Pope Warns Populism Is ‘Weakening the Multilateral System’
The pope lamented the “absence of various Governments at the recent United Nations Conference in Marrakesh,” referring to nations such as Israel, Italy, Hungary, the United States, Australia, Switzerland, and Poland that chose to sit the meeting out.
Pope Says International Community Called to Defend Migrants
Pope Francis called on the leaders of nations Monday to lend assistance to migrants and refugees who have left their homelands for any reason and to help them integrate into their new homes.
Migrants and refuges are “among the weak of our time that the international community is called to defend,” the pope said in his annual address to the diplomatic corps accredited by the Holy See.
The pope launched an appeal to government leaders to “give assistance to those who have emigrated due to the scourge of poverty, any sort of violence and persecution, as well as natural disasters and climatic disturbances, and to facilitate measures that allow their social integration in their host countries.”
NincomPope Frances is a minion of Satan. He is the enemy of freedom, liberty and civilisation.
“Remove mutual relations from the logic of oppression that leads to war.”
Pretentious, asinine, word-salad nonsense. What is he trying to say here? Incomprehensible.
What is fair about an unelected bureaucracy imposing rule on us anti-democratically?
This pope is a dangerous lunatic.

Pope Francis compared today’s emergence of populist and nationalist movements to the days of Nazi Germany in an address to a group of diplomats accredited to the Holy See Monday.
The upcoming year will mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the League of Nations, the pope said in his annual address, which represented “the beginning of modern multilateral diplomacy, by which states try to remove mutual relations from the logic of oppression that leads to war.”
Difficulties with the League of Nations led exactly twenty years after its birth to “a new and more lacerating conflict, which was the Second World War.” Continue reading POPE WARNS AGAINST POPULISM, NATIONALISM…








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