Posted on 08/11/2014 2:12:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pope Francis has joined with Christians facing genocide in Iraq and Syria, calling upon the world to make an armed response to the Islamic State. He has asked the world to "stop these crimes" and called for the use of "a professional, well-equipped army."
You know a situation is bad when a pope calls for an armed response. Pope Francis, widely appreciated as a practical and realistic man, is not just calling for a cease-fire or negotiations. Instead, he is inviting an armed response to the terrorism of the Islamic State.
Such a call is virtually unprecedented for a pontiff in modern times, but our age is an extraordinary one and the Islamic State has no interest in a bargaining table. Instead, the Islamic State is bent on genocide and barbarism, ruthlessly exterminating anyone who opposes them.
On Sunday, Pope Francis said he held "dismay and disbelief" over what is happening in Iraq. He called the Islamic State fighters terrorists and said there was a need for "a professional, well-equipped army." "The situation is going from bad to worse," he warned.
Meanwhile, Pope Francis was not the only cleric calling for swift and decisive action to end the genocide in Iraq. The Episcopal Vicar of Iraq, Canon Andrew White, managed to visit the town of Qaraqosh under cover and personally assess the situation in that community following Islamic State capture.
His words are chilling. "Today, Qaraqosh stands 90 per cent empty, desecrated by the gunmen of the fanatical Islamic State terror group now in control. The majority of the town's 50,000 people have fled, fearing that, like other Christians in this region, they will be massacred.
"The militants, in a further act of sacrilege, have established their administrative posts in the abandoned churches."
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
The Swiss Guards are an executive protection force ... there are only about a hundred of them
Honestly i think when all is said and done the most remarkable thing about the Obama Admistration is not all that Obama did to drive America into the ground and didn’t do as the world fell apart. But rather his adoring press core’s propaganda machine to willfully ignore what is quite obviously some of the worse atrocities in human history overseas, and most obvious corruption and incompetent scew-ups in American history at home.
Never has it been so Obvious that an entire generation of reporters were so completely in the pocket for one political party. It is as if they are putting their fingers in their ears singing to will the bad news to go away, less they feel compelled to mention it.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/patriarch-sako-iraqi-christians-risk-a-real-genocide/
Here is what Wiki says about the quote .
“When they discovered, from the admissions of some of them, that there were Catholics mingled with the heretics they said to the abbot “Sir, what shall we do, for we cannot distinguish between the faithful and the heretics.” The abbot, like the others, was afraid that many, in fear of death, would pretend to be Catholics, and after their departure, would return to their heresy, and is said to have replied “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius - Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His” (2 Tim. ii. 19) and so countless number in that town were slain.”
Highly trained? Do you have a source?
There are armies of Catholic veterans, and other Catholics who could arm them and pay for them to intervene in such a crisis. Even with the ROE of only defending the innocent, otherwise not fighting the inhuman monsters unless they attack, it would be a slam-dunk humanitarian mission.
Truly, even other Christian denominations could join in such a mission, in one way or another.
It is past time for the Catholic church to organize such an army. The world needs it, as do vast numbers of innocent people. Reliance on government to do the right thing has long been wanting.
Aren’t they just Swiss GIs that have been through basic training?
Source?
Can't prove it by asking any Cathars - they're all dead.
Every single last one of them.
Post 125 was meant for mware.
+1
Thank you for your diligence. I was hoping that the Pope was the one who was the one who saw that the atrocities have to be stopped, and military force was needed.
To this day, Catholics are appalled at the Crusade against the Albigensians. It was a protracted crime of aggression, a crime against God and humanity.
You are expressing indignation against an event 800 years in the past that no Catholic/Christian would today defend. There's no merit nor courage in that; it's a waste of moral energy. You might as well take your stand at Pevensie and excoriate the Normans.
I say this with absolute honesty: you are the very first Catholic I have ever heard say this. Thank you. I agree completely. And I do not hold it against those in the Church today - it was a product of its time. But hearing it defended over and over by modern Catholics has been very difficult to bear.
For God, the Cid and Spain!
The liberal leftie Catholic weenies in the US have been bringing over terrorist populations for years and dumping them on our welfare systems. We’ll see ISIS over here taking town by town if it continues.
Too little, too late came immediately to mind.
Where do you find these freaks?
LOL, here! On Free Republic! In pages-long, rolling battles, complete with the Religion Mod eventually wading in and separating both sides to their corners, and then a repeat every six months or so!
...could make very good cheese wih holes
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