It was a gathering of leftists today in Rome, as Pope Francis met with Bernie Sanders following the presidential candidate’s 15-minute address to a conference on social, economic and environmental issues, decrying wage and wealth equality. Normally, pontiffs are loath to give the appearance of intervening in American elections, and for that reason there are […]
Pope Francis: Persecuted Christians ‘Burned Alive, Throats Slit, and Beheaded with Barbarous Blades’
March 27, 2016 by
In his Good Friday ceremony of the Stations of the Cross, Pope Francis pulled no punches in denouncing the global persecution of Christians, who are still “killed, burned alive, throats slit, and beheaded with barbarous blades amid cowardly silence.” The Stations of the Cross or “Via Crucis” is an ancient Christian devotion recalling a series […]
Pope Francis Rips Capitalism, American Immigration Policy at Mexican Border
February 19, 2016 by
Pope Francis, apparently desperate to reach out to the Catholic Church’s growing base in Latin America, spent the day slapping Americans in the face from across the US-Mexico border. In Ciudad Juarez, one of the most violent cities in the Western Hemisphere thanks to the drug cartels, the pope walked up a ramp covered in […]
Shameful Meeting Between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Havana
February 16, 2016 by
On February 12, 2016, Pope Francis and Kirill, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church and a former KGB agent, met a José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba. Both signed a thirty point joint declaration prepared in advance, addressing global issues including their hope for re–establishment of full unity, the persecution of Christian in the […]
Pope Francis and Kim Davis Secretly Met During DC Visit
September 30, 2015 by
On his way back home Pope Francis took several questions from reporters on a wide range of topics, including one from ABC’s Terry Moran about whether the Holy Father supports government officials who, because of their religious beliefs, cannot carry out their duties, such as issuing gay ‘marriage’ licenses. Moran was, of course, referring to […]
Pope Francis Visits Cuba and the United States and Speaks at the United Nations
September 28, 2015 by
During Pope Francis’ trip to Cuba and the United States, there have been constant reminders of the role of the Vatican in assisting in normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba. Both President Barack Obama and Cuban dictator Raúl Castro have thanked Pope Francis for his behind-the-scenes role in helping along secret negotiations that […]
Reporters Asked Pope Francis If He Supports People Who Refuse to Grant Gay Marriage Licenses on Religious Grounds. Here’s His Response.
September 28, 2015 by
Just hours after President Barack Obama told the LGBT community at a Democratic fundraiser that “religious freedom doesn’t grant us the freedom to deny our fellow Americans their constitutional rights,” Pope Francis seemingly had a very different message. When asked aboard the papal plane whether he supports individuals who refuse to violate religious conscience as […]
SEVEN WAYS POPE FRANCIS SLAPPED CONSERVATIVES IN THE UNITED STATES
September 26, 2015 by
Many conservatives viewed the prospect of the Pope’s visit to the United States with a mixture of hope and trepidation: hope, because the Pope’s visit would force heavy media coverage of religious issues; trepidation, because of Pope Francis’ mixed record on issues ranging from climate change to illegal immigration. Conservatives were right to worry. The […]
POPE FRANCIS SLAMS CAPITALISM, DEATH PENALTY, IMMIGRATION LAW; NO REAL MENTION OF ABORTION, GAY MARRIAGE
September 24, 2015 by
On Thursday, Pope Francis spoke before a Joint Session of Congress, where he explicitly lectured Americans on illegal immigration, redistribution of income, the death penalty, and climate change, but made only veiled references to abortion and same-sex marriage. It is no wonder President Obama was so happy to see the Pope in Washington, D.C. The […]
Pope Francis Urges World to Follow ‘Golden Rule’ in Dealing With Refugee Crisis in Historic Address to Congress
September 24, 2015 by
Pope Francis became the first-ever pontiff to deliver a speech before Congress on Thursday morning, imploring Democrats and Republicans, alike, to follow the “golden rule” in dealing with the ongoing refugee crisis. The pontiff spoke of immigrants, telling the bi-partisan congressional audience to reject a “mindset of hostility” and to see immigrants as individuals, listening […]
MIAMI PRIEST TO POPE FRANCIS: WHY CONDEMN CAPITALISM SO STRONGLY, BUT NOT COMMUNISM?
September 24, 2015 by
Prominent Cuban-American priest, Father Alberto Cutié, questions Pope Francis’ apparently warm attitude towards the Castro dictatorship during his visit to Cuba this week, asking in a Miami Herald column, “Why do you so strongly condemn capitalism … but we never see an equally strong condemnation of atheist communism?” Writing for the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald, […]
THE NUCLEAR OPTION: POPE FRANCIS THREATENS LEGACY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II, RONALD REAGAN
September 23, 2015 by
Speaking under the hateful gaze of Che Guevara in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution — a shrine to ruthless communism — Pope Francis scolded us to “serve people, not ideas.” “Service is never ideological, for we do not serve ideas,” he said. “We serve people.” What a quaint and beautiful concept to ponder here in […]
Pope Francis Endorses Obama’s Climate Agenda, Which Critics Say Will Be ‘Devastating’ to the Poor
September 23, 2015 by
Pope Francis arrived at the White House Wednesday morning to call for immediate action on climate change, endorsing President Barack Obama’s agenda. “Mr. President, I find it encouraging that you are proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution,” the Pope said before a crowd of nearly 15,000. “Accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me […]
The silence of Pope Francis in the midst of violent repression in Cuba is deafening
September 22, 2015 by
HAVANA—Cuba’s use of what one dissident leader calls a policy of “low-intensity” repression to keep a few political opponents from going to papal events Sunday threatens to overshadow a visit by Pope Francis intending to focus on reconciliation. A small number of dissidents were briefly detained over the weekend when they tried to greet the […]
Pope Francis Doesn’t Understand How to Alleviate Poverty
September 20, 2015 by
Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert’s indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false, and deeply reactionary. They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill. Supporters of Francis […]
Marco Rubio: Will Pope Francis visit inspire freedom in Cuba?
September 20, 2015 by
As Pope Francis visits the United States for the very first time, it is our privilege as Catholics and Americans to welcome His Holiness to our country. Here, he will find people who are uniquely free. We Americans are free to give our opinions and make our voices heard. We work in a free enterprise […]
Cuban Dissidents Arrested On Way to Greet Pope Francis
September 19, 2015 by
Various Cuban dissidents have been invited this evening — at the last minute — to greet Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature in Havana. However, they were arrested by Castro’s secret police as they headed to the Nunciature. Among those arrested were Berta Soler, head of The Ladies in White , along with her husband, […]
IS POPE FRANCIS ANTI-AMERICAN?
September 18, 2015 by
Vatican City (AFP) – He is the self-declared foe of unbridled capitalism, rabid consumerism and have-it-all lifestyles — but are conservatives right in fearing Pope Francis is anti-American at heart? The pontiff’s attacks on those who worship the “God of money”, appeals for an ecological revolution and criticisms of an unjust global economic system that […]
US Disrupts Security Threat To Pope Francis
September 14, 2015 by
The US has disrupted a plot targeting Pope Francis ahead of his visit to America later this month, according to security officials. Congressman Michael McCaul, who is head of the House Homeland Security Committee, said one potential threat has already been stopped and that authorities were monitoring others. He told ABC News: “The Pope is […]
Pope Francis Radically Reforms Marriage Annulment Process, Citing the ‘Salvation of Souls’
September 8, 2015 by
VATICAN CITY (TheBlaze/AP) — In his latest move that is capturing international attention, Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church’s process for annulling marriages Tuesday, in an effort to speed up, simplify and lower the cost of the oft-times complex procedure. After an expert group was assembled to study how marriage law is handled in […]
BISHOP: ‘POPE FRANCIS IS WRONG, MIGRANTS ARE INVASION’
September 8, 2015 by
Pope Francis is wrong on the migrant crisis and the wave of Muslim migrants currently sweeping Europe actually represents an “invasion”, a Hungarian Bishop has said. Laszlo Kiss-Rigo, Bishop of Szeged-Csanad in southern Hungary, said the migrants “come here with cries of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ They want to take over.” He added that Pope Francis “doesn’t […]
Pope Francis Trip to Bolivia
August 5, 2015 by
On July 8, 2015, Bolivia’s Marxist Evo Morales gave Pope Francis a cross with a hammer and a sickle with the image of Christ. Pope Francis should have rejected immediately this monstrous cross, but he did not. This sacrilegious cross was designed by Father Luis Espinal, a Jesuit communist, who was assassinated in 1980 in […]
POPE FRANCIS HEADS TO IOWA TO PRESS REPUBLICANS ON (?MARRIAGE) CLIMATE
July 2, 2015 by
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Roman Catholic leaders in the early voting state of Iowa will call Thursday on candidates for president to follow the teachings of Pope Francis and focus as much on the environment and income inequality in 2016 as they have in past elections on opposing gay marriage and abortion. The vocal […]