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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We’d still have people calling for his sainthood because of his supposed martyrdom.
He would be a martyr allright but for multiculturalism, not Christianity.
I am not speaking of a war of religions....
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Well, he is right there; it is satanism against religion.
Well said.
Yeah, capitalism decapitated the poor priest, I suppose.
Mohammedanism isn’t a relgion; it’s satanism.
relgion = religion
Yes it is, Pancho.
But your pope's a Socialist...He's admitting he's the problem???
He is a propagandist slyly attempting to establish a false equivalence.
Francis: “It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam, however, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.”
Anti_Pope. Currently trying to spread his errors, and indoctrinate youth in the land of Jan Sobieski.
The problem is that some would rather have us pick a fight with a 1.5 billion people who are on our side against the terrorists instead of wanting to help Muslims annihilate the Arab-Socialist stragglers giving Islam a bad name now.
They aren't on our side, never have been and never will be. One of the very tenets of their demonic religion is terrorism and they've been carrying that out since that spawn of Satan: Mohammed, cursed be his name, walked the earth.
The Kurds aren’t on our side either? Must Religious Fanatics make enemies of everyone?
Kurds? Sounds like you’ve switched horses in midstream. Make up your mind. Where did you get the wild idea that there are 1.5 billion Kurds?
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