Posted on 09/25/2015 9:10:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I expect this will occur the day the pope throws open the gates of Vatican City to all who wish to live there.
Invoking Martin Luther King Jr. and his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Francis made an impassioned plea for the refugees fleeing Syria, saying the crisis is “of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War.”
Noting his own status as “the son of immigrants,” the pope pivoted to a more sensitive subject: The flow of illegal immigrants across the United States’s southern border.
He urged compassion for immigrants, warning not to repeat “the sins and the errors of the past” by turning them away.
“On this continent, too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones, in search of greater opportunities. Is this not what we want for our own children? We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation,” Francis said, according to his prepared remarks.
“Let us remember the golden rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,’ ” he added.
“This rule points us in a clear direction. Let us treat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated. Let us seek for others the same possibilities which we seek for ourselves. Let us help others to grow, as we would like to be helped ourselves.”
Several Democrats applauded as Francis declared, “We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.”
Most Republicans did not join in the applause, with GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a son of Cuban immigrants, among the exceptions.
The old Cheech and Chong joke about the papal stance on sex — “He no playa the game, he no makea the rules” — applies here. Vatican City is a self-governing enclave of Italy, and yet, you need a pass to get into the area and a permit to live there.
Perhaps the pope could allow 100,000 Syrians to set up camp in St. Peter’s Square? Nothing like showing “compassion” for the immigrants. Of course, the idea is ridiculous but so is telling us to open our border to allow millions to come in. Will the Vatican send cash to help us take care of them?
The pope doesn’t get it. The world is full of countries that murder their own people, oppress their personal and political aspirations, or are at war with one or several of their neighbors. There are also dozens of civil wars. Nations like the U.S. and those in western Europe are the exception to the rule. Most of the rest of the planet is a dark, miserable, dangerous place for humans to live.
The west has spent a thousand years carefully, even painfully, building up institutions, traditions, and habits of thought that have allowed us to construct societies that, for most, answer the basic human yearning for freedom and security. The addition of millions of people unfamiliar with these institutions and traditions — and unwilling to learn them — would fundamentally alter and undermine the societies in which they settled.
To those who built those societies and those trying to maintain them, this would be radically unfair and, dare I say, immoral. The pope is cashing checks with his heart that the rest of us can’t afford. I would suggest he change his definition of “compassion” when it comes to the mass migration of people.
I agree. Until the church divests itself of it's riches and truly picks up the cross of Christ it will not be believed in this modern world.
That being said, I am a cradle Catholic and love the church. This is a bad Pope. There have been some over the millenniums. Electing a socialist from Argentina was a mistake. The church will survive Francis because Jesus Himself said to Peter that the forces of the devil will not prevail against it.
Notice that the two families taken in the by Vatican are CHRISTIANS.
You are right: The Pope should take in 3,000 young, healthy, Muslim males. And no fair screening out the ISIS fighters.
Agreed. Cruz should be saying NOTHING about the Pope. You think Cruz is trying to curry favor with Catholics?
The WSJ had a great little editorial today saying that Pope Fatuous the First (well, I admit, those are my words) was admitting that capitalism is better when he said that the “refugees” from the southern countries - mainly from the socialist countries - are coming north seeking a decent standard of living and opportunity.
Ok, Francis, so why can’t the socialist Latin American countries (which include Mexico) give them that? Maybe because socialism turned Venezuela from a food exporter to a place where people are literally starving and killing each other over their ration books in front of grocery stores? Maybe because all the oil and mineral wealth of these countries goes to the government and party honchos (the daughter of the late Hugo Chavez is the fourth wealthiest woman in the world because he funneled his stolen wealth out of VZ through her).
‘You think Cruz is trying to curry favor with Catholics?’
That is an excellent question. Namely, WHY is Cruz gushing/fawning over a Pope whose advice, if followed, would very shortly destroy even the vestiges of this once great country?
I wish I knew. Is the average Catholic pro wide open borders/unchecked foreign invaders, loss of sovereignty, economic ruin and the end of the US as we’ve known it?
I doubt even legal Mexican immigrants wish to see the country reduced to third world hellhole status.
The only category I can envision embracing the Pope’s national-suicide plan is the La Raza types. Are they really so numerous that they merit a big slobbering pander?
The crowds attracted by the Pope are the low-information Catholics. People who don’t actually pay any attention to what he says, or the appointments he makes, or the South American skulduggery and thuggery in the Vatican. They just see the white cassock.
I agree with Cruz 150% on the “issues.” But I think he’s a lousy speaker. Too programmed. Too many phony mannerisms—the stammer, especially. And the nasal voice. He’s NOT “taking off.”
Cruz is brilliant. But Trump is a fast-talking, funny New Yorker, and therefore SOUNDS smarter.
Surely the man read a little something, other than Marx, in his lifetime?
Did he pay no attention to previous Popes?
From John Paul II to Francis in only eight years.
Not good.
I found parts of the Pope's speech to Congress beautiful... so I'll refrain from the comment I was going to make...
Preach it, GOPJ.
As long as its just the Baja! The best fishing in the world all up and down the Baja!
This Pope is meddling in politics==Pope John Paul II felt differently.
Father Drinan was a Congressman from MA.
“In 1980, Pope John Paul II unequivocally demanded that all priests withdraw from electoral politics. Fellow Democrat Father Robert John Cornell, who was seeking a rematch in Wisconsin, and Drinan complied and did not seek reelection.[2]” -—from Wiki
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Pope John Paul II was a phenomenal man. I was unaware of this. I do remember reading some of his thoughts on the significant issues of the day, and recall that they were spoken with an eye towards unchanging truths, not the hot topics of the day. His framing of “the Culture of Death” was cogent and seminal. A most impressive man. I miss him and his counsel.
And I am a Protestant.
LMAO.
Agree that Cruz is extremely intelligent. That only makes his OTT praise of Francis harder to fathom. It’s not playing well with Trump supporters, let me tell you.
The rest of your analysis is very interesting. Cruz is certainly not taking off. In addition to what you said, it’s just an anti-professional politician wave, and—agreeing with you—Cruz does sound like a pol.
Drinan was my Congressman and he had the liberal arrogance of most Jesuits.
Barney Frank moved to the district and was elected in his place. A carpetbagger.
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Tokenism This pope is owned by communists, liberal progressive devils...abortionists, divorcees, Muslim murderers of Christians....and not a whimper from this little pope. He may be leading his "flock" to extinction, the end of real Catholicism.
In other words, when GOD gives pigs wings to fly with, then I'll support it.
I thought the U.S. Open ended a coupla weeks ago.
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