Posted on 07/31/2016 5:33:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Pope spoke to reporters on the flight back to Rome from Kraków
Speaking to journalists aboard his return flight from Kraków, Poland, on Sunday, Pope Francis said that violence exists in all religions, including Catholicism, and it cannot be pinned to one single religion.
I do not like to speak of Islamic violence because everyday when I look through the papers, I see violence here in Italy, the Pope told reporters.
And they are baptised Catholics. There are violent Catholics. If I speak of Islamic violence, I also have to speak of Catholic violence, he added.
Spending about 30 minutes with reporters and responding to six questions, Pope Francis was asked to elaborate on comments he had made flying to Poland on July 27 when he told the journalists that religions are not at war and want peace.
The Popes initial comment came in speaking about the murder July 26 of an elderly priest during Mass in a Catholic church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France. Two men, armed with knives, entered the church during Mass. The attackers murdered 84-year-old Father Jacques Hamel, slitting his throat. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the murder.
Although the death of the French priest was committed in the name of Islam, the Pope said that it is unfair to label an entire religion violent because of the actions of a few fundamentalists.
One thing is true. I believe that in almost all religions, there is always a small fundamentalist group. We have them, too, the Pope said. When fundamentalism goes to the point of killing you can even kill with the tongue. This is what St James says, but (you can kill) also with a knife.
He added: I do not think it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right and.......
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‘If I speak of Islamic violence, I also have to speak of Catholic violence, he added.
Wow. What a loser. Catholic violence is a sin that gets punished. Islamic violence is a virtue that gets promoted. And the pope cannot figure that out? Wow.
Well it is definitely no longer correct to associate the Pope with God.
I think he’s right.
you cannot equate islam to violence.
there’s more to it than first thoughts.
you have to add death, as in death and destruction.
thennn, the equation works.
Useful Idiot in the classical sense.
Huh?
You can’t find Wikipedia and type in “Papal Infallibility”?
Or is that what you needed explained for you?
Anyway, your reply demonstrates that you aren’t an honest inquirer, but a bigot and a hater.
True, there is that bright spot. Maybe this pope takes the words of Christ seriously when He instructed “turn the other cheek” and do good to your enemies? I don’t mind heaping coals on one’s personal enemy but when it involves the world stage and a sizable group of evildoers committing bad deeds in the name of their religion I would think that our religious leaders if anybody would have a courageous enough spirit to address and denounce it.
You can't be serious. JPII kissed the Koran and prayed that Saint John Baptist protect Islam.
The Holy Spirit wouldn’t deliberately send us a non-Catholic pope. That would make Him a liar. However, it is possible that He allowed it as a wake up call to the post Vatican II Catholics.
LOL!
Indubitably, if he thought he could get away with it.
LukeL:
Correct, when someone who is Catholic or Protestant Christian commits a crime, they are doing it do to greed, money, power, lust, anger, etc. which are all related to the deadly sins (cf. 1 John 2:16 “lust of the flesh”, “lust of the eyes” and “pride of life”, and 1 Corinthians 6: 7-9).
The Pope is correct when he says some baptized and professed Catholics and other Christians do fall away to sin, but he is correct in saying these crimes are done in the name of Christ. They are not.
Pope Francis just is not to bright and too much of a dreamy eyed progressive Jesuit. He is great with people at maybe a parish level, but as a Pope, he just does not have the intellectual depth of either John Paul II or Benedict XVI.
Arthur McGowan:
You are correct on this point. The Pope is speaking for himself. Of course when the Pope says these type of things, it always gets used to further ones agenda on the subject of Islam and Terrorism. The Pope is sounding like the Neocons Bush and Weekly Standard and the Liberal Hawks (aka Hillary Clinton whose foreign policy is no different than the Republican Neocons).
Of course, the Pope as of yet thank God is not calling to send more Americans to do regime change.
I saw an article that the Entire Polish Bishop Conference is waiting out this Pope, I think there are many Bishops around the world who feel the same way.
Who knew? The Pope of moral relativity.
The facts and the record speak for themselves, Fran.
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