Pope Francis tells EU to tear down migrant walls

[MikeWB]

This garbage of a man will destroy Europe. If you ever needed a reason to abandon Catholicism, this is a really good one.





Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis said Friday he dreamed of a Europe in which "being a migrant is not a crime", as he urged EU leaders to "tear down the walls" and build a fairer society.

Invoking the memory of the EU founding fathers' pursuit of integration in the aftermath of World War II, the pontiff said they inspired because they had "dared to change radically the models" that had led to war.

"Today more than ever, their vision inspires us to build bridges and tear down walls," he told a Vatican audience including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been at the centre of the EU's attempts to resolve its biggest refugee crisis since the war ended in 1945.

And in a rhetorical flourish with echoes of Martin Luther-King's legendary 'I have a dream' speech, the pope said he dreamed of a new European humanism that embraced the poor, the elderly, the young and the sick.

"I dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime but a summons to greater commitment on behalf of the dignity of every human being," he said.

Francis's comments came in a speech as the 79-year-old pontiff was presented with the EU's Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European unification.

Having unexpectedly decided to accept the award, Francis delivered a typically hard-hitting message to listeners that also included the heads of the EU's main institutions, the Council, the Commission, the Parliament and its central bank.

"What has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the champion of human rights, democracy and freedom?" he asked. "What has happened to you, Europe, the home of poets, philosophers, artists, musicians, and men and women of letters?"

Francis has made the cause of migrants trying to reach Europe one of the defining themes of his papacy.

He has regularly railed against the "indifference" of western societies to their plight and last month he made a high-profile visit to Lesbos, the Greek island on the frontline of the crisis, returning to the Vatican with three Syrian families seeking asylum from the civil war ravaging their homeland.

- A memory transfusion needed -

He has also attacked what he says is an arbitrary division being made between asylum seekers and so-called economic migrants -- a distinction at the heart of Merkel and other EU leaders' vision of how to resolve the crisis.

Borrowing a phrase from writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the Argentinian pontiff said Friday that Europe needed a "memory transfusion" to free itself from the temptation of "quick and easy short-term political gains."

And after that reference to the migrant crisis, Francis went on to say Europe had to fundamentally change its economic model to give the continent's youth the security they needed to build a new world.

"If we want to rethink our society, we need to create dignified and well-paying jobs, especially for our young people," he said.

"To do so requires coming up with new, more inclusive and equitable economic models, aimed not at serving the few, but at benefiting ordinary people and society as a whole.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Parliament President Martin Schulz explained the decision to give the award to such a regular and prominent critic of the EU in a column for France's Le Monde.

"Some will joke that the European Union must be in a bad way if it is in need of papal assistance," they wrote.

"We are convinced that Pope Francis deserves this prize, however, simply because he has sent Europe a message of hope.

"Perhaps we needed an Argentinian to turn his outsider's gaze on the innermost values which bind us Europeans together, to remind us of our strengths.

"After all, at times when the words 'Europe' and 'crisis' are often uttered in the same breath it is easy to forget what Europe has achieved and what it is capable of."

[Idaho Kid]

He's a piece of Freemasonic shit, but I wouldn't call him a Catholic.  I hope that this forces more duped Catholics to repudiate him and investigate the Jewing of the Church and Planet.

The Catholic Resistance - http://stmarcelinitiative.com/

[yankeedoodle]

He's a piece of Freemasonic shit, but I wouldn't call him a Catholic.  I hope that this forces more duped Catholics to repudiate him and investigate the Jewing of the Church and Planet.

The Catholic Resistance - http://stmarcelinitiative.com/

Hey, Idaho, speaking of masonic influence on the Catholic Church, check out this link:  http://www.mountolivetmethodist.org

Drove past this church just a few days ago - MUST learn to carry little digital camera - and was amazed to see this church with a shiny new - or newly cleaned - shiny copper pyramid-shaped triangular roof, and, where you might normally expect to see a cross at the pinnacle of a Christian(?) church roof, instead. there was a glass pyramid - yes, a GLASS PYRAMID: the all-seeing eye on top of the pyramid, on what is masquerading as a church.

Didn't have camera, but thought that, surely, they would have a proud photo of this shiny gleaming church on their website, so that everybody could find it, but NO, there's no image of the church itself.  But, if you look at the photos, you will see an inside view, and you can clearly see the triangular shape of the roof, and the clear glass at the pinnacle, with the light streaming in through the glass pyramid at the top.

Talk about masonic influence.

But, amazingly, it had a profound effect.  Was riding with an Israhell-loving Christian zionist type, and this church had a remarkable effect.  We immediately began talking about the masons - not a subject that would normally pop up in conversation - and, at one point, he said "the jews," and that gave Yankee Doodle an opening to discuss with him the 6-million hoax, the gas chamber hoax, etc, etc, and, amazingly, he was totally receptive.  Wow.

Very interesting and positive experience: the seeming convert, not the masonic church.  He won't be a total convert, of course, until he trashes his "Stand With Israel" jacket.

[Christopher Marlowe]

The Pope is a heretic. All the Popes since Vatican II have been heretics, but Francis is king of the heretics. The Church will be here till the end of time; and there will be a Pope.  The Church cannot function (for very long) without a Pope. Therefore I think that drastic changes are afoot. 

We are coming to the end of the age. (I don't think this is the end of the world, but the end of this age.) I believe that we are in the midst of a spiritual chastisement, which will be followed by a physical chastisement of the world. (It is not the end of the world, but I think it will seem like it.) I do not believe that this is the end of the world because we haven't seen the antichrist.

This is the time to get right with God. Confess your sins and make atonement. Forgive your enemies. Pray the rosary.