Source: Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via A
Posted on 05/07/2022 3:15:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Source: Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via A
“ROME?—Pope Francis said that the “barking of NATO at the door of Russia” might have led to the invasion of Ukraine and that he didn't know whether other countries should supply Ukraine with more arms” reports the Wall Street Journal. “Since February, Pope Francis has deplored the suffering of Ukrainians and denounced the invasion but refrained from explicitly naming Russia as the aggressor…In Ukraine, it was other states that created the conflict,” Pope Francis said in the interview.
No such “objectivity” seemed to influence the Castro-hailing Pope Francis when expounding on former President Trump’s attempts to defend U.S. doors from something that goes quite beyond “barking.”
"Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border…Speaking to Reuters, the Pope said he supported recent statements by U.S. Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents 'contrary to our Catholic values' and 'immoral.'" (Reuters, June 20, 2018.)
Pope Francis also bashed U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump:
"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." (Pope Francis after holding a showy mass in Ciudad Juarez for the Mexicans who died trying to cross the U.S. border, Feb. 18, 2016.)
But upon one of his many fond visits to Stalinist Cuba Pope Francis held an even showier mass in the company of Castro and with Che Guevara as the backdrop. Never mind that about 20 times as many Cubans have died trying to escape Castro’s Cuba as died trying to escape East “Tear Down this Wall!” Germany. Never mind any of that.
What makes this death tally in the Florida straits more horrible (and the Pope’s hypocrisy more revolting) is that prior to Castro and Che Guevara’s destruction of Cuban society, the prosperous island nation took in more immigrants per-capita (mostly European) than the U.S.
You’d never guess this from the Fake News media, Hollywood or your professors, but in 1953 more Cubans vacationed in the U.S. (and voluntarily returned to Cuba) than Americans in Cuba. Yes, for pre-Castro Cubans the U.S. was a “tourist playground.”
“What?” you say. But you’ve always heard that it was the other way around? That Cuba was a tourist playground for Americans? Indeed it was—but the tourist traffic went both ways, as befit a nation described by a 1957 UNESCO report thusly: "One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class. So check it out here--and please click links for thorough documentation.
You’d never guess this from the Fake News media, Hollywood or your professors, but in 1953 more Cubans vacationed in the U.S. (and voluntarily returned to Cuba) than Americans in Cuba. Yes, for pre-Castro Cubans the U.S. was a “tourist playground.”
But I referred to Pope Francis as “Castro-hailing,” right? Well:
“During their meeting (in Sept. 2015) the Pope thanked comrade Fidel Castro for his contributions to world peace in a world saturated with hate and aggression." (Cuba’s Communist party paper, Sept 21st 2015.)
“It is the communists,” Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica six years ago, “that think like Christians. Christ has spoken of a society where the poor, the weak and the excluded are those who make the decisions.” Castro’s captive (literally!) press was quick to spread this bit of gratifying news.
“The defiant yells (“Viva Cristo Rey!”—“Viva Cuba Libre!”-“Abajo Comunismo!”) from the bound and staked martyrs “would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble!” wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares, who suffered 22 torture-filled years in Castro’s prisons and was later appointed by Ronald Reagan as U.S. ambassador to U.N Human Rights Commission.
Given their valiant defiance even during their last seconds alive, by mid 1961 the mere binding and blindfolding of Castro and Che’s young Catholic murder victims wasn’t enough. The fine folks who hosted Pope Francis’ in Cuba in Sept. 2015 then began ordering that the Catholic youths also be gagged. The shaken firing-squads demanded it. The yells were badly unnerving the trigger-pullers, you see.
So now, as the fine folks who hosted Pope Francis’ in Cuba yanked the young Catholic heroes from the cells, bent their arms back, and bound their hands, two more Communist guards came into play. One grabbed the struggling victim’s hair and jerked his head back, trying to steady him. The other taped his mouth shut.
Raul Castro (who hosted the Pope at the Sept. 2015 Havana Mass) and Che Guevara (whose visage formed the backdrop for the Mass) were the most notorious executioners during the early years of the Cuban Revolution. The orders, of course, all issued from Fidel Castro, who Pope Francis went out of his way to visit and smilingly hob-nob with after the Mass, profusely thanking him for his efforts towards “world peace,” (I am NOT making this up!)
“I am not Christ or a philanthropist,” wrote Che Guevara in a letter to his mother. “I am all the contrary of a Christ--In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.”
As mentioned: an enormous image of Che Guevara formed the backdrop to Pope Francis’ Mass in Havana on Sept., 20, 2015.
It’s perfectly fitting that a Pope who often expresses affection for a KGB-created and sponsored regime (the Castro brothers and Che Guevara had a KGB handler, Nikolai Leonov, since 1957) should refrain from openly disparaging a KGB Lieut. Col. (Vladimir Putin.) And as you might guess Cuba’s KGB-founded and mentored media (the same one that routinely denounces your humble servant here as a “TRAITOR! and SCOUNDREL!”) is whole–hog with Putin on his typically murderous Ukraine invasion.
He needs to stick to his knitting.
Sorry, not my pope.
The Poope is a false prophet.
The left loves the pope because he is a socialist and is on their side, since when does the left love religion?
The left has a triumvirate of three gods, namely Moloch, Mammon, and Mars.
Worst Pope ever/ Maybe in the Middle Ages we had worse popes. In my lifetime this superannuated goof ball is the gayest and worst Pope since Pope Humble Gunner
The theory of Papal Infallibility DIED with this ARGENTINE POS!
LOL! I know who you mean. We have a very annoying, left wing Freeper with that name. I suspect he is the “forehead” Paul Begalla.
In reality, to oppose a wannabe Stalin against an independent Ukraine is to oppose the greater of two government evils, but support the freedom of both peoples, which Vlad the invader, anti-christ (not The) oppressor Putin (outlaws all evangelical, etc. sharing of faith except by his state church) opposes in his lust for control and glory.
Remember when the Pope apologized to Trump?
“Pope Francis said that the “barking of NATO at the door of Russia” might have led to the invasion of Ukraine”
One would have expected the Pope to join with the rest of the West and support the Fascists in this war, but instead he blames them.
Go figure.
Guacamolean Marxist POS
Too funny... Pope Humble Hunner!
LOL
However, for a RC, required submission (which has degrees) extends beyond infallible papal pronouncements, and includes those by an extraordinary ecumenical council defining a matter of faith or morals for the whole church in union with the pope (extraordinary dogmatic pronouncements by the Extraordinary Magisterium) which require submission of faith), as well as to non-infallible teachings by ordinary Magisterium in union with the pope, when they set forth a teaching in matters of faith and morals for their church, which require "religious assent" of mind and will, which thus are "to be accepted with docility, and sincerity by all the faithful. (CCC 891, 892)
And which includes encyclicals, even social ones, yet much papal teaching requires assent to most anything publicly taught by popes, all of which is subject to varying degrees of interpretation as to which class the teaching belongs to, and what required submission means, as well as what the teaching means.
Thus many RCs reject V2, part or parcel, and even Francis as pope. Which means in essence they are acting as evangelicals are to operate, that of ascertaining the veracity of what is taught based upon its conformity to the only wholly God-inspired record of what the NT church believed, which is Scripture (Acts 17:11). Except that rather than Scripture being that sure and supreme standard, TradCaths also selectively invoke past RC teaching.
However, distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).
One wouldn't expect the Antichrist to do so.
The Vatican is actually a communist state posing as a church
The Vatican leader is more communist than Vladimer Putin
What do you expect from the first Chrislamic Pope?
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
Says the man living behind the walls at the Vatican.
I believe they have room for 1000’s of refugees at the Vatican. Doubt this man takes me up on that.
I’ve read they took the last pope out because he was going to crack down on a lot of the gay bishops. I don’t know and I haven’t really researched it. It’s just odd they removed a much better pope for this guy.
Francis is not the pope. Benedict is.
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