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A Prayer from Matt Drudge
Breitbart.com ^ | Sept 20, 2015 | by Stephen K. Bannon & Ezra Dulis

Posted on 09/22/2015 6:40:43 PM PDT by Syncro

Matt Drudge...sent a message Sunday morning excoriating Pope Francis during his trip to Cuba, depicting the head of the Catholic Church alongside Raul Castro and suggesting Francis would rather ignore the plight of political dissidents than endanger his warm welcome from the Castro regime.

A prayer for those locked up in cruel Cuba this morning for dissent, as pope basks in glow of adulation from masses..

Activists have criticized the Pope for failing to plan any meetings with Cuban political dissidents during his visit to the Communist Caribbean nation–while the government flagrantly and contemporaneously persecutes its Catholics. Just last week, the government violently arrested more than 50 protesters, mostly women, after attending Sunday mass.

In the week before the trip, a reporter asked Francis about Havana’s record on human rights and religious freedom, prompting only a tepid response of, essentially, “other countries are just as bad.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drudge; pope; prayer; rottenpope; tweet
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To: pbear8
Your post that I responded to:
And where would the poor go to be healed, educated, and fed once the buildings are sold? Where would the orphans go? Out on the streets to become child sex slaves?
How many would die because you sold the hospitals?

If you sold every chalice Holy Mass could not be offered to the glory of God.

I didn't say sell all the buildings. I said sell some of the billions of dollars worth of art in the basement of the Vatican.

No one suggested to sell the hospitals. The Vatican owns hospitals? Well good for them, put some of the poor and downtrodden there and a couple of thousand in the Vatican mansion. The pope doesn't live there, so should be plenty of room.

There are millions of poverty stricken Catholics that tithe, use some of that money to help the poor.

41 posted on 09/22/2015 8:28:51 PM PDT by Syncro (Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world)
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To: Catsrus

Oh, so you went to Mass one time with one Priest and know all. Hmmm... Ok. How condescending! DVR the Christmas Mass on TV and try to tell me the Pope or Catholic Church is more interested in a building than Jesus Christ. You don’t know what you’re talking about. And on the spirituality issue— YOU brought that up. YOU said the Pope wasn’t spiritual only political. Now you say spirituality doesn’t matter? My mom was Catholic, my Dad baptist, my Aunts Methodist. I’ve attended many different churches and services. And I’ve seen how other Christians make assumptions and have no clue what goes on a block away at the Catholic Church or even at other Protestant denominations, but are quick to judge. Sad, really.


42 posted on 09/22/2015 8:36:22 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: Jane Long
I would say JP II was very political, and for good reason. He, Reagan and Thatcher helped end Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
43 posted on 09/22/2015 8:40:14 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: MacMattico

That was my point. The local groups, Catholic Charities, St. Vincent de Paul, the Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of the Good Shepard, the good sisters of many religious orders. Many of them live in close to poverty. Remember the congressman who was a priest. I can’t remember his name. He lived in an unadorned dormitory room when in Washington. Unfortunately he was a far left liberal. But he practiced what he preached.


44 posted on 09/22/2015 8:41:55 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Catsrus
Thanks, but I went to a Mass one time - it was the most boring thing I’ve ever attended.

Comment indicates you have no comprehension of what the Mass is or why it is celebrated. It's not for your entertainment, for starters.

45 posted on 09/22/2015 8:48:33 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: ladyjane
This Pope lives in a small apartment and lives frugally. The Catholic Church provides many resources and a lot of money and time and energy to help the poor. You can say the Catholic Church should sell its possessions— and my baptist father used to make that argument to my Catholic mother— but as a Catholic I would never want to see the Catholic Church and it's traditions and places of worship dismantled. We don't worship our Cathedrals and the Vatican, but we created them to praise the Lord Jesus Christ, and then we get back to our charity work. My Aunt, not Catholic, visited the Vatican and felt truly transformed— she didn't change from being a Methodist but felt a great power strengthening her Christianity. As a conservative I am not for high taxes and taking things away from groups or people. Why does that belief not apply to my church as well? Secular groups would love to see the churches great architectural and other structures dismantled. Not going to happen. And I can guarantee you most of the poor helped by the church who are Catholic wouldn't want it.
46 posted on 09/22/2015 9:02:42 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: ladyjane

I would add every Pope has started out a poor Priest. Why is it wrong if we Catholics choose to celebrate the one who has worked up to Pope? He has over a billion members of his faith!


47 posted on 09/22/2015 9:06:39 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: gaijin

Why do you deride the Pope?


48 posted on 09/22/2015 9:08:23 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Cuz he`s a scumbag, collectivist fake Pope.


49 posted on 09/22/2015 9:18:28 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: MacMattico

These charities you praise get billions each year from US taxpayers. Perhaps it is deceptive to be calling them Catholic.


50 posted on 09/22/2015 9:18:30 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Salvation

Um, because he’s a Commie?


51 posted on 09/22/2015 9:21:12 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: pbear8

She is talking about the billions of dollars of fine art and treasures that the vatican holds not a couple of hospital.
but you knew that.


52 posted on 09/22/2015 9:23:12 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: gaijin
"Drudge rules Devil Pope drools...!"

Man! You are a poet and don't know it, but yer feet show it, cause they're Longfellows!!!

53 posted on 09/22/2015 9:28:19 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Hey, lets leap to support someone rich and strong enough who will DO SOMETHING, (even if its wrong))
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To: Pride in the USA

Wooo, Matt Drudge! Thank you.


54 posted on 09/22/2015 9:30:13 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: Salvation
Watch a Catholic give about the best possible defense of il Papa Rosso:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsOPeZtO3Lw&t=8s

55 posted on 09/22/2015 9:35:32 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: ladyjane

-- All popes felt lonely when they had to take decisions. Leone says that it can't be avoided.
-- George is the reporter on the coronation of Kiril. All cardinals oppose Pope Kiril's idea. Kiril offers his abdicadtion. Leone immediately says no.
-- Immediately after being crowned, Pope Kiril pledges all the wealth of the church to pay for food for China's people.

56 posted on 09/22/2015 9:39:38 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: Mom MD

That art belongs to all of us, it is our patrimony. Why sell it and have it divided all over the world in private hands where only the wealthy could behold?


57 posted on 09/22/2015 9:40:03 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: cornfedcowboy

I believe it is the first time a Pope has addressed a Joint Session of Congress.


58 posted on 09/22/2015 9:42:34 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: Just mythoughts

The charities I speak of wouldn’t be in existence without the Catholic Church and the support they receive from Catholics. Every dollar a Catholic donates to these charities, every volunteer hour and material donation, equals one less tax dollar tax payers have to supply to aid the poor. And as a Catholic I volunteer and am also a tax payer and conservative.


59 posted on 09/22/2015 9:44:40 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: Catsrus
Thanks, but I went to a Mass one time - it was the most boring thing I’ve ever attended.

Perhaps you did not get in sync with the standing/kneeling/seating. ;)

60 posted on 09/22/2015 9:49:21 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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