It indeed behooves the Church’s episcopal body to take a closer look at the 2013 papal election, since we may very well be witnessing the fulfillment of the prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi concerning a false shepherd By David Martin With theologians and bishops aghast over what some are calling ‘the most terrible schism the […]
By Raymond Ibrahim When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the new Catholic pope in 2013, he chose the name of Francis to indicate that his pontificate would be one of mercy and compassion for the poor and needy. Such is the reputation of his eponym, Saint Francis of Assisi: “the man of poverty, the man of […]
Muslim from the Islamic State have publicly responded to statements by Pope Francis that the war waged by the Islamic terrorists is not religious in nature. The article answers the pontiff that their only motivation is religious and approved by Allah in the Qur’an. Highlights of the latest issue of Dabiq – the official propaganda […]
Pope Francis’ statement this week Christians should not think of “building walls” had one major problem. The pope’s sovereign city-state, Vatican City, is surrounded by giant walls. What’s more, the walls were specifically built by a prior pope to repel Muslims. History shows back in 846, Muslim raiders known as the Saracens looted Old St. […]
by BEN SHAPIRO On Wednesday, Pope Francis traveled to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, where he stood across the border from the United States and paid homage to “migrants who have perished trying to reach the United States just a stone’s throw away,” according to Reuters. He then blessed crosses next to which “shoes of migrants […]
By David Singer UNESCO, the United Nations and just this week – the Vatican – have recognised that the “State of Palestine” exists—despite the fact that it lacks all four basic requirements laid down in Article 1 of theMontevideo Convention 1933: “The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: a […]
by Walid Shoebat So what did Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis secretly discuss in the Vatican? In the West, the image of the Pontiff sitting down with Putin was unacceptable as Ukrainian Greek Catholics and many in the U.S. criticized the Pope for refusing to condemn Moscow as an “aggressor”. So is the Pope wrong and evil […]
Current “anti-Semitic trends in Europe” are a cause for worry, said Pope Francis Monday morning, as are accompanying “acts of hatred and violence.” In a historic encounter, Francis met in the Vatican with a delegation from the Conference of European Rabbis, the first time a pope has ever met with the Conference. The Pope underscored […]
By Jeff Jacoby UNLIKE SOME of Pope Francis’s other headline-generating pronouncements, his description of Turkey’s mass murder of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as “genocide” was anything but inadvertent. Speaking at the Vatican during a Sunday Mass to mark the centenary of the slaughter, the pope said it is “widely considered the first […]
