Is Pope Francis anti-American?  If so, I don’t think Jesus would be happy because Jesus loved everyone!

By Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere
September 18, 2015 3:17 AM

Pope Francis has called for every European parish to take in a refugee family!

(If we would have had a good patriot American leader, instead of Obama, we would have remained in the Middle East and fought the war like a war should be fought – not a patty-cake war.  Then we could have made safe havens for these people.  Look at what we did with Iraq and Afghanistan.  We built schools and towns with our money and then set them up in a society like we have here; but, these people have no idea how to live in a western society because they are still living in the primitive world.)

( What did the other Muslims do – came in and blew up everything we put together to make a city.  These people will never, ever be civilized because as I have said over and over – they are inbred – they have no brain functionality – they are like animals – you cannot negotiate with them.  So what is happening now, these leaders are bringing them into our countries so that they can live off welfare and the countries have to take care of them.)

(These refugees need to go back to their country of origin and their government needs to give them safe haven.   Again, this refugee thing is just to rearrange the world and mix up the people so that these people can live off welfare in the countries they are going.  It is just a redistribution of wealth set up by Germany, France, Great Britain, and the USA.)

(Why didn’t Saudi Arabia, Kuwait – we saved their hide, – and Qatar take any of the people – because they did not want to have to take care of them and they know they will not live in peace?)

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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?

(That is his view, the last interview he had with MSNBC his stripes were of a different color – more of a conservative and then after his visit with Obama he made a complete reversal of opinion.  I think it was the dollars signs in the global warming diatribe.)

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 excludes the poor have all wound up economic ultra-liberals.

From Wall Street to the Tea Party, critics have slammed Argentine Francis as a poorly camouflaged Marxist and the debate is intensifying ahead of his arrival in the United States next week.

The 78-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church certainly believes the superpower should do more, and fast, to live up to its responsibilities, and is unlikely to skip the chance to urge Americans to change their decadent ways.

. (What about the Vatican – they are rich?)

Vatican expert Andrea Tornielli told AFP he didn’t believe Francis was anti-American.

“What he has said about a savage financial system, an economy that kills, an idolatry of money, is part of the Church’s social doctrine,” Tornielli said.

It is, however, “a doctrine in many aspects forgotten by those who, even in Catholic circles, glorify the current system as the best of all possible worlds, and who continue to say that the markets should be even freer because it’s the only solution to end poverty and hunger”.

Asked in July how it felt to have been termed by one American television presenter “the most dangerous man on the planet”, Francis said he would study the criticisms made against him, after which “dialogue must ensue” — suggesting he may be gearing up to challenge his detractors on their home turf.

He will also have his work cut out in wooing disaffected US bishops, many of whom complain he has not given them enough support against the Obama administration over abortion, contraception and gay marriage.  (No and they have not done nothing – none of them to help the Christians who are being killed all over the world.)

‘Awe and resentment’ –

His superstar status has led to a boom in papal tourist souvenirs on sale ahead of the trip, but there are grumbles too: critics complain the country has been left off the pope’s radar too long.

Pope Francis will also have his work cut out in wooing disaffected US bishops, many of whom complain …

Francis hardly mentions the United States in his writings, and chose to visit ‘far-flung’ places such as Albania, Bolivia and Sri Lanka before Washington.

Austen Ivereigh, author of a biography on the pope, says “for him, the United States is not the centre of the world”.

( He can think any way he wants too, that is his right when he is in America. He has never lived in the USA so he has idea what America is all about – but he likes our money that is sent to the Vatican.)

Experts say the pontiff will undoubtedly praise the Stars and Stripes for its history as a land of freedom — but will not hesitate to confront the current ultra-conservative, xenophobic and often religious right-wing.

(In the USA we have freedom of speech and religion.)

“The Pope vs. The Donald: The anti-Donald Trump is coming to town. And he speaks Spanish too,” said an editorial in the American news outlet Politico, in an allusion to the Republican presidential candidate’s attacks on Hispanics.

(And the attacks are necessary because they are illegals and are breaking the law and need to return to Mexico.  How would he feel if they invaded the Vatican like they have the United States?)

Religious expert John Allen, who writes for the Crux website, said of Francis that “there are unmistakable signals that he sees the United States as part of the problem as much as the solution.

(Of course,  people have to blame someone and America is portrayed as evil because people are jealous of the country – that is why Obama is always down-grading us.  But, they sure take our aid money and all of the Catholic money sent to the churches all over the world.)

“He feels some of the same ambivalence about the United States many Latin American bishops do,” Allen told AFP.

(If he has never lived or knows anything about America  other than what he has read by a dictatorship newspaper, how can he judge – is he judging the book by the cover?)

“It’s a mix of awe about the economic and military power of the country, and respect for the generosity of Americans in times of need, combined with resentment over the checkered history of the US in Latin America and doubts about the fundamental justice of the global economic system the US represents,” he said.

(That is in the past and we did not have any involvement in that checkered past.  As far as the military is concerned – if it wasn’t for the USA –  he would be speaking German –  if we wouldn’t have saved Europe from the Germans.  As far as the economic system is concerned, there will always be corruption when you have leaders like Obama; but, if it wasn’t for the economy of the USA – the rest of the world would not be as wealthy.  The Pope needs to talk to the rest of the world too because they are just as corrupt and do not help their people because they are communists or dictators just like Cuba – why isn’t he harping on Cuba?  That island looks like it has been through a war. The Cuban people and the towns look like it is a war zone.)

Francis is expected to garner massive media coverage, whether positive or negative: he will be the first pope to address Congress, a decision the Vatican said was based on the opportunity to speak out to “all Americans”.

(No lecturing, please.  We get enough of that from Obama – telling us how bad America is.)

And, typically, he’ll spend a significant amount of time with those forgotten, overlooked or neglected by society, from the homeless, to prisoners and immigrants, as well as America’s young.

Marco Politi, papal biographer, said Francis’s main aim is for “America to reflect on the growing gulf between billions of poor people and a small group of super-rich”.

(He needs to talk to the politicians.  Somebody has to be rich – if everyone was poor – who would take care of the real poor?  He has to understand in America the poor people all live much better than our grandparents who were the ones who made our way and gave us a better life than they had.  From what I read the Pope wants everyone to be poor and not even have air-conditioning – ridiculous.)

Fellow Vatican expert Iacopo Scaramuzzi believes Francis will be firm but not combative, insisting on man’s culpability for global warming, but keeping “an open attitude to North American culture” as the US’s guest and possible friend.

(I would rather he not talk about global warming since he is not a scientist.  If he is taking Obama’s talking points – he is walking into a trap with crap.)

(I do not want to listen to lay people who talk about global warming.  Pope Francis is not a scientist and only lay people are talking about global warming.  Until the scientist can agree on global warming only then will I listen.    There is no way in hell that I would believe Obama telling me there is global warming.)

(If the Pope is anti-American, he is the loser – Again, America sure sends a lot of money to the Vatican.  If he doesn’t like us and does not want our money – then just tell us and we wont send the money – no skin off our backs.)

(America is the most generous country in the world – helping others during disasters and wars.  We have men and women who have sacrificed so much fighting wars so that others could be free and have lost so many of our men and women in wars.  So I do not want to be preached to about giving more.   And America’s  foreign aid to the whole world  is more than any other country.  So maybe the Pope needs to listen instead of talking.)

(It is nice that the Pope is here for a visit; but, I do not want to be lectured to.  A visitor does not come into your home and then abuse you!)

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