The man known as the pope and the vicar of Christ – but who in light of what follows is probably best referred to by his real name, Jorge Mario Bergoglio – recently gave an interview demonstrating why “so many people think he is the anti-Christ.” The more salient features follow: Christ as Warmonger In […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Pope Francis: Islam and Christianity Share “the Idea of Conquest”
Pope Francis continues to astonish. He has just said, in an interview with the French Catholic paper La Croix, that “the idea of conquest is inherent to the soul of Islam.” As far as his understanding of Islam goes, this is a marked improvement over his disturbing statement, back in November 2013, that the “Koran […]
Pope Francis: ‘Idea of conquest is inherent to the soul of Islam,’ but says one can see Christianity that way, too
A few years ago the Pope wrote that Islam and the Qur’an rejected all forms of violence. Now he is contradicting himself. “The Pope went on, however, to acknowledge that the ‘idea of conquest is inherent to the soul of Islam,’ while immediately adding that ‘one could also interpret the end of Saint Matthew’s gospel, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Pope: Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor An Umpire
“Integration” And “Dialogue” Or, The Pope Accepts His Prize The Charlemagne Prize, awarded by the city of Aachen for services furthering the unity of Europe, was given this year to Pope Francis. His address upon receiving the prize is one more example of his inability to recognize, or possibly of his feeling compelled not to […]
Robert Spencer, FP: Archbishop of Cologne: “Whoever Says ‘Yes’ to Church Towers Must Also Say ‘Yes’ to Minarets”
In FrontPage I discuss Rainer Maria Woelki, Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne and yet another Catholic advocate for the suicide of Europe: The Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, Rainer Maria Woelki, is alarmed. Not by jihad terrorism in Paris and Brussels, or by the Muslim migrants who committed mass rapes and sexual assaults in his city last […]
UK Cardinal calls for “change of heart in our society” to welcome migrants
Last February, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister recently said that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. Meanwhile, 80% of migrants who have recently come to Europe claiming to be fleeing the war in Syria […]
Archbishop of Cologne rebukes Alternative for Germany: “Whoever says ‘yes’ to church towers must also say ‘yes’ to minarets”
How wonderful and broad-minded and forward thinking. Woelki reflects the thinking of Pope Francis, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and all decent folk. There’s just one problem: the Qur’an is specifically hostile to Christianity in a way that Christianity is not toward Islam. A sampling: Christians have forgotten part of the divine revelations […]
Jesuit priest: Islam is “violent throughout its entire history” out of “obedience to the Law of Allah”
Another Jesuit strays off the reservation. No matter how ruthlessly Pope Francis and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops work to suppress any challenge to their new iron dogma that Islam is a Religion of Peace (which they appear to believe in more fervently than they do their own creed, as they enforce adherence to […]
Jesuit astrophysicist Manuel Carreira: “Islam is the worst plague that humanity has seen in the past 2000 years”
Will Pope Francis, who has proclaimed that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence,” reprimand Carreira? Catholic bishops today — such as, in the U.S., Robert McManus, Jaime Soto, and Kevin Farrell, but including the entire U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — are determined to silence […]
Christian refugees “let down” by Pope: he promised to take them to Italy but then took only Muslims instead
“What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?” (Luke 11:11-12) The Pope, like all good Leftists, knows that Muslims are the real victims of any conflict anywhere, even as they have […]