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Pope Francis: ‘The World is at War, But it is Not a War of Religions’
The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 7/27/16 | Staff Reporter

Posted on 07/27/2016 7:29:10 AM PDT by marshmallow

The Pope spoke to reporters on his flight to Poland for World Youth Day

Pope Francis says the world is at war, but has stressed that it’s not a war of religions.

Francis spoke to reporters on the papal plane en route from Rome to Poland, where he began a five-day visit for World Youth Day.

Asked about the slaying of an 85-year-old priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday, Francis replied: “the real word is war…yes, it’s war. This holy priest died at the very moment he was offering a prayer for all the church.”

He added: “I only want to clarify, when I speak of war, I am really speaking of war … a war of interests, for money, resources. … I am not speaking of a war of religions, religions don’t want war. The others want war.”

Meanwhile, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, sent a message of condolence to Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen, Catholic News Service reports. The cardinal said Pope Francis was “particularly upset that this act of violence took place in a church during Mass, the liturgical act that implores God’s peace for the world.”

In the latest event of violence, the cardinal said, the Pope prayed God would “inspire in all thoughts of reconciliation and brotherhood.”

Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, was another church leader in Krakow for World Youth Day. He told Catholic News Service the attack in France reminded him of the 2010 massacred in Baghdad’s Church of Our Lady of Deliverance “when they held the people inside the church” during Sunday evening Mass “and killed two priests and then started killing the rest.” A total of 48 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.

“This is the sort of world we are living in,” Archbishop....

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To: miss marmelstein
He apparently thinks that Big Banks cut the head off a priest in Rouen.

Or perhaps he thinks it's the downtrodden poor of the Middle East who are rebelling against the big banks by beheading a rural Catholic priest, who's obviously beholden to the big banks.

21 posted on 07/27/2016 7:55:14 AM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: miss marmelstein

And a Bible.


22 posted on 07/27/2016 7:56:43 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: marshmallow

In the latest event of violence, the cardinal said, the Pope prayed God would “inspire in all thoughts of reconciliation and brotherhood.”

The Pope prays and believes reconciliation and brotherhood is possible with the filthy moslems? Even for God Almighty, that is maybe too much to ask...


23 posted on 07/27/2016 8:01:28 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: NorthMountain

You nailed it, I call it a political/military group shrouded by religion.


24 posted on 07/27/2016 8:09:13 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: marshmallow

Resign, old man. You are useless. You are marxist first, then Catholic.


25 posted on 07/27/2016 8:09:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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To: marshmallow

The pope is a fool. A useful idiot of the left.
If anything he could say we battle the forces of evil, not an earthly battle, but no.... always leftist talking points out of that guy.


26 posted on 07/27/2016 8:11:04 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: marshmallow

Globalism vs Freedom. We know where our Pope stands.


27 posted on 07/27/2016 8:12:43 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stutter)
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To: marshmallow

Globalism vs Freedom. We know where our Pope stands.


28 posted on 07/27/2016 8:12:43 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stutter)
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To: marshmallow

He’s a socialist in fact Liberation Theology reduces all issues that way.


29 posted on 07/27/2016 8:14:51 AM PDT by Lent
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To: marshmallow

No, it’s a one sided Jihad, no different from the last 1400 years of Islamic history.


30 posted on 07/27/2016 8:23:59 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: marshmallow
So, this is what it's come to? A pope whose 'insight' doesn't extend much past Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto?

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
31 posted on 07/27/2016 8:30:34 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: AZLiberty

Yes, undoubtedly the murderer was so upset about the .1% return on his cds, he went all jihad on the poor priest.

May he be in paradise today, dear God!


32 posted on 07/27/2016 8:56:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: marshmallow

The Pope is correct; the Islam is not the enemy. The enemy is, always has been, and always will be socialism.


33 posted on 07/27/2016 8:58:06 AM PDT by Blacklisted (SP4VP)
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To: marshmallow

Frankie the idiot pope. Clueless or a liar.


34 posted on 07/27/2016 9:03:15 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: marshmallow

Does this Pope really believe that one can find salvation through islam apart from accepting Jesus Christ as one’s savior?


35 posted on 07/27/2016 9:22:14 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: miss marmelstein

I think the term is willingly blind.


36 posted on 07/27/2016 9:25:30 AM PDT by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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To: marshmallow
In the latest event of violence, the cardinal said, the Pope prayed God would “inspire in all thoughts of reconciliation and brotherhood.”

Says the pope of the ecumenical religion.

Kumbaya!

37 posted on 07/27/2016 9:30:52 AM PDT by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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To: marshmallow
religions don’t want war.

Bagdad Francis.

38 posted on 07/27/2016 9:33:21 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: marshmallow

When the Islamist terrorists slit the pope’s throat maybe he will be momentarily aware of how foolish he is before going straight to hell for all the harm he has done to Catholic Church and the Christian faith.


39 posted on 07/27/2016 9:36:02 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: marshmallow

He does seem to view everything through the lens of Marxist talking points.


40 posted on 07/27/2016 9:42:19 AM PDT by Varda (Christian martyrs die for their faith; Muslim martyrs kill for theirs.)
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