Posted on 02/14/2025 5:17:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
ROME — Jesuit Father James Martin has struck back at the “internet,” launching the disingenuous and counter-factual claim the Vatican “is not a walled city.”
Father Martin, a gay rights activist, was responding to critics who have pointed out the obvious irony involved in Pope Francis’ harsh criticisms against U.S. immigration policy while the Vatican itself is the only walled sovereign territory in the world.
The massive, 40-foot-high walls surrounding Vatican City State were built by Pope Leo IV, after Islamic Saracen troops sacked Old St. Peter’s Basilica in 846 AD.
The original wall encompassed the entire Vatican hill, surrounding what came to be known as the Leonine City, but was later reduced to circumscribe the 110-acre Vatican City that exists today.
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Flat out lie. I’ve been to the Vatican.
The was a wall around Jerusalem. God told the Jews to build it and it wasn’t to keep people in.
Cue Baghdad Bob
The Catholic Church learned nothing from the Bud Lite disaster. Their name is becoming toxic.
They complain more about illegal immigrant invaders being removed than abortions .
Father Martin may want to read the Bible and all the mentions to walls in it. Such as, and maybe appropriate to the Father:
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Proverbs 25:28 ESV
This type of crap is why Catholic leadership didn't want you reading the Bible for yourself. You are supposed to listen to them.
Me too. That wall is tall, and impressive. I have no idea why James Martin would lie so blatantly like this, knowing full well that any picture of the Vatican exposes him to ridicule. He must be aiming his foolishness at the ignorant, hoping to keep them that way.
Jesuit Father James Martin: “Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes??!”
LIAR!!! GAY LIAR!! I’ve SEEN the VATICAN WALL!
Father whomever, “a gay rights activist”. Aren’t they all.
The WALL is HIGH and THICK!
Only if satan is winning, which he is not. The Catholic Church remains unblemished, it is men who are with sin. Not God. There are some bad men within Jesus’ church right now as there has always been. But, the Church has never changed.
Of course not. The wall is around the Lord’s manor, while the peasants outside suffer the crime waves and other problems illegals bring.
Try to stampede cattle in The Vatican and see what happens.
Just go on the internet and look up the penalty for illegally entering the Vatican. Its between $10 and $25K and up to four years in jail. That’s the lowest level of penalty. If someone brings in a gun or tries to evade capture, it goes up.
"Becoming?" Watch the movie "Spotlight." "Catholic" has been toxic for a long time.
Open the Big Gates of the Vatican and give illegals food and shelter.
Isn’t it interesting how someone at the highest level of church hierarchy could say something that at the least is parsing, and the worst is blantantly lying in public.
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