Posted on 12/14/2022 6:29:39 AM PST by rod5591
Pope Francis last week told editors of the European cultural magazines of the Society of Jesus that, in his opinion, World War III had been declared, it was reported Tuesday by La Civilta Cattolica.
Perhaps Russia's invasion of Ukraine “was provoked or not prevented,” the Argentine-born pontiff was also quoted as saying.
“A few years ago it occurred to me to say that we were living a Third World War in pieces. Now, for me, the Third World War has been declared. And this is an aspect that should make us reflect. What is happening to humanity that has had three world wars in a century?” Francis wondered.
“We have to move away from the normal pattern that Little Red Riding Hood was good and the wolf was bad. Something global is emerging, with very intertwined elements,” he added.
The Pope also said a head of state he had met before the start of the war had told him that someone was “barking at Russia's doorstep,” someone who did not understand that “Russians are imperial and they don't allow any foreign power to come near them.”
“That head of state knew how to read the signs of what was happening,” Francis explained.
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>> What is happening to humanity that has had three world wars in a century? <<
Oh FFS, Frankie, WWI was 104 years ago.
Too bad that in spite of Biden’s war on Christianity, Pope Francis again and again and again attacked the man who treated Russia as something other than a prop for a Kabuki theater.
How ‘woke’ of him. After all, western culture is the most evil ever in world history. We should all just euthanize ourselves.
Stick to religion, jackass. You’ve got enough problems with your own pedo clergy.
Not hardly.
"Regarding criticism that he was somehow siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Francis said it was ”simplistic and wrong to say such a thing; but I am simply against reducing complexity to the distinction between good and evil, without thinking about the roots and interests, which are very complex.“”What we have before our eyes is a situation of world war, of global interests, of arms sales and geopolitical appropriation, which is martyring a heroic people,“ the Pope said about Ukrainians.
”It is also true that the Russians thought it would all be over in a week. But they miscalculated. They encountered a courageous people, a people who are struggling to survive and who have a history of struggle,“ he added... “The brutality and ferocity with which this war is being waged by troops, usually mercenaries sent by the Russians, which is "something monstrous."
“Perhaps Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “was provoked or not prevented,” the Argentine-born pontiff was also quoted as saying.”
If the Pope is opening up the discussion to look at the rut of the problem, it tells me that the Neocons didn’t get to pre-screen his speech.
I suspect the Neocons have told the Pope that he broke the rules here and to NOT do that again.
Agreed. 90% of all people killed for being a Christian occurs in Africa. Yet the so-called “vicar of Christ” wants us to focus on Ukraine.
“the wolf was bad”.
Is he denying Satan?
What Empire or Great Power does?
The USA has this thing called the "Monroe Doctrine," for example.
And meanwhile, neocons and grifters from Clinton to Bush to McCain scheme to pull places like Ukraine into their military/economic/political control
Central bankers gone Globalist.
CCP to control world’s sweatshop labor.
CCP to acquire land to feed its labor.
WEF to implement vaccine passports.
WEF to oversee eugenic depopulation.
Russia refuses to comply.
WWIII plausible and Biblical.
He's right
The globalists needed this war. Russia and Ukraine were fervent nation states opposed to the new world fascist order run by elites. The war is accomplishing what the globalists had hoped. Both Russia and Ukraine have become weakened and transformed into pliable cogs of the new world order. America remains the big target. Biden and his cabal are doing all they can to destroy the American nation.
Amazing what stealing a Presidential election from a ‘stop the endless wars’ President, can do to start up the ‘endless wars’..
You know, it’s okay is a regional war remains a regional war.
I don’t think the Pope is the AntiChrist (I could be wrong), but I’m sure they are good friends.
Which side of the war is the Pope on?
As Jordan Peterson and Carl Jung have both said, "people don't have ideas, ideas have people."
The Pope is possessed by an idea.
“We have to move away from the normal pattern that Little Red Riding Hood was good and the wolf was bad”
I never did trust her.
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