Stemming from Muslim countries, with Muslim faiths, today’s migrants, according to Pope Francis, are just like Joseph and Mary, prior to the birth of Christ.
Pope Francis ushered in Christmas by, once again, twisting scripture to fit the narrative of universalism. The Catholic Church, apparently, has long forgotten what the Bible actually says while continuing to sway hundreds of thousands of people away from the true Christ.
“So many other footsteps are hidden in the footsteps of Joseph and Mary. We see the tracks of entire families forced to set out in our own day,” Francis said in St. Peter’s Basilica during his midnight Mass on December 24-25.
Roughly 10,000 people attended the pope’s Mass in the Basilica while thousands more followed the service from the square outside.
Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas address on Monday gave his traditional “Urbi et Orbi” Christmas address, after urging the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics not to ignore the plight of migrants “driven from their land” because of leaders willing to shed “innocent blood”…
“So many other footsteps are hidden in the footsteps of Joseph and Mary,” the Argentine pontiff, himself the grandson of Italian migrants, told worshippers at Christmas Eve mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica…
“We see the tracks of millions of persons who do not choose to go away but, driven from their land, leave behind their dear ones.”
Many engulfed in the ongoing migration crisis were forced to flee from leaders “who, to impose their power and increase their wealth, see no problem in shedding innocent blood”, said the 81-year-old….— Yahoo (article has been updated since publication.)
While many fleeing countries of war are indeed in desperate situations, to liken them to Joseph and Mary, the carnal parents of Jesus Christ the Savior of Mankind, is outrageous. The Pope has for the last several years attempted to change the outright nature of Christianity through jabs at Jesus’ divinity, likening Christians to communists, and so much more.
However, most recently, the Pope had the audacity to claim that he wanted to change the Lord’s Prayer.