Recently I was interviewed about the persecution by Catholic bishops of Catholic priests who enunciate unpopular truths about Islam. “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14) “Islamic Expert: US Bishops Complicit in Muslim Persecution of Christians,” by Anita Carey, […]
Pope in Egypt: “Let us say… ‘No!’ to every form of violence…carried out in the name of religion”
It’s hard to be Egyptian: water turning to blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, diseased livestock, boils, hailstorms, locusts, darkness, death of firstborn, and now Pope Francis. Seriously, Francis notes the “incompatibility of violence and faith” and says: “Let us say once more a firm and clear ‘No!’ to every form of violence, vengeance and hatred […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Pope Heads to Egypt to Defend Islam
Catholics take note: his favorite religion isn’t yours. My latest in FrontPage: Reuters reported Tuesday that “Pope Francis hopes to mend ties with Muslims on his trip to Egypt on Friday but faces criticism from church conservatives for meeting Islamic religious leaders after a spate of deadly attacks against Christians.” He has to mend ties? […]
Robert Spencer, PJM: Florida Diocese Punishes Teacher Who Quoted Saint’s Critique of Islam
“[N]ot consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church.” Hmm. My latest in PJ Media: Last Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported: [T]he Catholic diocese of Orlando, Florida, says it has reprimanded a teacher at a Catholic school in the state for giving his sixth-grade religion class an anti-Muslim reading assignment. The Huffington Post expresses a […]
“The Catholic Church…has become one of Islam’s loudest boosters”
In this excellent piece, George Neumayr refers to the rupture of relations between the Vatican and al-Azhar that took place during the time of Pope Benedict. As I explained here, that rupture took place because Pope Benedict dared to speak out about the Muslim persecution of Christians. By contrast, Francis energetically defends Islam, and leaves […]
After Palm Sunday jihad massacres, Pope Francis to Egypt to reach out to Muslims
“A main reason for the trip is to try to strengthen relations with the 1,000-year-old Azhar center that were cut by the Muslim side in 2011 over what it said were repeated insults of Islam by Francis’s predecessor, Pope Benedict.” What did Benedict say? Andrea Gagliarducci of the Catholic News Agency explains that after a […]
Florida: Catholic diocese of Orlando reprimands schoolteacher for quoting saint on Islam
“Flanigan, the associate superintendent of Orlando Diocese schools, said ‘the information provided in the sixth grade class is not consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church.’” But the author of this material is a saint in the Catholic Church, St. John Bosco. So did a saint spread ideas that were “not consistent with the […]
Philadelphia: Teen convert to Islam pleads guilty to Islamic State plot to murder Pope
Pope Francis is doubtless on his way to Philadelphia now to explain to young Ahmad Shakoor that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew […]
“Vicar of Baghdad” says Christianity in Iraq is finished
Christians in the West continue to remain silent and indifferent to the Muslim persecution of Christians in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. Why? A significant percentage of the Christians in Iraq were Chaldean Catholics. Yet the Catholic Church’s supine and pollyannish stance in the face of the advancing jihad, and active campaign to […]
Islamic State turned Mosul church into base for Islamic religious police
The sign above the door of Um al-Mauna (Our Mother of Perpetual Help) in Iraq’s second city reads “Chaldean Catholic church”, but its terror occupants had other ideas. “No entry, by order of the ISIS Hesba Division (the religious police)”, they wrote on the outside wall. The Chaldean Catholic Church traces its origins to the […]