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The Pope is addressing Congress Now

Posted: Sep 24, 2015

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Pope humor? At Catholic Charities announces - he will speak first in Spanish, then English

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I listened. It was full of platitudes. I expected nothing. - The Press loved it. It almost

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sounded like it was written by Obama's speech writers.

Maybe Francis should lead the way by telling his - churches in America to start

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paying taxes. I'm not Catholic, but I resent being told we need to take in illegal immigrants. We have a rule of law (well, we used to). I wonder if the pope and others realize the impact of their proposals. The primary benefit to the populace of the rule of law is it puts limitations on the leaders. They can no longer change the rules on a whim or trample their opposition (like I said, it used to be that way).

I wonder if Francis knows we take in more legal immigrants - every year than the rest of the world

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combined.

We also take in ILLEGAL ALIENS. - sm

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In addition, we allow them to continue to stay, sponge off our resources and continue to break the laws of the land.

I wonder how many all of a sudden are religious - zealots now. He never mentioned Jesus

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or God.

I particularly liked that when he asked people to - pray for him and stated well wishes

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would do if unable to pray.

He doesn't have to mention Jesus or God. - sm

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That would be rather moot, wouldn't it?

??? That's like going to church with no mention of - God or Jesus. What's the point?

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I wonder if the pope has any empathy for the people - who lost their jobs because of illegal

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invaders. He's set for life.

Will he eschew air conditioning?

Pope blesses child (Sophie) of undocumented - parents -- and hug and kiss

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My thought is he doesn't believe illegals are taking anyone's jobs.

A Barack Obama Production. No one can actually believe - this wasn't staged. "My

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dad works very hard in a factory galvanizing pieces of metal." When our laws mattered, one might make a case to raid that factory for hiring illegals.

Several of the Pope’s lines, in his Congress speech, were verbatim words 0bama used in his Prayer Breakfast speech. Hmmmm.

Sounds just like a 5-year-old.

What you describe an "illegal alien" to be sounds - more like most U.S. corporations.

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And of course, the 1% that reap the benefits.

Vatican has the strictest immigration policy in the world. - Pope Francis is more than the head of

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Catholic Church — he’s also the head of state of the Vatican, which as a government has possibly the most restrictive immigration and citizenship policies of any nation in the world.

The pope, traveling to the U.S. for the first time, has made a special appeal to Americans to welcome immigrants, using his address to a joint meeting of Congress Thursday to invoke the Golden Rule in demanding generosity toward the millions of Central and South Americans seeking to come to the country....

Immigrant rights groups had eagerly anticipated the pope’s message, as had illegal immigrants themselves.

The pontiff didn’t mention illegal immigration during his speech Thursday, but did refer to the large numbers of people coming from Latin America. Advocacy groups cheered his words, saying his call for unity and acceptance should temper some of the harsh rhetoric that’s flared recently.

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said he took the pope’s call for compassion to be a celebration of legal immigration — and said he welcomed that.

Rep. Michael Burgess, Texas Republican, said the U.S. is already doing its part to heed calls for compassion.

“The thing that always strikes me when we get into these discussions is the United States takes in more people every year legally than the rest of the world combined,” he said. “You start from that premise — it was 1.7 million last year, you want to add another 400,000 to 600,000 that came in without the benefit of doing it the right way. What is the right number? If over 2 million is not enough, would someone please tell me what that right number is, and would other countries act accordingly.”

The Vatican, for its part, welcomes millions of visitors a year — but allows only a very select few, who meet strict criteria, to be admitted as residents or citizens.

Only about 450 of its 800 or so residents actually hold citizenship, according to a 2012 study by the Library of Congress. That study said citizens are either church cardinals who reside in the Vatican, the Holy See’s diplomats around the world, and those who have to reside in the city because of their jobs, such as the Swiss Guard.

Spouses and children who live in the city because of their relationship with citizens — including the Swiss Guard and workers such as the gardener — have also been granted citizenship. But that means few of the Vatican’s citizens are women.

A Vatican spokesman did not return an email seeking comment on its policy.

The strict policy has left the Vatican open to criticism in the past, including from right-wing political leaders in Italy who want tighter immigration controls in their country and have rebuffed the papacy’s calls for leniency by asking how many refugees live in the enclave.

Pope Francis, however, has taken some steps to mitigate those attacks, matching his call earlier this month for churches to host Syrian refugees with a vow that the Vatican itself would take in a couple of refugee families.

Last week the Vatican government announced it had accepted a mother, father and two children who are Melkite Greek Catholics, and who have asked for asylum in Italy.
The strict policy has left the Vatican open to criticism in the past, including from right-wing political leaders in Italy who want tighter immigration controls in their country and have rebuffed the papacy’s calls for leniency by asking how many refugees live in the enclave.

Pope Francis, however, has taken some steps to mitigate those attacks, matching his call earlier this month for churches to host Syrian refugees with a vow that the Vatican itself would take in a couple of refugee families.

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Pope has a massive wall around Vatican, while - advocating borderless US, irony

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While Pope Francis is in the United States effectively advocating for a borderless America, many people are amused by the irony of the giant wall surrounding his own Vatican City.

Obviously the Pope doesn't want any illegal immigrants either.

Walls for me, but not for thee. - NM

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Meet the new democrats, same as the old democrats. - nomsg

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nomsg

Thank goodness for that! They haven't sold - themselves to the *Devil, (smsg) -

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like most of the Repub politicians have.

* De' vil: Def: Greed, control, money, hatred, bigotry, homophobia, regressiveness, fear, isolationism, religious zealotry, persecution, etc. etc. etc.

He sounded WAY more influenced by socialism than - he is by God and the Bible.

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Umm... Jesus? - nm

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He never mentioned Jesus either. - NM

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He shouldn't have to--he mentioned what - needed to be heard

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I thought he was a spiritual leader. I guess he's just a - politician then. No mention of God or Jesus.

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strange.

He's from Argentina. How many refugees has - Argentina taken in?

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How wealthy is America in contrast to Argentina? - nm

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Bingo, they're coming here for welfare. - nm

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Germany has the same problem. - NM

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Did he address the Christian genocide in the Middle East? I'm asking - because I don't have the patience to read

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his speech and comments. I'm guessing not.

No, he did not. - nomsg

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He did not finger point or mention particular - incidents -- This would be the portion

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All of us are quite aware of, and deeply worried by, the disturbing social and political situation of the world today. Our world is increasingly a place of violent conflict, hatred and brutal atrocities, committed even in the name of God and of religion. We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism. This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind. A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps. We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within. To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place. That is something which you, as a people, reject.

He echoed Obama's Prayer Breakfast remarks... - In addition, he mentioned an

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anti-capitalist, Dorothy Day. (At first I though he said Doris Day during his speech)

He mentioned "climate change." Follow the money. - It's a huge wealth redistribution

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scam from the rich countries to the developing world. It has nothing to do with the environment.

So basically separation of church and state is for abortion - and marriage, but not for global warming,

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immigration and socialism. Hmmmm...

The left loves religion when it's useful to them.

True, if he was a conservative they would hate him, - no doubt about it.

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A Barack Obama Production. I'm getting really weary of - political theater.

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He's at the UN now. I wonder how many people know the UN - is choosing America's refugees,

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we have lost our sovereignty.

I didn't expect him to show up in Congress.Surprised - the ACLU didn't pee their

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pants.

These the nuns who have a court case because - of the Obamacare

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contraception mandate. He's supporting them.

n today’s upside down political correctness and rabid degeneration of traditional western morals, I can envision the nuns being told to back down.

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