Pope Francis and Presient Obama at the White House this morning
“Mr President, together with their fellow citizens, American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination.
With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty.
That freedom remains one of America’s most precious possessions. And, as my brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.”
Pope Francis today
Anyone?
Read The Speech The Pope Gave At The White House (TIme)
Fair society, respect for religious freedom.
I’m no expert but seems like standard enough “motherhood and apple pie” papal/presidential broad brush strokes.
Total respect, if you ignore all the “Moslems are going to kill us” and Moslems can’t be President” nonsense.
I suggest you definetly ignore those people.
Thats ignoring a hell of a lot of americans so.
Could be seen to back up what whackjob in Kentucky screaming she’s being persecuted for being expected to do her job as a minor government functionary though.
Could be seen that way. But that’s the thing with broad statements like that.
Oh, the pope musta missed the GOP debate the other day so. Not sure inclusivity is top of their agenda:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/21/muslim-debate-seizes-gop-presidential-race/
Think you missed the point there.
The pope said “Mr President, together with their fellow citizens, American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive…”
A guy at the debate asked trump “when can we get rid of Muslims”. So I guess there isn’t a culture of tolerance and inclusivity. It’s what they *should* work towards, but they’re not really. The pope should maybe have said something about wanting them to work towards this goal, rather that opining they are all already committed, when that’s clearly not the case.
Empty rhetoric.
To be fair, the US religious right tends to be fundamentalist protestants, and they frequently claim that catholics aren’t actually christian
Obviously a communist speech..
Brope
And then there is this…. “How Conservatives Are Welcoming Pope Francis To America”
They’re calling el Papa a ‘hippy’ Ma !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBNs_6_FXc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBNs_6_FXc4
jayzus. beat me to it by one minute!!!
It’s a good one!
Bullplop! American catholics are anything but tolerant and inclusive… Like catholics, in general.
American Catholics make Irish Catholics look like sexaholic freebasers.
Maybe he is talking about the devil, he will have to be a little clearer though, I hear that devil is quite devious. Thinking about it now, does the devil have a representative on earth? Like an anti-pope…
There are definitely a few good candidates.
How do we know the Pope isn’t the Devil in disguise? He is very liberal for a Pope after all..
Well if the Pope is the devil in disguise, surely that would make his counterpart a tall black woman from the northern hemisphere , wonder who it could be …..
Naomi Campbell? She has a fierce temper
Beyonce?
Anti-popes were only proclaimed as such centuries after they reigned.
Drones.
I’m not religious in any way, but I have to respect this pope. He actually seems to want to live by the values he espouses.