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Pope Francis to American journalists: Support unity, don't favor division
Rome Reports ^ | February 2, 2021 | Rome Reports

Posted on 02/03/2021 1:18:15 PM PST by ebb tide

Pope Francis to American journalists: Support unity, don't favor division

Pope Francis met with representatives of Catholic News Service at the Vatican. The media agency has been providing news to the English-speaking world for the past 100 years. 

The pope reminded them of the media's responsibility to overcome divisions rather than fuel sensationalism and scandal.

POPE FRANCIS
“I think this way. You think that way. We can discuss it, but with the same heart. Support unity. Don't favor division, because journalism has four main sins. FLASH Don't forget these four sins: disinformation, calumny, defamation and coprophilia.”

He also praised the work of the Church in the United States, calling it courageous, generous and humble.

POPE FRANCIS
“It welcomes immigrants, and what the Church does for immigrants is huge, no? It's generous, because the Church in the United States has many economic possibilities, and it gives aid generously. FLASH The Church [in the U.S.] is very alive, very very alive. There are perhaps traditionalist groups, but we have those here in the Vatican too. This can be healed.”

He also joked about his recent painful episodes of sciatica, for which the doctor recommended he cancel his attendance at several important events.

“[The doctor] said, 'But go to the Angelus so they don't say you're dead.”

After their conversation, CNS representatives gave the pope this compilation of his own prayers and the “Council Daybook,” prepared by the CNS covering the Second Vatican Council.


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Don't forget these four sins: disinformation, calumny, defamation and coprophilia.”

There he goes again with the filthy mind.

The Church [in the U.S.] is very alive, very very alive. There are perhaps traditionalist groups, but we have those here in the Vatican too. This can be healed.”

This can be healed? Does Bergoglio think of traditional Catholics as a wound to the Catholic Church?

He's got something up his slippery sleeve.

1 posted on 02/03/2021 1:18:15 PM PST by ebb tide
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Ping


2 posted on 02/03/2021 1:18:59 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Shut up, Francis.


3 posted on 02/03/2021 1:19:17 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tagline Under Review)
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To: ebb tide

So says the most divisive Pope in modern history.


4 posted on 02/03/2021 1:21:48 PM PST by circlecity
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To: ebb tide

The communist pope speaks gibberish once again


5 posted on 02/03/2021 1:23:05 PM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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To: ebb tide

Y’all heard Poop Francis, didn’t you, journalists? “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” . . . Oh . . . he hasn’t said that, has he? . . . .


6 posted on 02/03/2021 1:23:29 PM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: ebb tide

I stopped listening to relevant radio after the election because if you Catholics can’t see that your shepherd is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,that’s too bad.


7 posted on 02/03/2021 1:24:17 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

From movie Stripes: Lighten up, Francis


8 posted on 02/03/2021 1:24:41 PM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: ebb tide

Coprophelia? I had to look that one up. I don’t see too much media having to do with feces but maybe it has other meanings. I think that word is in the ballpark but not the right word. It’s the media’s broader prurient interests - the bikini shots etc, when there is no real story and it’s just used to make money... And these days, a lot of “media” is self-promotion on the various platforms.

Not to nitpick but calumny includes disinformation and slander.


9 posted on 02/03/2021 1:25:52 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ebb tide

Support unity, don’t favor division>>>>>>>>>>

Do you suppose President Biden, so called, a confessed Roman Catholic, will now begin to back off his policy supporting abortion up to just moments before birth?

Buahahahahahahaha!

UNity means SUBMISSION. Unity is a code word for submitting to socialism, a body politic very much supported by this Pope, in the name of the Blather , Bun, and the Holy Boast.

I much prefer reading the speech of our Pope,Samuel Adams, speaking at the State House in Philadelphia on August 1st, 1776 :

“” If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”


10 posted on 02/03/2021 1:27:11 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: ebb tide
Says the most evil and divisive “Pope” is history.
11 posted on 02/03/2021 1:27:19 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Frank is a total disaster and in his tenure, he and his sycophants have just about destroyed the church.


12 posted on 02/03/2021 1:29:07 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ebb tide

I had to look coprophilia up. What is Francis’ problem?

Calumny and defamation are synonyms.


13 posted on 02/03/2021 1:29:30 PM PST by FR_addict
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To: ebb tide
Don't forget these four sins: disinformation, calumny, defamation

Three of Francis's favorite sins when spreading lies about traditionalists.

14 posted on 02/03/2021 1:32:45 PM PST by Fedora
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To: ebb tide

The guy is a heretic.


15 posted on 02/03/2021 1:42:05 PM PST by CASchack
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To: Candor7
Unity is a code word for submitting

The left has done a pretty good job using euphemisms and changing definitions of words.

They no longer talk much about equality, instead using the word equity. They'll use the word racism to describe anything that they think offends some identity. Reproductive rights means abortion (nobody really disputes a woman's right to "reproduce"). Gun control doesn't have anything to do with the safe handling of weapons... and so on.

16 posted on 02/03/2021 1:42:45 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ebb tide

What is he Pope of again? The Democrat Party?


17 posted on 02/03/2021 1:42:59 PM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ebb tide

Remember all the times he said this to democrats during Trump’s Term? Nope- Me either


18 posted on 02/03/2021 1:44:25 PM PST by Bob434
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To: falcon99

This fraud will personally stamping 666 on foreheads... wait for it. “Don’t resist. Unity”


19 posted on 02/03/2021 1:53:24 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: ebb tide

Catholicism is correlated to corruption and fascism.


20 posted on 02/03/2021 1:57:02 PM PST by tbw2
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