ROME — Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and media organizations that spread their conspiracies in a new book penned during the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown.

In "Let Us Dream," Francis also criticizes populist politicians who whip up rallies in ways reminiscent of the 1930s, and the hypocrisy of "rigid" conservative Catholics who support them. But he also criticizes the forceful downing of historic statues during protests for racial equality this year as a misguided attempt to "purify the past."

The 150-page book, due out Dec. 1, was ghostwritten by Francis’ English-language biographer, Austen Ivereigh, and at times the prose and emphasis seems almost more Ivereigh’s than Francis’. That's somewhat intentional — Ivereigh said Monday he hopes a more colloquial English-speaking pope will resonate with English-speaking readers and believers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apostatepope; bidenpope; bidenvoters; blmpope; maoistpope; moraldegenerate; scamdemic
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1 posted on 11/23/2020 5:50:39 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Satan speaks...


2 posted on 11/23/2020 5:51:28 PM PST by Paladin2
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Barf Alert Ping


3 posted on 11/23/2020 5:51:48 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Straight Chicom party line.


4 posted on 11/23/2020 5:52:30 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: ebb tide

Floyd died of an overdose and the “protest” were rooted in a pack of lies from race grievance hustlers.


5 posted on 11/23/2020 5:52:34 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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>> Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd

#MeToo, George Floyd was a violent thug who’d assaulted a woman in her home and had a criminal rap sheet.

Where is the global outrage over the police killing of the white guy years BEFORE George Floyd with a knee on his neck? They laughed at him and even wondered if they’d killed him with no one bothering to check his eyes or his pulse. All caught on supressed bodycam footage (since released).

If they HAD given a damn about the white guy (who was the one who’d called police to the store), perhaps this potentially lethal manuever would’ve been reviewed or even prohibited.


6 posted on 11/23/2020 5:54:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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7 posted on 11/23/2020 5:54:53 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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Thousands murdered every month in Africa but the Spaniard bird brain is upset about an accident on a back street in the US?

clearer then ever before that my Calvinist ancestors were right about these guys


8 posted on 11/23/2020 5:55:17 PM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: Paladin2

He may be practicing for his roll as the False Prophet during the Tribulation.


9 posted on 11/23/2020 5:55:33 PM PST by Maudeen (If you were to die in the next few minutes, where will you spend Eternity? Worth thinking about.)
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To: ebb tide

He’s a leftist. Reminded of Daniel Patrick Moynihan saying he was “born Democrat and raised Catholic”. That was funny. this is not.


10 posted on 11/23/2020 5:58:51 PM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quiality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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Just when you think you’ve seen every variation possible of that Meme! Bam!


11 posted on 11/23/2020 5:59:21 PM PST by Professional ( )
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To: ebb tide

I’m convinced this pope is the antichrist.


12 posted on 11/23/2020 5:59:26 PM PST by JoSixChip (Its not about color, its about character.)
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Here's a link to the article that's not behind a paywall:

Pope book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptic

13 posted on 11/23/2020 6:00:58 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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Puck you Fope.


14 posted on 11/23/2020 6:01:38 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: ebb tide

The Pope is a dope.


15 posted on 11/23/2020 6:03:29 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Paladin2

The ImPopester isn’t Satan, but Satan speaks through him.


16 posted on 11/23/2020 6:03:47 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Pop this pope's pate, with this pitiful papal publication.

17 posted on 11/23/2020 6:04:17 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: ebb tide

“Let Us Barf”


18 posted on 11/23/2020 6:06:40 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Regulator

Don’t blame Bergoglio on Spain: both of his parents were from Italy.


19 posted on 11/23/2020 6:10:06 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: ebb tide

Dude needs to stick to eternal spiritual matters. He flunks temporal.


20 posted on 11/23/2020 6:12:48 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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