Pope Equates Refugee Reluctance to Christ’s Crucifixion

Pope Francis’ penchant for wandering into controversial, liberal politics was on display once again this week, at a sermon honoring Palm Sunday.

Pope Francis went off script and turned political during his Palm Sunday homily, comparing nations who won’t accept refugees to the leaders who allowed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Francis spoke for the Christian holiday in St. Peter’s Square Sunday, where he compared leaders indifferent to the fate of the flood of refugees migrating to Europe to the leaders who did not intervene to save Jesus, Reuters reports.

“I am thinking of so many other people, so many marginalized people, so many asylum seekers, so many refugees,” Francis said. “There are so many who don’t want to take responsibility for their destiny.”

Palm Sunday is the day Christians celebrate Jesus coming into the city of Jerusalem riding on a donkey, as prophesied in the Old Testament. It also marks one week before Jesus rose from the dead. The Gospels say the people of Jerusalem welcomed Jesus on Sunday with cheers in the streets, but by the end of the week he was crucified.

“Jesus also suffered on his own skin indifference, because no one wanted to take on the responsibility for his destiny,” Francis said. “And I am thinking of so many people, so many on the margins, so many refugees” for whom “many don’t want to assume responsibility for their destiny.”

What makes the Pontiff’s remarks all the more bizarre is that just weeks ago he warned of an Arab invasion across the very countries he’s criticizing for their reluctance to take in Middle Eastern refugees.

Of course, this isn’t the Pope’s first brush with hypocrisy, as we all remember his criticism of Donald Trump while forgetting his own huge border wall back at home.

Source: Daily Caller