The "leaders" of the catholic church have failed their followers for generations. The writer of that quote is a socialist fool.

Today we are taught that a Muslim terrorist who yells "Allah akbar" before he/she/it murders innocents and their children is not a Muslim terrorist. Right.
This pope reminds me of a college professor educated beyond his/her/its intelligence and I recall some of those.
To teach and to learn are two different concepts.
People have tried to teach old dino all kinds of garbage over the years.

What I find discomfiting is that Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam is treated in the press as an acceptable expression of faith (even after Farrakhan's call for 10,000 black "soldiers" to kill whites), while the Christian Militant sect, which adheres to strict orthodox Catholicism and rejects the "new and improved" church is called dangerous and threatening. Progressives fanatically protect Islam, which is anti-feminist, anti-gay, and murderously xenophobic toward other faiths, while viciously attacking Christianity as racist (?) and bigoted. This seems like an at least suicidal belief system our modern society has adopted.

This Pope is way over the top. At best he is naive and is under the mistaken belief that liberalism equates compassion. At worst he is a communist who seeks to harm western civilization. I believe he is the latter..

obviously he's had far too much communion wine.

If he is really serious, the Pope should make an ecumenical visit to ISIS. The cultural exchange should be interesting.

Pope Frank the Red is wrong about that as well as “the ecological crisis is real” -
more boring marxist green claptrap in support of Islamism.
The link- they all worship failure and despise human freedom and human life.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/7...

How do you "confront terror with love"? "Thank you for knocking those buildings down, they were getting old and we were going to rebuild them anyway."??? And "thank you for killing a couple thousand innocent people in the act, it will help us reduce traffic in New York."???

How should we confront those that tell us openly that they will take our life or destroy our country? I'd do it like the Army taught me before sending me to Vietnam. Terrorists, even threatening terrorists need to either be joined or removed. The choice is ours. We've probably already got laws protecting us from what they are doing and trying to do here, we just need to start enforcing them. President Trump today seems to be the only leader around the world that wants to actually do something about it, with the exception, of course, the other side. We need to take a stand and support him or accept the alternatives that his opposition doesn't seem to understand. The Pope is only a man with an opinion, he could be wrong. Maybe the Pope should go on FOX and try to explain his comments to the people, like Obama always did.

My mother was catholic, and the obviously stupidity of that religion made it easy for me to abandon it early in life. Good riddance, I say. Too bad so many people today still accept it and its leader, the pope.

the pope thinks if he says what he says the muslims will think differently about the Christians. he is a deluded individual in many ways.

What foolishness! Just read the Koran and observe what the Muslims have done over the last 1500 years. No terrorism? He's living in dreamland.
Jim Wright

I think I get the gist of the message, it's people, not the religion - we have had Christian terrorists too, such as the IRA, but I don't see any Jews or Christians contributing to world terrorism - that's a uniquely Muslim thing, and so is their state funding sources.

As Francis always seems to think, they kill because they are poor, rather than they are only poor because of their oppressive dictatorial governments. It's his hidden message of "blame America" without being able to criticize the source of about 70% of worldwide catholic contributions.

The Poop is not a conscious human being either...no better than isis just not physically violent.

I don't know how you can call Islam a religion.
Check this information out.
www.wwmd-tv.com

this from the man who is head of the largest pedophile organization in the world...from the organization that has caused more pain and suffering thru-out history than any other...excepting islam...

That's why I'm not a practicing Roman Catholic any more. I disagree with the Pope's public pronouncements on foreign affairs.

Consider the psychological malfunction of positing "Muslim Terrorism Does Not Exist". The single point in uttering it is to delineate between radical terror cells and Islam otherwise. Islam otherwise being...? Council on American-Islamic Relations? No, the Council is named as if Islamic and American relate as two states would, while it appears to claim representation for American Muslims. If American Muslims are Americans (affirmative), then with whom does this group relate? Itself? (The Council views itself as separate and distinct from mainstream America by default.) Further, the Council has been said to support Hamas. Does this constitute Muslim otherwise? A mosque, a Muslim business owner, a Muslim classmate might be examples of Muslim otherwise. But if CAIR is a powerful and influential organization with alleged ties to state-sponsored terror, I suppose we are living in the fog of irrational rationalization... at least, I would posit, according to the pope.

In response to the question why don't you say Islamic terrorism ?
The pope said "I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy. this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law. and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics! If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence . . . and no, not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion. this is true: I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists. Fundamentalists. We have them. When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language -- the Apostle James says this, not me -- and even with a knife, no? I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true. I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think . . . They seek peace, encounter . . . The nuncio to an African country told me that the capital where he is there is a trail of people, always full, at the Jubilee Holy Door. And some approach the confessionals -- Catholics -- others to the benches to pray, but the majority go forward, to pray at the altar of Our Lady... these are Muslims, who want to make the Jubilee. They are brothers, they live. When I was in Central Africa, I went to them, and even the imam came up on the Popemobile. We can coexist well. But there are fundamentalist groups, and even I ask. there is a question. How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work. they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups. One can say that the so-called ISIS, but it is an Islamic State which presents itself as violent . . . because when they show us their identity cards, they show us how on the Libyan coast how they slit the Egyptians' throats or other things. But this is a fundamentalist group which is called ISIS. but you cannot say, I do not believe, that it is true or right that Islam is terrorist.

Izoarde: Your concrete initiatives to counteract terrorism, violence?

Pope Francis: Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries. It is terrorism and also . . . But I don't know if I say it because it is a little dangerous. Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person -- men and women -- this is already the first terrorism! You have cast out the wonder of creation -- man and woman -- and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!"

Classic socialist response, nothing is the fault of any individual making a choice to do something evil, it is the fault of all those evil people around them that are productive and not slaves of the idle. The pope is an example of the Peter Principle, he has been promoted to his maximum inefficiency.

Is that the explanation for Obamama's actions or lack of actions over the past 8 years?

He did not say there are no terrorists. But he can't see that terrorists are acting - by their own admission - in the name of Islam. Thus Muslim/Islamist terrorism.
What can you expect from a Pope?

I would say that the Pope is at the very least culpable in the abhorrent behavior of those violent individuals, if not an outright enabler - if the violence stems from the lack of love and financial benefits, surely the Pope has plenty of both that he's no sharing. Shame on him!

And you were maybe expecting words of wisdom from this clown?

Wow, the Pope has a weird sense of humor... (sarc)

Amazing