[ April 23, 2024 ]
Pope Francis may live behind high Vatican walls, and conduct his Catholic Church business behind the protection of well-armed, well-trained security forces — but when it comes to telling others to take care of migrants and refugees, he speaks with a megaphone.
Talk about hypocrisy.
The pope in recent remarks issued a call for those around the globe to take care of migrants who’ve been risking their lives during crossings of the Mediterranean.
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Specifically, he pressed for the international community to act “decisively” on this matter, and move whatever mountains they could to help the migrants.
Here’s a thought: How about opening up Vatican City as a migrant shelter?
From Breitbart:
Pope Francis issued an appeal to the “international community” Sunday, pleading for swift and decisive action to bring an end to migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea.
“Dramatic news of shipwrecks of barges laden with migrants in the waters of the Mediterranean have arrived over these last weeks,” the pope said following his weekly Angelus prayer in Saint Peter’s Square. “I express my sorrow in the face of such tragedies and assure my thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families.”
“I address a heartfelt plea to the international community to act decisively and promptly in order to prevent such tragedies from happening, and to ensure security and respect for the rights and dignity of all,” he said.
In his appeal, the pontiff did not explain what sort of action he is hoping for from international powers, but his ongoing support for a sweeping “welcome” of migrants would suggest that he believes the best course of action to be an increased presence of rescue vessels in the Mediterranean to assure that as many migrants as possible reach safe harbor in European ports.
In recent weeks a number of Catholic bishops from Italy and Malta have expressed their opposition to the tightened immigration policies of their respective governments, blaming closed ports for migrant deaths at sea.
In Malta, both Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Bishop Mario Grech have voiced public support for a statement by NGOs claiming that the consequences of the government’s decision to close its ports “are potentially fatal, as the vessels will no longer be able to continue saving lives in the Mediterranean Sea.”
“Although supposedly aimed at ensuring respect for the law, this action directly undermines the protection of human life at Europe’s borders, making them even more dangerous for refugees and asylum seekers,” the NGOs said.
In Italy, the Sicilian Cardinal Francesco Montenegro responded to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s decision not to allow an NGO vessel to unload economic migrants from North Africa earlier this month by comparing migrants who drown at sea to Jesus Christ.
“It is Jesus coming to us on a vessel, he is in the man or child who drowns, it is Jesus who fishes through the garbage in search of a little food,” he said.
Montenegro blamed migrant sea deaths on efforts to curb mass migration, which in turn would be motivated by callousness and indifference.
“It’s a society, but unfortunately also a religion that ignores human rights, that creates the poor and then doesn’t want them because they are irksome and lets them die,” Montenegro said.
Attempts to tie migrant deaths with tighter controls on sea ports runs into a serious problem, however, when the available immigration data is carefully analyzed.
As both the UNHCR and IOM have recently reported, migrant deaths in the Mediterranean have dropped dramatically in the first six months of 2018, at the same time European leaders have sent the message that borders are no longer open to economic migrants.
Having fewer migrants on the seas has resulted—unsurprisingly—in far fewer deaths.
For the first half of 2018, sea deaths fell to 1,058, less than half the 2,258 migrant sea deaths recorded during the same six-month period of 2017.
From January through June, Italy’s immigration figures have similarly undergone a drastic reduction, thanks in part to its new populist government, and numbers for the first half of the year reflect an 80 percent decline over the same period of 2017.
According to data released earlier this month by the United Nations immigration agency (UNHCR), a total of 16,919 migrants arrived by sea into Italy prior to July 8, whereas over the same period in 2017 a total of 85,197 migrants had arrived.
The total number of migrants lost at sea reached its highest point in 2016, with 4,578 migrants determined to be either dead or missing. That year also marked the record number of migrants arriving across the Mediterranean onto Italian shores, a total of 181,436, UNHCR reported.
Statistics from UNHCR and IOM strongly indicate that the recent decline in migrant sea deaths correlates directly to more restrictive immigration policies.
In this light, people who take the pope’s appeal seriously should support more stringent immigration regulations to prevent would-be migrants from recklessly embarking on a perilous sea voyage that could cost them their lives.
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72 Comments
5 years ago
Here is a suggestion:
Stop the boats. Turn them back.
5 years ago
Reply to
Michael Copeland
Start a Christian army, invade Libya and force it to become a Christian nation. Ends slave markets, stops invasion of Europe, and fulfills duty of Christians to obey 1st Commandment of “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” Which is anywhere in His line of vision which is everywhere.
5 years ago
Reply to
Bradley Lexvold
Eurapia is largely atheist, amoral and apathetic now — not that Eurapia’s Christians seem to be much better.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Satan wouldn’t like that, doing something like that to his followers. He has a good reason/purpose for moving them to all these non-muslim countries. They will be working for him, during the tribulation, since he, himself, as a human (then), won’t be able to be in more than one place at a time. If christians and jews (and others), don’t take his mark (during the tribulation), they get exterminated. Who’s going to do the exterminating? His followers, the so called “immigrants/refugees”, the ones, that already hate christians, jews, etc…as much as satan does! That’s why he’s moving them all over the world, to all these non-muslim countries! So how are the christians and jews, exterminated? Rev 20:4 tells you, but here’s a hint….it’s in the koran also, as “strike the necks”. So you would think, that the tribulation would be coming soon. Well, if this peace plan that Trump is so happy, and positive about, that he his son working on, is for 7 years (signed by 2 certain countries), well, you can then count on it being, the beginning of the end!
5 years ago
Pope wants more migrants to die at sea? … Good grief.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Calling him “Pope” is a misnomer.
Plenty of other words to choose from.
5 years ago
Reply to
kathleen T Quinlan
Yeah, I was thinking around those lines. Like “evil ignoramus”
5 years ago
Yes, Jesus teaches us to see Him in everyone. cf. Matthew 24-25
However … He also teaches us to see Him in baby rape victims, rape victims, murder victims, and other crime victims … not to mention those who must live with the constant harassment, vandalism, littering, fraud, and fear brought into their neighborhood by people who hate them.
Jesus also taught us not to hate anyone – but obviously this Pope and Cardinal Montenegro think this rule does not apply to them. They cannot seem to see the face of Jesus either in their Church, their neighbors, or the victims to whom they are responsible.
Hope they like their vacations HOT …
5 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Agree. And did you ever hear this scumbag Pope calling for end to christian abuse , murder , sex slavery , destruction of churches in middle east ? Even during large scale ethnic cleansinbg by ISIS ? Never.
Finally Vatican Bishop confesses: “Senior Catholic officials are being paid off by George Soros to promote mass Muslim migration into Europe” https://tinyurl.com/y7hllebo
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Nope, he is not a Christian, therefore he could give a damn about the raped, massacred Christians in the Middle East or throughout this planet. Francis is Satan incarnate bent on the ruination of not only Christianity but Judaism. Soros makes a great ally, he and Francis are on of the same.
5 years ago
Reply to
sodacrackers2
Pope Benedict XVI lives in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery inside the Vatican City. He has been living there since May 2013. He lives in a nice converted monastery in Vatican City.
5 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
i am sorry but I think this was a coup to get a globalist in the papacy. Is Benedict in solitary confinement?
5 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
Yet the Bishops of the Catholic Church chose this rubbish man over all others! Something is drastically wrong in the Roman Catholic Church.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Yup, you would be exactly right! And for thousands of people, to be loving this pope, and staying as a Catholic, is beyond my comprehension! Satan must really be making people deaf, blind or just stupid, for these pope loving people, to follow him, when all the horrible, and ignorant things he’s said about Jesus?? It’s mind blowing! It’s bad enough, the things these supposed “church leaders” are saying about these so called “immigrants/refugees”!! All these ignorant religious leaders, have never picked up a koran and read one, I guess. They sure don’t understand that there is evil in the world, because satan is SURE using them, for his purposes, and they don’t even realize it!
5 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
Either this pope or the next one, will most certainly be dubbed, the “False Prophet”…..the Tribulation can’t be too far away now!
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Like I said above, whether it’ll this evil pope, or the next one, who will be even worse, most people know that satan will dub them the “False Prophet”, the third part of the evil trinity….Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet. So much evil going in with the pope, Soros, etc etc….that if this “peace deal”, that Trump has his son working on, and the one that he is feeling so positive, and excited about, is for 7 years, and it is between two certain countries, then all hell will break loose, because it’s the beginning of the end, the Tribulation has begun!
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
The Vatican, including under this Pope has made such calls. When they get too loud, the muslim extremists tend to up their game and kill more christians.
5 years ago
Reply to
TMLutas
show me. Links to articles to back your B.S. Muslims have been killing christians and non-muslims for over 1400 years because koran tells them to.
And morons like you think its pope fault ?!
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to
kathleen T Quinlan
i asked for christians killing muslims , check the comment before mine to which I asked him to provide article links to prove his false claim of christians killing muslims
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Since you have entirely mistaken a defense of the Pope as an attack on the Pope, I have no confidence that I can show you anything.
5 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
But its first time a senior vatican bishop has come out in the open with the truth. He may be kicked to the curb soon like Pope Benedict
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Of course you are right. When Christians were being savage murdered in Mosul and other Iraq cities and towns, children children decapitated, cut in two, or buried alive for refusing to abandon their faith in Jesus, other Christians crucified, others burned to death in wooden coffins, steel cages or boiling water or oil, this disgusting, fraud, Pope said nothing. Thus I don’t understand Donald Trump asking Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to save Syria’s ‘White Helmets’ Muslims rather than the most persecuted people in Syria and Iraq, Christians, Yazidis and other non-Muslim minorities. That Justin Trudeau would ask for this help is par for the course.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
As I said before Trump is still ignorant on facts about middle east and the jihadi players.
5 years ago
Reply to
golem2
That is why he fell for fake “gas attack” video by Al-qaeda jihadis (white helmets) falsely accusing syrian govt
And launched attack on syria when the govt was fighting ISIS and other jihadi groups ! How dumb can you get ?
5 years ago
Reply to
golem2
If you think that Trump has it right, then explain to me, why there are thousands of muslims still here in this country, and why Americans are still dying, because of them. How many deportations have happened in the last few months? You hear of any lately?? And how come, as I archive everything about Islam/muslims, since 9/11, I’m collecting more and more articles about schools, and how their teaching our young children about Islam, and even what to say, to become one!! And please tell me why he hosted a Ramadan dinner at the White House, and told all muslims to have a happy holiday? I could go on, but tell what is right about all that, that he has done so far? He has troops killing “them” over THERE, when he should be HERE, knocking out a few, so I won’t read another article, or see it on the news, about another American getting killed, because of THEM, over HERE! Yes, he’s done a few good things, but as this country has almost 50 muslim training camps, I would appreciate it, if Trump would exterminate the one I have, in MY state! But mostly, get a dang Secretary of Education, that will stop Islam being taught in schools to our young children!!
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Wow, great article, EXCEPT the ads on there!!! UGH!! But at least they got ONE thing exactly right, and that is
“fears that he is the false prophet warned about in holy scripture and prophecy.”
No statement could be truer than THAT!! A lot of people, including me, believe the pope will be the third of that evil trinity, the “False Prophet”! Anyway, Soros paying them off, STILL doesn’t answer the question of WHY? Well, I figured it out, if anyone wants to hear it. It all makes sense, when you think about this HUGE immigration to all these non-muslim countries, and how it could relate to Revelation. I’ll just say that, if this peace plan that Trump has got his son working on, and the one he feels positive and excited about, is a 7 year one, then I’d certainly beg people to decide now, on which side of the fence, they want to be on, because it’s the beginning of the end!
5 years ago
Yes, Jesus teaches us to see Him in everyone. cf. Matthew 24-25
However … He also teaches us to see Him in baby rape victims, rape victims, murder victims, and other crime victims … not to mention those who must live with the constant harassment, vandalism, littering, fraud, and fear brought into their neighborhood by people who hate them.
Jesus also taught us not to hate anyone – but obviously this Pope and Cardinal Montenegro think this rule does not apply to them. They cannot seem to see the face of Jesus either in their Church, their neighbors, or the victims to whom they are responsible.
Hope they like their vacations HOT …
5 years ago
I’ve suggested that Pope Francis put his rental plane into service ferrying the migrants directly to Rome. Thus, there would be no drownings. He never answered me. What do you call it when you have the ability to save lives but don’t do it? And, then you complain about others who don’t do it. Probably Soros could easily be running daily flights from Africa and the mid-East to Rome, Paris, London and Frankfurt. So… why aren’t these dudes doing it? I don’t get it.
5 years ago
Maybe the Pope can bring some of those young Muslim studs to the Vatican to have their way with his Cardinals and Priests
5 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Though it’s not well-known, many Muslim societies such as Morocco even today also engage in homosexuality, I think because like the Vatican, they try so hard to repress their men and isolate their women.
5 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Don’t worry ’bout that. The Cardinals and Priest are doing ALRIGHT without the M o o s l i m e s help, really.
Overheard conversation between friends: Friend 1: John got 5 years as a pedophile! Friend 2: I didn’t even know he was a Catholic Priest.
5 years ago
The Pope is saying that the current situation sucks and needs fixing. This is not wrong.
Pope Francis is wise in not specifying the solution. There are multiple ones that would satisfy the Pope, including some that would be Pamela Geller approved. Here are a few:
1. Everybody in Africa treat each other with dignity and respect including respect for economic liberty that would allow them to build lives over there in their home countries.
2. Supporting those attacked and put upon by horrible governments to remove their violent, disgusting ruling classes over there so they don’t have to become refugees in Europe.
3. Set up decent housing and opportunity zones on the N. African coast that allows those that lost their fight against tyranny to stay and regroup close to home so they can get back into the fight and actually win.
Right wing compatible solutions are generally about preventing disaster, then localizing it so it doesn’t spread. Left wing solutions are generally about ignoring the disaster as it builds. Then, when it has a good head of steam, mitigating it and spreading around the consequences.
5 years ago
Reply to
TMLutas
Short version: Copy us do not invade us. Running water alone does so much for life and sanitation. When I traveled in Morocco a few years ago there were very long roads connecting small towns. Every third of a mile or so, there was a government dug well for anyone living off road in tents to use. Simple. The King pays for cable you just buy the equipment. Can you think of a quicker way to bring people into the 21st century? He requires gvt education for Imams and monitors sermons in the Mosques. In the Sahara, we saw a young shepherd in his robes tending his sheep and talking animatedly on his cell phone.
5 years ago
Reply to
kathleen T Quinlan
Most countries have been receiving aid from western countries for the last 50-60 years at least. Yet they are no further developed than they were then. Meantime, the dictators live in absolute luxury and the populations have trebled or quadrupled.
It also doesn’t help that the average IQ in the African continent is around 70-80.
5 years ago
I agree with the Pope but probably not the way he means. In Australia, hundreds of ‘refugees’ from poor Asian countries died in leaky boats heading for Oz. Now that they have created a 100% turn-back rate for such ships and 24 hour naval vigilance there have been NO such deaths. A lot of suffering however for the human traffickers who used to make millions in the business.
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
And a lot of people still hanging out hopefully in Indonesia, waiting for a change of government. It is reported that the unions – Shorten’s puppet masters – have recently insisted on a change of policy that will return to the armada of asylum seeker boats, in return for their backing. With a crap government in power, it’s only a matter of time before the Aussie population seeks change, then we’ll be back to square one,
5 years ago
To Dope Francis
Open your doors you stupid cxkr
Open your doors as you demand of other nations
Show your generosity
Open your doors cxkr !
5 years ago
Reply to
Solo Man
I can only imagine what cxkr means but it can’t be something positive.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Pretty sure only one of the letters is relevant to the word he’s trying to get past the moderators.
5 years ago
France seems to care more about foreign Muslims than the lives of its own citizens.
5 years ago
Of course the Pope also called for Muslims to stop persecuting Christians in Muslim countries like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Nigeria, Sudan, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc etc. Didn’t he?
5 years ago
I was proudly Catholic until this joker. I’m not alone, BTW.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ken Kruger
Believe me, you’re not alone… How can a Pope ignore the murders of Christians throughout the world by muslims and yet, scold us because we’re not welcoming them into our country? He’s tearing down the Church, but maybe that’s his intention all along..
5 years ago
Reply to
Ken Kruger
Well, the intelligent people, will have their eyes and ears open, enough, to see that the Catholic religion, has, for lack of a better terminology, “gone to the dogs”. So congrats to you, your one of the smarter ones, to see and hear, the evil of this so called “pope”, who most people already know, will be the third part of the trilogy (satan, the antichrist, and the false prophet), the “False Prophet”….and if anyone reading this, doesn’t know anything about this “triology”, I speak of, it’s just one of the MANY things, satan does, to copy God, so christians will follow him (satan), and THINK their a christian following God, who has His triology (God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit).
So Ken, I’m happy for you! Hope you can teach other catholics what you know, so they might be able to see the Light, and “come out of her”.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ken Kruger
It didn’t just start with franky. Look at John Paul II and how he LOVED to kiss the queeranne.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ken Kruger
Hope eh? It was the Catholics who manned up and fought and died in their thousands to kick the f’ing muslums out of Eurapia, it was the atheists who run Eurapia now who invited them back in.
5 years ago
These people he refers to as Jesus hate the idea of Jesus as the majoity of them are Muslims. Do we hear the pope ,
unelected by anyone except his peers BTW, expressing his sorrow about all the Copts and other Christians being massacred almost daily in Africa. As Merkel proved the more they are welcomed the more will keep coming
5 years ago
If migrants don’t attempt to invade Europe by boat, no one dies at sea…problem solved.
5 years ago
Even Jesus said that we would always have the poor with us. The rich did not create the poor anymore than roads created businesses. It’s very possible to be poor and incredibly happy as well as to be rich and miserable. Are we supposed to not notice that these are all young men coming?
5 years ago
In the meantime he won’t say a word about the massacres in Nicaragua.
He is pals with Noriega…..of course..
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5 years ago
How could these people respect a communist in a white robe who is elected. The same dumb ass Cardinals voted him in as these liberal assholes voted Obama in.
5 years ago
In past years we heard the prophesy that the next pope would be a black pope and the last pope. Euphoria reigned because it was assumed that the black pope meant, literally, that the next pope would be black. Nobody really thought otherwise and it turned out that the “black pope” meant a Jesuit pope. Jesuits are referred to as “black robes.” Jesuits are globalists amongst other things and some research will glean interesting insights. This current person may very well be the last pope if we get all-out war of some type or a world-wide caliphate. It is easy to pick off smaller geographic entities such as Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and California, if split into three would inevitably go caliphate in one of the parts. Certainly the south would go to Mexico. Ironically, the name California is unknown in origin but it sounds suspiciously like “Caliphornia.” Many years ago I read of this as speculation on the origin of the name.
5 years ago
Reply to
Arcturus
What book do you get your prophecies from?? I was interested at first, of the first few sentences, as I know the story about the “last pope”, and then you went way off the rails!! My prophecies come from the bible, and it doesn’t have anything of what YOU said!!
5 years ago
Why doesn’t Francis bring the immigrants to the Vatican…?
5 years ago
Reply to
Pro Patria
Funny, at least a hundred people, have asked that same question. Alas, we haven’t heard an answer yet…but I wouldn’t hold my breath, for an answer!
5 years ago
He is just twisting the Bible for the NWO agenda. No words of urgency, no tears of mercy for all those murdered and assaulted by these incoming muslim migrants, only ‘how do we keep it coming?!’ They are most definitely NOT Jesus in any way, no matter how esoteric you try to get!
5 years ago
I really H8 this lying papal tool.
