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Seven Ways Pope Francis Slapped Conservatives in the United States
 By Ben Shapiro, 25 Sep 2015
 Many conservatives viewed the prospect of the Pope’s visit to the United 
States with a mixture of hope and trepidation: hope, because the Pope’s visit 
would force heavy media coverage of religious issues; trepidation, because of 
Pope Francis’ mixed record on issues ranging from climate change to illegal 
immigration.
 Conservatives were right to worry.
 The Pope’s visit has been an unmitigated boon for the left. Conservative 
defenders of the Pope will undoubtedly note that he has referred, albeit 
obliquely, to same-sex marriage and abortion; they will point out that the Pope 
visited the Little Sisters of the Poor and made veiled reference to religious 
freedom. They will suggest that the media has done the Pope wrong by focusing 
on the Pope’s support for leftist causes to the exclusion of his traditionally 
religious principles.
 They’re right, naturally. But the Pope is hardly a political neophyte, unaware 
of the nature of the media. For years now, we’ve heard that the Pope’s words 
have been taken out of context, misinterpreted, even mistranslated. During his 
visit to the United States, the Pope spoke in English, before a joint session 
of Congress, with the president before the media, at the United Nations, and in 
New York City and Philadelphia. Over and over, he had the cameras on him. And 
over and over, he failed to take advantage of the situation to speak truth to 
power, instead catering to the hard left again and again.
 Here are seven ways in which the Pope insulted conservatives during his visit:
 The Staged Illegal Immigrant Child Photo-Op. On Wednesday, as the Popemobile 
moved down the National Mall, five-year-old Sophie Cruz somehow eluded security 
and reached the Pope himself. The security guards stopped young Sophie, but the 
Pope motioned her forward. She then hugged the Pope, and handed the Pope a 
letter she purportedly wrote, an eloquent plea to stay in the United States 
with her two illegal immigrant parents. “I want to tell you that my heart is 
sad,” Sophie told the media, having memorized her letter. “I would like to ask 
you to speak with the president and the Congress in legalizing my parents 
because every day I am scared that one day they will take them away from me.” 
Her father stood next to her, wearing a t-shirt that read “Papa Rescata DAPA!” 
– the Pope should rescue President Obama’s executive amnesty.
 The entire photo-op was a setup, naturally. Five-year-old children do not 
memorize page-long letters or make it through security to the Pope without 
help. As the Daily Mail (UK) reported:
 The stunt has been organized by immigration advocacy group Hermandad Mexicana 
Transnacional, in Los Angeles. Alicia Flores, executive director of La 
Hermandad, chose Sophie to approach the pope after a young girl was able to 
approach the pope in Rome in a similar incident, reported the Washington 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/09/23/meet-the-5-year-old-who-gave-the-pope-a-letter-because-she-doesnt-want-her-parents-deported/
 Post. She and her family were flown out to Washington as part of a group of 
six children and 19 adults, with the hope of delivering their message on 
immigration.
 Comparing Fighting Illegal Immigration to Human Rights Abuses Against Native 
Americans. The Pope dropped this egregious rhetorical dud in the middle of his 
speech to Congress:
 Tragically, the rights of those who were here long before us were not always 
respected. For those peoples and their nations, from the heart of American 
democracy, I wish to reaffirm my highest esteem and appreciation. Those first 
contacts were often turbulent and violent, but it is difficult to judge the 
past by the criteria of the present. Nonetheless, when the stranger in our 
midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the errors of the past. We 
must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new 
generations not to turn their back on our “neighbors” and everything around us. 
Building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to 
others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal 
subsidiary, in a constant effort to do our best. I am confident that we can do 
this.
 In other words, the original immigrants mistreated Native Americans, and 
today’s Americans must beware of doing the same to illegal immigrants. This 
isn’t just insulting, it’s ridiculous. Americans sent Cherokees along the Trail 
of Tears. Today’s Americans send illegal immigrants along the trail of free 
education, emergency medical care, and state-sponsored welfare programs.
 Allowing President Obama to Represent Himself as An Advocate of Religious 
Liberty. On Wednesday, while speaking at the White House, President Obama said, 
“Here in the United States, we cherish religious liberty….[The United States] 
stand[s] with you in defense of religious freedom and interfaith dialogue, 
knowing that people everywhere must be able to live out their faith free from 
fear and intimidation.” Meanwhile, President Obama’s IRS cracks down on 
religious charities and his Obamacare regime targets religious institutions; 
his administration looks into persecuting religious Americans for failing to 
participate in same-sex weddings. A well-timed comment from the Pope could have 
been useful here. Instead, he stood by and said nothing. Instead, he went to 
visit the Little Sisters of the Poor – and the media ignored it. The Pope knows 
full well when the cameras are on him. They were on him with Obama. They 
weren’t during his side jaunt to visit those victimized by the President.
 Ripping Capitalism Before Congress. Speaking before Congress, the Pope spent 
an inordinate amount of time lecturing legislators on the need to redistribute 
wealth in the name of the poor. He praised Dorothy Day, a Catholic organizer 
who once wrote, “We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities 
are always accusing the Communists ‘of conspiring to teach [us] to do,’ but 
this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such 
suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.” Senator 
 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
 16%
 (Socialist-VT) was ecstatic.
 And no socialist has come up with a better formulation of the rhetorical 
slight-of-hand that equates individual liberty with collectivism than the Pope 
did before Congress:
 If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that 
it cannot be a slave to the economy and finance. Politics is, instead, an 
expression of our compelling need to live as one, in order to build as one the 
greatest common good: that of a community which sacrifices particular interests 
in order to share, in justice and peace, its goods, its interests, its social 
life. I do not underestimate the difficulty that this involves, but I encourage 
you in this effort.
 The Pope has long excoriated capitalism as a brutal system of exploitation. To 
the celebration of leftists everywhere, the Pope has repeatedly dismissed 
capitalism as immoral, saying there is no evidence that capitalism brings about 
“greater justice and inclusiveness in the world.” This is true if you know 
nothing about world history or economics. The Pope’s excoriation of free 
markets in the United States came as no surprise, but it came as an unwelcome 
slap nonetheless.
 Pushing Environmental Extremism. The Pope spent a significant amount of time 
before Congress talking about climate change and encouraging Congress to 
restrict American economic growth to fight that chimera. But at the United 
Nations, he really let loose, suggesting that the environment has “rights” – an 
argument unfamiliar to many readers of the Bible. People may have obligations 
toward the environment, but the environment has no freestanding “rights” from 
humanity; God does not weep when a tree is used for lumber to house a poor 
family. This logic leads to the Malthusian anti-humanism of the deep green left.
 The Pope then tied his view of environmental rights to his desire for global 
redistribution of income in the name of the poor, and suggested that 
governments must guarantee “lodging, labour, and land” to the poor. How? 
Presumably by taking resources away from some and handing them to others. This 
reeks of Marxism, pure and simple. The Pope then added that “the large-scale 
destruction of biodiversity can threaten the very existence of the human 
species.” Now, I like whales as much as the next fellow, but zero humans will 
die if the blue whale goes extinct, unless the aliens come back to communicate 
with them (see Star Trek IV for more information on this possibility). The Pope 
even suggested that war was bad because it was a “dramatic assault on the 
environment.” War, human trafficking, exploitation, and environmental 
degradation are bad if they hurt human beings. War is not bad primarily because 
it harms trees and squirrels.
 Ignoring Abortion, Talking Death Penalty. The Pope said nothing about abortion 
before President Obama. Then, while speaking before Democrats in Congress who 
support federal funding for abortion machine Planned Parenthood, he said that 
all human life must be treated with respect – and proceeded to glide right over 
the abortion issue entirely, settling on the death penalty instead. As I noted 
yesterday, 35 murderers were executed in 2014 in the United States. One million 
unborn children were killed. Some say the Pope didn’t have to get explicit 
about abortion. Just why in the hell wouldn’t he 
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/24/pope-francis-slams-capitalism-death-penalty-immigration-law-no-real-mention-abortion-gay-marriage/?
 He did mention the unborn at the United Nations with one word. Should we 
celebrate such courage?
 Ignoring Same-Sex Marriage. The Pope encouraged marriage in his speech before 
Congress, and talked vaguely of the value of family. He complained of threats 
to the family. But he said nothing about what those threats were – with the 
very Supreme Court that declared itself above God in terms of defining marriage 
sitting in front of him.
 The Pope’s visit could have been an incredible opportunity to fight against 
Godless immorality in the United States. Instead, the Pope largely used the 
opportunity to push leftism slathered over with paper-thin theology. That’s a 
tragic loss for both the world and for the religious community fighting for 
survival against the onslaught of an increasingly aggressive secular left – a 
secular left that cheered the Pope but will be happy to either co-opt or crush 
his church at the first available opportunity.
 Ben Shapiro is Senior Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and The New York Times 
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