[ April 19, 2024 ]
Pope Francis sent a clear message to Muslim migrants — and to government leaders around the globe who may want to slow the tide on admitting these people — and called them “warriors of hope” in a world of darkness.
Really?
Because some, at least, are actually criminals.
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Breitbart has more (h/t Jihad Watch):
Pope Francis flew to Bologna, Italy, Sunday and met with a large group of migrants and refugees, calling them “warriors of hope” while insisting that nations open broader avenues for immigration.
During a full day in Bologna, Francis spent an hour meeting hundreds of migrants personally while posing with them for selfies under light drizzle. Later, the pontiff hosted a luncheon for asylum-seekers and prisoners in the St. Petronius basilica. He even donned a yellow plastic ID bracelet used by asylum-seekers to express his solidarity with them.
“Do you know what you are? You are ‘warriors of hope’!” Francis exclaimed during his address to the many migrants present, urging them not to give in to disappointment or despair.
In his address, the Pope also offered his explanation of why he believes some people in Europe oppose mass migration, building on earlier statements in which he suggested that xenophobia was fueling people’s concerns.
“Many do not know you and they are afraid,” he said. “This makes them feel entitled to judge harshly and coldly while thinking they see well. But this is not true. We see well only with the proximity that comes from mercy. Without this, the other remains a stranger, even an enemy, and cannot become my neighbor.”
The Pope suggested that immigration is an issue that can only be understood by meeting the people involved, rather than considering its causes and effects from afar.
“From a distance, we can say and think anything, as easily happens when terrible phrases and insults are written across the internet,” he said. “If we look upon our neighbor without mercy, we are unaware of his suffering, his problems.”
“Today all I see is a great desire for friendship and help,” the Pope continued. “I would like to thank the institutions and all the volunteers for the attention and commitment in taking care of those who are here.”
As he has done on other occasions, Francis recalled the words of the Gospel where Jesus Christ identified with the “least” among us.
“In you I see Jesus Christ, as with any stranger who knocks at our door, who identifies himself with the foreigner, of every age and condition, accepted or rejected,” he said.
Regarding concrete applications of his words, the Pope said it is “necessary for more countries to adopt private and community-based welcoming programs and to open humanitarian avenues for refugees in the most difficult situations, to avoid unbearable waiting periods and lost time.”
Last week, Pope Francis launched a two-year campaign to educate people about the plight of migrants and to provoke a “shift in thinking” toward them worldwide.
“Brothers, we mustn’t be afraid to share the journey! We mustn’t be afraid to share the hope!” Francis said in his weekly General Audience in Saint Peter’s Square, in which he inaugurated the new project, titled “Share the Journey.”
The campaign is being spearheaded by the global Catholic charities network Caritas Internationalis and aims at promoting awareness and action on behalf of migrants and refugees, assisting them in building connections with local communities.
In an address in the Vatican Saturday, Pope Francis seemed to ascribe people’s concerns with Europe’s migrant crisis to xenophobia, suggesting that a “culture of encounter” could remedy opposition to migration.”
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75 Comments
6 years ago
He is like a demented shepherd who brings in wolves among his flock and calls them “warriors of hope” !
And the Islamonazi Pope wants christians to bring in more of his islamonazi friends. while the hypocrite hides behind personal security and 40 feet high walls !
And now he even questions christians on their faith http://tinyurl.com/ydy8fkhl
6 years ago
What the Marxist Pope meant to say was Islamonazi invaders are Warriors of Hell.
6 years ago
I’m Catholic & he must be removed. He’s nuts!
6 years ago
Reply to
Mrs. Chief
He has failed to remember the tremendous damage that Islam did to not only his Church, but to so many other human civilizations.
6 years ago
Special message for shepherds:
Wake …..the flock ….up
D
6 years ago
In the immortal words of Pope Sixtus V:
“While I live, every criminal must die.” 🙂
6 years ago
he got it half correct, they are warriors, he only fawked up for which side
6 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
He said they were “warriors of hope,” he did not state what that hope was.
6 years ago
Traitor! Traitor!Traitor! I want you out from the Vatican! You are a lefty bastard Francisco! I abhor you ????
6 years ago
But WE are warriors of the world!!
6 years ago
They’re going to cut your head off, Franny.
I’ll be laughing.
You’re such a stupid A**.
6 years ago
They call themselves “soldiers of allah.” Of course, they consider themselves as “warriors of hope”! Islamic “hope.” The pope is their dupe, useful idiot. Perhaps even a convert.
6 years ago
Reply to
Voytek Gagalka
His failure to call attention to his fellow Christians in Muslim lands whose churches are being bombed, who are being murdered for refusing to convert and visited by other atrocities has made me often think he must be a secret convert to Islam.
6 years ago
Reply to
Voytek Gagalka
They are called dhimmis for Islam. The bad news for the Pope is that when the Muslims invade and conquer a people….the first persons they kill are the dhimmis….they rightly reason that if they would betray their own people to help them conquer them…..then there is a good chance they will do the same to them someday when they take over.
If and when the Muslims storm the Vatican…..they will behead this dhimmi who helped them and it will be a symbol to all of Islam that the head of the worldwide Catholic Church was beheaded in the name of Allah and Mohammed. It will invigorate their entire plan to kill all non-Muslims…..on that day…..there will be a worldwide War…..
6 years ago
Year in and year out, decade in and decade out there are Catholic religious working anonymously with the sick, the ‘marginal’, praying daily for mankind. But THESE human jackals are the ones who get the Pope’s ‘call out’.
6 years ago
Only this fool of a Pope is better protected than the American presidenth that is why he is still talking. Get rid of him very soon, even if it is a suicide mission.
6 years ago
why can they not make hope in their native lands?
6 years ago
The pope no longer has any credibility, there is no reason to pay attention to his insane ramblings, his understanding of humanity does not exist, he is a brain washed socialist.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
How did this Pope get his standing. I thought you had to come up though the ranks while kissing a lot of ass.It seems he went from Night club bouncer to pope.He came to the USA and stated he was ant-Capalist. It seems the Pope and our Obummer where both installed by the shadow Govt.of Communist or Globalists.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
He is muslim, or a liberal with a death wish for us. …. Now you can understand him.
6 years ago
Sane people to poop Francis, you are a frickin dope, time for a rope.
6 years ago
The Whore of Babylon has spoken.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Yep, this so-called pope should be tossed into the recycling bin or worse.
6 years ago
The pope obviously does not know that muslims are muhadajeen , which is warriors of isalm, who are trying to destroy everything but islam.
6 years ago
Amen, Joe blow; this man, Francis, the so-called Vicar of Christ, is Lucifer’s incarnate.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
True. The Bible warns us that Satan knows the Bible as well or better than most of us. He tried to use it on Jesus when was fasting in the desert for forty days.
I have no problem believing that Satan inhabits the Soul of the dhimmi for Islam ….the Pope.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I, like you, ladywarrior, and perhaps numerous others perceive this pope as the incarnate of Lucifer. I am not a Roman Catholic; however, this cannot deter me or others for discerning Francis as a threat to Christendom and Western Civilization. Not merely Christendom, but Buddhism, Judaism and other faiths diverse of Islam.
Folks whom deem themselves too sophisticated to believe in the Bible, may find themselves to discover they are not sophisticates after all.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Very true. It’s not just Christians who are being wiped out…it’s all religions and belief systems that are not Islam. Good point.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I appreciate your posts; you are solid in your beliefs and do not back down.
6 years ago
“Warriors of hope”
Exactly, now he finally gets it…
Hoping to take over the whole damned planet!
6 years ago
As a catholic, I emphatically condemn all that Francis stands for. It is antithetical to our beliefs and is living proof why the Europeans especially are turning away from the faith. Our only hope is the Catholics in China who defy not only their atheistic regime, but also their own pope, Francis, who would sell them out in a heart beat.
D
6 years ago
“In you I see Jesus Christ, as with any stranger who knocks at our door, who identifies himself with the foreigner, of every age and condition, accepted or rejected,” he said.
How dare he insult Ahmed and his fellow moslem warriors by calling them Jesus. They do not believe in Jesus, and you Francis, are an infidel and a non-believer. AND AN IDIOT !!!
6 years ago
I have called this Pope “Pope-a-Dope”, but, as of today, I am convinced he is senile, and needs to be removed.
6 years ago
Why doesn’t Pope Francis set the example by opening the doors to Rome and the Vatican to these Muslim refugees? He’s a hypocrite! He doesn’t practice what he preaches.
He’s always bending over backwards to appease Muslims and Islam!
These so-called refugees are just economic migrants. Some of them are criminals and terrorists.
The real refugees from the Arab nations are the Christians and the Jews.
6 years ago
Bergoglio has to think more about Christians and not only to Muslims: it currently acts more by imam than by Pope
6 years ago
Xenophobia means an irrational fear to foreigners. Xeno = foreigners, phobia = irrational fear.
The citizens of the EU have good rational reasons to fear the huge influx of Muslims from some of the most violent places on earth. These migrants don’t have any useful skills to benefit the EU and refuse to integrate into the EU. Instead, they demand that the EU accomodate them.
6 years ago
Why are there so many monster raving loony lefties in positions of influence?
6 years ago
Reply to
Laura
Because most of the world-including America- was asleep at the switch….and the resulting train wreck will be on our heads for ALLOWING it….bit by bit, drip by drip. We are beginning to see the culmination of all that has been going on in our country from Carter to Obama….and yes, that includes the Bushs who have decades of long standing relationships -business and personal – with the Middle-Eastern countries. GW Bushs’ college roommate was a Saudi Prince…..
Wasn’t it GHW Bush who first interjected “NWO” in one of his speeches? Yes.
Lock and Load….the day is coming in the the not so distant future.
6 years ago
This is Pope Damien – as in Damien in “The Omen.”
6 years ago
Why did they ever make this man Pope to fill some unknown Hispanic affirmative action goal that sprang up at The College of Cardinals. This was a terrible mistake.
6 years ago
Reply to
Larenzo1
It was never a “mistake”. The Globalists worked very hard to get rid of Benedict and to place this Globalist dhimmi in the Vatican.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
It’s not a “conspiracy”….it’s a fact. If there is any “conspiracy”…it’s on the part of your kind that are steadily planning the destruction of America and her people….exactly like you’re doing with your post to marginalize what the rest of the freedom loving people know is happening…..you’re not going to “Gaslight” me and millions of other people.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
thank you for self- Identifying as a Soros/Killary paid troll. Blocked
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Hmmm, if Catholics hadn’t slaughtered hundreds of thousands of muslum vermin and expelled them from Europe the Renaissance NEVER would’ve happened.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
It would’ve been nice if they had stood up to the f’ing nazis too.
I still think the RCC could be a force for good in the world, if they had decent leadership.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
I wonder what the founder of Christianity would think of a “Christian” siding w/the f’ing muslums over Israel?
6 years ago
He should be warning people of the evil of Islam and the danger of dawah instead of pushing this crap. He use his supposed moral authority to clearly denounce Muhammad and Allah as a false prophet and a false god respectively..
6 years ago
Wake up America !!!!!!! They hope to enslave you!
“Farewell to England”
This is a list of Islamic accomplishments in that country that I thought might give you a better understanding of the insidiousness of Hijrah; that’s the takeover of a nation without going to war. Don’t think for a moment that America is not a target or that there are no American cities where Islamic and Sharia victories and takeovers have already occurred. It’s time for border control, or start planning for a very big goodbye America party
Here’s what has already happened to England within a few years of opening their borders without entry control:
How the British have passively succumbed to the Muslim invasion:
Mayor of London .. MUSLIM
Mayor of Birmingham .. MUSLIM
Mayor of Leeds … MUSLIM
Mayor of Blackburn … MUSLIM
Mayor of Sheffield … MUSLim
Mayor of Oxford .. MUSLIM
Mayor of Luton …. MUSLIM
Mayor of Oldham … MUSLIM
Mayor of Rochdale … MUSLIM
All the following achieved by just 4 million Muslims out of the 66 million population:
Over 3,000 Muslim Mosque
Over 130 Muslim Sharia Courts
Over 50 Muslim Sharia Councils
Muslims Only No-Go Areas Across The UK
Muslim Women.. 78% don’t work and are on FREE benefits/housing
Muslim Men… 63% don’t work and are on FREE benefits/housing
Muslim Families… 6-8 children planning to go on FREE benefits/housing and now all UK schools are ONLY serving HALAL MEAT!
6 years ago
Reply to
jerry snaper
Absolutely astonishing and terrifying. Thank you for this information.
D
6 years ago
Pope Frank, “I never met a mooselim I didn’t like.”
6 years ago
They’re warriors of hope alright hope to take over the world through bloodshed and butchery. I think the pope has something in common with our catholic hypocrite Pelosi. They are both delusional space cadets that live in a universe all their own. They are completely clueless about the real world.
6 years ago
Reply to
higgy01
Islam is a collective brutal mental illness…..and it’s never going away with “reasoning” and prayers. At this point-at the rate it’s spreading- I fear the only solution will end up being the total destruction of Islam and it’s followers.
6 years ago
What an imbecile and embarrassment!
6 years ago
This little man is dangerous. I truly believe h e is the false prophet. Pay attention Catholics. Stop worshiping your
religion and worship Jesus Christ. He is dangerous
6 years ago
Reply to
glenda lafont
The Bible says that prior to the Anti-Christ showing up there will be someone like this Pope paving the way……I do believe this Pope is the advance man for Satan….all his words and actions prove it.
6 years ago
This Pope is a Marxist tool of the Globalists…..and he’s insane. Islam is the antithesis to Christianity. They have vowed to kill all Christians/Jews and those who do not follow Islam. What in God’s name is going on at the Vatican?!!!
The day will come when the Muslim murdering hordes storm the Vatican…..and I will be okay if we don’t send even one brave warrior from our country to help this maniac Pope. He is an embarrassment to the Catholic community.
6 years ago
He is as looney as Merkle
6 years ago
Catholics should start opposing this guy
6 years ago
Here is the pope’s warrior. 
6 years ago
As a Catholic myself this “pope” NEEDS TO GO! He does not follow Church doctrine and he has NO idea what the Catholic Church is all about! Pope Francis is a huge moron that I hope that God Almighty takes him off this world, quickly! Pope Francis is a bastard to his own church!
6 years ago
As usual, the Pope is happy to tell everyone else to do what he will not. Let him open the Vatican grounds as well as the millions of dollars worth of real estate his church owns in the US for them and pay for their lifetime care from his multi-million dollar purse. THEN he just might gain some high ground. Until then he is just another Left Wing Hypocrite telling us to do what he will not!
6 years ago
Forgive me Jesus but Francis is an a88hole and is empowering the enemy to your church.
6 years ago
Some one in Vatican City needs to tell Pope Frank to butt out of politics
6 years ago
No, Francis, they are not. And sadly, with all due respect, I am not so sure that you are either.
6 years ago
He will be a muslim target soon…. They don’t care what he says. He must convert or die. Standard stuff
6 years ago
More cucked bullshit from pope Herman Munster the 1st
