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I do not see anything remarkable about Francis asking everyone to work for peace. This reads more like a veiled attack on Benedict.
1 posted on 12/25/2013 5:25:17 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Francis, I hope, is playing with the media. He must know that in Christ alone is true peace....all else, however well-meaning, is enmity with God.


2 posted on 12/25/2013 5:30:22 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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"I invite even non-believers to desire peace. (Join us) with your desire, a desire that widens the heart. Let us all unite, either with prayer or with desire, but everyone, for peace,"

What a moron or, at best, a manipulative cynic. Who is waging the fiercest, longest running, deadliest, most intractable war in the world? True Believers, mostly of Islam, to be sure, but "religious" people none the less.

3 posted on 12/25/2013 5:38:43 AM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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I am starting to wonder if this pope even believes in Jesus Christ, as he seems way over concerned with conditions and comforts of people here on earth and I haven’t seen him all that concerned with people’s souls.


7 posted on 12/25/2013 5:54:56 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Did the Roman Pontiff actually single out atheists or "non-believers?" The latter encompasses a much larger group, and it may be the despairing French writers really can't distinguish the difference.

The slug did not reach the threshold necessary for me to follow a Reuters link at this time. The Press has shown a marked retarded tendency of late with regard to describing a leftward tilt in this Pope's doctrine that doesn't hold up under closer examination.

The subtle differences between Francis and Benedict XVI are so open to anyone's honest investigation I see no reason to strain at merely guessing at them second hand through any post-modern journalist's spectacles.

10 posted on 12/25/2013 6:22:17 AM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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This was one of the most pathetic Christmas messages I have ever heard. Including the example of illegal immigrants overwhelming Italy. The only thing missing was a call for those nasty Americans to let every one in.

“Grant that migrants in search of a dignified life may find acceptance and assistance. May tragedies like those we have witnessed this year, with so many deaths at Lampedusa, never occur again!”


11 posted on 12/25/2013 6:52:18 AM PST by Nifster
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You cannot think the wolves will lie down with the sheep.


15 posted on 12/25/2013 8:36:50 AM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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True peace will come when the one who;s birth we just honored once more returns as the great KING.


18 posted on 12/25/2013 9:19:53 PM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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YAY,, another POPE bumper sticker slogan. I can barely keep up.


22 posted on 12/25/2013 9:36:23 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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23 posted on 12/25/2013 9:39:06 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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Dang, the Pope is undermining my cheeky axiom that Atheists are idiots. But I give him a +1 nonetheless.


24 posted on 12/25/2013 9:39:08 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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>> This reads more like a veiled attack on Benedict.

A conclusion you would have drawn without the partiality of Reuters?


25 posted on 12/25/2013 9:42:00 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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