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?
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