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PopeWatch: Criticisms

The Pope’s leftist agenda is drawing fire not only within the Church but from without the Church according to Sandro Magister:

In this month of August, Pope Francis has found himself facing opposition on two of the best-known points of his preaching. And opposition in an unusual form: because the critiques have not come from inside the Church, but from outside, from authoritative voices of secular opinion; and also because he has never been explicitly named in the controversy, although it is evident that the criticisms were aimed against him as well.

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The first point concerns the phenomenon of migration. In recent days, a ruling from the Italian judiciary and an appeal signed by a certain number of intellectuals of the far left have compared the reception centers for immigrants sailing from Libya for Italy to “concentration camps,” and the rejection of their indiscriminate admittance to a “mass extermination” analogous to that of the Jews on the part of the Nazis.

These comparisons are not new. Frequent recourse has been made in recent times to words like “lager,” “extermination,” “holocaust” to denounce the treatment reserved for immigrants by those who do not want to accommodate them without reservation.

But this time, in conjunction with the joint decision of the Italian government and the Libyan authorities to put the brakes on the shipments of migrants carried out until now by criminal organizations at the expense of many lives, and in conjunction with the resolute support for this decision from the president of the Italian episcopal conference, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, the aberrant association of the “non-welcome” of immigrants with the extermination of the Jews has not passed by in silence, but has generated a healthy flare-up of criticisms.

Properly speaking, none of the critics has mentioned Pope Francis by name. But he too not long ago had referred to as “concentration camps” the camps for receiving immigrants in Greece and Italy.

He did so in a homily given on April 22 at the Roman basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Tiber Island, during a ceremony commemorating the “new martyrs” of the 20th and 21st centuries.

And this sally of his reinforced even more the standard storyline on Pope Francis when it comes to immigration: as a pope of unlimited welcome for all, always and at all costs.

Because it is true that Francis, in this regard, has also occasionally said the opposite. For example, during one of his inflight press conferences, on the way back from Sweden last November 1, he praised the “prudence” of leaders who put limits on accommodation, because “there is not room for all.”

Just as it is true that Cardinal Bassetti spoke with the prearranged approval of the pope – who had himself just come from a private meeting with Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni – when last August 10 he supported the hard line of the government of Rome against “those who exploit the phenomenon of migration in an inhumane manner” by organizing crossings from Libya to Italy.

But the fact remains that these correctives have not made a dent in the image of Francis that has been built up in the media, as a champion of indiscriminate accommodation. And one may wonder if this is the work of the media alone or his as well, considering the overwhelming preponderance of his appeals for welcome full stop, compared with the paltry number of his commendations of “prudence” in governing the phenomenon of migration.

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The second point of the preaching of Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio that has ended up under fire from criticism has to do with his overall political vision, hostile both to globalization, in which he sees the perverse effects prevailing, and to free market policies, which he has often branded as “economy that kills.”

Go here to read the rest.  He who lives by politics shall die by politics.  When a Pope is as political as the current one, it is no surprise that he is treated like any other politician rather than as the Vicar of Christ.  Pope Francis has exchanged a role that is the highest on this planet in order to be just another leftist demagogue.  Pathetic is much too kind a word.

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Penguins Fan
Penguins Fan
Wednesday, August 23, AD 2017 4:40am

Pathetic is not only too kind a word, it doesn’t go far enough either.

I have no respect for left wing demagogues anywhere in the world. They preach a secular gospel of division, blame and hatred and always leave in their wake misery and suffering. Oh, did I mention hypocrisy as well?

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Wednesday, August 23, AD 2017 5:38am

Much of the Church hierarchy have been left-wing demagogues for a long time. But the pope is doing his damnedest to make them all look like pikers.

Jack
Jack
Wednesday, August 23, AD 2017 10:58am

He hasn’t exchanged the role of pope for anything. He has made it into the platform of the False Prophet and it’s working perfectly.

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Wednesday, August 23, AD 2017 12:54pm

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Father K
Father K
Wednesday, August 23, AD 2017 4:48pm

Pope Francis is horrible. I hope this nightmare ends soon.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Thursday, August 24, AD 2017 2:19am

By his words and actions Pope Francis shows he is not a man of God but rather a Communist ideologue bent on destroying not only the Church but mankind itself. Only the word devil qualifies as an apt descriptor.

Mirta Iglesias
Mirta Iglesias
Thursday, August 24, AD 2017 8:47am

The worst thing that has ever happened to the Catholic church.

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