Posted on 03/11/2019 10:33:28 AM PDT by O6ret
He’s misleading.
“But poverty is at the center of the Gospel. Preaching about poverty is at the center of Jesus’ message: ‘Blessed are the poor’ is the first of the Beatitudes.”
“Blessed are the poor in spirit ... “
There’s a lot of difference.
Also, “Thou shalt leave no carbon footprint” was serendipitously replaced by “Thou shalt not kill”.
The commie poop continues to channel AOC
This “Pope” thinks the air conditioner on my car is a greater affront to God then murdering unborn children.
What the heck does it mean to exploit workers? Offer them employment? Give them a way to support themselves?
Hey Pope...ALL sin is mortal
The Roman Emperor has spoken. Hail Caesar.
Priests sexually abusing children and catholic politicians celebrating infanticide is OK though. F’n hypocrite.
Has this guy ever read the Bible?
Or consider why corrupt Democrats want a huge influx of people across the southern border: for cheap votes. And corrupt Republicans (plus Democrats) want the same, for cheap labor.
Pushing trafficked-in, tattered, basically desperate foreign workers to underbid American workers (and underbid each other) for the poorest-paid, most undesirable jobs in America: that's exploitation.
That's one of the things that gives the Democrat Party a bad name, as I understand it.
And this judgment IS Biblical.
The “Four Sins that Cry Out to Heaven for Vengeance” are serious sins described in Scripture as “crying out” to God for justice.
1) Murder
What God said to Cain after he murdered his brother Abel: “The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” (Genesis 4.10)
2) The Sin of Sodom
This is based on what God said regarding the sins of the ancient city of Sodom: “Then the Lord said, ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.'” (Genesis 18.20-21)
What was the sin of Sodom? Scripture explains it in two places:3) Oppression of the poor, especially widows and orphans“Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore
I did away with them as you have seen.” (Ezekiel 16.49-50) “Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.” (Jude 1.7)
This comes from two places in the Old Testament:4) Defrauding workers of their just wages“Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.” (Exodus 22.22-23)
“The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.” (Exodus 2.24)
This one is found in both the Old and New Testaments:“Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.” (Deuteronomy 24.14-15)
“Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.” (James 5.4)
Granted, it didn't say anything about the "mortal sin of no paid vacations." The Peronist Pope has, shall we say, some explaining to do. We could send him some "dubia" about that.
You mean like the Vatican does? Sounds like the Pope is projecting here.
So Catholic Schools that send teachers home for the summer... what is wrong with this man?
Francis continuing destructive confusing pontificating on temporal worldly social behavior has nothing to do with and avoids articles of faith. Let alone refusing to question and expound on the profound differences with the claims made by Islam and its followers simply because of its assertion of being monotheistic and winds up making a point of honoring it. Is leading to misguided conversions and a serious fracture within Christianity and The Roman Rite
“pay their employees under the table”
Ah, so hiring illegal immigrants is a mortal sin, eh?
ON that note we should outlaw gubermnent who exploit workers wages on several different levels, income tax, property tax, sales tax and inheritance tax.
And it’s a mortal sin to be a politician funding millions of abortions but the pope and his bishops have no problem wining and dining with those same politicians.
Another case of Francis elevating his ill-informed economic opinions to doctrine. In this case, he also reveals his ignorance of Scripture. In the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, God (symbolized by the landowner) employs seasonal workers. As He asks there, “Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money?”
Pension fund??? What’s that?
You’ve never worked as an auto tech, have you?
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