Thursday, February 18, 2016

I am grateful for Pope Francis. He has a right to say what he thinks.

Pope Francis is not difficult to understand. He wants peace and the end of suffering. Those are not unreasonable requests of every world leader. I would hope everyone would value the Vatican and protect it from harm.

February 18, 2016
Pope Francis (click here) is full of surprises and Donald Trump has a full list of feudsTwitter erupted Thursday after the pope jumped into the U.S. election fray, saying of Trump: "A person who thinks only about building walls ... I say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that." Trump called the comment "disgraceful," adding, "I am a Christian and proud of it." His Holiness also suggested some wiggle room on contraceptives — where the Zika virus is a risk. Abortion, however, is still an "absolute evil" in such cases: "Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does."...