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2022-06-15 Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Francis criticizes Russia over cruelty in Ukraine but says war perhaps provoked
More inanities from the Parlour Pink pope.
[NYPOST] Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
has taken a new series of swipes at Russia for its actions in Ukraine, saying its troops were brutal, cruel and ferocious, while praising "brave" Ukrainians for fighting for survival.

But in the text of a conversation he had last month with editors of Jesuit media and published on Tuesday, he also said the situation was not black and white and that the war was "perhaps in some way provoked."

While condemning "the ferocity, the cruelty of Russian troops, we must not forget the real problems if we want them to be solved," Francis said, including the armaments industry among the factors that provide incentives for war.

"It is also true that the Russians thought it would all be over in a week. But they miscalculated. They encountered a brave people, a people who are struggling to survive and who have a history of struggle," he said.

Francis then said in his own words: "We do not see the whole drama unfolding behind this war, which was perhaps somehow either provoked or not prevented."

Asking himself rhetorically if that made him "pro-Putin," he said "No, I am not. It would be simplistic and wrong to say such a thing."
Posted by Fred 2022-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Now he's a geopolitical analyst ?
Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-15 07:02||   2022-06-15 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Cruelty? Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-15 07:07||   2022-06-15 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 You were expecting different from someone who's had a mouthful of shit and swallowed on the subject of Putin's rental brownshirts in Venezuela?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-06-15 08:15||   2022-06-15 08:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I still remember this Pope's thuggish mockery of the Charlie Hebdo victims.

Back then Uriah Heep's 'ever so humble' mask slipped and he revealed who he was.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2022-06-15 09:00||   2022-06-15 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 The conversation the pope will finally have with God would be, to say the least..."interesting"!
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-06-15 10:47||   2022-06-15 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Imagine that a Pope who is a godless commie. He should wear his red pointy hat from now on.
Posted by Airandee 2022-06-15 20:19||   2022-06-15 20:19|| Front Page Top

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