Dennis Prager at National Review Online has written words that explain the current pontificate:
Pope Francis made comments last week that reveal the most important single thing you need to know about the modern world: The most dynamic religion of the last hundred years has been leftism. Not Christianity and not Islam. Leftism.
Leftism has taken over the world’s leading educational institutions, the world’s news media, the world’s popular entertainment, and it has influenced Christianity (and Judaism) far more than Christianity (or Judaism) has influenced anything.
On July 26, two Muslims slit the throat of a French Roman Catholic priest, Father Jacques Hamel, 86, while he was saying Mass in his church.
Five days later, on his plane returning to Rome from World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, Pope Francis was asked about the French priest and Islam by Antoine Marie Izoarde, a journalist with i.Media, a French Catholic news service:
Izoarde: Catholics are a bit in shock, and not only in France, after the barbarous assassination of Fr. Jacques Hamel — as you know well — in his church while celebrating the Holy Mass. Four days ago you here told us that all religions want peace. But this holy, 86-year-old priest was clearly killed in the name of Islam. So, Holy Father, I have two brief questions: Why do you, when you speak of these violent events, always speak of terrorists, but never of Islam, never use the word Islam? . . . What concrete initiatives can you advise or suggest in order to counteract Islamic violence? Thank you, Holiness.
As reported by the Catholic News Service, this is what Pope Francis responded:
I don’t like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy . . . this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law . . . and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics! If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.
The pope of the Roman Catholic Church, asked about Islamic terror and the slitting of the throat of a Roman Catholic priest by Islamic terrorists, responds that there is also Catholic terror — that a man who was baptized Catholic who “murdered his girlfriend” is the moral and religious equivalent of Muslims engaged in mass murder in the name of Islam.
How can anyone compare:
1) A person who happened to have been baptized a Catholic as a child — and who may have no Catholic identity as an adult — with an adult who affirms a religious identity?
2) The murder of a girlfriend — most likely a crime of passion — with the ritual murder of a Catholic priest because he was a priest?
3) Individual murders unrelated to any ideology with mass murders committed in the name of an ideology?
Pope Francis then added:
Terrorism is everywhere. . . . Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person — men and women — this is already the first terrorism! You have cast out the wonder of creation — man and woman — and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!
“Terrorism grows when there are no other options”?
The idea that Islamic terrorism is a desperate act arising from poverty is widely held among the Left. But it is utterly false. Most Islamic terrorists come from the middle class or above. In the recent case of the Bangladeshi terrorists, for example, nearly all the attackers came from some of the wealthiest families in Bangladesh. And, as should be well known by now, most of the 9/11 hijackers came from middle- and upper-middle class families.
Islamic terrorism doesn’t come from economics; it comes from its theology.
Go here to read the rest. With this Pontificate we have a Pope who embraces, with the exception of a few social issues, the leftist world view, hook, line and sinker. Many of his most cherished issues, think global warming for example, have bupkis to do with Catholicism. He is constantly using the prestige of his office to mainstream leftism into the Church. That is why so many faithful Catholics find themselves in the heartbreaking position of being in opposition to the Holy Father. However, the Faith is so much more than any one Pope, and our duty is to Christ and His Church and not to the man who currently misleads that Church.
“The faith is so much more than any one Pope.” Particularly this one.
Sadly there are Catholics in this country who will buy the pope’s flawed comparison. Even after the ISIS magazine declared his “Islam is a peaceful religion” false, Francis goes down the wrong path. Frank the hippie pope is at it again and again and again.
Leftism is based on the false idea that money can buy you love. That is if money were properly distributed we would have peace and love in the world. How attractive an idea!! And how wrong. As we read in the Bible it is either God or mammon. Mammon is leftism pure and simple and consequently at bottom atheistic. Even the Beatles knew better than this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxha1IUsSPI
Yes there are many atrocities in people all over in many Religious backgrounds but
they are not doing these acts in the name of Religion so give me a break. I think he is a Coward and afraid to speak against Islam.
How many murders can the Pope cite committed by “baptizes” Catholics yelling, “Jesus be glorified!” or similar dedications?