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Addressing pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter's Square, Francis praised those who were "sensitizing public opinion about the persecution of Christians in the world."

While not suggesting any particular course of action, he urged "concrete participation and tangible help in defense and protection of our brothers and our sisters, who are persecuted, exiled, slain, beheaded, solely for being Christian."

-- Vatican City, April 6

I guess it's stronger wording than Lurch would use... but not by much.

Anyway, I'm underwhelmed. And I hope you realize the 2,220,000 results really doesn't mean all that much.

The fact is, he's not making it "his issue". And he's definitely not out there PROCLAIMING that what is going on is "bloody murder".

Imagine Winston Churchill alive today.

What would Churhill do? He would not let the complacency of the leftist media and the complacency of the leftist governments of the West stand.

Pope Francis is a major player in the game of leftist media and leftist policy-making in the West today. His statements on the ongoing bloody mass murders of Christians seem pro-forma to me. Not anything he's really all that excited about.

I dunno. He spoke out very strongly in his public liturgies on Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, to the press in a separate interview, and again at the Divine Mercy Vespers 8 hours ago.

That's 6 times in a week.

Didn't see that on the news? Imagine my surprise.

I share the frustration, but it's certainly a head-scratcher when people who don't think the Pope's infallible expect him to be omnipotent.

And that Jerusalem Post #1 hit? 5/27/2014. That's some algorithm Google has, there.