Tales of a militant Pope and his unholy alliances

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 15:46:28 | Updated at 2025-01-08 00:48:52 1 day ago

Tales of a militant Pope and his unholy alliances
Times of Israel ^ | JANUARY 5, 2025 | Bepi Pezzulli

Posted on 01/06/2025 7:31:22 AM PST by Eli Kopter

It seems Pope Francis just can’t resist the allure of bad company. From Beijing to Tehran to Damascus, the Holy Father is collecting autocrats and hardliners like a stamp collector chasing rare specimens. If the Vatican ever opens an ‘Axis of Evil’ exhibit, they’ll have no shortage of material.

Once again, the Roman Pontifex stirred controversy while handing a PR victory to the Iranian regime. Pope Francis is quoted by Iranian news agency IRNA, through Abolhassan Navab, rector of Iran’s University of Religions and Denominations, whom the Pope met in Rome recently, as accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “ignoring international laws and human rights.” These strong words have not been denied by the Vatican so far, drawing attention to the Pope’s critical stance on Netanyahu’s actions.

But the plot thickened when Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, Syria’s de facto leader and former al-Qaeda affiliate, entered the scene. In an interview with Vatican media, Jawlani praised Pope Francis, declaring Christians an “integral part” of Syria’s history. He even went so far as to call the Pontiff a “real man of peace.” That warm, fuzzy feeling you’re experiencing is the sound of Islamist militias rebranding with the Vatican’s inadvertent blessing.

An unholy alliance is ostensibly in the making. This isn’t an isolated incident but part of a broader trend. Just as the Pope once bent over backwards to strike an agreement with China, he now appears to be extending olive branches to figures who view democracy with suspicion and religious pluralism as optional.

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This Pope continues his politcal agenda.

1 posted on 01/06/2025 7:31:22 AM PST by Eli Kopter

To: Eli Kopter

Not the Pope. Not even Catholic.

2 posted on 01/06/2025 7:34:46 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)

To: Eli Kopter

Agnostic homosexuals and people who find them tolerable should not be clergymen in the Catholic Church.

3 posted on 01/06/2025 7:34:57 AM PST by allendale

To: Eli Kopter

The body of the Catholic Church would be more correct. The Catholic Church continues to allow the Pope to speak in their name and commit such heresies.

Titus 3:10
Reject a factious man after a first and second warning,

The current Pope has been warned numerous times by the few faithful Cardinals and Bishops the Catholic Church has left and he is purging them as well.

4 posted on 01/06/2025 7:36:33 AM PST by Skwor

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