THE Rev. Anthony Cekada writes at Quidlibet:

In the months since his election, [Jorge] Bergoglio [aka Pope Francis] has produced [a] torrent of pronouncements that have been, alternately heretical, blasphemous, theologically ignorant, offensive, wrong-headed, goofy, clichéd, shallow, contradictory, or crypto-Marxist. Just as we predicted, this man is a loose cannon. He is a constant source of worry and appalling embarrassment to people in the Novus Ordo establishment, now a minority, who still hold on to vestiges of the old religion. Many of these souls, however, have begun to criticize Bergoglio, openly and in mainstream media outlets.

The latest to take Bergoglio to task is an Egyptian Jesuit and expert on Islam, Rev. Samir Kahil Samir, who teaches in Beirut, Rome and Paris, and is the author of several books and essays on Islam and on its relationship with Christianity and the West. On December 19 the “Asia News” site of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions published an extensive commentary by Fr. Samir on the passages dealing with Islam in Bergoglio’s September 24 Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium. Thereafter, it received a much wider publication when the respected Vatican correspondent Sandro Magister posted a large section of it inhis blog on December 30.

While the first part of Fr. Samir’s commentary praises what he regards as “many positive things” in the exhortation on this issue, the second part, “Points of ‘Evangelii Gaudium’ that Require Clarification,” is of interest to us — for it demonstrates that Bergoglio’s positive-sounding declarations about Islam are either the product of stupidity or are simply a pack of lies.

Here is synthesis of Fr. Samir’s catalogue of Bergoglian howlers on the subject of Islam, Moslems and the Koran, taken from Nos. 250-253 of Evangelii Gaudium. [cont.]

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