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Old Papal Sourpuss – aka Pope Francis – strikes again. This time he fired off comments while traveling in the papal plane from Asia to Rome. Air travel, apparently, inspires this pontiff to unleash confusing and ambiguous statements that have many Catholics and others scratching their heads.
At 10,000 feet he weighed in on Americans’ upcoming choice between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. He categorized both candidates as “against life” and urged Catholic voters to choose the “lesser of two evils.”
“One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils? That lady or that gentleman? I don’t know,” Francis told reporters.
“To send migrants away, to leave them wherever you want, to leave them… it’s something terrible, there is evil there,” he elaborated. “To send away a child from the womb of the mother is an assassination, because there is life. We must speak about these things clearly.”
Francis, a globalist who equates open borders with the outstretched welcoming arms of Christ as depicted in the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, believes there should be no limit to the numbers of migrants entering a country even if an overload threatens to destroy it.
The pro-open borders pope criticized President Trump in 2016 when the latter promised to build a wall at the southwestern border: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel.”
In the past, Francis has equated abortion with murder. And yet in his evaluation of Trump and Harris, he puts murder on an equal footing with common sense border control policies and the deportation of illegal aliens.
Is murder really equivalent to turning away migrants leaving their home countries not because of persecution but because they want better jobs and more income? Or because many of them are being sent by enemies with a malicious intent to hurt the country and its citizens?
Francis calls immigration controls “cruel,” but ironically, he’s ignoring the horrors of open border migration that – by necessity – includes dangerous journeys across the southwestern desert terrain. People and children die during these long treks, many are robbed, and women and children are raped, with many sold into prostitution. All of this happens because migrants know the border is open, so they embark on the journey and take their chances.
Does Francis really believe it is okay to subject children to these perils?
Open borders – which breed danger and possibly death for migrants, not to mention the threat they represent to the citizens of the country being invaded – is a Godly concept in Francis’ view, while controlled immigration – where people follow a process, obey the law, enter a country safely but are sent back if they botch the rules – is condemned by the gospel?
If we were to ask what kind of pope would hold such views, the answer would be: one too political to be right for the office.
Consider, for a moment, the Vatican and its huge wall. For anyone who has ever walked through the city of Rome and then encountered the Vatican wall, the immediate impression is one of sky-high immensity. This large and garish Brutish albatross is much like encountering an overdone medieval fortress.
Architecturally, it is really an assault on the senses and bespeaks the isolation and protection of a privileged class.
If walls are not of the gospel (God) why hasn’t this wall been removed, and why isn’t the Vatican housing more immigrants? Why isn’t the Vatican letting immigrants occupy the many residential properties they own in Rome and elsewhere in the world?
Why isn’t Francis sharing his apartment with fentanyl-laden cartel thugs?
As an Argentine friend of mine recently asked, “Why isn’t the Vatican nunciature in Buenos Aires – a splendid mansion in the most expensive part of town – not being used for refugees from Venezuela who have settled in Argentina by the thousands?”
Francis has exasperated the goodwill of many Catholics. Many are beyond being shocked at the things he says and does but have resigned themselves that this pontificate is like a chronic health condition that will never improve.
In telling American Catholics to choose “the lesser of two evils” when it comes to the 2024 election, Francis is mirroring a political globalist agenda by elevating immigration controls to match the serious sin of abortion.
Part Church leader, part radical revolutionary, Francis is all over the map. This explains why so many Catholics pray he is converted and changes his ways or is somehow thwarted in continuing the dangerous arc of his papacy.
Additionally, by castigating leaders like President Trump when he calls the latter’s promise to deport illegal aliens “not of the gospel,” Francis is showing another form of hypocrisy.
Why does Francis even care about the gospel when in so many of his statements and references he has indicated all religions are more or less equal? He reiterated this belief recently in Singapore when he told a gathering of different faith leaders that these different paths might be compared to “different languages in order to arrive at God.”
“But God is God for all. And if God is God for all, we are all sons and daughters of God,” he said.
“There is only one God,” he concluded, “and each of us has a language, so to speak, in order to arrive at God: Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian. There are different paths. Understand?”
If this is true then what was the point of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles and gave them the gift of tongues (languages) so they could go to the far corners of the known world and evangelize the gospel?
Why preach to pagans or idol worshippers if all religions lead to God? What would be the point? If all religions lead to God, leave the idol worshipers alone and let them seek God in their own way. Why trouble them? Why upset the balance? Why say, “My God is more important than your God?” Because, really, that’s what evangelizers are doing; they are saying “We have a better way. We have the answer.”
Francis is saying: “There is no answer outside of your own tradition. You can stay put and be OK.”
What about Jesus’ directive, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me?” (John 14:6, ESV)
Is what Jesus said just hubris? As C.S. Lewis once wrote, “Either this claim is true or Jesus is a lunatic or a liar.”
So what is Pope Francis really saying about Jesus?
The Pope is a total imposter what’s really going on at the Vatican anyway?
Excellent capture by Thom Nickels of the confusing and contradictory statements made by Pope Francis– and his awkward manner of communicating . No wonder Pope Francis has people scratching their heads in wonderment– the Pope does not make sense… No wonder people are confused by his ambiguity– he is all over the map,. He is a journalist’s nightmare– just what is he saying ? There is no message. Too many pieces in the puzzle are missing.
A word salad with wine and wafers
Though Catholicism says so, the Pope is not God’s spokesman, nor was any other pope God’s spokesman. The “keys of the kingdom” were given to Jewish fishermen, and that kingdom had to do, and will have to do, with Israel here on Earth. Jerusalem, not Rome, or the Vatican, will be “the city of the Great King.”
What God was doing with Israel was not taken from them and given to Gentiles. God temporarily suspended His program with Israel and began something new. With Gentiles, yes.. Read Ephesians 3:1-9. The apostle Paul is God’s spokesman today. The Holy Spirit through Paul said: “I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office,” Romans 11:13.
The gospel is 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, not Matthew, Mark and John. Those gospel’s had to do with the gospel of the kingdom. Different gospel than the gospel of Christ and His cross work. Again, the four gospel’s concerned God’s program with Israel.
Borders (nationalism) is a biblical institution, one of four God established before Genesis 12. The other three are Volition, marriage, and the family. Each of those four institutions provide various protections for the human race.
the bible refers to the catholic institution as babylon the harlot . the israelites were condemned for worshipping the queen of heaven . for anyone that can tackle the book ” the two babylons ” an almost forgotten history of the babylonian religion and its current manifestation in rome you will be properly informed . all religions except christianity the biblical variety [ there are many false versions ] are false . discernment is the key . if you ask GOD [ providing you honestly want to know ] that is what he will give you , but YOU have to ask .
Could not the Revelation 17 harlot/great prostitute be an amalgamation of all world [pagan] religions under the tutelage of the Vatican? Haven’t the popes been attempting to instigate just such a scenario for decades? And the whore rides the seven-headed political beast which uses her and destroys her.
This is reformationist rhetoric . You are quoting a 600 yr old version of Christianity.!
🎶 The Pope is safe in the Vatican
🎶 Putting out his papal bull ~
🎶 Says we should love the Muslim mosque
🎶 And curse our Jewish shul ~
🎶 Says Jesus walks on water
🎶 Insists that’s really true ~
🎶 The truth is that this shithead pope
🎶 Wants to do a little walking too ~
🎶 …
There is now no shortage of people familiar with Biblical prophecy who are convinced that the Papacy will be the source of the False Prophet spoken about in Revelation chapter 13, who will be the ultimate religious tyrant.
Excellent defense of the Gospel, versus the fake gospel, of that worldly man dressed in fancy religious garb.
“ISN’T IT IRONIC that Godless Vampires, who always Cringe at the sight of a Crucifix… love this pOPE?” sc
“Cages vs. Coffins.” Separations due to not knowing who the child belongs to… a trafficker, a parent, kidnapped? Many are reunited. Then VICTIMS of Illegals who are separated from their family members by six feet of dirt… FOREVER!
Two churches here in Albuquerque, one Presbyterian, the other Catholic, put a chainlink cage in front of their building. I called both and asked if I could put a wooden coffin next to the cage. “Why” they asked. I explained… the Presbyterian, a church I had performed for many times years ago till they started being taken over by Social Justice Marxists, HUNG UP ON ME! The Catholic Church said I would have to call Santa Fe and the Archbishop. I explained, waited for a response, I called two days later, “NO!” I then called to ask for a meeting to explain the Marxist takeover of some of the Churches. “He will not meet with you.”
THIS pOPE, and many Priests, are preaching from the Gospel of Marx!
Bergoglio is a Peronist who should seriously consider becoming a faithful Catholic, publicly repenting of his sins, publicly atoning for said sins and cease preaching his pagan gospel of relativism before his fast approaching particular judgment when it will be too late for conversion.
Thank god I left the catholic church over 45 years ago. Even back then i saw it for what it is.. a den of perverts and bankers.
This pope has another Jesus and another gospel.
Francis is an advocate of South American liberation theology which is based primarily on a heavy flavor of Marxist humanistic doctrine, which was making strong inroads among the poor peasant communities there during the turbulent 1950s. Francis and his woke Che “rocky roadster” Vatican crew wants to liberate traditional Catholicism into “The Church of What’s Happening Now.”
Everything about the Vatican, the pomp, the pope, ceremonies, accoutrements and ridiculous hats and costumes, all of that, screams “Not Christian, stay away”!
The real lesser of two evils is choosing God over the Catholic Church. Not withstanding his political views, of course the pope is evil, he leads the largest pedophile organization in the world.
How many pedophile Catholic priests have gone to jail? The Catholic Church has always been an abomination to God, since its inception. From its worship of multiple gods, calling them saints, to its unholy worship of their favorite idol, Mary, to it’s impoverishment of entire countries, its evil has been a blight on humanity for generations. The communist pope is yet its latest anti God pretense.
An important reason to become an “unCatholic” is the history of the popes. The Roman Catholic doctrine of ‘magisterium’ authority negates any argument to remain under such corrupt and inconsistent leadership..
The person that lives behind a massive wall who decides that others should not build anything similar is called a hypocrite and that’s the polite label for this Anti Christ in Drag.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH historically has had so little to do with CHRISTIANITY.
Can you envision Jesus running around in virgin white robes and sitting on a gold throne in some papal palace protected by Swiss guards???
Want to talk about the billions the church spent on child molester settlements???
Jesus must want to hurl vomit when he hears francis mouthing off partitcularly as he never mouths off about MUSLIM GENOCIDE of CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA or MURDER OF JEWS ALL OVER EUROPE.
Catholicism: one of the worst evils of western civilization!!!
The answer to all of your “Why’s,” Thom, is that Francis is a hypocrite of biblical proportion, woefully out of touch with the teachings of Christ. Faithful Catholics understand this as we suffer through his papacy.
To make the way straight for the coming of the Lord, the Baptist called souls to repent of sin and believe in Christ to save their souls.
To make the way straight for the coming of Antichrist, Pope Francis says that “repentence from sin is not necessary to receive absolution” and “belief in Christ is not
necessary” as “all souls go to heaven” and “there is no hell because nobody can be punished forever”.
By blasphemously “correcting” Jesus Christ, Pope Francis has proven himself to be the apocalyptic second beast False Prophet.
Father John Matthew Duffy
Toronto, Canada