POPE FRANCIS VISITS TOP PRIEST SEX CRIME CITY BUT FAILS TO ADDRESS SCANDALS DURING "WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES"
THE SEXUAL DEPRAVITY OF THE VATICAN; LATE NIGHT PARTIES
POLICE PRESENCE WAS ENORMOUS; NO OTHER CITY HAD A LOCK DOWN COMPARABLE TO THIS
PEOPLE HAD TO WALK AND WAIT FOR HOURS;
POPE SHOWERS LOVE & KISSES ON IMMIGRANTS & CHILDREN;
TAKES SWIPE AT DONALD TRUMP
POPE FRANCIS LASHES OUT: PRAISES ILLEGAL ALIENS WHILE ATTACKING DONALD TRUMP
"Please: do not feel ever ashamed of your traditions"
SEE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3249997/Pope-heads-Philadelphia-mass-million-speak-Lincoln-s-Gettysburg-lectern-visit-prisons-serenaded-Aretha-Franklin.html#ixzz3mtPK0mCo; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes; selected pictures follow text.The Pope takes on Trump: Francis makes thinly-veiled swipe at The Donald as he defends Latino immigrants who came to America at 'great personal cost' in speech to 40,000 in Philadelphia
- Pope Francis arrived in Philadelphia Saturday morning and will spend two days there on the last leg of his US tour
- The trip comes after spending two days in both Washington, DC, and New York
- The Pope will be the star attraction at the World Meeting of Families, a conference for people from around the world
- He spoke at Independence Hall about religious freedom and immigration, defending America's Hispanic population
- On Sunday Pope Francis will give an outdoor Mass to a million people on Benjamin Franklin Parkway
- He is also expected to talk privately with abuse victims over the weekend, as Philadelphia is facing one of the worst clergy sex-abuse scandals to hit a U.S. diocese.
- Pope Francis made a thinly-veiled swipe at Donald Trump as the Pontiff defended Latino immigrants who came to America at 'great personal cost' during a moving speech to 40,000 followers in Philadelphia.
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Francis called on migrants from Mexico and the rest of the world to 'not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships' they face, saying they should never feel ashamed of their own traditions.The Pope's words come in direct contrast to Trump's calls for a wall to be built along the Mexican border and for stricter controls on who can enter the US.Speaking from the lectern used by President Abraham Lincoln when he delivered the Gettysburg Address, Francis directly addressed America's Hispanic population, saying: 'Thank you for opening the doors. Many of you have emigrated. I greet you with my heart.'Many of you came to this country at great personal cost, but in the hope of building a new life. Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.'Please: do not feel ever ashamed of your traditions.'He continued: 'Do not forget the lessons you learned from your elders, which can bring an enrichment to life of this American land. You are also called to be responsible citizens. You are called to be responsible citizens and to contribute, like others, with so much resilience before you – to contribute fruitfully to the life of the communities in which you live.'Do not forget what happened here over two centuries ago. Do not forget the declaration which said all men and women were created equally – to be equal - that governments exist to protect and defend these rights.'The speech seemed to be a nod towards Donald Trump's views on immigration from Mexico. Just yesterday, at the Oklahoma State Fair, the Republican presidential front runner said: 'Mexico... I love Mexico - I love the Mexican people, thousands of them work for me - but we've gotta build a wall on the border.'We're gonna build a wall and we're gonna have a door in the wall where people who wanna come in can come in legally.'The crowd erupted in cheers as Pope Francis stepped out of Independence Hall on Saturday to give a speech on religious freedom and immigration. He kept his composure as the hood of his white cloak blew into his face, brushing it aside on what was a windy afternoon.Many of the 40,000 spectators, who had to have tickets for the event, began waiting in the early morning in hopes of reserving a spot with a good view of the pope.Shouts of "il Papa" came from the crowd before he began his speech at the site that the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Thousands of others watched the speech from large TV screens around the city.Francis arrived on the mall in his white pope mobile, waving to crowds on Market Street as he rode in the open and converted Jeep Wrangler.Bodyguards passed one baby after another to Francis so he could kiss their foreheads. A police officer handed the pope a boy in a Batman shirt; another baby was wearing a tiny peaked hat similar to the pope's iconic mitre.Pope Francis kicked off the last two days of his his six-day US tour with a stop at the Philadelphia's main cathedral, the Cathedral Basilica of St Peter and St Paul, where he celebrated Mass in front of 1,600 people. Pope John Paul II spoke at the same cathedral in 1979, the only other papal visit to Philadelphia.'I would like to think, though, that the history of the church in this city and state is really a story not about building walls, but about breaking them down,' Francis said during the Mass. 'It is a story about generation after generation of committed Catholics going out to the peripheries, and building communities of worship, education, charity and service to the larger society.After the Mass, Archbishop Charles Chaput said Philadelphia 'is a city that would change its name to Francisville' if it could.Pope Francis stopped to bless children in wheelchairs before leaving the cathedral in downtown Philadelphia.Francis walked through a chapel adjacent to the main room in the cathedral on Saturday to greet ill and disabled parishioners, along with other visitors. He blessed the children and gave them a kiss on the head.In Philadelphia, the Pope was greeted at the steps of the Cathedral Basilica of Sts Peter and Paul by former Pennsylvania Gov Tom Corbett and his wife. Corbett originally invited Francis to Philadelphia.While delivering a homily in Spanish during mass at the city's main cathedral, he said that the future of the church depends on an increased role for the laity and on valuing the 'immense contribution' of women.Francis has repeatedly said women should have a greater role in church leadership, although he has rejected the idea of ordaining women. By touching on the issue, Francis seemed intent on healing one of the major rifts in American Catholicism that has alienated many from the church.The former Archbishop of Philadelphia who retired in 2011 amid a scandal over clergy sex abuse was seen at the cathedral celebrating Mass with Pope Francis.Cardinal Justin Rigali joined Francis and other bishops at the Mass on Saturday on the pope's first stop in Philadelphia. Rigali's successor, Chaput, also was on the altar.Rigali retired to the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, months after a grand jury accused the Philadelphia archdiocese of sheltering more than three dozen credibly accused priests and lying about it to victims and others.Fifty members of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas were on hand at the Mass to hear Pope Francis call for the church to value the contribution of women.Francis settled a controversy in April over a three-year Vatican investigation into the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which the sisters are part of. The umbrella group for women's religious orders had been accused of straying from church teaching.The Pope's progressive agenda parallels their views on helping the poor and immigrants, preserving life and ending the death penalty.Sister Catherine Darcy, of Merion, Pennsylvania, says this is a special moment for the Catholic Church and that they have felt strong support from Francis.Francis spent a few hours at St Charles Borromeo Seminary just outside of the city before giving his speech at Independence Hall on religious freedom and immigration.When he first arrived at the seminary, where he will stay for his Philadelphia trip, about 150 seminarians serenaded him.Pope Francis will be the star attraction at the World Meeting of Families, a conference for more than 18,000 people from around the world that has been underway as the pope traveled to Washington and New York.The Pontiff's time in Philadelphia will embark on the segment of his American journey expected to be the most centered on ordinary Catholics: a Vatican-organized rally for the family that will culminate in an outdoor Mass for a million people.And as he departed from New York on Saturday morning, the wind was strong and the Pope, who suffers from sciatica and a bad knee, took a tumble on the stairs as he boarded his plane, but he was all smiles just moments later as he waved goodbye to the crowd.Once on the plane, the Pope - who only has one lung - asked to circle the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on his way out of Manhattan, becoming visibly moved as the helicopter carried him over the sights that greeted millions of immigrants to America.In every city, Francis has been greeted by throngs of cheering, weeping well-wishers, hoping for a glance or a touch from the wildly popular spiritual leader. Philadelphia as been no different thus far.When the pope arrived in Philadelphia, he kissed the forehead of a boy with cerebral palsy, coaxing a small smile from the severely disabled 10-year-old.Francis apparently spied Michael Keating as he was being driven away from the plane. Ordering the Fiat to stop, Francis got out and walked over to the boy, put his hand on his head and kissed him as his sobbing mother looked on.Kristin Keating thanked the pope, who grasped her hand. Francis also shook the hand of Keating's husband, Chuck Keating, the band director at Bishop Shanahan High School in Downingtown. The band serenaded Francis as he arrived in Philadelphia for the last leg of his six-day visit to the United States.'It was an unbelievable feeling,' Kristin Keating said of the papal encounter, adding she felt 'totally blessed and loved' by the Pope.Her son was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at six months old. He also has a profound intellectual disability as well as vision and hearing problems and cannot do anything for himself, communicating through various moans and cries.Michael, who got up 2.15am for the trip to Philadelphia, had been agitated off and on throughout the morning, but he seemed to calm in the Pope's presence.'When the Pope took his hand off him, he had a bit smile on his face. To me, in that moment, he must have felt that blessing,' said Keating, a fourth-grade teacher from Elverson.'For us, it was beautiful,' she added. 'For us, it meant something.'The unprecedented security for the anticipated crowds in Philadelphia has been so heavy that organizers of the visit worried people would be scared away.'He has a magnetic personality that not only appeals to Catholics, but to the universal masses. He's not scripted. He's relatable,' Filipina Opena, 46, a Catholic from LaMirada, California, said. 'His heart, in itself, you can see that reflected through his message.''People feel he's sincere and he's genuine. The more people hear him, the more they see him, they all understand and realize it,' Opena added, as tour groups and families walked among Philadelphia's historic sites, taking pictures ahead of the Pope's visit.Barricades lining the streets, however, have been overwhelmed with crowds already as some people arrived early in the morning and slept on the sidewalk in hopes of getting a front-row spot to catch a glimpse of the pope.An Argentine on the first US visit of his life, Francis will be given a stage steeped in American history on Saturday.As he has done in New York and Washington, he will give his attention to both the elite and the disadvantaged, this time visiting inmates in Philadelphia's largest jail.On Saturday night, on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the cultural heart of the city, he will be serenaded by Aretha Franklin and other performers at a festival celebrating families, and will return there Sunday for the Mass, his last major event before leaving that night for Rome.'It's probably not politicians who will remember his message but the kids,' said Liza Stephens, 48, of Sacramento, California, who was in Philadelphia with her two daughters, aged 10 and 12. The trio spent time volunteering to bag food for Africa, among other activities at the family conference.The Archdiocese of Philadelphia organized the conference, hoping for a badly needed infusion of papal joy and enthusiasm amid shrinking membership, financial troubles and a massive sex-abuse scandal.The archdiocese has been the target of three grand jury investigations.The last grand jury accused the diocese in 2011, before Chaput came to Philadelphia, of keeping on assignment more than three dozen priests facing serious abuse accusations, despite a 2002 pledge by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to oust any guilty clergy.The same grand jury indicted a priest who had overseen clergy for the archdiocese, Monsignor William Lynn.He was eventually convicted of child endangerment, becoming the first American church official convicted for failing to stop abusers.The Pope is widely expected to talk privately with abuse victims over this weekend, an event that church leaders said would not be announced until after it occurred.This potential discussion comes after speeches to Congress and the United Nations, aimed squarely at spurring world leaders toward bold action on immigration and the environment.Pope Francis was welcomed at the airport on Saturday morning by Chaput along retired Philadelphia police officer Richard Bowes, who was shot in the line of duty, Bowes’ wife and their three children.The family was nominated for the honor by Monsignor Joseph Garvin, their pastor at St Christopher Parish in northeast Philadelphia, according to USA Today.‘Who thinks you are going to meet the Pope, that you are going to be close enough to touch him?’ Bowes said before the pope’s arrival. ‘It’s unbelievable.’He added: ‘We're upset that we're not worthy enough to be in his presence... There must be a reason, but we don't know what that is. We'll just try to share it with as many people as we can.’The retired cop said that his son Matthew called the event ‘Christmas and Thanksgiving and Easter all rolled up into one’.Bowes said he will ask the Pope for 'his blessing for world peace and for all of the police and firemen and military. Everybody needs that right now.'The visit is also shaping up as one of the most interesting ecclesial pairings of the pope's trip.His host will be Chaput, an outspoken opponent of abortion and gay marriage, who takes a harder line on church teaching in the archdiocese.Chaput has said a local Catholic school run by nuns showed 'character and common sense' by firing a teacher in June who married another woman.He recently wrote in the archdiocese newspaper that abortion is 'a uniquely wicked act' that cannot be seen as one sin among many.Three days ago, in an address to US bishops laying out his vision for American Catholicism, Francis said attention should be paid to the 'innocent victim of abortion' but listed the issue as one among many 'essential' to the church's mission, including caring for the elderly and the environment.Chaput has rejected the idea that he is in conflict with the social justice-minded pope, calling it a narrative invented by the media, and pointing to the millions of dollars the archdiocese spends each year to aid the poor and sick. The pope will be staying at the seminary where Chaput also lives.'Critics sometimes claim that America's bishops talk too much about abortion and religious freedom while they overlook the poor,' Chaput said in recent remarks to reporters.Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics plan to hold separate events, including an event for gay parents and their children, on Saturday, as they advocate for broader acceptance in the church.Francis has famously said 'Who am I to judge?' when asked about a supposedly gay priest, but has also affirmed church teaching on marriage.Mary McGuiness, a religion professor at La Salle University, a Catholic school in Philadelphia, said she doesn't anticipate a flood of local Catholics returning to Sunday Mass because of the Pope's visit.She said the archdiocese has been through too much with abuse scandals and parish closures. But she said the intense attention to his speeches here could inspire people to 'begin to think more about what Catholicism really means'.'I hope that will happen,' she said. 'But I hear a lot of people say, "I like this pope, but I'm not going back".'He added: 'Of course we do talk about those issues. We work hard at those issues, and we'll continue to do so - vigorously, and for as long as it takes. Because the right to life and religious liberty are foundational to human dignity.'The Pope was expected to talk about religious freedom at Independence Hall and was expected to bring his message of compassion, hope and strengthening the family to his appearances in the city.VIDEOS:
At UN Summit, World Rulers Adopt Agenda for Global Socialism
- BY ALEX NEWMAN
- SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/21660-at-un-summit-world-rulers-adopt-agenda-for-global-socialism; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
A far-reaching United Nations plot to re-engineer civilization and impose global socialism on humanity, variously dubbed “Agenda 2030” and the “Sustainable Development Agenda,” was ushered in on Friday with a “thunderous standing ovation,” the UN Department of Public Information reported. Every one of the 193 UN member governments on the planet — from communist and Islamist dictatorships to those ruling what remains of the “Free World” — vowed to help impose the UN's controversial goals on their subjects. Indeed, according to the UN and the global agreement itself, not a single human being will be allowed to escape what one prominent internationalist ominously referred to as the next “Great Leap Forward.”
That the UN Agenda 2030's 17 so-called “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) and its accompanying 169 targets are essentially a recipe for global socialism and corporatism is hardly open for dispute, as countless analysts have pointed out in recent weeks. Goal number 10, for example, calls on the UN, national governments, and every person on Earth to “reduce inequality within and among countries.” To do that, the agreement continues, will “only be possible if wealth is shared and income inequality is addressed.” The brutal communist dictatorship ruling mainland China even boasted of its “crucial role” in creating the UN agenda. But as the UN document makes clear, national socialism to “combat inequality” domestically is simply not enough — international socialism is needed to battle inequality even “among” countries.
In other words, Western taxpayers: Prepare to be fleeced so that your wealth can redistributed internationally. Of course, as has been the case for generations, most of the wealth extracted from the productive sector in what remains of the free world will be redistributed to the UN and Third World regimes — not the victims of those regimes, impoverished largely through domestic socialist policies imposed by the same corrupt regimes that will be propped up with more Western aid. More than a few governments and dictators also announced that they would be “aligning their national development plans with the Sustainable Development Agenda,” essentially ensuring a growing supply of poor people to exploit as a pretext for more UN-led global socialism.
The UN document, formally entitled “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” was adopted on Friday, September 25, at the start of the UN's three-day Summit on Sustainable Development in New York. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the confab, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon hinted at just how far-reaching the plot really is. “The new agenda is a promise by leaders to all people everywhere,” he explained, presumably conflating “leaders” with mass-murdering gangsters such as Kim Jong Un, Raul Castro, and Robert Mugabe who somehow managed to seize control over entire nations. “It is a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world.”
As with all socialist and totalitarian schemes, the UN's controversial agenda was marketed using vague, meaningless platitudes such as, for example, creating a “better” world, and “ending” poverty — common slogans among tyrants stretching back centuries. “It is an agenda for people, to end poverty in all its forms,” continued Ban. “It is an agenda for shared prosperity, peace and partnership [that] conveys the urgency of climate action [and] is rooted in gender equality and respect for the rights of all. Above all, it pledges to leave no one behind.” But the “true test of commitment to Agenda 2030,” he added, will be in its implementation. “We need action from everyone, everywhere,” Ban said, pointing to the “guide” offered by the 17 SDGs. “They are a to-do list for people and planet, and a blueprint for success.”
“Now,” Ban continued, “we must use the goals to transform the world.” “Institutions will have to become fit for a grand new purpose,” he said. “We must engage all actors, as we did in shaping the Agenda. We must include parliaments and local governments, and work with cities and rural areas. We must rally businesses and entrepreneurs. We must involve civil society in defining and implementing policies — and give it the space to hold us to account. We must listen to scientists and academia. We will need to embrace a data revolution. Most important, we must set to work — now.”
Whether the world's adults can be persuaded to willingly join the UN's bandwagon remains to be seen. But when it comes to children, the UN is taking no chances, devoting an entire “goal” in its agenda to ensuring that all children, everywhere, are transformed into what the UN calls “agents of change” ready to push forward the plan for the new global order. “Children and young women and men are critical agents of change and will find in the new Goals a platform to channel their infinite capacities for activism into the creation of a better world,” the UN goals explain.
The sort of activists that the UN hopes to make your children into is also explicitly defined in the unanimously adopted agreement. “By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development,” the global plan for 2030 states. Considering what the UN means by “sustainable development” — population control, central planning, global governance, and more — the agenda for your children takes on an even more sinister tone.
It all sounded so wonderful to some of the world's most brutal dictators, though, that they could hardly contain their glee about the coming brave new world. “This agenda promises a brave new world [sic], a new world which we have to consciously construct, a new world that calls for the creation of a new global citizen,” gushed Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe, the genocidal mass-murderer enslaving Zimbabwe who also serves as chairman of the African Union. “I want to believe that we are up to this task that we have voluntarily and collectively committed ourselves to. Our success, and in particular the promise of a new world that awaits us, depends upon this commitment.” He also promised to vigorously impose the UN Agenda 2030 on the starving and impoverished victims his regime lords over.
The brutal tyrants ruling Communist China, meanwhile, have also been enthusiastic cheerleaders for the UN goals — goals that the regime boasted it played a “crucial role” in developing. Among other “commitments,” the dictatorship promised to spend $2 billion in foreign countries to meet the UN goals in "education" and "health," with its funding increasing to $12 billion by 2030. While only contributing a small piece of the pie — the UN claims its agenda will cost somewhere between $3 trillion to $5 trillion per year — the fact that Beijing is so excited about the agenda is quite revealing. Echoing Chairman Mao's rhetoric, EU and NATO globalist Javier Solana said that, “With a sustained commitment from all countries, developed and developing alike, the world can ensure that it celebrates another great leap forward in 2030.”
The Obama administration, which apparently does not plan to present the UN scheme to the U.S. Senate for ratification as required by the U.S. Constitution, also offered a forceful defense of the UN agenda. Speaking to the UN summit on Sunday after purporting to commit the United States to the global plot, Obama claimed the UN blueprint “is one of the smartest investments we can make in our own future.” He told the assembled dictators and government representatives that 800 million people live on less than $1.25 per day, without, of course, mentioning the reasons for so much poverty: Big Government policies that are remarkably similar in many ways to the UN's new agenda. Obama, who has waged multiple unconstitutional wars, also claimed that “military interventions might have been avoided over the years” if governments had only taken better care of their hapless citizens.
Even the world's leading religious figure, Pope Francis, addressed UN member governments with a plea to support the UN goals. “The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the World Summit, which opens today, is an important sign of hope,” he said. It is worth noting, however, that not everybody within the Catholic Church hierarchy was quite as enthusiastic about the scheme. In their “Common Declaration of the Bishops of Africa and Madagascar” ahead of the UN summit, for example, Africa's bishops blasted the “agents of the civilization of death” and called for much of the scheming to stop. “We implore you to end the filthy campaigns that promote a civilization of death on our continent,” they said, slamming the “terrifying resurgence of a colonialist spirit under the guise of the appealing names of liberty, equality, rights, autonomy, democratization and development.”
Beyond governments and religious figures, much of the private sector also enthusiastically backed the new goals. Among the mega-corporations backing the scheme are the world's top three search engines: Google, Microsoft's Bing, and Yahoo. It was not immediately clear whether those corporations' support for the UN agenda would affect the supposed impartiality of search results, but critics of the UN plan expressed alarm nonetheless. As The New American reported in May, meanwhile, top media outlets around the world are also participating in a massive propaganda campaign to support the UN agenda.
Of course, Obama has no constitutional or statutory authority to commit the American people to the UN's radical blueprint for humanity. But unless the GOP majority in Congress is willing to stop funding the administration's antics, there can be no doubt that the White House will charge ahead using its pen, phone, and taxpayer funding provided by Republican members of Congress. Lawmakers who are serious about their oath of office must work to restrain the Obama administration, and ultimately withdraw the U.S. government's membership from the UN. Faced with a totalitarian UN agenda for global socialism under the guise of “sustainable development,” now would be an excellent time to get busy.
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