Posted on 12/18/2014 5:08:38 AM PST by servo1969
On Wednesday Barack Obama thanked Pope Francis for playing a key role finalizing a deal between the US and Cuba.
Pope Francis is now set on closing Gitmo.
World Net Daily reported:
Having helped broker the agreement to normalize relations between the United States and communist Cuba, Pope Francis plans next to turn his attention to closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, a goal he shares with President Obama.
In a meeting last week at the Vatican with Secretary of State John Kerry, the Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Parolin, second in authority to the pope, offered to assist U.S. efforts to close the facility for terrorism suspects.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the Vatican stood ready “to help find adequate humanitarian solutions through our international contacts” to help place current detainees,” Agence France-Presse reported.
The White House said Wednesday that the re-establishment of U.S. relations with Cuba after more than five decades came after Pope Francis and Obama discussed Cuba at their most recent meeting, which was followed by a Vatican-hosted meeting between U.S. and Cuban officials, the White House told reporters Wednesday.
The White House believes the normalizing of diplomatic relations with the island nation would not have happened without the involvement of Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff from Latin America.
The pope seeks a humanitarian solution for Gitmo.
As many as 20 to 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of having joined forces with the Islamic State.
ISIS has obliterated the Catholic community in Iraq and beheaded Christian children. ISIS also threatened Pope Francis in August.
Fine Mr. Pope. We will send them to the Vatican.
Fricking idiot.
L
This reminds me of the movie “Unforgiven” when the Schofield Kid says ‘they had it coming’ and Will Munny reminds him ‘We all got it coming kid.’
What do we expect after 40 years of legal abortion in this country alone? And now the acceptance of sodomite marriage in churches which call themselves Christian? Of shrugging our shoulders at sin. Of salad bar Christianity?
I am guilty. You are guilty. Listen to the words of Our Lady during her appearance in Akita, Japan 1973:
The third message on October 13, 1973, the actual anniversary of the final visions and miracle of Fatima is as follows: “As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son.
Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.
“The demon will rage especially against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them.”
I don’t think we’ve gotten much better since 1973 and the words/warning of Our Lady are pretty accurate wouldn’t you agree?
Pick up your rosary, pray, perform penance, get right with God. We all got it coming and I think it’s coming soon.
Closing Gitmo? No way,Jose!
I don’t know about if he had a connection to liberation theology. I do know, however, that many have alleged he played a nasty role during the years of Argentina’s military dictatorship between roughly 1976-1980. During those years thousands of people were kidnapped and killed, including a group of priests. I don’t know the details of the allegations against him. I do know that when Bergoglio was sued over his involvement, he refused to testify.
It always looked to a friend of mine like one of those teased-up beehive hairdos from the sixties, designed to make the woman seem taller and therefore slimmer.
I was thinking the same thing. He certainly is a train wreck for conservative causes.
Just wait for him to give Castro the American installation at Guantanamo. This will happen before 2016.
He promised to shut it down and he will do it and give it away.
Absolutely preposterous, Pope Francis have done nothing to pursue the freedom of thousands of Cuban political prisoners languishing in Castro’s dungeons, but he is pressuring U.S. to free all the murderous Islamic terrorists imprisoned in Gitmo, a jail with accommodations that rival many 4 starts resorts.
I wonder if Francis is going to offer refuge to the Islamic terrorists in the Vatican.
After 23 years suffering torture and humiliations in Castro’s political dungeons, Cuban writer and poet, Armando Valladares recalled: “During those years, with the purpose of forcing us to abandon our religious beliefs and to demoralize us, the Cuban Communist indoctrinators repeatedly used the statements made by some representatives of the American Christian churches. Every time a pamphlet was published in U.S., every time a clergyman would write an article in support of Castro’s dictatorship, a translation would be given to us, and that was far worse for the Christian political prisoners than the beatings or the hunger. Incomprehensible to us, while we waited for the embrace of solidarity from our brothers in Christ, those who were embraced were our tormentors.”
After more than 50 years of violations of their human rights, is inconceivable that once again the Cuban people is betrayed by those most called to defend and demand their right to freedom and the respect for their human dignity. Pope Francis negotiated and blessed a Faustian accord in which an apprentice of tyrant came to the rescue of the regimen of a genocide tyrant throwing under bus and condemning the Cuban people to eternal damnation. By this accord, the American taxpayers will keep afloat the Cuban government assuming the financing the Stalinist regime.
During the Second Vatican Council, H.H. Pope Paul VI, exasperated with the chaos prevailing, said that “it seems that the smoke from hell have entered through the windows of the Vatican.” Under Francis a five alarm fire is destroying the Vatican and the Church.
This Pope is a disaster. Benedict is the rightful Pope. This Fraud Francis was chosen by the world progressive NWO types. Benedict did not do their bidding. This Obama clone clown is just what they wanted to fool the dummie masses.
He’s wearing that funny hat. I thought he shunned the pope costume
CDF head: Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology
The Tablet ^ | 5/2/14 | Christa Pongratz-Lippitt
According to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology, the same discaterio that once condemned the movement. In the 1980s the CDF under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger attacked liberation theology as borrowing “from various currents of Marxist thought.”
Few know that Müller is also a pupil of Gustavo Gutierrez, the “father” of Latin-American liberation theology. It certainly, when Müller, the prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith affirms that “Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology” it makes clear the reason for the exaltation of Leonardo Boff and the most radical leaders of the Marxist Liberation theology with the election of Pope Francisco .
Pope Francis’ opening to liberation theology is in stark contrast with the persecution to a very orthodox order for its adherence to Tridentine mass and the traditional tenets and liturgy that were the standard of the Catholic Church for hundreds of years.
We pray to God that the followers of the Marxist Liberation Theology are wrong and that Pope Francis is going to prove to be as loyal to the True Faith as was Pope Wojtyla and Pope Ratzinger.
Pope John Paul II was strongly influenced by his first hand experience of living under Communism. Is unquestionable that Bergoglio has been influenced by the Argentinean peronism; a supposedly third way between socialism and capitalism, although in reality is another form of fascism. What is more worrisome is the close relationship of Pope Francis with the most radical leaders of the Marxist Liberation Theology. The liberationists rejoiced with the election of Cardinal Bergoglio, it seems that they take for granted that he is one of them.
One of Pope Francis’ most vocal supporters since his election has been Leonardo Boff, one of the founders of liberation theology, and the most radical at it, a man silenced by the Vatican in 1985, and later by his Franciscan Order, because of attacks to the Church. An exulted Leonardo Boff expressed his feelings: ‘This pope will change the church’, basically according to Boff we shouldn’t need a pope. The church could build a network of religious communities which communicate with each other.
In the 1980s the CDF under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger attacked liberation theology as borrowing “from various currents of Marxist thought“.
Pope Francis is nuts and need to be stopped.
Francis proudly brags to be the Che of the Palestinian. He proved to be another Che for the Cuban people after his unholy alliance with Obama to keep afloat the communist regime that have enslaved and tortured its people for over 56 years.
Who got to him? I admit this Pope is the worst, the most political.
Did Obama send someone?
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