Posted on 07/30/2014 10:06:56 AM PDT by GIdget2004
A popular piece of legislation that seeks to honor Pope Francis is stuck in Congress.
With time running out on the Capitol Hill calendar, the lawmakers who crafted the bipartisan measure are getting impatient with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
The resolution, written by Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.) and Pete King (R-N.Y.), congratulates Francis on his March 2013 election and recognizes “his inspirational statements and actions.”
The seemingly innocuous resolution was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which hasn’t acted on it. The panel didn’t comment for this article.
The inaction and the lack of a white smoke signal from Boehner have sparked speculation that politics is at play.
Only 19 of the 221 co-sponsors are Republicans. The dearth of GOP members on the measure could be attributable to assertions that the pope is “too liberal,” according to a Republican backer of the legislation.
The source noted that Francis last year denounced “trickle-down economics.”
Some Republicans believe the pope is “sounding like [President] Obama. [The pope] talks about equality — he actually used the term ‘trickle-down economics,’ which is politically charged,” the GOP official said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Only 19 of the 221 co-sponsors are Republicans.
The House has bigger fish to fry like trying to stop Hussein’s upcoming amnesty by dictator proclamation.
Oh wait, the measure they did pass to give more money to the regime to facilitate the transport of the MS-13 gang ‘kids’ around the country did not even mention the amnesty.
[ Only 19 of the 221 co-sponsors are Republicans. ]
Are the Republicans pushing it RINOs?
Is the pope a Jesuit?
LOL!
You don’t honor a “person” when he does not respect our laws. Sharing the wealth and harboring illegals is not respecting our laws.
WTF???
He’s at best a simple fool - like King.
At worst a Marxist theologian who panders to Islam.
Pope Francis advances a counterfeit charity based on a “live and let live” philosophy
Pope Francis Quote: ‘Who Am I to Judge?’
http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.com/
7/31/2014
“For generations now, we have denied the food of revealed truth to our children; and we have permitted the moral polluters to dump their garbage into our culture with abandon. Why then, are we surprised that ours has become a stunted and sick society?” - Patrick J. Buchanan
The times are growing very dark. Everywhere signs are emerging which point to the appearance of the Man of Sin. A Brazilian heavy metal band is announcing the Age of Antichrist (see here). We have a Pontiff who preaches a “live and let live” philosophy (see here) which is nothing less than a counterfeit charity.
As Joseph Pronechen explains here, “Live and let live. Be nice. Be nonjudgmental. We must be more tolerant. So the sayings go.
‘America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance,’ wrote Servant of God Archbishop Fulton Sheen in his prophetic 1931 essay ‘A Plea for Intolerance....It is not. It is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broad-minded.’
But shouldn’t we be tolerant? Isn’t that charitable?
‘Real love involves real hatred,’ countered Archbishop Sheen. ‘Whoever has lost the power of moral indignation and the urge to drive the buyers and sellers from the temples has also lost a living, fervent love of truth. Charity, then, is not a mild philosophy of live and let live.’
Adds Father Andrew Apostoli of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, EWTN host and vice postulator of Archbishop Sheen’s cause, ‘You can’t tolerate evil teachings and distortions of values against God’s laws and natural law to be accepted by society.’
It’s a daily challenge for many when confronted with today’s morally bankrupt political correctness masquerading as real tolerance....
And in his important work “The New Tower of Babel,” Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand explains that, “Although the dethronement of truth manifests itself in the most drastic and radical way in Nazism and Bolshevism, unfortunately many symptoms of this spiritual disease are also to be found in democratic countries. For example, in discussions we sometimes hear the following argument: ‘Why should your opinion be more valid than mine? We are equal and have the same rights. It is undemocratic to pretend that your opinion is preferable.’
This attitude is extremely significant because it reveals the complete absence of the notion of truth, the tacit elimination of truth as the determining norm for the value of an opinion....The immanent theme of every opinion is truth; the only thing that matters here is whether or not it is in conformity with reality..This brings us to another slogan disclosing the dethronement of truth. It is the often repeated statement ‘It is true for me, but it may not be true for you.’ The truth of a proposition is essentially objective; a truth which as such would be valid for one person only is a contradiction in terms. A proposition is true or false, but it can never be true for one person and false for another. The statement that a certain action is morally good may be true or false; but if it is true, it can never be false for any other person..” (pp. 56-58).
Well, they sure have plenty of time for things of no consequence to the American people.
That’s Americans under the United States Constitution.
All others are cheap azz Chinese copies that don’t even work and are still living life on a black and white TV.
Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation, levied charges against free market capitalism, denying that “economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world” and concluding that “this opinion ... has never been confirmed by the facts.” He went on to label unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny.”
According to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology, the same discaterio that once condemned the movement. In the 1980s, CDF under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger attacked liberation theology as borrowing “from various currents of Marxist thought“.
Pope Francis seems to be also influenced by Peronism, a fascist populist movement that destroyed Argentina, a rich and well educated country.
Perhaps Pope Francis should read “Francisco’s Money Speech”
AYN RAND (2002.08.30 )
HTTP://CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM/2002/08/FRANCISCOS-MONEY-SPEECH/
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? …
“To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money–and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being–the self-made man–the American industrialist.
“If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose–because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity–to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality. “
Let the pols that sponsored the legislation issue their own personal congrats, which is about the end of any role government reps ought to have in it. The U.S. Congress should not be part of such gestures as official acts of government.
If the backers are mostly Democrats, then most of the backers are baby-murderers. Obviously, by “honoring” the Pope, they want to promote the notion that there is such a thing as a “Nancy Pelosi—Pope Francis Catholic.”
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