Posted on 12/05/2021 6:48:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Pope has denounced "narrow self-interest and nationalism" over the way Europe treats migrants.
Speaking on the Greek island of Lesbos, where he met dozens of migrants, Pope Francis said they were being used for political propaganda.
He urged focus on the causes of migration, such as "forgotten wars", instead of punishing those who feel their effects.
And he criticised the building of walls to keep people out.
"In Europe there are those who persist in treating the problem as a matter that does not concern them - this is tragic," he said.
"History teaches us that narrow self-interest and nationalism lead to disastrous consequences."
While the coronavirus pandemic had shown that major challenges had to be confronted together and there were some signs of this happening on climate change, there was little sign of such an approach to migration, he said.
"It is easy to influence public opinion by instilling fear of the other," Pope Francis said.
"The remote causes should be attacked, not the poor people who pay the consequences and are even used for political propaganda."
The Pope cited war, economic agreements "where the people have to pay" and the flow of weapons as factors leading people to seek a better life elsewhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Then tell them to go back to the s hole they were excreted from.
AFTER 2000 years of the Catholic church urging more & more children-—
Now they find out that too many might be a problem.....
What does letting murderous muzzlime terrorists into one’s country have to do with the Catholic religion?
Another one that has never had a job.
Commie Pope should bring them all to the Vatican to live behind his walled country.
Commie Pope should bring them all to the Vatican to live in his walled country.
Trump Calls Wall ‘Moral’ Because Vatican Has One. So What’s Its History?
By Laura Geggel January 03, 2019 on LiveScience.com
In the ninth century, Pope Leo IV announced that Vatican City needed walls to protect it from the Saracen pirates who were pillaging southern Italy. (Saracen is a term from the Middle Ages that refers to Arabs and Muslims.) After the Saracens attacked Rome and the basilicas of Old St Peter’s and Saint Paul Outside the Walls in A.D. 846, Pope Leo IV ordered the construction of a 39-foot-tall (nearly 12 meters) wall around part of Vatican City, an independent city-state where the pope lives.
In medieval times, walls were commonplace. Most major cities — including London, Paris and Jerusalem — had them.
“The walls are a fortification, there is no question, but they were a fortification built at a time when armed invasions by barbarians and other forces were happening,” Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, a Catholic studies professor at Georgetown University, told The New York Times. “And that is not the same thing we are talking about with a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.”
But the imposing wall soon opened up, according to historians.
“Gradually, the Muslim threat receded and many gates were opened in the walls,” Thomas Noble, a papal history expert at Notre Dame University, told the news website Best Life.
Other popes expanded the wall during the 1400s and 1500s, but these stretches were less about defense and more about making “a political and cultural statement” about the pope’s power, Gerard Mannion, a Catholic studies professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., told The New York Times.
It’s clear why the old pope was forced out to put in this guy...all part on the plant we see globaly.the last 20 years ...
If only the Pope could focus on a higher calling. We have enough politicians.
I condemn the Pope’s treatment of Catholicism...
Like everyone else, they are tired of being overrun.
This Pope should worry about doing the work of the Lord and forget about politics. This man worries more about political things and does not worry about people’s souls because he is a Jesuit and that apparently is Jesuit training. Just look back at the Berrigan Brothers and their actions and it explains alot!
This pupe...
Evidently Catholicism’s guilty pleasure.
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