I love my Pope, really I do.
But this thing about helping the “poor”, taking from the wealthy and giving to the downtrodden, it’s just all wrong.
This is not 1590. People are not walking around dripping pus as leprosy devours them. Little girls are not selling matches on frozen street corners.
And I know that the Catholic church gives more money to aid humankind than any government or religion on earth. As member of the finance council part of my job is to help distribute 10% of our collection to local charities. We’re damn strict about it too, but every month just my church is distributing over four grand and that doesn’t include St. Vincent de Paul.
Where are these people wearing rags in the freezing cold, selling matches to the warmed? To hear the pope they’re everywhere.
It’s a message from five hundred years ago. Sorry, but beloved Francis needs to take a stand against or fore something germane TODAY! He could maybe take a stab at good ole Putin, just for starters.
It’s my story and I’m sticking to it no matter how many Catholics I make mad.
Where are these people wearing rags in the freezing cold, selling matches to the warmed?
My personal strategy for ending the welfare state is to cut everybody off from all of it and then wait to see who shows up starving or freezing or hobbling and take it from there on a case by case basis.
You want disability?
Lemme see you crawling along the sidewalk looking for bread crumbs and I’ll think about it.
Not very Christian an approach?
(Well, I’d say that’s arguable but...)
So, as far as Il Papa reiterating this, there should be no rebuttal from us. It is a COMMANDMENT we should follow.
However, He did not say this was the GOVERNMENT'S job to do this. In fact, it is a commandment for all of us, as individuals, to follow. How do I know? His words:
31And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. 32And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.
34Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in: 36Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. 37Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? 39Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee? 40And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink. 43I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. 44Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? 45Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me. 46And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.
i am with you on that thought Fish!