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Vatican Official Decries ‘Obsession’ with National Security, Border Control
Breitbart ^ | 12 Jan 2018 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

Posted on 01/14/2018 10:59:22 AM PST by Mr. Mojo

A Vatican official has come out swinging in defense of Pope Francis’ insistence on the topic of immigration, accusing the Pope’s critics of being “obsessed” with national security and border control.

Asked in an interview with Italian media whether the Pope isn’t “obsessed” with the immigration question, Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, undersecretary for the Vatican’s office of Migrants and Refugees, responded that it isn’t Pope Francis who is obsessive, but rather his critics.

Many would say that the modern “obsession with borders and national security to the detriment of the rights and dignity of refugees and refugees” is excessive, the priest declared. And for many others, “the media predilection for sensational stories that feed xenophobia and isolationism is also excessive,” he added.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: michaelczerny; popefrancis; vatican
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To: Mr. Mojo

A “Vatican official”: pompous pope yes-man.


21 posted on 01/14/2018 11:20:54 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Mr. Mojo

Has any other Pope, all down the line to St. Peter the Apostle, objected to this extent with any nation’s right for the security of their own people or border control?

Yet it is of paramount importance in this day and age.

You have to ask yourself why that might be.


22 posted on 01/14/2018 11:22:28 AM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

St. Peter’s would make a really nice refugee shelter. The Sistine Chapel could probably hold a couple of hundred more.

Frannie needs to put his money where his mouth is.


23 posted on 01/14/2018 11:24:31 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Mr. Mojo

Gee, I wonder where this could be...

24 posted on 01/14/2018 11:28:25 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Mr. Mojo

Well then... tear down that wall around the Vatican and dismiss the Swiss Guard!


25 posted on 01/14/2018 11:30:32 AM PST by Dragonfly
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To: dfwgator

Hell, Mussolini made a -deal- with the Vatican, they were his kingmaker. He wasn’t Catholic but he needed their endorsement to survive the 98% Catholic Italy of that era.

Anyway, maybe el papa can show us all the way. Disband his praetorian Swiss guard with all those guns, and let all the people in shithole countries flood in and set up camp inside his walled garden.


26 posted on 01/14/2018 11:30:38 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Says the Marxist priest sitting on a pile of gold who is surrounded by armed Swiss Guards and a 65’ foot high wall.

Is the Pope Catholic? NOPE!


27 posted on 01/14/2018 11:31:17 AM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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To: Steely Tom

They don’t need locks - you can’t get past the wall.


28 posted on 01/14/2018 11:32:59 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Mr. Mojo; All

Pope Pius blesses American troops who liberated Rome from the Germans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLXOUMhIe6I


29 posted on 01/14/2018 11:35:25 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

My Pope absolutely understood the importance of borders.

30 posted on 01/14/2018 11:47:29 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: Mr. Mojo
.....“obsession with borders and national security to the detriment of the rights and dignity of refugees and refugees”......

Translation ... Rome is hooked on the cash they receive from US taxpayers for their human trafficking operations. No DACCA no $$$$ for fake based charities...

31 posted on 01/14/2018 11:59:06 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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Note that Arabs had damaged Old St. Peter’s the year before the Leonine Walls were built.
Arab raid against Rome

Corrections welcome.


32 posted on 01/14/2018 12:01:00 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: factoryrat
The crusaders spent centuries fighting back the muslim hordes and running them out of Europe.
Now the socialsts and catholics, a few centuries later, are welcoming the muslim barbarians with open arms.

THERE IS NO REAL EXPLANATION FOR STUPIDITY; THE FACTS ARE CLEAR.

The Catholic and other Christian churches have changed in the last 1200 years.

The primitive, animalistic, cruel and savage, ignorant, murdering, abusive, two-legged animals calling themselves the "religion of peace," has not. I was a young man in the 1960s; I was fortunate to have received most of my education from either Christian Brothers or Jesuits. The Catholic Church since then has become a cruel and painful joke. And the rot continues...

If I had known then how the koranimals would revive the brutal, cruel, unbelievably savage tortures and executions of the dark ages, in the latter part of the 20th Century, I would have deemed the claim absurd, if not insane; Primarily the apparent indifference with which the civilized world has responded.

I will join the "New Crusaders," as soon as I find them. Dedicated to the total (once and for all) extinction of islam, all of if, without a trace!

Don't expect an apology or change of heart during my lifetime.

33 posted on 01/14/2018 12:33:15 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: DesertRhino
a reminder: If anyone has not read : The Camp of the Saints (1973,) they should.

It is available as a PDF on line.

34 posted on 01/14/2018 12:46:32 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: Mr. Mojo

The vatican is pushing Catholics up from the south to conquer America.

The Vatican is an American enemy


35 posted on 01/14/2018 12:48:51 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert
The vatican is pushing Catholics up from the south to conquer America.

Let's not get carried away.
The animals from the South sh*****es aren't Catholic.

They are the killer heathens the church monks tried to deal with in the 16th century.

Nothing much has changed.

36 posted on 01/14/2018 12:55:27 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: publius911

a culture of liars, rapists, thieves, killers and useless detritus.


37 posted on 01/14/2018 12:59:28 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: Mr. Mojo

Popie and boys want just one big, we are the world orgy. No thanks.


38 posted on 01/14/2018 2:11:27 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Mr. Mojo

Pope Francis and Jesuit Father Michael Czerny are so far out of it that it stumps me. Even nuns have more smarts than them. What they are preaching is that we allow radical muslims into our country that have vowed to kill us. Pope Francis and Jesuit Father Michael Czerny can go pound sand. What the hell is wrong with the Jesuits?


39 posted on 01/14/2018 2:35:10 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

They are committed to globalism and world government. A lot of leftists—and that includes a lot of Jesuits—think that the concepts of borders, and even nations, are evil and lead to war.

Do not be confused. Jesuits are generally not stupid, and are usually highly educated (Pope Francis being an exception). But they have pretty much given up on the traditional concept of Salvation. What they really want is Heaven on Earth.

And for that reason, they are neither Catholic or Christian.


40 posted on 01/14/2018 2:41:47 PM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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