Posted on 04/07/2022 7:11:28 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis, despite being the head of worldwide Catholicism, always seems to be apologizing for the faith. In Malta, that apology extended to hiding the cross from illegal Muslim aliens. This act of Christian cowardice was more poignant than usual, given that Malta, in the mid-16th century, was the site of one of the Catholic world's bravest and most successful stands against Islam's push to take over Europe.
The Republic of Malta is a tiny island located southwest of both the toe of the Italian boot and the island of Sicily. Travel farther west from Malta, and you will find yourself heading to Tunisia, in North Africa. Alternatively, if you head east from Malta, after passing from the Mediterranean Sea into the Aegean Sea, you will find yourself at the Bosporus, and the country known as Turkey today, but that was once home to the powerful Ottoman Empire.
In the mid-15th century, the Ottoman Turks emerged from the east to conquer Constantinople, the last remnant of the great Roman empire. They converted the magnificent Church of Hagia Sophia into the Grand Mosque of Hagia Sophia and renamed the city Istanbul. From Istanbul, they continued their conquests.
The Ottoman Empire didn't stop there. It gradually conquered most of the Balkans (and helped give rise to the story of Dracula, since Vlad the Impaler fought the Turks) and acquired large swaths of the Middle East, including Egypt and other parts of North Africa, the Holy Land, Baghdad, Mesopotamia, parts of the Caucasus region (which eventually were incorporated into the Soviet Union), some of the former Venetian empire, and more. The Ottomans seemed unstoppable.
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Hay, it’s Pope Marx.
What does one expect?
Not my Pope.
When I visited in the mid 1990’s it was one of the most Catholic places I had visited. The article mentions Saint Paul in passing - he was actually shipwrecked there (Acts 18:1-10).
If it were Muslims versus Sodomites, which would he choose?
So, the Catholic Pope is ASHAMED of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
He’s a communist piece of crap.
No catholic is obliged to obey anything this fraud decrees.
How the mighty have fallen.
The ghost of Jean Parisot de Valette wept.
pretty sure it didnt work that way under Benedict or the old Pole.
“If it were Muslims versus Sodomites, which would he choose?”
Both.
Maybe get Pope Francis to put some wood on the fire.
Clearly, he'd choose the Muslim Sodomites (the "all of the above" choice)
Both. He needn’t worry. Islam tolerates 10 year old female brides and giving young boys to pederasts.
The island St. Paul was shipwrecked on is called Melite in Acts 28.1. When a snake crawls on to Paul's arm, the local "barbarians" expect Paul to drop dead.
There were two islands named Melite in the ancient Mediterranean, Malta and the one now called Mljet on the Dalmatian coast. Mljet has poisonous snakes. Malta has one species of venomous snake, the cat snake, but apparently it is not dangerous to people, only to the small animals which that snake hunts.
The Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus thought that Mljet was the island where St. Paul was shipwrecked.
The island St. Paul was shipwrecked on is called Melite in Acts 28.1. When a snake crawls on to Paul's arm, the local "barbarians" expect Paul to drop dead.
There were two islands named Melite in the ancient Mediterranean, Malta and the one now called Mljet on the Dalmatian coast. Mljet has poisonous snakes. Malta has one species of venomous snake, the cat snake, but apparently it is not dangerous to people, only to the small animals which that snake hunts.
The Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus thought that Mljet was the island where St. Paul was shipwrecked.
Pretty sure you’re correct, my friend…
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