Pope Francis meets with Fortune-Time Global Forum

Vatican Radio ^ | December 3, 2016 | N/A

[BlessedBeGod]

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday greeted participants of the Fortune-Time Global Forum. The Forum brings together Fortune 500 and Time 100 leaders, who were discussing technology and jobs, global health, food and water, commitment to communities, energy and the environment, and financial inclusion—each representing critical elements related to poverty alleviation.

“Our world today is marked by great unrest,” – Pope Francis told them – “Inequality between peoples continues to rise, and many communities are impacted directly by war and poverty, or the migration and displacement which flow from them.  People want to make their voices heard and express their concerns and fears.”

The Holy Father thanked them for their work promoting “the centrality and dignity of the human person within our institutions and economic models, and to draw attention to the plight of the poor and refugees, who are so often forgotten by society.”

“When we ignore the cries of so many of our brothers and sisters throughout the world, we not only deny them their God-given rights and worth, but we also reject their wisdom and prevent them from offering their talents, traditions and cultures to the world,” – he continued – “In so doing, the poor and marginalized are made to suffer even more, and we ourselves grow impoverished, not only materially, but morally and spiritually.”  

Pope Francis challenged the business leaders to respond to global levels of injustice by promoting a local – “and even personal” – sense of responsibility so that no one is excluded from participating in society. 

“Thus, the question before us is how best to encourage one another and our respective communities to respond to the suffering and needs we see, both from afar and in our midst,” – the Holy Father said – “The renewal, purification and strengthening of solid economic models depends on our own personal conversion and generosity to those in need.”

 

The full text of Pope Francis’ speech is below

 

Greeting of His Holiness Pope Francis

to Participants of the Fortune-Time Global Forum

Saturday, 3 December 2016

 

Dear Friends,

I am very pleased to welcome all of you who are participating in the Fortune-Time Global Forum, and I express my appreciation for your work these past two days.  I thank Mrs Nancy Gibbs and Mr Alan Murray for their kind words.  The theme you have chosen, “The 21st-Century Challenge: Forging a New Social Compact”, is very opportune and points to the urgent need for more inclusive and equitable economic models.  Your time together has allowed for a substantive exchange of ideas and sharing of information.  Important as this is, what is required now is not a new social compact in the abstract, but concrete ideas and decisive action which will benefit all people and which will begin to respond to the pressing issues of our day.

I would like to offer a particular word of thanks for all that you are doing to promote the centrality and dignity of the human person within our institutions and economic models, and to draw attention to the plight of the poor and refugees, who are so often forgotten by society.  When we ignore the cries of so many of our brothers and sisters throughout the world, we not only deny them their God-given rights and worth, but we also reject their wisdom and prevent them from offering their talents, traditions and cultures to the world.  In so doing, the poor and marginalized are made to suffer even more, and we ourselves grow impoverished, not only materially, but morally and spiritually.  

Our world today is marked by great unrest.  Inequality between peoples continues to rise, and many communities are impacted directly by war and poverty, or the migration and displacement which flow from them.  People want to make their voices heard and express their concerns and fears.  They want to make their rightful contribution to their local communities and broader society, and to benefit from the resources and development too often reserved for the few.  While this may create conflict and lay bare the many sorrows of our world, it also makes us realize that we are living in a moment of hope.  For when we finally recognize the evil in our midst, we can seek healing by applying the remedy.  Your very presence here today is a sign of such hope, because it shows that you recognize the issues before us and the imperative to act decisively.  This strategy of renewal and hope calls for institutional and personal conversion; a change of heart that attaches primacy to the deepest expressions of our common humanity, our cultures, our religious beliefs and our traditions. 

This fundamental renewal does not have to do simply with market economics, figures to be balanced, the development of raw materials and improvements made to infrastructures.  No, what we are speaking about is the common good of humanity, of the right of each person to share in the resources of this world and to have the same opportunities to realize his or her potential, a potential that is ultimately based on the dignity of the children of God, created in his image and likeness.             

Our great challenge is to respond to global levels of injustice by promoting a local and even personal sense of responsibility so that no one is excluded from participating in society.  Thus, the question before us is how best to encourage one another and our respective communities to respond to the suffering and needs we see, both from afar and in our midst.  The renewal, purification and strengthening of solid economic models depends on our own personal conversion and generosity to those in need.

I encourage you to continue the work you have begun at this Forum, and to seek ever more creative ways to transform our institutions and economic structures so that they may be able to respond to the needs of our day and be in service of the human person, especially those marginalized and discarded.  I pray too that you may involve in your efforts those whom you seek to help; give them a voice, listen to their stories, learn from their experiences and understand their needs.  See in them a brother and a sister, a son and a daughter, a mother and a father.  Amid the challenges of our day, see the human face of those you earnestly seek to help. 

I assure you of my prayer that your efforts will bear fruit, and of the Catholic Church’s commitment to be a voice for those who otherwise are silenced.  Upon you, your families and all your colleagues, I invoke the divine blessings of wisdom, strength and peace. Thank you.

[dp0622]

I get surveys on this and I dont care about companies’ global footprint, sustainability practices, contribution to the town i live in, social justice stances etc.

I just want a good product at a good price.

[dadfly]

the vicar of globe?

[Garth Tater]

Pope Francis told them – “Inequality between peoples continues to rise, and many communities are impacted directly by war and poverty, or the migration and displacement which flow from them.

In other words, same as it's always been. Good to know.

[Huaynero]

“...I dont care about companies’ global footprint, sustainability practices, contribution to the town i live in, social justice stances etc. I just want a good product at a good price.”

But what US get is a lesser product marketed by a company headquartered offshore. That company in turn manufactures further offshore in a second-third country with lesser labor and production standards.
Bases rounded and sliding into home, their product, our purchase, labeled with a once world renowned US logo, craps out in something less than planned obsolescence.
And that sums up the good stuff sold here!

[Organic Panic]

Pope Peronista I speaks

[plangent]

Dear Pope, people who sit on their butts in the dust all day waiting for Mama to cook the squash will NEVER have as much as people who get up and work their butts off.

People who don’t care what their government leaders do will always be victims of graft, corruption, extortion and brutality.

Time for you to reset your moral compass.

[SkyPilot]

Jorge addressed a Joint Session of Congress, appeared with Barry Soetoro on the White House lawn, addressed the United Nations, and appeared before a worldwide televised audience in Philadelphia - all within a short period of 4 days. Not once during that time did Jorge declare the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are many Biblical passages that declare the Gospel Truth, this is just one of them:

4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.

Titus 3:4-7

What did Jorge talk about instead?

Climate change.........welcome refugees.......economic justice.......climate change.........social justice........climate change........

[Repent and Believe]

“Jorge addressed a Joint Session of Congress...”

You got something right that neither the news article author nor 99 pct. of Freepers don’t: The man is not a true pope.

True popes act like Christ and proclaim Him, urging all to repent and believe the Good News of the Gospel. That is why the first many popes were martyred - they were faithful Christian leaders!

True popes teach tradition and steer clear of the sin of modernism which Pope Saint Pius X spoke heavily against. And so why do you think that the false popes who put together and supported the apostacy called Vatican II eliminated “The Oath Against Modernism” which from the time of Pope Saint Pius X was required of EVERY priest?

True popes do not teach error. When a man formally teaches heresy he is prevented from the papal office by divine law. There is no requirement of a council to declare it, it is de facto.

Just as the faithful are at liberty to judge that a man is pope, so are they at liberty as individuals to judge that a man is NOT pope. So many people cannot bring themselves to this simple truth. It is part of the sin of pride, the sin of holding human respect higher than respect for God.

[avenir]

Excellent point. The Spirit does not speak in generalized gobbledygook but ALWAYS exalts God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

[I want the USA back]

In other words find a way to take money from producers and give it to the indolent.

[piusv]

Not once during that time did Jorge declare the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Of course he didn't. That would, according to him, be a "sin against ecumenism", a sin against his new Vatican II Religion of Ecumenism.

No longer is proselytism "solemn nonsense". It is a "sin".

[Don Corleone]

He is just a man. The Catholic Church will survive him as it has others.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This is great because Pope Francis is such an expert in "technology and jobs, global health, food and water, commitment to communities, energy and the environment, and financial inclusion".

He's an expert in everything!

On the bright side, maybe this will distract him from trying to mess around in stuff he REALLY doesn't know much about, like Catholic doctrine.

Pope Francis "New" Ten Commandments. The first one: "I am the Lord thy Pope. Thou shalt not heed strange Popes before me."

[Repent and Believe]

“...maybe this will distract him from trying to mess around in stuff he REALLY doesn’t know much about, like Catholic doctrine....”

Stop.

A true Catholic doesn’t mock or accuse a true pope. Nor does a true Catholic tolerate a wolf in the sheepfold, tearing the sheep.

Either love the true pope and submit to everything he teaches and show him honor and respect in all things as your true father, or expose the man as an imposter. Anything else is of the evil one.

http://novusordowatch.org/2014/11/is-francis-a-valid-pope/

[Mrs. Don-o]

R&B, I'm not going to stand athwart you and say "Stop" --- but I *will( say "Pause."

The present pope is, I think, a true historic anomaly: a pontiff-dissenter, a pope who regularly opposes the papal magisterium. One wag summed it up this way:

Pope Francis' First Commandment of "The Church of What's Happenin' Now": I am the Lord thy Pope, thou shalt not heed strange popes before me.

He has expressed his errors by allusion, insinuation,ambiguity, for instance, that weaselly Footnote 351.

This is obviously not binding doctrine, since one does not "define" doctrine --- which necessarily means clarifying it ---- via the issuance of wiffle-waffle. Thus, thanks to the Holy Spirit, Francis has not fully, clearly and formally promulgated heresy. His way is nudge, nudge, nudge, nudge.

If nudge comes to push and push comes tor shove, then we know we've got a false pope on our hands.

Now,all we know is we have a subversive and dangerous one.

We have had bad popes before, over the course of our 2,000 year history since St. Peter. God knows how to deal with them. How? He raises up saints.

These saints did not always speak tenderly of the popes they corrected. But they spoke the truth.

Let us do likewise.

[Repent and Believe]

“...He has expressed his errors by allusion, insinuation,ambiguity, ... This is obviously not binding doctrine, since one does not “define” doctrine -— which necessarily means clarifying it...Francis has not fully, clearly and formally promulgated heresy.”

“We have had bad popes before”

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Oh, but those excuses for Bergoglio are wrong on two counts.

The first, in brief, is that sinful popes of the past who were not false popes are not on record of actually teaching heresy.

The second, demonstrated in the snippet below, is that the false popes who have approved and have promulgated the Novus Ordo and the destruction of the traditional Mass are therefore formal heretics if Catholics.

Incidentally, under the leadership of Saint Bernard a false pope of Bernard’s time who had wrongly assumed the role for several years (with election), after the usuper’s death his (false) pontificate was revealed as false and all his official deeds were deemed null and void.

Snippet:

But the “New Mass” or Novus Ordo Missae, as it is called, is merely one visible symptom of the fundamental problem, which is that the religion you see today as “Roman Catholicism” is not the Catholic religion of ages past but is basically the religion of the Second Vatican Council, usually abbreviated as “Vatican II” (the First Vatican Council, or Vatican I, had taken place from 1869-70 under Pope Pius IX). A great many ideas today promoted as Roman Catholicism, are actually rooted only in Vatican II and were not known or accepted before — and that’s a pretty long “before” — around 1,900 years. Things like ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, interfaith prayer services, opposition to the death penalty, religious freedom as an ideal for every society, the notion of “human rights”, declaring all war to be evil (even the just kind) — all these are examples of Vatican II ideas, not Catholic ideas.

Now here’s the rub: According to perennial Catholic teaching, it is not possible for the Catholic Church to undergo a substantial change. Her teachings cannot change in essence; she cannot contradict or abandon what she taught before; she cannot offer a “new religion” to her followers.

In response to the phenomenon of the Vatican II revolution, there are three essential lines of thought that have been proposed as “solutions” to understanding the situation. This is not now the place or time to critique or justify any of them. For now, we want to just describe them: (1) despite appearances, nothing has really substantially changed, and any interpretation of Vatican II that arrives at the conclusion that there has been a substantial change must be incorrect; (2) we must oppose (resist) these substantial changes and stick to the traditional, age-old teaching instead and ignore the Vatican II novelties while recognizing, however, that the authorities in the Vatican are legitimate and genuine Roman Catholic authorities — we just cannot agree with them on these points; (3) because it is impossible for the Catholic Church to change substantially, and because Vatican II constitutes such an impossible substantial change, it is necessary to conclude that the authority which gave us Vatican II is not in fact the legitimate Catholic authority; that is to say, the “Popes” which gave us Vatican II are not true Popes, nor are their successors, who have implemented and expanded this new religion that has its roots in the council. In fact, the entire religion that now occupies the Vatican and the official structures of the Catholic Church throughout the world is false — it is not the Catholic religion at all, and its putative authorities are not Catholics but heretical usurpers.

Continued at http://novusordowatch.org/start-here/

[Mrs. Don-o]

Pope Francis and you have this in common:

you are both sedevacantists.

I mean that in an ironic sense.

Here's what I mean: neither you nor Pope Francis recognize the legitimacy of the papal magisterium, at least for the stretch from the last 50-or-so until now.

You reject that, for instance, that the papal teachings in Humanae Vitae, Veritatis Splendor, and Familiaris Consortio, are authentic aspects of the Papal Magisterium.

So, can you provide a list the --- in your estimation --- "real" Catholic popes from 1958 until now?

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Thanks in advance.

[Repent and Believe]

“So, can you provide a list the -— in your estimation -— “real” Catholic popes from 1958 until now?”

I cannot.

(And yet, be assured: the gates of hell have not prevailed and shall not prevail against that rock.)

[dadfly]

well, aside from this thread, in which the first cause of the pain being felt is self-evident, if i had one concrete wish for me and all my Catholic and ex-Catholic friends, brothers and sisters (and i have more than a few), i’d like to know chapter and verse from an insider view, exactly why the previous pope quit or was forced out and how exactly how from historical nuts to soup this neo-Jesuit acquired the necessary power to be elected.