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Pope on multiculturalism: 'Migrants always bring riches' |
2019-04-13 |
[VOE] In a Q&A session Pope Francis told an audience of schoolchildren who had gathered in the Vatican that "migrants bring with them the wealth of a multicultural and multi-ethnic world". "Let us thank God for a multi-ethnic and multicultural society", he said, "because dialogue among cultures, persons, and ethnicities is richness". "Multi ethnicity" and "multiculturalism" are the water of life which, unlike distilled water, is tasty and quenches thirst." "Migrants are not to be feared as if they were a plague. Migrants are not criminals, just as the mafia was not invented by the Nigerians." "The mafia is ours, made in Italy: it is ours", the pope said, adding, "We all have the chance to be criminals." "Migrants are those who always bring us riches. Europe itself was made by migrants! The barbarians, the Celts...", he continued. "All these came from the north and brought their cultures with them. Europe grew in this way, with the contrast of cultures." "But today", he lamented, "there is the temptation to a culture of walls, to raise walls, walls in the heart and on earth to prevent this encounter with other cultures, with other people." "And whoever raises a wall, whoever builds a wall", he warned, "will end up as a slave inside the walls he has built, without horizons." "If I have a racist heart", the pope urged, "I must examine myself why and convert." He urged that migrants be received, accompanied and integrated because by welcoming them one becomes richer and grows. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#16 Let me put it another way. When you need the US Marines you want the US Marines and not some pretty boys from the local watering hole. Brands and uniformity are more important than you think Pope baby! |
Posted by: 3dc 2019-04-13 17:30 |
#15 Ah ,, but distilled water makes a uniform product anywhere on the planted. Distilled or R/O water is easier on your coffee makers too. StarBucks coffee made anywhere in the world will taste the same made with R/O water. For a branded product like StarBucks that's important. You know when you get off a plane at Changi the Starbucks will taste just the same as the one down the street from your house. Pope! for a branded product that's really important. |
Posted by: 3dc 2019-04-13 17:28 |
#14 Trade brings riches. Refugees bring crime, poverty and disease. |
Posted by: Iblis 2019-04-13 15:49 |
#13 Ha ha , charger. Foot fetish. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-04-13 13:19 |
#12 Tom, on Thursday, I think nailed perfect. The church is supposed to stand against the ways of the world, not incorporate them. Now, for some babel. "Let us thank God for a multi-ethnic and multicultural society", he said, "because dialogue among cultures, persons, and ethnicities is richness". Please discuss or enlighten me, but I understood this to be a punishment for hubris. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-04-13 13:12 |
#11 Well, he's an antipope with a foot fetish. What do you expect? |
Posted by: charger 2019-04-13 11:58 |
#10 An apologetic for the invaders whom he used to succor as priest and bishop, not as head of a worldwide church, among whose believers are the invaded as well. And yes, Pope Francis — about those living behind walls: you free yourself from slavery first, to show us how it should be done. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-04-13 11:33 |
#9 Detestable. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-04-13 10:14 |
#8 "And whoever raises a wall, whoever builds a wall", he warned, "will end up as a slave inside the walls he has built, without horizons. I dunno. Walls can be pretty handy. They keep mischief out and stop the cows from wandering off. #6 We have legal migrants and we have illegal migrants. There is the crux of the matter, simply put. |
Posted by: SteveS 2019-04-13 09:47 |
#7 call them what they are: Foreign invaders. aiding and abetting them is a crime. |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-04-13 09:43 |
#6 Migrants is so vague. We have legal migrants and we have illlegal migrants. One group is likely to assimilate and add to the culture, the other will not and treats the culture as a host to feed upon. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-04-13 09:11 |
#5 How did that work in 5th century Rome? In Constantinople? The Mongol invasions? Etc. Who is advising the Pope? AOC? |
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-04-13 09:03 |
#4 "All these came from the north and brought their cultures with them. Europe grew in this way, with the contrast of cultures." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527) |
Posted by: European Conservative 2019-04-13 07:42 |
#3 Well, if it wasn't for |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-04-13 07:28 |
#2 He missed April Fools Day by nearly a fortnight. |
Posted by: Raj 2019-04-13 07:00 |
#1 He said, from behind the thick walls of the Vatican. |
Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-04-13 03:31 |