Pope Francis Apologizes for Christianity in Malta

 Andrea Widburg points out that 457 years after the great siege of Malta, Pope Francis surrenders to Islam. Just as Obama went around apologizing for the United States, Bergoglio (Pope Francis' real name) seeks to be apologizing for Christianity. I think Jesus said something about being ashamed of Him.

Mark 8:38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

From the way Widburg talks about the tiny island nation of Malta, one might think she had been there. But she is right. Islam threatened to take over Europe. But the Maltese with the Knights Hospitaler stopped them at the Siege of Malta. After that, the Ottoman Turks never were a threat again. But now, "Pope" Francis seems to want to undo all of it.

The point I'm trying to make is that when it comes to Europe's survival as a Christian community, the Knights Hospitallers' defense of Malta was one of the most important events in European history. That's why it was so disturbing to read that Pope Francis, when he appeared in Malta, hid the crosses so he wouldn't offend illegal Muslim migrants on that tiny island:

Organizers canceled the crucifix from the papal podium because Pope Francis did not want to offend illegal Muslim migrants during the climax of his Malta trip.

Instead, recycled plastic bottles with red blobs were used to design the backdrop for the pope's address to migrants at the John XXIII Peace Lab in Ħal-Far on Saturday, a voluntary organization run by leftist Franciscan friar Fr. Dionysius Mintoff.

We are here for a purpose; each one of us has a mission, if you will. We are supposed to be in the world, but not "of" the world. It is a difficult balance. The monks who retreat from the world did it wrong.  But too many of us also do it wrong.  And it seems clear that "Pope" Francis is doing it wrong as well.  He should be shouting from the roof tops in every nation that Christ is the only Way, Truth, and Light.  Perhaps it is time to fire this pope.