Ya gotta forgive Frank, he was honestly trying to quote a fellow Communist, although he has been as been as competent as Joe Xiden!
Posted on 09/01/2021 6:41:15 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Pope Francis has criticized the West’s two-decade-long involvement in Afghanistan as an outsider’s attempt to impose democracy — although he did it by citing Russia’s Vladimir Putin while thinking he was quoting Germany’s Angela Merkel.
Asked during a radio interview aired Wednesday about the new political map taking shape in Afghanistan after the United States and its allies withdrew from the Taliban-controlled country after 20 years of war, the pope said he would answer with a quote that he attributed to the German chancellor, whom he described as “one of the world’s greatest political figures.”
“It is necessary to put an end to the irresponsible policy of intervening from outside and building democracy in other countries, ignoring the traditions of the peoples,” the pope said, using his own translation into Spanish.
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Ya gotta forgive Frank, he was honestly trying to quote a fellow Communist, although he has been as been as competent as Joe Xiden!
Any of us who are Catholic should not put a penny in the collection plate unless and until this pseudo - Pope is no longer the head of the Church. He is clearly an arrogant self-convinced destructive mistake.
Inadvertantly, my Aunt Fannie...
Once again this man proves he is not a man of God but only a questionable politician who leans left.
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