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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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.
And a Bible.
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...
You nailed it, I call it a political/military group shrouded by religion.
Resign, old man. You are useless. You are marxist first, then Catholic.
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.
Globalism vs Freedom. We know where our Pope stands.
Globalism vs Freedom. We know where our Pope stands.
He’s a socialist in fact Liberation Theology reduces all issues that way.
No, it’s a one sided Jihad, no different from the last 1400 years of Islamic history.
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!
The Pope is correct; the Islam is not the enemy. The enemy is, always has been, and always will be socialism.
Frankie the idiot pope. Clueless or a liar.
Does this Pope really believe that one can find salvation through islam apart from accepting Jesus Christ as one’s savior?
I think the term is willingly blind.
Says the pope of the ecumenical religion.
Kumbaya!
Bagdad Francis.
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.
He does seem to view everything through the lens of Marxist talking points.
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