- Is it fake news to fear Il Papa has an excrement fetish!
- “Coprophagy” comment rears its head again
- Pope’s reputation precedes him and he continues to offer plenty up
- The Pope’s coprophagy of a climate crisis and his Marxist proclivities come to mind
- Answer the questions please — have climate change scares come to reality and why isn’t that fake news? (yet His Holiness continues to spew them)
- Does capitalism, a haul mark of free countries, help the poor or not and where has Marxism / socialism done better?
- Pope, are your critiques of one but not the other not reflective of a serious case of coprophagy?
- How are your comments highlighted below not a call for a new inquisition?
- How is it you are not a propagator of sloganeering?
Wall Street Journal — Pope Says Fake News Is Devil’s Work Bold our emphasis
ROME— Pope Francis denounced the spread of “fake news” as the divisive work of the devil and called on journalists to serve as “protectors of news” by practicing accuracy and fairness, which he called essential to promoting world peace.
The pope’s remarks, published Wednesday, came in his annual message for the Catholic Church’s World Day of Social Communications, May 13. It was the first papal document on the subject of fake news.
Defining fake news as “disinformation online or in the traditional media,” Pope Francis wrote that it commonly exploits “stereotypes and common social prejudices” and thrives in “homogenous digital environments” such as social networks where it is unchallenged by other information sources.
The pope wrote that fake news can serve political or economic interests, but he did not refer or allude to specific cases.
“The tragedy of disinformation is that it discredits others, presenting them as enemies, to the point of demonizing them and fomenting conflict,” the pope wrote, whereas true statements tend to “promote informed and mature reflection leading to constructive dialogue.”
The pope portrayed latter-day makers of fake news as followers of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, the devil, who persuaded Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thus ushered in the “tragic history of human sin.”
Pope Francis praised education and regulation to combat fake news, and encouraged tech and media companies in efforts to verify the “personal identities concealed behind millions of digital profiles.”
But the pope laid the greatest responsibility with journalists, whom he called on to reject “falsehoods, rhetorical slogans and sensational headlines” in favor of a “journalism of peace.”
Wednesday’s document isn’t the first time the pope has called on journalists to raise their standards. In a December 2016 interview, he likened the interest in scandal among the press and the public to coprophilia and coprophagy—sexual and eating disorders involving excrement.
We wonder why leftist journalists eat up a ten-letter epithet/accusation from the Pope and why it is any better than a four or eight letter description by Trump which shocks them, willing as they are to believe anything Dick Durbin excretes from his mouth? We refer to the Pope’s public use of coprophagy (an obscure term for shit-eating) vs Trump’s alleged reference to shithole countries.
And furthermore as regards his “falsehood” and “rhetorical slogan” caution – Pope, heal thyself. We also remember when Pope Francis intimated that President Trump is not a Christian, or by implication his supporters, for desiring a wall to secure our country’s border, that such is an ungodly act. We ask the Pope to look around his residence and open the Bible and Christian histories. Doing so we see references to The Christian Walls of Madrid the Pope’s own surrounds as displayed pictorially below and this commentary no justification in Bible for Pope’s Trump slam. And so we say to him, either tear down your wall or shut the fake-news up about Trump and the United States.
Leonine Wall surrounds a great percentage of the Vatican enterprise DLH and R Mall
