Pope on Brexit: It’s the will of the people, peaceful co-existence must be guaranteed On the flight to Armenia, Francis commented on the outcome of the British referendum and expressed his joy at the agreement reached between the Colombian government and FARC 24/06/2016 ANDREA TORNIELLI ON THE FLIGHT FROM ROME TO YEREVAN The Brexit vote “is the will of the people,” Pope Francis remarked about the outcome of the British referendum, on board the flight from Rome to Armenia. Before greeting each of the journalists travelling with him, one by one,, he also expressed his satisfaction regarding the peace agreement reached between the Colombian government and the country’s militant group, FARC, in Cuba. Francis does not usually hold press conferences on outgoing flights, he tends to just make a comment or two about the country he is about to visit. This time, however, the events of the past 24 hours changed the unwritten protocol and the Pope answered two questions put to him by Fr. Federico Lombardi. Regarding the Brexit vote, the Pope’s remark was simple and cautious: “I was informed of the final result on board this plane because when I left the house I had just leafed through Il Messagero and the result was not yet definitive.” “The people have expressed their will,” Francis continued, “and this requires us to be very responsible and guarantee the wellbeing of the British people as well as wellbeing and peaceful co-existence across the European continent.” Regarding the historic agreement reached two days ago, which is destined to have a profound effect on Colombia’s future with an end to fighting, the Pope said: “I am delighted to have received this news yesterday. More than 50 years of war, guerrilla warfare and so much bloodshed! It is wonderful news and I hope that the countries that worked to achieve peace can be guarantors, can guarantee that these efforts will be continued.” Aside from Cuba, the other countries involved in the peace process, include Chile, Venezuela, Norway and UN. An envoy representing US president Barack Obama was also present at the signing of yesterday’s agreement. Francis expressed the hope that the countries involved in the peace process, “will protect this to the point of ensuring that there is no going back to a state of war, both from the outside and from the inside. All my best wishes to Colombia for taking this step.” At the start the Pope apologised to the small group of journalists on board the papal flight for having to turn his back to them because the microphone cable was not long enough: “I apologise for speaking with my back to [some of] you. But they say angels don’t have one.”
A clear blow to the globalists. Very happy to see you Brits say no to the entrenched political elite. Interesting to see their liberal media, polls, and even the bookies there who had it at 80% to remain all get it wrong. Clear foreshadowing of what is going on also in the U.S. and worldwide. Enough is enough, sayeth the people.
It is nice to read something positive about Holy Father. We can't be too excited about the Brexit. My grandson already knows of 3,000 or so jobs that will be lost by companies who will move to Europe where new candidates will easily be found as replacement. I spent a couple of hours with him on the phone this morning, reassuring him to just take the next right step, and trust God. He will for the time being be ok in his job; but I wonder how long before he may be affected. I advised him to start looking for something else. A pity, because this was the first decent job he found a couple of years ago. I do believe we needed to reject EU. I remember reading they snubbed the Holy Father at least once. I also read that in Italy Crosses had to be removed from classrooms; if that is true EU is not of Holy Spirit, and we need to escape from it if we can.
There wont be border controls. Both Britain & Ireland are outside of the Schengen Agreement & already work together on immigration & trade arrangements that don't need a physical border.
Ireland went in on a vote, and EU are changing the law so those already trapped can not leave, or so I heard. Britain got a lucky escape. Of course some who wanted to remain are not in agreement with the Brexit. What I must admit to liking is, it feels like we are under the protection of God, not European faceless men, and their false promises.
I thought the Schengen agreement was invented by Ireland. They also call it the Dublin agreement. I think. Some are trying to say the troubles will start all over again. I think that is scaremongering. Others are saying Ireland North and South have good relations and agreed to free travel over the border. Or so I heard. It will be interesting. Please God Peace will prevail.
It is shocking to hear that Scottish woman Nicola whatever (not even an elected member of Parliament) claiming she wants to get independence because Scotland had one million six hundred thousand or so 'Remain' votes. She does not seem to acknowledge the million or so Scottish people who voted to 'Leave.' She comes across as a dictator to me. Pushing for her own little agenda without respecting the democratic system that staying out of Europe helps to guarantee. And with a poor economy, how does she imagine Europe will want to prop her and her poor economy up. It would be another lame economic duck on the backs of the European banks. Doubt they will buy into that. But the people of Scotland will no doubt be brainwashed into obedience. Time will tell.
No, Julia, Ireland is not part of Schengen. We didn't join because it would have affected the common travel arrangement between the UK and Ireland. The Dublin Agreement that they all talk about is the EU agreement reached when, I think, Ireland held the rotating EU Presidency. The heads of State met in Dublin and reached an agreement that asylum seekers must claim asylum in the first EU country they enter, for example, if they arrive in Italy and travel on to, say, Austria before claiming asylum, the Austrians have the right to send them back to Italy and the Italians are obliged to take them and process their asylum request. I'll say a prayer that your son gets a more secure job. Although it doesn't seem so now, it's for the best in the long term. It was your only chance to get out before you got sucked in to the point of no return.
How lovely to check in here at MOG for some common sense! Facebook is full of self-righteous leftists moaning and bleating that the people ought not to have been allowed to determine their own destiny. That's how these people think. My BIL, a lovely person but naive in the extreme (IMO) actually admitted to me that he felt so out of agreement with our countrymen that he would rather we be ruled by an unelected elite of smug liberals (I added the 'smug') because of course the ordinary people can't be expected to govern themselves properly. I find this appalling. I voted Brexit in order to take back control of the government and legislature from the unelected behemoth of the EU which can't even decide where its headquarters should be. They aren't remotely accountable for the money they spend, and they spend a lot of ours. The EU has treated us like a cash cow for too long and has coiled itself like a parasitic weed around so many of our institutions that it will take years to disentangle ourselves. I do feel badly for Gibraltar and NI - and hope that something can be achieved to the people's satisfaction. I am all for friendly agreements with our European neighbours (I speak French and Italian and love to travel in Europe), but each country is different and has particular needs - one size fits all is not the answer. People here have spoken of the evil of the EU - I am sure that it is evil and that the UK is better off without it. Julia makes a very interesting point about the vote in Scotland - one million 'oot' votes is considerable. I know Scotland quite well and Nicola Sturgeon is not universally liked. It's all very sad. Many Scots voted 'remain' because they feared a new Independence move ('neverendum') by the Scots Nats. All so complex. I think Ireland has done better from the EU than we have but would caution about 'taking the soup'. All the EU money Ireland has received will make it vulnerable to the inevitable demand for gay marriage and abortion. I hope not. I love Ireland so much and admire how she kept the faith for so long.
I'm afraid that the gay marriage horse has already bolted here and the door has been pushed open for abortion. Some international agency (can't remember whether it's the UN or some other supposedly neutral humanitarian organisation) got the politicians off the hook by saying that our abortion laws must change and a group has been set up to find a way to make it happen, thus marginalising the pro-lifers. We can't blame the EU for that. The EU has been a mixed blessing for Ireland. Our politicians from all sides are its lap dogs. After centuries of imperialism, it only took about sixty years of independence to vote ourselves into another form of imperialism. It is funny that the progressives are denouncing Cameron for actually holding a referendum. Am I the only person who thought it hilarious that while the "highly educated and intelligent" Remain side denounced Brexit supporters as ignorant and stupid, they made a big deal out of David Beckham announcing that he would be voting Remain?
Time will tell Bobby, I feel something deep in my soul that this isn't good news, satan is very clever, something just something doesn't sit well with my spirit.. I have a real sense that we are heading on a very slippery slope. God bless us all..
Well I am over the moon, I follow politics closely and have been waiting for this moment for what seems like ages and ages. I am really pleased that the 'sensus fidei' here is definitely anti-EU, as I am. Its a very very dishonest organisation in my experience, and very lacking in any sense of respecting democratic votes.
I saw an interview with Boris Johnson's father today that left me feeling uneasy. I know they were on opposite sides during the referendum, but they are close and I'm sure they have a lot of values in common. Mr Johnson struck me as being something of a relic of the old CND, make love not war, pot smoking hippy types that came out of universities in the 70's. I know nothing about him but that's the impression I got. He was very upbeat despite being on the losing side and had three priorities that he believes Britain can be to the forefront of tackling. Two of them were the environment and over-population. I can't remember the third. I hope that BoJo doesn't succeed Cameron if he shares his father's belief that the world is over-populated because that's a mantra of the crowd who want to solve the problems of the Third World by flooding it with contraceptives and promoting abortion
This will need lots of prayer. I had it easy when I was a young lad and you all were suffering greatly up the north, almost like we had our backs turned on you. I hope this is not a case of our time of peace being nearly over, I pray not. I pray for peace and conversion.
From what I understand it was the grey vote that kept Scotland in the U.K. in the recent referendum. It seems they concluded that on its own, Scotland could not afford good levels of education, health care or pensions or maintain adequate infra structure like roading and housing etc. It was essentially a vote of fear and perhaps this fear was not unwarranted. Brexit could provide a chance for Scotland to redeem her pride and show the world not only her brave heart but her strong will to succeed without depending too much on anyone else. I have a Scottish pound coin and around the edge are inscribed the words "Nemo me impune lacessit." I hope that once great nation will not be brainwashed into submission again. I hope they will be a nation again and stand up for themselves. As you may guess I have some Scots blood in me.
