Posted on 03/21/2016 4:51:33 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
(Daily Caller) Pope Francis went off script and turned political during his Palm Sunday homily, comparing nations who won’t accept refugees to the leaders who allowed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Francis spoke for the Christian holiday in St. Peter’s Square Sunday, where he compared leaders indifferent to the fate of the flood of refugees migrating to Europe to the leaders who did not intervene to save Jesus, Reuters reports.
“I am thinking of so many other people, so many marginalized people, so many asylum seekers, so many refugees,” Francis said. “There are so many who don’t want to take responsibility for their destiny.”
Palm Sunday is the day Christians celebrate Jesus coming into the city of Jerusalem riding on a donkey, as prophesied in the Old Testament. It also marks one week before Jesus rose from the dead. The Gospels say the people of Jerusalem welcomed Jesus on Sunday with cheers in the streets, but by the end of the week he was crucified.
“Jesus also suffered on his own skin indifference, because no one wanted to take on the responsibility for his destiny,” Francis said. “And I am thinking of so many people, so many on the margins, so many refugees” for whom “many don’t want to assume responsibility for their destiny,”
Francis’s original homily stuck to more traditional Palm Sunday topics of Jesus, life and death, and the forgiveness of sins.
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Happy Easter everyone!
He’s becoming ridiculous
...one worlders are getting so obvious now
And he’s still alive. He was “retired” by the same forces that pushed Pope Marx the First.
“Refugees” are one thing.
“Invading Muslim army” is another.
Pope “The Biden” Francis just keeps on giving us looney tunes to ponder.
And homosexual marriage is “just like” the civil rights struggle.
And Islam is “just like” Catholicism.
Puh-leeze.
The only problem with your post is that the Episcopalians have not been Christian for decades. Ever since they started ordaining gay priest and bishops.
At our Baptist church, the pastor sidetracked very briefly into the political realm before his sermon. He said the only thing he will say is that being pro-life is a MUST for any candidate. That goes to the foundation of the faith. He wasn’t really going to go any further than that.
So...the refugees have to be rejected so that we can be saved?
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