It was beginning to seem like Pope Francis was seeing the light.
Francis was critical towards Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign season, but it seemed like the liberal Pope was coming around to conservative ideologies.
It seemed that way, until Pope Francis went full anti-America recently.
Pope Francis surprised Italians recently when he praised entrepreneurship and touted the importance of business growth for the economy.
Francis shattered his liberal reputation by saying,
“There can’t be a good economy without good businessmen, without their capacity to create and to produce.”
And these comments came after he had met with President Trump, so it seemed like the leader of the Catholic Church was finally learning something.
But in a new interview, the Pope attacked America and other powerful countries that have a “distorted view of the world.”
Breitbart reports:
In a new interview, Pope Francis said he fears there are “very dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world,” including such an alliance between the United States and Russia.
Pope Francis told his interviewer, the Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, that he was worried about the G20 summit, which brings together leaders from 20 of the largest economies in the world, along with finance ministers and central bank governors.
“I’m afraid that there are very dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world: America and Russia, China and North Korea, Putin and Assad in the war in Syria,” Francis reportedly said.
The Pope said that his greatest concern was the ‘danger for immigration.’
“As you know well, the main problem in today’s world—which is unfortunately growing—is that of the poor, the weak, and the excluded,” Francis said, “of which immigrants form part.”
“On the other hand, there are countries where the majority of the poor do not come from migratory flows but from social disasters; others have few local poor but fear the invasion of migrants,” he continued.
“That’s why the G20 worries me: it primarily affects immigrants from countries all over the world and affects them even more as time goes on.”
Asked for his views on underlying causes driving mass migration, Francis said that the primary reason behind contemporary migration is economic.
“Make no mistake, poor nations are drawn to the continents and countries of ancient wealth,” he said, “especially Europe.”
“Colonialism began in Europe. There were positive aspects of colonialism, but also negative. Nonetheless, Europe grew richer, the richest in the world.
It will therefore be the main target of migratory peoples,” he said.
In the interview, Scalfari expressed his own opinion to the Pope regarding the future of Europe, stressing the need for Europe to take on a federal structure, an opinion shared by the pontiff.
European nations will move “if they realize one truth,” Francis said, “either Europe becomes a federal community or it will no longer count for anything in the world.”
Since his election as Pope, Francis has granted a number of interviews to Scalfari, an atheist and co-founder of the Italian daily, La Repubblica.
The journalist allegedly does not record their conversations but publishes the interviews from memory.
Nevertheless, to date, the Pope has never taken back anything that Scalfari has written, nor has he stopped granting him interviews, which has led observers to conclude that he is pleased with what Scalfari writes.
It makes one wonder why Pope Francis feels the need to meddle in politics. And what gives him the right to appoint himself as a globalist leader?
He’s not, and he should stay out of it.