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Pope Francis Chides Those Traveling Abroad to Escape Coronavirus Lockdowns.
The New York Times ^ | 1/3/20 | Elisabetta Povoledo

Posted on 01/04/2021 6:30:24 PM PST by marshmallow

Pope Francis on Sunday criticized people who traveled abroad during the pandemic “to escape the lockdown,” saying they were ignoring those who were suffering.

In his weekly noontime Sunday address, Francis said, “I read in the papers something that quite saddened me: In a country — I don’t remember which — to escape the lockdown and have a good vacation more than 40 planes took off that afternoon.”

“Those people are good people, but didn’t they think of those who stayed at home, to the economic problems of many people who have been knocked down by the pandemic, to those who are ill?” Francis added. They thought “only to go on vacation, to have fun.”

“This really saddens me,” Francis said in a message streamed from the Vatican’s apostolic library. The pope normally blesses the faithful on Sundays from a window in a palace above St. Peter’s Square, but Italy has been on lockdown for the past 10 days, and the square is closed.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Ministry/Outreach
KEYWORDS: francischism

1 posted on 01/04/2021 6:30:24 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Frankie, just STFU.


2 posted on 01/04/2021 6:31:17 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: marshmallow

Tear down the Vatican wall, Pope fraudster.

Let the muzzie invaders have some lebensraum inside.


3 posted on 01/04/2021 6:32:35 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: marshmallow

His conntention that nobody should escape the lo kdowns because not everyone can is asi ine.


4 posted on 01/04/2021 6:34:05 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

Even as a Protestant, I have never been tempted to tell a pope to just f**k off. But this guy wins the prize.


5 posted on 01/04/2021 6:34:05 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: marshmallow

If you’re locked down, you aren’t interacting with the suffering anyways.


6 posted on 01/04/2021 6:36:33 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: marshmallow; All

😂


7 posted on 01/04/2021 6:38:30 PM PST by PGalt
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To: marshmallow

Would he criticize 1940s Polish Jews traveling abroad to escape the ghetto?

- Reductio ad Hitlerum argument


8 posted on 01/04/2021 6:40:23 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: marshmallow; Al Hitan; DuncanWaring; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; kalee; ...

Ping


9 posted on 01/04/2021 6:41:53 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: PGalt

Thou shalt not move. It’s in the book...you know that thing...Book of Palms...yeah that’s it. 😎


10 posted on 01/04/2021 6:42:27 PM PST by PGalt
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To: PGalt

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0


11 posted on 01/04/2021 6:47:34 PM PST by PGalt
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To: marshmallow

12 posted on 01/04/2021 6:49:01 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: marshmallow

I’ve known it for a long time now, and perhaps the rest of the world will start seeing it too, that, Francis is the devil in disguise. Satan has taken over his soul, and there isn’t a powerful enough exorcist in the world to drive the devil out of him.


13 posted on 01/04/2021 6:57:31 PM PST by adorno
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To: marshmallow

Lighten up,Francis.


14 posted on 01/04/2021 7:04:13 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: marshmallow

Glad he was able to ignore the “painful sciatica” that kept him from Mass long enough to take the speck out of his brother’s eye.


15 posted on 01/04/2021 7:27:56 PM PST by Fedora
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To: marshmallow

He says a “country, he doesn’t remember which....”.......This Pope is a liar. We know he’s talking about The United States because like any other good Godless Communist, he hates the USA. Foolish Jerk.


16 posted on 01/04/2021 8:51:12 PM PST by vespa300
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To: marshmallow

Frankie who’s never missed a meal...

HEY !!! Frankie !!!

It saddens hungry people hat you dont think of them and refuse those rich man’s delicacies ...

HOW DARE YOU !!! eat while there are hungry people in the world ...


17 posted on 01/04/2021 11:15:49 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: marshmallow

He seems to be speaking as the head of the Vatican state, and not as the Vicar of Christ.


18 posted on 01/05/2021 5:48:14 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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