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Francis Is “Very Saddened” – Why?

Francis recalled a “International Day of the Sea” after the July 12 Angelus.

He likely meant the “Sunday of the Sea” which is celebrated since 1975 among Catholics, Anglicans and Evangelicals.

Francis greeted those who work on the sea and those who have gathered on Sunday in the port of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia for a Eucharist.

Then, he made a strange turn by saying that “the sea takes me a little far away with my mind: to Istanbul.” He added, “I'm thinking of the Hagia Sofia, and I'm very saddened.” Nothing more. He went on greeting “pilgrims form different countries.”

The Hagia Sophia was the Orthodox patriarchal cathedral until 1453 when it was converted to a mosque.

In 1935, it was secularised. In early July, the President of Turkey ordered the reclassification of Hagia Sophia as a mosque.

According to Francis’ Abu Dhabi Declaration it doesn't matter whether the place is a Church or a mosque as “God wills all religions.” So it's unclear why Francis is “very saddened.”

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AlexBKaiser
“Once more I saw that the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect, while storms were damaging it. But I saw also that help was coming when distress had reached its peak." Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824)
AngelusMaria
While I want Hagia restored to Catholics, My first guess is that it distresses Bergoglio because it throws a significant wrench into his plans for a Masonic world religion, via the nostrae aetate birthchild: Abu Dhabi Statement/House of Abrahamic Faiths. It serves the Novus Ordo anti-Church aims to keep Hagia secular, as the Masonic Turkish Revolution wanted. For any religion other than the NWO …More
While I want Hagia restored to Catholics, My first guess is that it distresses Bergoglio because it throws a significant wrench into his plans for a Masonic world religion, via the nostrae aetate birthchild: Abu Dhabi Statement/House of Abrahamic Faiths. It serves the Novus Ordo anti-Church aims to keep Hagia secular, as the Masonic Turkish Revolution wanted. For any religion other than the NWO religion to claim Hagia exclusively, only hampers the Vatican II inspired world syncretism Bergoglio and his fellow apostates are working towards.
sahmommn
AlexBKaiser
Always remember
Liam Ronan
"Does your dog bite?" and other momentarily unclarified questions.
Eva
Metropolitan Hilarion: Conversion of Hagia Sophia into Mosque is a "Slap in the Face to all Christianity" | Metropolitan Hilarion noted,“Hagia Sophia was built as a temple dedicated to Jesus Christ, and we Orthodox Christians cannot perceive it otherwise. www.pravmir.com/hagia-sophia-in…
De Profundis
Finally — too little, too late, but still better than nothing.
CatholicAmerican
He never said why he was saddened...
and this article said there was nothing more. That may not even be better than nothing.
Politicians talk out of both sides of their mouths using that way of short, unfinished speaking... it doesn’t necessarily mean that they care about one or the other side. It just looks like they are in agreement with each side.
AlexBKaiser
Shouldn't he be rejoicing that the religion of peace has a new house of worship to adore the same god he adores?