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Pope: “It is the Communists Who Think Like Christians”
OnePeter5 ^ | 11/11/16 | Steve Skojec

Posted on 11/12/2016 2:57:24 PM PST by marshmallow

During this week where Americans have been distracted by the unexpected upset of a presidential election that could very well change the course of our collective future, Pope Francis has been busy making political statements of his own.

In yet another interview with Eugenio Scalfari (see our standard rebuttal to “you can’t trust Scalfari!” here), this exchange was reported to have taken place:

"You told me some time ago that the precept, “Love your neighbour as thyself” had to change, given the dark times that we are going through, and become “more than thyself.” So you yearn for a society where equality dominates. This, as you know, is the programme of Marxist socialism and then of communism. Are you therefore thinking of a Marxist type of society?

“It it has been said many times and my response has always been that, if anything, it is the communists who think like Christians. Christ spoke of a society where the poor, the weak and the marginalized have the right to decide. Not demagogues, not Barabbas, but the people, the poor, whether they have faith in a transcendent God or not. It is they who must help to achieve equality and freedom”. [emphasis added]

One of the most hotly contested criticism of Pope Francis is that he is ideologically aligned with Marxists. We’ve covered some of the connections before, so I won’t rehash them here. What seems fair to say is that this is the most direct admission yet that Francis identifies his program of social justice as something compatible with Communism – itself an intrinsic evil.

Of course, this seems all of a piece. On the eve of the US Presidential election — which featured the most pro-abortion candidate for the presidency in this nation’s history-......

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TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Religion & Politics; Theology
KEYWORDS: catholic; francis; poperealyiscatholoc; typicalcatholic
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To: marshmallow

Probably the most outrageous utterance to date by Bergoglio. Communists do not think like Christians. They think like the violent, murderous, megalomaniacal criminals, thugs, and tyrants they are.


41 posted on 11/12/2016 3:17:10 PM PST by nickedknack
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To: marshmallow

JP2 understood communism


42 posted on 11/12/2016 3:17:17 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: marshmallow

I wonder if this latest Scalfari interview will also be posted on the Vatican’s official website and then be removed and reposted numerous times, pending the prevailing secular wind.


43 posted on 11/12/2016 3:18:04 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: marshmallow
Yeah, communists are totally like Christians. See look! Here are some pics of Communists posing with Christians! See what good buddies they are!


44 posted on 11/12/2016 3:18:07 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: marshmallow

No, Communists do NOT think—or do much else—like Christians!!!!

Just ask Saint Justin Popovic of Celije!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Popovic

If you do not like the Frankish antipope and the Catholic Winter, it might be time for you to come home to the Orthodox Church!!!!!


45 posted on 11/12/2016 3:19:04 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: BipolarBob

Papal elections are guided by the Holy Spirit. That doesn’t mean that the electors listened.

Francis isn’t Catholic. A non-Catholic is outside of the Church and can in no way be its visible head.


46 posted on 11/12/2016 3:19:48 PM PST by piusv (Pray for a return to the pre-Vatican II (Catholic) Faith)
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To: marshmallow

Trumps victory is a win for the anti-communists that must be consolidated and made PERMNANENT by destroying the marxists ability to lie, cheat, and steal their way into office.

Trumps victory means nothing if the press, the propaganda organ of the CPUSA and the WASHINGTONINANS, is not intimidated into playing it straight less very bad things happen to them.

Trumps victory means nothing if the voting rolls are not purged in every state and the electoral process is standardized and made fraud proof.

Trumps victory means nothing if the “Congressional Progressive Caucus” and other marxist politicians at all levels of government are not investigated, indicted, and incarcerated.

Trumps victory means nothing if marxist agent provocateurs and “social media” platforms that use them like Twitter and Facebook are fined, arrested , and imprisoned.

Trumps victory means nothing if the military and government agencies are not purged of every single person and policy implemented by the marxists.

Trumps victory means nothing if the INTENTIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT PERPETRATED BY THE MAXISTS is not stopped and reversed.

No more business as usual, it will take ruthless aggression and no mercy on the part of the right wing to do what needs to be done to keep these communist animals hands out of our pockets and keep us safe from enemies foreign and domestic.

Its not going to happen solely through legislation and debate.

This is a GODDAMNED CIVIL WAR , and the left needs to be fought employing all means necessary to ensure our survival.


47 posted on 11/12/2016 3:20:17 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: marshmallow

Charity begins with the individual, not the government at the point of a gun confiscating money and doling it out. Where in this do you find, “Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you”?

When you look to an authoritative power to force others to do your will, or your groups will,then you have become a thug.

We each individual, as a believers, has a responsibility to serve, and do good unto others,not force our will on others, even if we think it’s good for them.


48 posted on 11/12/2016 3:20:40 PM PST by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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To: BipolarBob

See my post #45.


49 posted on 11/12/2016 3:21:49 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: marshmallow

John Paul said we were two Popes away from the Anti_pope...he was right.


50 posted on 11/12/2016 3:23:04 PM PST by heights
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To: marshmallow

The guy jumped the shark a long time ago. He needs to be crucified.


51 posted on 11/12/2016 3:23:44 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: marshmallow

JP II would be rolling around in his sarcophagus.


52 posted on 11/12/2016 3:24:36 PM PST by jerod (Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
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To: marshmallow

In a communist society the Central Committee makes ALL decisions.

The peasants are not allowed to decide for themselves what they want to do for a living. If the Central Committee decide they need more garbage collectors instead of nurses or engineers then you will be slated to collect trash the rest of your life. You also can not own property or live wherever you wish.

Is this what the little pope thinks makes them Christian?


53 posted on 11/12/2016 3:24:45 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: marshmallow
If Francis is as serious as his rhetoric he can begin by liquidating all the Vatican's assets and distribute the money throughout the Third World. Francis can then move into a double-wide trailer. But he won't. Talk is cheap.
54 posted on 11/12/2016 3:24:47 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Like in the movie “Shoes of the Fisherman”!


55 posted on 11/12/2016 3:26:07 PM PST by Reily
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To: marshmallow

56 posted on 11/12/2016 3:26:58 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: nickedknack

Yeah this is getting out there alright. The number of murdered Catholics by the communists alone makes this well into the surreal.


57 posted on 11/12/2016 3:29:02 PM PST by xp38
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To: heights
John Paul said we were two Popes away from the Anti_pope...he was right.

Could you share your source please?

58 posted on 11/12/2016 3:31:18 PM PST by piusv (Pray for a return to the pre-Vatican II (Catholic) Faith)
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To: BipolarBob

The Church says that Scripture is inerrant—no such claim is made for the Pope and NOBODY inside the Church has ever made tht claim for the cardinals.


59 posted on 11/12/2016 3:31:48 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: marshmallow

Christians pray; Communists prey.


60 posted on 11/12/2016 3:32:36 PM PST by windsorknot
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