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Submitted by Susan Warner via Gatestone Institute,

  • Some high-profile commentators think they smell a Marxist clothed in white papal robes, who dreams of redistributing the world's wealth. Pope Francis insists that he has little interest in Marxism and that his political advocacy against materialism, capitalism, greed and idolatry are largely religious in nature. However, the flavor of some of his statements might suggest otherwise.

  • The Pope also knows that the UN is poised to strong-arm member nations to sign on to an impossible globalist agenda that will require a total shift of the world's wealth, and a restructuring of international politics and economics with a one-world government and a universal religion at the steering wheel.

  • Even to the Pope's admirers, that sounds a less like peace and love and more like a utopian totalitarian nightmare.

The world press is in high gear for Pope Francis's visit to Cuba and the United States this week. Recently, the Pope has stirred up a stew mixing world poverty, the evils of capitalism and global warming into an elaborate narrative that is likely to keep journalists awake for weeks to come.


Pope Francis visits former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro at Castro's home in Havana, Cuba, on September 20, 2015. (Image source: BBC video screenshot)

As the first ever Pope to address a joint session of Congress, he is expected to take some shots at the structural evils of free market capitalism and the unequal distribution of wealth. As early as 2013, when he penned his Apostolic Exhortation, in which he laid out his broad vision for the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has been clarifying his positions on these topics.

With the subsequent release of his controversial encyclical on global warming in June, he established two pressing themes that will likely monopolize his coming visit.

Climate change is expected to be the focus of his address to the UN General Assembly on September 25, as he kicks off the 2015 UN Summit on Sustainable Development and its seventeen-point utopian agenda for the entire planet, packaged in a thinly disguised reboot of Agenda 21. According to IPS news:

"Judging by his recent public pronouncements – including on reproductive health, biodiversity, the creation of a Palestinian state, the political legitimacy of Cuba and now climate change – Pope Francis may upstage more than 150 world leaders when he addresses the United Nations, come September... The Pope will most likely be the headline-grabber, particularly if he continues to be as outspoken as he has been so far."

Along the way, he has managed to stun even many Catholics with pronouncements about issues that they think should be none of his business.

When the Pope's recent encyclical on global warming was first leaked to the press in June, it stirred protests that the Pope should confine his expertise to religious matters:

"Former US senator and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, for instance, is a devout Catholic who has said he loves the pope, but has also called global warming a "hoax" and the research underlying findings of climate change 'junk science'.

 

"In a recent interview, Santorum advised Francis to 'leave science to the scientists' and focus instead on theology and morality. The suggestion was that the pontiff, who studied chemistry as a student, has no business pronouncing on something that exceeds his competence."

As the Pope declared war on global warming, he emphasized his continuing opposition to capitalism, materialism, selfishness and other "human factors," which he asserts are the foundational causes of the imminent destruction of the planet's ecosystem.

Writing in the Apostolic Exhortation and the Encyclical on Global Warming, the Pope justified his view that the temperature of the planet is economic and political, and it also undergirds religious concerns -- especially since the results of global warming are likely to affect the poor disproportionately.

His public denunciations of free market capitalism started in earnest with the recent papal visit to South America, where, to cheering crowds, he made some passionate statements about poverty and economics.

Speaking to grassroots organizers, Pope Francis declared his own personal war on capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, greed and materialism. According to CNN:

Pope Francis delivered a fiery denunciation of modern capitalism on Thursday night, calling the "unfettered pursuit of money" the "dung of the devil" and accusing world leaders of "cowardice" for refusing to defend the earth from exploitation.

 

Speaking to grassroots organizers in Bolivia, the Pope urged the poor and disenfranchised to rise up against "new colonialism," including corporations, loan agencies, free trade treaties, austerity measures, and "the monopolizing of the communications media.

Fox News reported that in one of his South American speeches, the Pope admonished business, government and trade union leaders, charging them with "idolatrous" and materialistic ways. CNN quotes him at one gathering saying to a group of business leaders, politicians, labor union leaders and other civil society groups on a Saturday evening: "I ask them not to yield to an economic model which is idolatrous, which needs to sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and profit."

Some high-profile commentators such as Rush Limbaugh think they smell a Marxist clothed in white papal robes, who dreams of redistributing the world's wealth.

Pope Francis insists that he has little interest in Marxism and that his political advocacy against materialism, capitalism, greed and idolatry are largely religious in nature. However, the flavor of some of his statements might suggest otherwise.

To understand how the Pope thinks, it is helpful to glimpse at some of his closest counselors on these topics.

One advisor on his August global warming encyclical is the controversial professed atheist, Professor John Schnellnhuber, who was appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Science, and has been accused of advocating population control.

In an interview in June with Breitbart, Lord Christopher Monckton, chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute, and a leader in the fight against the science of climate change, questioned Schnellnhuber's role in the encyclical:

Monckton further explained that Francis is influenced by extremist Professor John Schnellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who said in 2009 at a climate conference in Copenhagen that if we let global warming continue, six billion of the seven billion people on earth will be killed by it.

 

Monckton said that Schnellnhuber will be standing by the side of Pope Francis when they announce the encyclical next week. "The fact that Schnellnhuber is going to be there is an extremely bad sign," he declared.

 

The fact that he will be there next to the pope suggests to Monckton that Francis is thanking him for having written the climate portion of the encyclical.

Another of the Pope's closest advisors is Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, sometimes considered "the Vice Pope" because of his charisma and influence.

On April 13, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Maradiaga as a coordinator of the group of cardinals established to advise him in the governance of the universal church and to study a plan for revising the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia. Maradiaga is apparently also considered a leading progressive voice in Catholicism.

According to a NewsMax report from last year:

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, a close advisor to Pope Francis, criticized the free market as "a new idol" that increases inequality and excludes the poor in a keynote speech in Washington on Tuesday. ... This economy kills," he told the gathered crowd. "The hungry or sick child of the poor cannot wait."

The "elimination of the structural causes of poverty" is another concept taken from the "Apostolic Exhortation" handbook; some suggest it sounds like a call for a revolution.

Pope Francis undoubtedly knows that some of these ideas are not likely to go over as well in the United States as they did in Latin America. According to the New York Times,

"As his papal jetliner was returning to Rome (from his recent visit to South America), Francis signaled that he knew his economic message was already facing criticism in the United States and pledged to study it. Some critics blame him for rebuking capitalism with an unduly broad brush. Others say he ignores that globalization has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty."

The Pope also knows, however, that the UN is poised to strong-arm member nations to sign on to an impossible globalist agenda that will require a total shift of the world's wealth, and a restructuring of international politics and economics with a one-world government and a universal religion at the steering wheel.

Even to the Pope's admirers, that sounds a less like peace and love and more like a utopian totalitarian nightmare.

 

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Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:05 | 6581859 LongMarch
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Yes, yes. lets all worry about the poor stealing from the rich cause it's not like the direct opposite has been going on for while now.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:16 | 6581890 strannick
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Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:18 | 6581896 OC Sure
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Popes are closet atheists and cannot be otherwise.

The inquistition was to defend Plato's Forms, that a supreme being casts itself upon all beings. 

Thus, the church banned Aristotle's First Philosophy (Metaphysics) from being taught at the University of Paris.

Genuine interest in the fact that existence-is-eternal and a big-bang-must-be-bunk was too hot and the Renaissance was sparked.

Today, the Pope wears white but he is back in black. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:19 | 6581903 PhysicalRealm
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If the pope believes in globull warming and wants to do something about it he can start by taking some responsibility for overpopulation (and resource depletion) and telling his 1.2 billion Catholics to use birth control.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:27 | 6581929 nmewn
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He could also just quit flying all over the planet "supposedly" contributing to it. The first Limosine liberal Pope (lol) somehow I would expect God to NOT be amused.

Maybe some enterprising reporter will ask him how many "offsetting" carbon credits the Vatican purchased on his high-asses behalf ;-)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:33 | 6581959 Charming Anarchist
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No. It is not that complicated. 

<<If the pope believes in globull warming and wants to do something about it he can start by ... >> 

If the pope believes in globull war-mongering then he is a fake. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:40 | 6581986 Billy the Poet
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The Pope should ask Jesus if he and his friends used fishing nets (capital equipment) or if they just splashed around in the Sea of Galilee trying to catch them by hand.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:44 | 6582010 OC Sure
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No different then than now, right? Work? That's what the followers are for...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:04 | 6582105 Manthong
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This misplaced Gaucho is as right about my air conditioner and SUV causing “Climate Change” as Urban VIII was about geocentricity.

(  I’m Catholic and he’s a Jesuit.   :- D )       )

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:38 | 6582237 Eeyores Enigma
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I think we should be allowed to continue to fu(k ourselves in the ass until death and this Poap dude should STFU.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:46 | 6582267 Son of Loki
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Problem is the Middle Class was bankrupted by Bush's war and Barry's socialist agenda so they are broke donkeys.

 

If the Pope is talking about "redistributing" Blankfien et al's Loot and the other recipients of taxpayer's Bailout money that Bush and Barry were so generous to bonus Wall Street with, then I'm all for it.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:54 | 6582501 Billy the Poet
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Broke donkeys meet Francis the Talking Mule.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ggMP0H6Zl8

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 23:17 | 6582559 Pool Shark
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Title for that photo above:

"The Beast & the False Prophet?"

 

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 08:51 | 6583205 Kobe Beef
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Francis is a typical Latin American Socialist pushing the Globalist Agenda. Nothing more. What disturbs me is how far the Marxist Rot of Western Institutions has progressed.

What, you thought he was Catholic?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:05 | 6582115 nmewn
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After the Inquisitions (the alliance of the state with the church) one would think the Pope would be a little more discreet in his ambitions.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:47 | 6582275 McCormick No. 9
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The WHORE of BABYLON.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:04 | 6582343 Dinero D. Profit
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            I will now give some curry to The Pope for I am tired of his supposed holiness treading mankind to dirt.  The curry (read, a speech-curse) goes from the general to the special. We first wound vanity, we wound foolishness.  

 

            The Pope is a lie.  He is a lie a thousand times over.  He makes a good shyster look like a piker, and, his supposed holiness and his veneration of a god invented by the Jews is due savage riducule, jeering and abuse.  I’m not talking dammed, doggoned, dratted, and darned, I’m talking about cursing the largess of  Catholicism which is so full of shit I don’t know how it gets buy on one anus.

 

            How do you like that?

 

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 23:21 | 6582553 Pseudo Anonym
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the pope is not a lie.  the pope is the ceo of the vatican corporation. the oldest and most profitable  corporation in the world.   the pope is the the executor of the  vatican's global corporate mission dating to 1302:

 on 18 November 1302, Boniface issued the bull Unam sanctam. It declared that both spiritual and temporal power were under the pope's jurisdiction, and that kings were subordinate to the power of the Roman pontiff

then the unam sanctam ends:

 

"... Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff..."

btw, and  the hofjuden banking corporations and trusts we so often bitch about, they  are the custodians of vatican's wealth and ownership of the material world.

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:09 | 6582368 techpreist
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Back then it was Church and State because most education, news, etc. came from Sunday services, when everyone gathered together.

Now, it's a coalition of State, Church (and other people who teach about basic reality), Media, University, and so on. Everything is a tool of the Deep State now.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:04 | 6582341 scrappy
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You are a fisher of men Billy. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:41 | 6581979 Billy the Poet
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:47 | 6582004 OC Sure
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Nah, this fucking liar is much more into POT. ...such a tool. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW0j0smt8fY

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:30 | 6581943 daveO
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A lot of 3rd world countries are predominately Catholic. He and the UN are in cahoots. This is an attempted "money grab" of historical proportions! Right up there with the Catholic Spanish stealing all of Latin America's gold.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:42 | 6582000 Scooby Dooby Doo
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I heard Pope's in real tight with FBI and NSA hijinks. Comey claims an Irish background but when he gets home at night and the latex mask comes off -->

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:43 | 6582002 Billy the Poet
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Ratzinger is still alive and kicking. Why did he retire? Popes just don't do that. Seems like there was some agenda that required a change of leadership.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:13 | 6582381 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Ratzinger was forced out because he was not a legitimate Pope due to his control over the vote that put him in line to wear the dunce hat, and a BIG fat gold ring. Moreover, he presided over the implosion of the Vatican Bank and major reforms were necessary for them to stay in binnizz. By the time RatFink was booted the cocksuckers in the Vatican realized their bum grooming days were nearing an abrupt end if they did not get rid of RatFink & reform the Vatican Bank. Pope Ponzi Casino Capitalism Climate Change was merely the alpha male in the room of Cardinals that voted him in, and he was the most aggressive with the most sociopathic personality traits that the Cardinals voted for. Ergo, the CEO of the Vatican Bank now wants Carbon Based Taxation, Carbon Credits, & Carbon Based Trading, so the Vatican Banksters can fleece your pocketbooks, and bank accounts, for moar shine-O-la instead of shit.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:54 | 6582502 John Wilmot
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Another interpretation is that he was forced out by the leftist bishops for trying to reverse some of their earlier "reforms." Ratzinger was moving back to the Latin Mass and talking about the errors of Vatican II shortly before he resigned.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 00:14 | 6582661 Christophe2
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LOL.

I think it was far simpler than that: Ratzinger looked like the personification of pure evil.  He looked like the evil emperor from Star Wars, for god's sake!

Even the most naive child could tell how seeped in evil he was, so they had to quickly get someone who's evil appearance is less pronounced.

...  The pope is a major psy-op, so he needs to look the part.  As soon as he starts to look a bit wrong, the 'god-given rules' are broken and a better-looking actor is put in his place.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:47 | 6582021 MalteseFalcon
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Let's see the Pope clean up the cesspool known as Latin America first. 

Climate change seems a little beyond his reach.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:45 | 6582017 SHEEPFUKKER
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the poop is full of shit

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:11 | 6582373 ASACJon
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Not exactly so.  You are mixing and matching.

It is true that parts of Aristotle's works were condemned time to time.  St. Bonaventure cited seven primary objections to Aristotelian philosophy.  Two councils actually banned St. Thomas Aquinas's works (technically parts of it) because it seemed strayed into the Aristotelian (read Averroisism) camp.  However, Aquinas did take pains to point out the logical errors of Averroes.

The Inquisition as it is known to most Anglophones was a reaction to Muslims and Jews making false conversions and going ahead with poisoning the well as it were once inside.  It also involved charging heresy during the movements of Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and others.

You are correct that interest in the eternity of the world was a contributing factor to the Renaissance, but so were many other things.  Two contributing factors were the fall of Constantinople and, more so, the loss of political science sense that existed prior to the advance of Nominalism. 

By this I mean that there was a sense up to the 14th Century that all disputes (duke to king, king to emperor, emperor and pope, etc.) were intra famila.  New political theory partly helped by Nominalism and partly helped by the Great Schism, which saw at one time three papal claimants, severely eroded this sense of togetherness reflecting the universal of Christendom.

You are right that there was a dramatic shift away from neo-Platonism towards a kind of Aristotelianism.  This has had (and has now) profound effects on how we pattern life.  It is a rather long and involved story.

To suggest that popes are all and necessarily so closet atheists is a bizarre deterministic idea and is just not so.  I don't know their hearts so I don't know what their deepest convictions are, but a pope is entirely capable of holding to the theological convictions of a believing Catholic.

I will say that I view Pope Francis, in all due respect, as a scatterer and not a pastor.  The world loves him, that is true.  Indeed, that should tell us something.  His actions confirm much of the fears of many traditionally minded types, such as myself.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 09:10 | 6583257 Kobe Beef
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You know more of this than I do. So..

Is Francis a marrano?

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 09:40 | 6583390 taoJones
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With all due respect, the pope should concern himself with spiritual matters only, as that is his supposed mandate as the "Vicar of Christ".  As others have correctly observed, the Vatican, with all it's holdings, is the last one to pontificate about wealth distribution.  Lead by example!  

Rather than address Congress or the UN, the pope/Vatican/Roman Catholicism would be taken more serisouly if they crash the next Bilderberg party & shake them down.

And speaking of spiritual matters, the Pope/Vatican has little jurisdiction there as well, ever since 1517 when Martin Luther, almost thoroughly but not quite, debunked it with his 95 Theses.

As for the Inquisition, that was born out of Hell itself - there was nothing whatsoever Christian about it.  No where in the New Testament does Jesus or any of the apostles advocate torture (Luke 14:23 is NOT justification)

As for Roman Catholicism itself, just look at its origin... entirely politically motivated... Constantine tried to co-opt the growing Christian faith by making it the state religion and appointing himself the first pope.  Yet in spite of that, down through the centuries, pockets of Believers refused to go along with it, and were persecuted/killed by RC as a result.

The Vatican and all the popes will be held to account for what they have done in God's name.

I'm an ex-catholic, and I approve this message...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:16 | 6581891 strannick
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Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:24 | 6581922 zorba THE GREEK
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The head of the richest organization in the world believes in wealth redistribution?

Then open up your vaults filled with gold and priceless works of art and let the 

redistribution begin with the church, you hypocritical moron. A hypocrite who recently

excommunicated a South American bishop for ordaining women priests yet has not 

excommunicated a multitude of child molesting priests and in many cases houses

them in beautiful catholic retirement centers such as Child's Maryland ( Ironic name

but true ) Fuck you, you piece of shit and the demon you rode in on.

                             Parent of a molested child. ( pardon my language, but they took my only son )

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:38 | 6581980 undertow1141
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Don't be shocked, the last time the Catholic church got total control, we called it 'The Dark Ages'. 

What's next, will he advocate a New Crusade for control of the Holy Land(not the closet one already going)?

 

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:57 | 6582510 techpreist
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I am not Catholic and do not follow any Pope, but I would like to point out that the narrative about the Dark Ages is largely a myth to ensure that you never look at history, and realize that there were in fact times where an average man had a better deal in regard to law and liberty.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20186_6-ridiculous-myths-about-middle-age...

Yeah, there was less tech, but when the kings, the Church, and various independent cities were all powerful enough that no one elite could corner the other, people were actually pretty free. Also, you likely had the same set of laws your entire life.

IMO, if we had modern tech, but with less intrusion by statist do-gooders, and with all other institutions *not* marching in lockstep with the State, we would have a pretty good life.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:57 | 6582511 John Wilmot
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"Don't be shocked, the last time the Catholic church got total control, we called it 'The Dark Ages'."

Nonsense, you know nothing of history.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:01 | 6582093 Dutch
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I think that about covers it right there.

I looked after the finances of a local retired priest, nice old man, turns out he was living with one of the choir boys he had molested years ago. All he wanted to do was hide his assets from the church and from the lawsuits for all the other kids he had messed around with, by quietly gifting all of it to his partner. The Dioscese seemed to be in on the whole scheme, too. Made him GTFO of my life and my practice.

Does the word "sanctimonious" come to mind?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:30 | 6582156 flapdoodle
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The Catholic Church was the Church of Rome before Constantinople by decree turned it into the Catholic Church, hoping to tap into some of the vibrancy of the Christian sects.

Even the papist hierarchy matches the Roman Empire's political hierarchy. It really is an ancient (and very corrupt) institution. Like all religions, it was always about maintaining the power of the State and those already in control.

The tactic of the Church is and always will be to keep the slaves nose to the grindstone and not rebel against those in power. The whole idea of "eternal life forever after" and "reward in heaven" and similar mandatory Sunday brainwashing is to control the masses so they won't seek reward here on Earth (and compete with those in power for the now dimished resources) - if the sheep are obedient and follow the will of the Church, they will "live in Paradise".

The Muslims have a better deal as they can get 72 virgins AND live in Paradise.

This pope in particular comes from the Latin American Catholic Church, which was a pure play on keeping the sheep down on the farm (particularly the dirt poor native south americans who really did work like slaves) for hundreds of years while the wealthy lived the good life.

If this antichrist pope seems to talk the revolutionary retoric of "Liberation Theology" of the '70s, its because TPTB have transcended capitalism and are at this point unassailable - the socialism that will be pushed is aimed at the MIDDLE CLASS and not the very rich. It will be equality for everyone except the .01% Zionists and bankers - Gates, Soros, Zuckerberg, Adelson, and of course the red shield and their Jesuit allies that started this NWO effort...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:30 | 6582210 Buckaroo Banzai
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This Pope doesn't seem to have spent much time actually reading the Bible.

"Pope Francis delivered a fiery denunciation of modern capitalism on Thursday night, calling the "unfettered pursuit of money" the "dung of the devil" and accusing world leaders of "cowardice" for refusing to defend the earth from exploitation."

You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. -- Exodus 20:17

"The "elimination of the structural causes of poverty" is another concept taken from the "Apostolic Exhortation" handbook; some suggest it sounds like a call for a revolution."

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you bother the woman? For she has done a good deed to Me. For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me." -- Mathew 26:10-11

"As the Pope declared war on global warming, he emphasized his continuing opposition to capitalism, materialism, selfishness and other "human factors," which he asserts are the foundational causes of the imminent destruction of the planet's ecosystem."

And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: And to all the beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done. Genesis 1:28-30

"CNN quotes him at one gathering saying to a group of business leaders, politicians, labor union leaders and other civil society groups on a Saturday evening: "I ask them not to yield to an economic model which is idolatrous, which needs to sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and profit."

The crowd was listening to everything Jesus said. And because he was nearing Jerusalem, he told them a story to correct the impression that the Kingdom of God would begin right away. He said, “A nobleman was called away to a distant empire to be crowned king and then return. Before he left, he called together ten of his servants and divided among them ten pounds of silver, saying, ‘Invest this for me while I am gone.’ But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’
After he was crowned king, he returned and called in the servants to whom he had given the money. He wanted to find out what their profits were. The first servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made ten times the original amount!’

"Well done!’ the king exclaimed. ‘You are a good servant. You have been faithful with the little I entrusted to you, so you will be governor of ten cities as your reward.’

"The next servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made five times the original amount.’

"'Well done!’ the king said. ‘You will be governor over five cities.’

"But the third servant brought back only the original amount of money and said, ‘Master, I hid your money and kept it safe.21I was afraid because you are a hard man to deal with, taking what isn’t yours and harvesting crops you didn’t plant.’

"'You wicked servant!’ the king roared. ‘Your own words condemn you. If you knew that I’m a hard man who takes what isn’t mine and harvests crops I didn’t plant, 23why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’

"Then, turning to the others standing nearby, the king ordered, ‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one who has ten pounds.’

"‘But, master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten pounds!’

"'‘Yes,’ the king replied, ‘and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. And as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king—bring them in and execute them right here in front of me.’” --Luke 19:11-27

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:03 | 6582318 Element
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It's a pity we didn't have a religion that aspired to spread us into the cosmos, to get to Gawd, ASAP, as we would be in the eastern spiral arm by now, and planning the hop over to the Andromeda galaxy.

Instead we got this dopey Christianity that wants us to get even stupider, and stagnate while turning a global civilization into an Earth for pot-head commie slackers that drool.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 09:17 | 6583287 Kobe Beef
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Amen.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:06 | 6582353 hannah
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'‘and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. '

 

so i guess we should have all our money in the stock market and not in gold which yields nothing. i think luke worked as a gov of the central bank of rome...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:16 | 6582387 Buckaroo Banzai
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So you are suggesting that the only two places to invest your money are gold or the stock markets?

Might want to think that one through a little more.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 23:43 | 6582608 Georgiabelle
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This Pope doesn't seem to have read Marx, or history in general, either. Someone needs to pull him aside and tell him that Marxism and Communism both advocate abolishing religion: 

"Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."---Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel?s Philosophy of Right

"“And therefore, we adopt a ruthlessly irreconcilable attitude to anyone who utters a single word to the effect that mysticism or religious sentimentality might be combined with Communism. Religiousness is irreconcilable with the Marxian standpoint...We are of opinion that Atheism, as an inseparable element of the materialist view of life, is a necessary condition for the theoretical education of the revolutionist...He who believes in another world is not capable of concentrating all his passion on the transformation of this one."---Leon Trotsky

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 00:53 | 6582716 kgw
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BB, can you say that again in english? All I get is gibberish...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:30 | 6581946 cougar_w
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It's not like the rich don't already pull all the strings, own all the politicians, pay all the bribes, and ultimately hold all the cards.

The worst the Pope can be accused of here is wooly thinking, being nothing they haven't award Prizes in Economics for already. His actual opinions about the rich are about as lasting and meaningful to them as mist before the inferno.

I'm glad he's standing up to them. Fucking no way any politician will. Ever. And so long as they don't the stripmining of the material earth and all human kind continues -- and accelerates -- without challenge.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:39 | 6581984 undertow1141
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He isn't standing up to anyone, he is one of them. The Catholic Church is one of the richest orginazations in the world. And he is their CEO.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:43 | 6582001 cougar_w
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George Will and the Heartland Institute beg to differ on that.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:10 | 6582146 undertow1141
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It owns a global network of churches and religious buildings, many of which contain precious historical treasures, serving the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

What we do know is that Vatican Bank, officially titled the Institute for the Works of Religion, manages €5.9bn ($7.3bn, £4.64bn) of assets on behalf of its 17,400 customers. And it manages €700m of equity which it owns. Another titbit to emerge is that it keeps gold reserves worth over $20m with the US Federal Reserve.

The bank has been caught up in a number of scandals in the past, including the funding of priests caught up in sex abuse allegations and of money laundering for the Mafia and former Nazis.

This is why there are moves within parts of the church to make it more like a normal bank and open up its accounts for greater scrutiny. Protections for religious organisations mean it does not currently face the same transparency obligations as other financial institutions.

An investigation by the Economist estimated that the American Catholic church alone – which has the fourth largest follower base by country, behind Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines – spent $170bn in 2010 on things like healthcare, schools and parishes.

Money flows in from individual donations from Catholics, government grants, the church's own investments and corporate donors.

According to Georgetown University, the average weekly donation of an American Catholic to the church is $10. There are 85 million in North America, meaning each week the Catholic Church pulls in $850m through donations from individual Catholics.

Vatican City itself has a rich economy relative to its size. Though data is scarce, and the exact GDP figure is unknown, the CIA estimates Vatican City's 2011 revenue to be $308m. It only has a population of 800 people, meaning its nominal GDP per capita is $365,796 – making it the richest state on the planet by this measure.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:37 | 6582233 Buckaroo Banzai
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You seem to be rather ignorant as to how the Catholic Church actually operates.

The Vatican doesn't "own" a "global network" of anything; individual dioceses and parishes own their respective buildings and real estate, and are financially responsible for them. Individual parishes and dioceses are also largely responsible for all their own charitable works and associated fund raising and spending. Saying that the Papal State has a "per capita" income is absurd. And given the scope of the Vatican's work, it's bank is really pretty small.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:53 | 6582295 cougar_w
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Shush you're upsetting the narrative fiction.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:56 | 6582313 undertow1141
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I call that creative accounting to hide assests. Come on really, do these individual parishes not report to the Vatican? Do they send moneies to the Vatican? Coke-a-Cola is in a 3.3billion dollar tax problem right now for this exact kind of creative licensing franchisee profit hiding scheme. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:10 | 6582370 Buckaroo Banzai
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You really don't know how the church operates, do you? Its temporal operations are almost entirely decentralized. Quit thinking about it like a corporation with subsidiaries who report financially to headquarters; that's simply not how it operates.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:55 | 6582506 undertow1141
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I think the problem is I understand exactly how the church operates. And if you don't agree, thats fine. I don't give them a dime, but your free to all you want. Enjoy.

 

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:59 | 6582515 undertow1141
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Here's and older but intersting read on these bastions of charity.

 

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/08/us/american-archbishops-lavish-ho...

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 07:54 | 6583066 Chris Dakota
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Someone told me it was set up that way so that it could never be hijacked or taken down.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:05 | 6582117 Normalcy Bias
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I prefer to see him as the Godfather, Don Francis.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:30 | 6582439 Dinero D. Profit
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Jimmy Swaggart says hallelujah!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:31 | 6582211 OC Sure
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"It's not like the rich don't already pull all the strings, own all the politicians, pay all the bribes, and ultimately hold all the cards.

The worst the Pope can be accused of here is wooly thinking, being nothing they haven't award Prizes in Economics for already. His actual opinions about the rich are about as lasting and meaningful to them as mist before the inferno.

I'm glad he's standing up to them. Fucking no way any politician will. Ever. And so long as they don't the stripmining of the material earth and all human kind continues -- and accelerates -- without challenge."

 

 

The Kettle calls the Pot black?

And you stand up and cheer for the Kettle?

Are they not soul mates conniving in the same kitchen, using the same tools, and cooking up the same recipes, all to be served up at the yummy feast of  "sacrifice?"

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:08 | 6582110 ebworthen
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Marx said that religion was the opiate of the masses because he wanted to replace the church or religion with government.

The Pope is straying into putting the church into government, and vice-versa.

It is one thing to be compassionate in the locus or yourself (the individual); it is something else entirely to advocate from outside yourself and involve government and your church.

Especially the global warming thing which is not about pollution but control and money, and does not address crony capitalism nor the rise of the kleptoligarchy.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:09 | 6582366 Element
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Yeah, well, separation of church and state is not what it used to be.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 01:37 | 6582759 StychoKiller
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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of
envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -- Winston Churchill

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 05:09 | 6582892 proV
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Equal sharing of misery is nothing bad if it is a starting point to see that we are all made from the same substance. Any -ism that hides that fact is just an illusion for the stupid. But that cold "virtue" does not need to be the end of thought. We should not take ourselves for equally created cripples in "the eyes of God", but for equally created beings each on individual path toward absolute perfection.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 07:56 | 6583067 stilletto
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The article is wrong to say Monckton is against the science of climate change. Monckton is for science and against the Al Gore RELIGION of manmade global warming. 

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 08:03 | 6583083 overmedicatedun...
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jerry doyle the radio talk host (calls himself conservative I think he is a demorat troll) says anyone calling the pope socialist is going to hell, well no he did not say that, but he did say the POPE is NOT a socialist.

jerry you are s socialist troll trying to hide behind a conservative radio format.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:15 | 6581864 JustObserving
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This article could not be more worthless.  Gatestone Institute is pure propaganda:

The Gatestone Institute, formerly Stonegate Institute and Hudson New York, is a think tank based in New York City that specializes in strategy and defense issues.[2] Gatestone was founded in 2012 by Nina Rosenwald, who serves as its president.[3][4]Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton is its chairmam

Hard to find a bigger warmongering lying Zionist asshole than Bolton

Rosenwald has focused on donating to pro-Israel organizations. She has been "an ardent Zionist all her life".[

Info from Wiki

John Bolton Was Wrong About Iraq WMDs But Says Trust him on Iran Nukes

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/26/john-bolton-wrong-iraq-wmds-trust...

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is pleased to announce that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will be the Keynote Speaker at the annual ZOA Louis Brandeis Award Dinner. He will also receive ZOA’s Defender of Israel award

http://zoa.org/2005/11/102059-un-amb-john-bolton-and-jerusalem-posts-car...


Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:19 | 6581900 nmewn
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So, to be clear, you're defending the Popes stance on one world governace or just attacking the author?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:09 | 6581867 q99x2
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Pope works for Lloyd Blankfein. Together they are doing Satan's work and claiming to be doing God's work. Arrest the Pope and Lloyd Blankfein for treason.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:12 | 6581876 MFL8240
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I am a practicing Catholic and think this Pope is a disgrace!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:16 | 6581893 nmewn
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I'm a Protestant and so do I ;-)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:23 | 6581921 Freddie
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Sell off all the Catholic Church properties and feed the poor.  How much is their global real estate worth? $1 trillion?

I don't need no stinkin middle man to talk to God.  F Off Pope, John Bibi Hagee-Pollard, Joel Osteen or the rest of these money grubbing frauds.

This guy is the the last Pope according to some who say it is phrophesy.  There is something really evil about this man. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:28 | 6581932 zorba THE GREEK
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Spot on Freddie..

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:30 | 6581945 nmewn
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"Sell off all the Catholic Church properties and feed the poor."

Zactly.

If ANYONE is truly altruistic and for ALL humanity it should be the Pope.

Right? ;-)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:00 | 6582047 strannick
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Catholics do feed the poor. Priests, and most clergy including this Pope, live very modest lives.

If you want bullshit and hypocracy, the once saved always saved brigade get rich and dont give a shit about the poor, just putting more hypocrite asses in chairs and expanding their own shitty little empires.

Knew a guy, who usedvto always haveca glass of scotch when chstting to his protestant partners, and made sure the fucks were flying, Loved to eatch them squirm as they meanwhile plotted their scams. Strain a gnat type stuff hey?

I think your just jealous you havent had the chance to be Jamie Dimon. Till then, your religious. Or maybe not.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:01 | 6582095 nmewn
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"Catholics do feed the poor. Priests, and most clergy including this Pope, live very modest lives."

I'm not talking about feeding alter boys PriestDog's and having the hiearchy of "the Church" cover it up Strannick.

In Christianity you admit your sins and atone for them BEFORE you launch into trying to Save the World through One World Government.

You really need to get a clue about what's being used against you (your Catholic religion) for THEIR "higher purpose".

And it has nothing to do with OUR God.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:07 | 6582356 Element
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Think of it as surrender to the will of the LORD.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 09:41 | 6583360 Kobe Beef
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Which LORD? Baal? Yahweh? Mammon? Marduk?

As you said before, these fairy tales of long-dead desert bandit tribes are plainly stupid. Sure, people apparently need some sort of ritual to provide comfort and continuity in their lives and generations, but these myths should be left in the wastes where they were imagined. But Chronos devours his children.

To think, that these moldy old tomes and greedy old empires could substitute for what could truly be called Divine. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:52 | 6582048 strannick
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Catholics do feed the poor. Priests, and most clergy including this Pope, live very modest lives.

If you want bullshit and hypocracy, the once saved always saved brigade get rich and dont give a shit about the poor, just putting more hypocrite asses in chairs and expanding their own shitty little empires.

Your just jealous you havent had the chance to be Jamie Dimon. Till then, your religious. Or maybe not.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:29 | 6581939 oddjob
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Protestant?....congrats on being bearable.  ;-)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:33 | 6581954 nmewn
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;-)

Sometimes I know, not so much...it's just a personality quirk, so my friends & doctor tell me...lol.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:14 | 6581882 NYPoke
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 The U.N. Building. What a joke! They turned it into low rent housing. It's a dump.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:18 | 6581898 bankonzhongguo
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Great Heavy Metal ref!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:28 | 6581934 NYPoke
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I just couldn't resist.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:26 | 6582195 undertow1141
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Speaking of appropriate metal:

 

"Bootscraper"   Lamb of God

Watch the broken common man
Drown his sorrows at unhappy hour.
Dirty and sweaty
With just enough to get by.
Calluses on his hands calluses on his soul
Hard-boiled son of a bitch
Scraping away on the down hill grind.
It's a means to an end, a mean end for most.
Death and domestication ends in shattered hopes
Can't see the hand at the other end of the leash.
Turn and bite.
Turn and bite the hand that bleeds you dry.
Throw yourself a bone, no one else will.
Compromise leads to self-loathing
Money the excrement of labor.
And you don't get to keep shit
Except politics and power trips and a bad breath down your neck.
I know
For I have toiled in the halls of the mighty
And not received a teardrop in a bucket.
Motherfuck it.
The world doesn't owe me a thing
But you do (Motherfucker).
So crooked when you die they're gonna have to screw your ass into the ground.
As life slowly unravels
With nothing to show but wasted time and dust
A thousand points of lies falling on the deafened funeral eardrums of the blind masses.
Rise above, extract your life.
Will you look within
Then turn around and bite?
Day by day the mask suffocates your life
Is this any way to live?
No fucking way.
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:14 | 6581885 blindman
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Cat Stevens - Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1tRB7-aBr8
.
from the infinite to the zero limit,
alternate infinite.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:46 | 6581888 nmewn
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The caption in the photo should read...

Pope Francis listens attentively to former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro at Castro's home in Havana, Cuba, on September 20, 2015. (Image source: BBC video screenshot)

...yeah, what's not to take into serious, thoughtful consideration when listening to a dictator? 

/////

Wut? You bozo's wouldn't have even got the meaning of what I was saying if I didn't bold it ;-)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:02 | 6582076 Rodent Free Corps
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And then he avoided the dissidents.

Yeah, a man concerned with the poor. 

Too bad his concern is how to use them for his marxist agenda.

Fidel was probably giving him pointer on how to screw the poor, and still be loved by the ignorant fools.

I'm sure that's why he wants to talk in person with Obama as well.

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:31 | 6582199 Charming Anarchist
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You are reading too much into it. 

All you need to read is "Statist leader meets statist leader." Full stop. 

 

What were you expecting?  Blue team versus Red team??  A sinner versus a saint???

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:15 | 6581889 matermaker
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Wealth is the surplus of your productivity, pure and simple.  It's nothing else.   Starve grasshopper if you have not been productive.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:16 | 6581895 bankonzhongguo
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Wake me up when the Catholic Church sells any of its priceless art, museum quality artifacts or countless real estate holdings in order to alleviate the suffering of other human beings - never mind all the children that were (still ) raped by their managers.

I'll think about converting when women can also enter the priesthood and the Church pays a little tax on its 2000 year old operations.

Another racket.

'G_d is everywhere, but you have to go down to our place to talk to him.'

Give us a break.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:20 | 6581908 JustObserving
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G_d is everywhere

On the deepest level, all manifestation is conscious presence or consciousness or, if you prefer, God

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:39 | 6582225 flapdoodle
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God is ALMOST everywhere. My guess is that a Church on Sunday is the last place he/she wants to visit...

...by the same token, I suspect most people harbor the delusion that they have to go to Church on Sunday "because that's where God lives". How neatly compartmentalized... they can leave their real face at the door and put on their pious God fearing face during the Service.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 23:18 | 6582564 undertow1141
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Now they just need drive thru services open 24hrs. Drive Thru Tithing, donate $1000 and get a free pair of dirty choir boy underwear.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:20 | 6581910 runswithscissors
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the Christlam-prostituting NWO pope should be lecturing the federal reserve about this income inequality

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:25 | 6581923 Freddie
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Well this shitheel mention his sidekick Lloyd Blankfein who also does "god's" work. 

God with a small g because these clowns are tools of Satan and the NWO.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:32 | 6581957 zorba THE GREEK
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Freddie... The Catholic church is one of satan"s strongest footholds, and this is from a former

Catholic youth administrator. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:34 | 6581963 daveO
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What?! I ask all googly-eyed. This is his attempt to get in on the raping and pillaging.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:54 | 6582060 MalteseFalcon
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Every pope from John XXIII forward is a usurper.

Vatican II was a fraud.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:22 | 6581918 cougar_w
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Cue the foaming insanity in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:25 | 6581919 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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Whether it is capitalism or communism he is trashing makes no difference. He is trying to tear down that which makes society cohesive. His entire ploy, as well as the environmental agenda, is all about governance, not conservancy. The perfect metaphor for his papacy is Obama's presidency. Wolves both, in sheep's clothing. When AIDS is preferable to condoms, you have to wonder just where the church's priorities are. They are undoubtedly the same as all the other Neo-cons... control and depopulation (to make control easier.)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:38 | 6581981 nmewn
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Wolves both.

I mean, Obama can't even get a website up & running given two years and millions of dollars to do it...and these two jokers are going to Save The Fucking Planet?!

The mind reels.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:59 | 6582081 MalteseFalcon
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The website wasn't even needed.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:09 | 6582137 nmewn
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Yeah but hey, what a little data mining among friends when you're trying to run a scam? ;-)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:14 | 6581987 cougar_w
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Yeah that Obama, real fire brand, nearly tore BAU a new asshole he did. What a shock. Cultural earthquake I nearly died. Twice. Oh the humanity I fear for the banking class. And Big Ag and Big Pharma and the auto industry. Our urban core police have been gutted and the FSA horde are daily at the gates. The nation is on fire because of Obama it burns from one shore to the other. Wall Street is shattered, banking on its knees, the stock exchanges have crashed in the face of so much random economic tyranny God help us. 

The Pope, now. Going right for the jugulars. Our capitalism! The only thing holding us together as a nation, mother's milk, apple pie, Jamie Dimon. 

Obama gave Dimon those Presidential cuff links. Or maybe it was W. Same difference. Well we all know now it was just a cynical Marxist plot. Poor Jamie oh the shame I hope he's not suicidal his personal integrity and his entire industry have been ravaged.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:56 | 6582051 general ambivalent
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If Obama had a father he'd be Aids Patient Zero. And that great man once said, "I have gay cancer, and so do you."

Spreading cancer altruistically will be the greatest legacy of socialist capitalism.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:29 | 6581941 buzzsaw99
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he is expected to take some shots at the structural evils of free market capitalism...

so he is expected to take shots at something that doesn't exist? well, i take shots at his bullshit diety who doesn't exist so i guess that's fair.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:42 | 6581996 nmewn
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The strategy has always been to supplant the free market model with the crony-socialist-state market model, having done so, to then denigrate the free market model as a failure and hold out as "the cure"...the totalitarian state model.

Well...isn't that special :-/

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:29 | 6581942 Tegrat
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I was born into a Catholic family, but rejected this reliigion as a kid. No one told me, I just knew something was wrong. As I got older, I realized I made the right move. Even moreso now.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:59 | 6582083 general ambivalent
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Obama isn't Muslim or Catholic. He is a DARPA side project and he speaks in Ancient African Astronaut clicking noises which are converted into English by the iTeleprompter in his voicebox.

That is our new religion.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 00:18 | 6582667 TheObsoleteMan
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The Catholic faith was hijacked by Vatican 2. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:31 | 6581953 Catullus
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Pinkos and Environmentalists. Oh. Wait. The same thing.

Statism was always a religion anyway.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 23:04 | 6582524 John Wilmot
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watermelons

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:34 | 6581961 lasvegaspersona
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The pope visited Castro. He is a bum in my book fror that alone. Unless he went to hear Castro's last confession he just validated the murder of a country and 3 generations of its people.

The man is a Marxist and a Commie. The global warming thing is commie plotting to tax the wealth of the productive and redistribute it to the poor...politicians (actually it is to the strong politicians but whatever.).

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:08 | 6582034 cougar_w
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Did you not get the memo? The US normalized relations with Cuba. Or something like that. They will be putting up luxury casinos there next month. The place is a bankster mecca. 24/7 sporting events, Coca Cola ads everywhere, Starbucks and Micky-Ds popping up like mushrooms. The West won, Jamie Dimon won, Goldman Sachs won. Breathe that sweet, sweet capitalist utopia! Heck, going to Cuba will be as much a part of the American experience as going to Disneyland. Maybe, more so, because Disneyland you know they don't allow topless nudity.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:37 | 6581976 sbenard
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This pope channels Marx, not Jesus!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:04 | 6582109 apocalypticbrother
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The pope and his buddies want a Luciferian Technocracy. They like using communist  especilly for the killing cycle that we are entering now.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:38 | 6581982 general ambivalent
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From QE-Infinity to Gaza-Infinity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIVR14nl-uI

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:42 | 6581999 news printer
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Sometimes I suspect Pope Francis was used instead of crash test dummy.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:47 | 6582023 GRDguy
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The Pope (and other high-office religious figures) have already found that most people are sheep; they need to be shepherded and fleeced to be happy.  Why else would so many flock to these wolves?  I don't need to be an atheist to see the holes in all three major religious stories (polite word for lie)  founded on the sociopath Abraham.  It's sad that so many have lied and died for these stories.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 20:57 | 6582071 Billy Shears
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There's a lot of conflicted opinion and emotions over redistribution and, practically speaking, really "ain't gonna" happen but having said that I can think of some financial institutions in the vicinity of Wall and Broad that have "redistributed" wealth in their direction over the last several years. What to you call the "redistribution" of "wealth" from a criminal enterprise? I call it it justice.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:00 | 6582088 gregga777
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God save us from do-good ears flying around in their private jet aircraft.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:07 | 6582126 Wahooo
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Fuck religious leaders. And all their oligarchy buddies.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:11 | 6582130 Charming Anarchist
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I started to question the sanctity of the Vatican after reading a copy of the Catechism. I was shocked at the nebulous justification for "just" warfare.  I refused to believe that was in harmony with Jesus' teachings. 

A few objective facts convince me that the Vatican is possessed by Satan: 

1) the child molestation, obviously 

2) ridiculous endorsement of NWO crap (global-warmongering-climate-change and 1world currency)

3) its endorsement of false science often in contrary to scripture

4) its hierarchical statist structure 

just to name a few. 

 

I am convinced there are many Catholic clergy who are holy people.  However, they are bricks in their own statist wall --- living in their own comfortable and sheltered matrix. 

 

The most peculiar observation I make of the Catholic church is its complete impotence within the rest of the statist world. 

If the Vatican was divine or at the very least, home to honorable men, the Vatican would compete with the banks and the lawyers.  They would isolate their faithful followers from the tentacles of the state.  The Vatican would be proud of its wealth because it would be used to offer open banking and insurance services.  The Vatican would use its academics to craft a private legal code and contract law.  The Vatican would use its wealth to defend its faithfull.  The sky is the limit as far as what the Vatican could do with its statist structure.  Yet, the priests feed their followers to the wolves. 

 

I dream of a day where the hierarchy of the Vatican crumbles as nothing more than a failed corrupt state.  The EmptySeaters try to step in but eventually, every congregation of the world will go their own ways.  Folks do not need a central authority on earth. Even if they did, this aint the one. 

 

 

 

I am a Catholic, but not a Roman Catholic. 

I am still torn as to whether to believe the Marian apparitions or not. I can not wait to find out!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:40 | 6582466 AntiFabian
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There is such a thing as just war theory, it was used to give the church's backing to key events in human history that turned back the swords of Islam.

Battles like...Famagusta and later Lepanto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Famagusta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto

"The Ottoman commander generously agreed that, in return for the city's surrender, all Westerners in the city could exit under their own flag and be guaranteed safe passage to Crete; Greeks could leave immediately, or wait two years to decide whether to remain in Famagusta under Ottoman rule, or depart the city for any destination of their choice. For the next three days, evacuation proceeded smoothly. Then, at the surrender ceremony on August 5[14] where Bragadin offered the vacated city to Mustafa, the Ottoman general, after initially receiving him with every courtesy, began behaving erratically, accusing him of murdering Turkish prisoners and hiding munitions.

Bragadin denied it, and probably told Mustafa that he was trying to find an excuse to get a revenge because a few hundreds venetian soldiers were able to resist for many months his 250000 ottoman soldiers. Suddenly, Mustafa pulled a knife and cut off Bragadin's right ear, then ordered his guards to cut off the other ear and his nose. Mustafa even ordered to kill governor Astorre Baglioni, who was complaining that the Ottomans were not respecting the surrender agreement.[15]

There followed a massacre of all Christians still in the city, with Bragadin himself abused. After being left in prison for two weeks, his earlier wounds festering, he was "dragged round the walls with sacks of earth and stone on his back; next, tied to a chair, he was hoisted to the yardarm of the Turkish flagship and exposed to the taunts of the sailors. Finally he was taken to the place of execution in the main square, tied naked to a column, and flayed alive while Bragadin was praying the "miserere" and invoking "Jesus".[16] Bragadin's quartered body was then distributed as a war trophy among the army, and his skin was stuffed with straw and sewn, reinvested with his military insignia, and exhibited riding an ox in a mocking procession along the streets of Famagusta. The macabre trophy, together with the severed heads of general Alvise Martinengo, Gianantonio Querini and castellan Andrea Bragadin, was hoisted upon the masthead pennant of the personal galley of the Ottoman commander, Amir al-bahr Mustafa Pasha, to be brought to Constantinople as a gift for Sultan Selim II."

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:08 | 6582131 gearbaby
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thinly disguised "Poor little rich person" article

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:09 | 6582141 cougar_w
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Yeah and I'm really enjoying the unintentional self-parody. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:10 | 6582145 TheObsoleteMan
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Time is short. Now we know why Pope Benedict stepped down {to make room for this False Prophet}. We also already have the "Beast" {the global surveillance society} all that needs to take place is the arrival of the Anti-Christ {no, it is not the Kenyan}

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:17 | 6582163 Charming Anarchist
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Meh. 

I would not be surprised if it turned out to be such a bad actor that even the dumbest of the dumber figured out it was a hoax. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:34 | 6582221 Chris Dakota
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The Koran has the AC as the Dijjal and he has curly hair.

He is an orthodox Jew with the side curls I say.

He is in Israel now, and at the proper time the spirit of the Antichrist enters him.

He is the counterfeit Christ who makes peace.

Russia wins the war, the final battle is on the sea no planes will be able to fly anymore.

The Russian fleet will enter the Med because they will retake Constantinople that they almost

retook in WWl just before the Jews stabbed them in the back with the Bolshevik revolution.

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:30 | 6582203 dexter_morgan
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the Reformers always believed the papacy was the seat of the anti-christ......perhaps they were correct. 

funniest discussion of religion I ever witnesses was a cool-aid drinking catholic arguing with a protestant about the finer points of Christianity and the catholic guy kept saying the protestant was nothing but a crazy cult member. finally, Gus, a Greek immigrant could take no more and came over to the catholic guy and tore him a new one saying he was in the biggest cult in the history of man. The catholic guy, apparently unaware of the great schism, didn't really get what old Gus was getting at. His reaction was priceless.......

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:34 | 6582219 dexter_morgan
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James 1:27 [Full Chapter]

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.                                                                                                                       Sounds a lot like what the popeski is preaching, eh?
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:34 | 6582222 atomicwasted
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Unadulterated anti-Catholic right-wing populist bulldada. This could have been written in 1890.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 23:07 | 6582534 John Wilmot
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Catholicism has no greater enemy than this Pope.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:40 | 6582251 Ms No
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All I hear is a resurrected feudal lord trying to convince people in the US to do as their told like the rest of the Americas. Nobody has been paying too much attention to the church outside of their horrific organized pedophelia scandals but bet your ass, all of our new immigrants do.

Remember how awesome life was in Europe when these guys and the Monarchs were in control? In case anyone forgot life was an empoverished torture filled nighmare.  Recently when we have heard of their dealings they were shuffling around child rapists and silencing parents, so none of this recent propaganda should surprise anyone. 

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:56 | 6582306 cougar_w
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That's right, and I haven't lost a night's sleep since McDonald's and General Motors took over the world.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 01:05 | 6582734 Ms No
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True but then we are just at a lesser of two evils argument.  Preferably neither of them would be in charge.  Their history speaks for itself and the pedophelia scandal and how they shipped around those priests which allowed them to continue raping children doesn't exactly reveal that they have turned over a new leaf.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:48 | 6582277 dexter_morgan
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why in God's name is he visiting Castro of all people? there are no poor or political prisoners to preach the good news to on that God forsaken island?????

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:39 | 6582464 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Pope Ponzi Casino Capitalism Climate Change is visiting Fidel Castro because Fidel Castro is now old, and frail, and the Roman Catholic Church gets off on frightening, and intimidating, old tired communists that are too frail to put up any sort of defense against their thugs n' mobsters. Old Fidel Castro is just an old man eating stewed tomatoes out of a tin and the Pope wants to roll him for dimes and get a photo-op while he is at it.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:59 | 6582325 Macon Richardson
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Ooh! The Pope wants to redistribute wealth! Well, so do Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon, don't you know. If the Pope wants to redistribute wealth and Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon want to redistribut wealth, then so do Zero Hedge and Paul Craig Roberts and David Stockman as well.

Ooh! The Pope's a Marxist! Well, so was James Burnham and most of the neocons, Marxists of the Trotskyite persuasion, political Marxists. Do we need another fear piece on Karl Marx at this late date? Marx rightly noted that capitalism is antithetical to free markets, antithetical to freedom. That seems to be exactly the same thing that ZH says except that ZH qualifies "capitalism" with adjectives like "crony".

All capitalism tends towards crony capitalism. All free markets tend towards monopoly.

Oh, this is so boring! Keep barking and maybe someone will throw you a fish.

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 03:22 | 6582827 dreadnaught
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the wealth is already being redistributed to the worlds 1%, why do you idiots whine about wealth that might get distributed to the middle class and bottom.????

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:05 | 6582344 jesus_loves_you
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I'd be happy to see the pope on a rope.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:06 | 6582350 Brutlstrudl
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I saw the pope and his entourage getting off the private jet. Eminence Front.  Fuck him.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:16 | 6582374 22winmag
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It's a cult!

 

Get out if you can!

 

I'll take Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) from the movie Red State over this faggot fondling Pope any day of the week.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:14 | 6582383 Reaper
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The Peronist pig claims to speak for god on doctrine. The fools believe.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:23 | 6582413 AntiFabian
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To answer this article's question, the answer is YES.

Watch how many atheists line up to kiss his ring because they love his socialist politics and his pro man made global warming.  Afterall, BHO greeted the Pope on the tarmac, he never does that for other dignitaries.  The left loves the lefty Pope, bunch of hipocrites.  

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 22:24 | 6582417 Skip
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The RC Church is NOT the church that it was prior to the TAKEOVER in 1962 by the J-Tribe.

Then you have the Protestants with their Israel-J-Tribe worship due to the Scofield Bible which was financed by the J-Tribe.

This is why Mel Gibson and his father have effectively left the RC Church. They go with the OLD version, which wasn't taken over by the, well you can read it for yourself from LOOK magazine January 25, 1966:

http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/actu/actu03/doc2003/vaticanII.html

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 23:06 | 6582529 AntiFabian
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The Holy Roman Church lost me when I learned they betrayed the Templars and were in the pocket of King Philip the Fair of France.  It was at this time the church transformed from an entity seeking the protection and salvation for the followers of Christ into a political institution. 

http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/the-sad-history-of-the-knights...

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