[SpirituTuo]

I agree with your statement about personal responsibility, and not being compelled by force or govt.

I don’t think the statement by the Pope was meant to demand govts force citizens to do anything, rather, in a general sense, we should be always helping the poor, hungry, etc.

The last century and a half of Papal teaching has been about the general need to serve the poor, as individuals, and NOT government coercion.

[ravenwolf]

I don’t think the statement by the Pope was meant to demand govts force citizens to do anything, rather, in a general sense, we should be always helping the poor, hungry, etc.

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I agree, and I do not take too much of what I read of the Pope very serious.