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Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP Oops, he did it again. Pope Francis, who, throughout his papacy, has done a lot more political “activating” than “poping,” declared during a Good Friday interview that the West is guilty of widespread “racism,” while also claiming migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin. And that’s just for starters.
During the lengthy interview on Italian television, as noted by Breitbart: “We are racists, we are racists.” There’s first-class, second-class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed. We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad. The problem of the refugees is a problem that Jesus suffered too because he was a migrant and a refugee in Egypt when he was a child, to escape death. How many of them are suffering to escape death! I will neither comment on the pope’s religious analogies nor criticize his beliefs; I will instead report the facts and allow the reader to come to his or her own conclusions.
Francis went on to praise a painting of the flight into Egypt of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus when word spread that King Herod was seeking to kill Jesus. The painting, by an Italian artist, depicts Joseph as a clean-shaven, modern-day Syrian and his child fleeing the ongoing civil war. An anguished face that these people have, just like Jesus, forced to flee. He sent it to me and I made holy cards from it. As noted by Breitbart, the Pope is (was) scheduled to preside over the Stations of the Cross in Rome’s Colosseum. For the fourteenth and final station, a family of migrants was invited to write and present a reflection on the placing of Christ’s body in the tomb after his crucifixion. The text reads, in part: […]
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