Young Priest Electrifies Huge Crowd in Poland: 'Gospel Not Koran! Gospel Not Koran!' [CNS]

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Young Priest Electrifies Huge Crowd in Poland: 'Gospel Not Koran! Gospel Not Koran!'
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A video of a young Catholic priest giving a speech critical of liberalism and Islam has received over 100,000 views on YouTube.
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In November Fr. Jacek Miedlar addressed a crowd of 25,000 in Warsaw, Poland. The march was in recognition of Poland’s Independence Day, which celebrates the country achieving freedom in 1918 after years of partitioning.
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Much of the focus of the rally was on Poland’s Catholicism and national pride, and the threat of radical Islam. “Be ready to be spat at,” Fr. Miedlar said. “Be ready to be persecuted. But our strength, our courage, is in the one Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!”
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Then he called out, “The gospel not Koran!” The crowd then repeated the phrase over and over.
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Read more at: cnsnews.com/blog/mark-judge/young-priest-electrifies-huge-crowd-poland-gospel-not-koran-gospel-not-koan

One might find the ending 2 paragraphs of interest.
 
Ponder how many Catholics would denounce this priest in the strongest terms.
 
PaulfromIowa said:
Ponder how many Catholics would denounce this priest in the strongest terms.
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Including people in Poland:

*However, according to the national newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, his parish in Wrocław is divided in their opinion of their priest’s appearances at nationalist rallies. Some parishioners have congratulated him, whereas others have written letters of complaint. “I am making my own quiet protest by no longer going to St. Anne’s,” said one.

In past years, the Independence Day rally, organized by groups characterized by the Polish media as “far right,” has been marked by outbreaks of violence, including scuffles with the police. “I went to the Independence March a few years ago,” relates Anthony, 40, a Warsaw businessman. “A hair-raising experience. Riots. Tear gas. Charging skinheads.”

Meanwhile, Father Międlar’s stance is not shared by the metropolitan of Wrocław, Archbishop Józef Kupny, who has tweeted his support of Muslim refugees: “We must not shut the doors to our brothers and sisters only because they believe differently than we.” *

catholicworldreport.com/Blog/4432/The_priest_who_is_the_new_face_of_Polish_nationalism.aspx

Another Catholic said equating Islam with violence is wrong. His name? Pope Francis!
 
liturgyluver said:
Including people in Poland:

*However, according to the national newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, his parish in Wrocław is divided in their opinion of their priest’s appearances at nationalist rallies. Some parishioners have congratulated him, whereas others have written letters of complaint. “I am making my own quiet protest by no longer going to St. Anne’s,” said one.

In past years, the Independence Day rally, organized by groups characterized by the Polish media as “far right,” has been marked by outbreaks of violence, including scuffles with the police. “I went to the Independence March a few years ago,” relates Anthony, 40, a Warsaw businessman. “A hair-raising experience. Riots. Tear gas. Charging skinheads.”

Meanwhile, Father Międlar’s stance is not shared by the metropolitan of Wrocław, Archbishop Józef Kupny, who has tweeted his support of Muslim refugees: “We must not shut the doors to our brothers and sisters only because they believe differently than we.” *

catholicworldreport.com/Blog/4432/The_priest_who_is_the_new_face_of_Polish_nationalism.aspx

Another Catholic said equating Islam with violence is wrong. His name? Pope Francis!
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Read Your own link thoroughly. That priest did not equate Islam with violence.
 
liturgyluver said:
Meanwhile, Father Międlar’s stance is not shared by the metropolitan of Wrocław, Archbishop Józef Kupny, who has tweeted his support of Muslim refugees: “We must not shut the doors to our brothers and sisters only because they believe differently than we.”
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This is an unfortunate and unfair comment. This is exactly the kind of comment that one constantly hears from progressives. No one, or to be safe most people and surely not the priest, is against Islamic immigration simply because they believe differently. Anyone against it because of the belief is against it because they see the belief as incompatible with western values. Western values are Christian values. Secular humanism is Christianity minus Christ. You don’t find it elsewhere in the world. It is not mere difference in belief but knowing what they actually believe that drives folks who want to restrict migration.

These kinds of comments do an injustice by mischaracterizing a position, by offering a simplistic analysis, and by being dismissive of a legitimate issue of debate.
 
exnihilo said:
This is an unfortunate and unfair comment. This is exactly the kind of comment that one constantly hears from progressives. No one, or to be safe most people and surely not the priest, is against Islamic immigration simply because they believe differently. Anyone against it because of the belief is against it because they see the belief as incompatible with western values. Western values are Christian values. Secular humanism is Christianity minus Christ. You don’t find it elsewhere in the world. It is not mere difference in belief but knowing what they actually believe that drives folks who want to restrict migration.

These kinds of comments do an injustice by mischaracterizing a position, by offering a simplistic analysis, and by being dismissive of a legitimate issue of debate.
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As was this an unfortunate and unfair comment.

*“Dearly beloved, we’re not afraid of the peaceful Muslims, but they’re a minority. We’re afraid of fundamentalism. We do not want violence, we do not want aggression in the name of Allah…. We must oppose it. We do not want the hatred that is in the Koran, in Surah 5 [expressed for Jews and Christians], but we want the love and truth of the gospel. *
 
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