VATICAN: IN CHRISTMAS SPEECH, POPE FRANCIS CRITICIZES NATIONALISM, TOUTS CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AS “SOURCE OF RICHNESS”

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Yet again, Pope Francis tries to guilt-trip Catholics into fearing to
oppose mass Muslim migration into Europe. He has repeatedly branded
those who oppose mass Muslim migration into Europe as un-Christian. He
seems to be completely unconcerned about facts such as the following: all of the jihadis
who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered
Europe as refugees. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would
soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. The Lebanese Education Minister said
in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in
camps in his country. On May 10, 2016, Patrick Calvar, the head of
France’s DGSI internal intelligence agency, said that the Islamic State was using migrant routes through the Balkans to get jihadis into Europe.

And in the U.S., Somali Muslim migrant Mohammad Barry in February 2016 stabbed multiple patrons at a restaurant owned by an Israeli Arab Christian; Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan Muslim migrant, in September 2016 set off bombs in New York City and New Jersey; Arcan Cetin, a Turkish Muslim migrant, in September 2016 murdered five people in a mall in Burlington, Washington; Dahir Adan, another Somali Muslim migrant, in October 2016 stabbed mall shoppers in St. Cloud while screaming “Allahu akbar”; and Abdul Razak Artan, yet another Somali Muslim migrant, in November 2016 injured nine people with car and knife attacks at Ohio State University. 72 jihad terrorists have come to the U.S. from the countries listed in Trump’s initial immigration ban.

Pope Francis has never expressed any concern about any of this. Of course, he has claimed
risibly that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are
opposed to every form of violence.” This has become a superdogma in the
Catholic Church: if you don’t believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace,
you will be ruthlessly harassed and silenced by the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the hierarchy elsewhere as well. The
bishops of the Catholic Church are much more concerned that you believe
that Islam is a religion of peace than that you believe in, say, the
Nicene Creed. And so what possible reason could there be to be concerned
about these “refugees”? It’s a religion of peace!

The U.S. Catholic bishops, of course, have 91 million reasons —
indeed, 534 million reasons — to turn against the truth and disregard
the safety and security of the American people: “In the Fiscal Year 2016,
the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) received more
than $91 million in government funding for refugee resettlement. Over
the past nine years, the USCCB has received a total of $534,788,660 in
taxpayer dollars for refugee resettlement programs.”

“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)

“Pope Francis criticises nationalism and suggests people should embrace diversity,” Voice of Europe, December 25, 2018:

In his traditional Christmas speech, Pope Francis criticised nationalism and called cultural differences a “source of richness”.

Speaking about increasing nationalism in the Western world as a
result of migration from North Africa and the Middle East the spiritual
leader said:

“Our differences are not a detriment or a danger; they are a source
of richness. As when an artist is about to make a mosaic: it is better
to have tiles of many colours available, rather than just a few,” the
Pope told a large audience in the Vatican.

“The experience of families teaches us this,” he said, “as brothers
and sisters, we are all different from each other. We do not always
agree, but there is an unbreakable bond uniting us, and the love of our
parents helps us to love one another,” he added….
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