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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr. Oohay
On Thursday, April 16, 2026, 4:36 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr Oohay,
You have the temerity to say “ This Chicago-raised first USAmerican pope also apparently forgets THE crusades. “ ?
There's the WSJ article on Why Pope Leo Is Such a Challenging Opponent for Trump
His Holiness the Pope - no dictator is he, was democratically elected, presumably guided by the Holy Spirit ! The world waited anxiously for the white smoke to come curling out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel , and I for one prayed that it would be an American Pope this time. Consequently, there is of course a plurality of voices and all kinds of disagreements within ( and outside) the Holy Catholic Church. I’m not surprised for instance that you may even find some succour in a kindred spirit namely your fellow anti-marxist, the retired Cardinal Robert Sarah inveighing against “the dangers” of Islam, braying here, “Wake up. Islam is a danger. If Christians don't start caring about our faith, Islam will take over the West.”
This was my reply to that item in Facebook :
Cardinal Robert Sarah hails from Guinea Conakry a Muslim majority country where Muslims and Christians live amicably, side by side. He could at the very least, show some charity, some Christian tolerance.
Instead of endorsing - even cautiously, the spirit of Pope Leo XIV’s message on Islam he seems to be hell-bent in resurrecting the ghost of Eurabia and the Gates of Vienna
The inflammatory, dangerous, provocative, self-infatuated bigotry issuing from Cardinal Sarah can only contribute to promoting the Islamophobia and xenophobia and fear of the other that is already bedevilling anti-immigration Fortress Europe.
Surely, gone and never to return are the times of the inquisition and other devil-inspired pogroms, witchhunts, antisemitism, Holocaust and religious persecution.
Cardinal Robert Sarah and his faction ought to be more familiar with Hans Kung (
He should continue with the peaceful propagation of his faith and leave some room for what Bishop Krister Stendahl referred to as “ holy envy”
I believe myself to be familiar with the subject matter and prepared to discuss or debate it ad infinitum…
