Gary Emerling of U.S. News and World Report thinks he has discovered a double standard: “Obama’s comments were criticized as ‘offensive,’ ‘wrongheaded’ and detached from present-day reality. Of course, it’s more politically acceptable to criticize the president then the pope – time will tell if Francis’ remarks draw a similar response.” Happy to oblige, Gary: […]
Hungarian bishop: Pope wrong in appealing for aid to sea of refugees; this is actually a Muslim invasion of Europe
Khaled Diab, call your office. Actually, “Believe me, don’t believe your lying eyes” types like Diab have their work cut out for them: despite their best efforts, reality becomes every day more difficult to ignore. In any case, if Laszlo Kiss-Rego were a bishop in the United States, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (led […]
Pressure on Obama grows to declare war against Christians a genocide
“Christianity in the Middle East is shattered,” Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska Republican, told the IDC [In Defense of Christians] conference on Sept. 9. “The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken and dying. Yet Christians in Iraq and Syria are hanging on in the face of the Islamic State’s barbarous onslaught. This is genocide.” Yes. And […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Pope Karl I
In FrontPage today I discuss how the Pope has blamed the refugee crisis on…capitalism. September 16, 2015: Did Karl Marx become Pope on March 13, 2013? As the leader of a Church that encompasses the globe, one might expect Pope Francis to be a bit more…spiritual. Instead, he has more than once had recourse to […]
Philadelphia: Muslim teen arrested for Islamic State jihad plot against Pope
“Their ‘innovative use of social media and messaging has played a key role in motivating young U.S.-based males and females to travel to join the self-declared Islamic State or allegedly attempt to conduct attacks in the Homeland on behalf of’ ISIS, the bulletin said.” This FBI-DHS bulletin is completely out of focus. The Islamic State […]
Pope: “No religion is immune from its own fundamentalism,” and fundamentalists “kill, destroy and defame”
Where today do Christian fundamentalists “kill, destroy and defame”? Where are there mobs of Christian fundamentalists lynching innocent Muslims for perceived “blasphemy,” turning mosques into churches, and forcing Muslims to submit to them and pay them a special tax? There is an escalating Muslim persecution of Christians that makes this moral equivalence at best, disastrously […]
Pope admits danger of Islamic State infiltration among refugees, still wants parishes to take them in
What could possibly go wrong? Last February, the Islamic State promised to flood Europe in the near future with as many as 500,000 refugees. And an Islamic State operative recently boasted that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 Islamic State jihadis had entered Europe. “They are going like refugees,” he said, but they were going […]
“Case disrupted” ahead of Pope Francis visit to US
Nothing is said about who was perpetrating this “particular case,” and indeed, it could be enraged Amish or fiendish Anabaptists, but the most likely candidates are Islamic jihadists, who have already plotted to kill the Pope. “‘Case Disrupted’ Ahead of Pope Francis Visit to US, Says House Homeland Security Chair,” by Benjamin Bell, ABC News, […]
Saudis “offended” by National Geographic featuring Pope, ban the issue
“It would appear that the headline that speaks of Pope Francis’ ‘silent revolution’ has deeply angered the Saudi regime, ever fearful of riots and protests. For the religious authorities, the concept of a religion that is ‘fluid’ and open to ‘change’ and modernity (which is what the Argentine Pope is doing for the Catholic Church […]
“What disturbs people is not the Pope’s authority for his views but his seeming unawareness of opposing evidence”
Will the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops call Fr. Schall on the carpet and demand that he not speak this way? After all, the USCCB works actively and without any apparent sense of shame to silence and discredit those who tell the truth about the jihad threat and the root causes of Muslim persecution of […]