Papal envoy calls for ARMED RESPONSE to defend Christians from Genocide

Catholic Online ^ | August 11, 2014 | Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

Wow.

[don-o]

Dupe and bogus

See post 90 in

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3191615/posts

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why didn’t it come up in search, do you think?

[don-o]

My bad. I will ask to have my comment deleted. That source DID have a bogus story saying the POPE had called to arms.

[jjotto]

What? The Pope was misquoted/misunderstood?

I’m shocked, I tell ya, SHOCKED!

[don-o]

Upon further review, the source still has it wrong - with a different headline

see

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3191615/posts?page=90#90

[drunknsage]

Muslims never change. The crusades are back on and let history show that, again, they started it

[2ndDivisionVet]

So then mine is the most accurate?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Despite the corrected, now-accurate headline ("Papal Envoy"), the rest of the story, from the first sentence, was crafted to create the impression that the Pope called for armed intervention. I wish he had. But he didn't. The Catholic Bishop of the Chaldeans, Louis Sako, of Baghdad, is the one who advocated an armed response, and the Holy See's envoy to the UN said very cautiously, in answer to a question, that it may come to that.

I think Pope Francis should come right out and say it. But he's still using puffy, equivocal language.

Pontifex, The Pope's Tweets on Twitter
August 9
I ask the international community to protect all those suffering violence in Iraq.

It could be construed that "protect" means with arms, not with underarm deodorants, but --- in a Tweet? This is not Pope Urban II at Claremont in 1054.

[MasterGunner01]

Barack, The Magic Negro and Kenyan-Muslim-Marxist usurper, will not be pleased. Will Barack attack the Vatican?

[RetiredTexasVet]

Pope might want to keep an eye out for drones!

[BobL]

Usually Pope’s lament about the decline of spirituality and why the West has to flood itself with 3rd World types.

Times are getting interesting. If ISIS and that bunch want a rerun of the holy wars from the Middle Ages, they might just get that.

[tomsbartoo]

Interesting. And here I thought the mission of the Church was to feed the hungry and bring an end to poverty by cajoling wealthy nations into adopting laws that re-distribute the wealth of their citizens? I guess not. It seems that the new mission is to goad foolish nations into using its military power to save one crazy bunch of Muslim from another crazy bunch of Muslims (okay, throw in a few “Christians” too); with the ultimate goal of “bringing peace” to the Middle East. What could go wrong?

Call me old fashioned, but I can remember a day when the singular mission of the Church was to lead all mankind to salvation. That was way back in the days when the popes, bishops and priests of the Church not only prayed to God for the needs of His people, but they actually believed and trusted that He would provide their every need.

[Iscool]

That doesn’t sound like the Catholic religion I know and admire...But who does this pope expect to pay for this little endeavor??? Did he offer to get up off some of the Vatican’s hundreds of billions to kick in for his war???

[2ndDivisionVet]

So Catholicism preaches pacifism?

[2ndDivisionVet]

So the Crusades didn’t show up in your history textbooks?

[Salvation]

Good research, Mrs. Don-o.

[cloudmountain]

The Magic Negro and Kenyan-Muslim-Marxist usurper, will not be pleased. Will Barack attack the Vatican?

Lol. The "Magic Negro"--that is a GOOD'UN.

Obama is the "great, do-nothing mystifer" to my way of thinking. Pretty useless.

[piusv]

So is this true or not? I, for one don’t see Francis saying anything of the sort.