Posted on 09/24/2015 8:35:27 AM PDT by xzins
I posted the full text on the editorial sidebar. It is true, though, that the Pope doesn’t mention abortion.
Franklin Graham has.
I just posted the full text, ST. He does NOT mention abortion, selling baby parts, homosexual marriage, the persecution of Christians. He simply doesn’t.
What a fraudster this guy is. We fought wars to get away from the Papist and Satanic Catholic church. He gets invited to speak to our Congress?
If he had any true convictions, he’d say before Congress any politician who votes to fund the murdering of babies shall be excommunicated. It’s a non-negotiable issue.
Instead he encourages open borders and the Catholic church is a criminal organization assisting the illegals when they get here.
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Oy vey.
No wonder the Protestants came into being along with the other Christian subsets.
I don’t second-guess Benedict’s decision; I don’t believe JPII did the Church any favors by remaining in office when he seemed incapacitated.
Francis doesn’t seem interested in mentioning Church teachings; he seems more of a “community organizer” - and this won’t stop the general decline of the Church in the secular West.
Jesus said the Church was eternal; I accept that, and the flawed people that may represent it. I certainly don’t have to defend them, though; everything I’ve heard from him so far seems to be something the Dalai Lama might say.
Ba da bing.
Interesting that Pope Francis would single out Dorothy Day
This is from Wikipedia
"She celebrated the bloodless February Revolution in Russia in 1917, the overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a reformist government."
"She had a love affair of several years with Mike Gold, a radical writer who later became a prominent Communist. She maintained friendships with such prominent American Communists as Anna Louise Strong, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who became the head of the Communist Party USA."
lol
JPII was, indeed, a very impressive man particularly from a leadership perspective. His successor, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) was equally as impressive from a different perspective (his intellect was just as impressive as JPII's leadership).
Frankly, I think the two made an incredible impact on the Church and the world as a whole.
See my tagline -- I have quite a devotion to the writings of Leo XIII. They were incisive to the point of being positively prophetic. They are virtually all equally as applicable now as they were when they were written over a century ago. I believe that the contributions of the Ratzinger / Wojtyla team will prove to be as valuable to students 100 years from now.
I'm not impressed with Francis at all. I've held back after all his foibles in the press, hoping it was just translation error.
Honestly, I'm not either. My use of the descriptor "profoundly disappointed" was carefully chosen.
I know that our Eastern brethren particularly like him. I believe that is primarily because of his emphasis on collegiality. I think a lot of what is going on is because of careless speaking and his words being taken out of context. At the beginning of his pontificate, I was willing to cut some slack on this (in fact, a lot of slack) as he may not have been overly familiar with how the press operated. However, after two years, one would have thought he'd learned.
I would completely write this episode (his pontificate) off, but, he is certainly confusing: from time to time he actually comes up with some profoundly good statements. They are, by far, in the minority, but they do exist. For example:
Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion. How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties?
Laudato Si 120
Had that paragraph been touted in the MSM as much as other passages, a severe mark would have been left on the watermelon environmentalists (green on the outside, red on the inside). But outside of the Catholic media (and not very prominently there), this section was not discussed.
So I can't totally disregard him, but he is certainly frustrating.
This is a leftist community organizer in a weird hat.
Leftism.
helping the poor,
Leftism.
addressing the plight of immigrants,
Leftism.
abolishing the death penalty
Leftism.
and taking a stand against the proliferation of the weapons trade,
Leftism.
She said and did what you claimed. However, in fairness, though, Dorothy Day also said this:
So go figure.We believe that social security legislation, now balled as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for Christianity. It is an acceptance of the Idea of force and compulsion. It is an acceptance of Cain's statement, on the part of the employer. "Am I my brother's keeper?" Since the employer can never be trusted to give a family wage, nor take care of the worker as he takes care of his machine when it is idle, the state must enter in and compel help on his part. Of course, economists say that business cannot afford to act on Christian principles. It Is impractical, uneconomic. But it is generally coming to be accepted that such a degree of centralization as ours is impractical, and that there must be decentralization. In other words, business has made a mess of things, and the state has had to enter in to rescue the worker from starvation.
Of course, Pope Pius XI said that, when such a crisis came about, in unemployment, fire, flood, earthquake, etc., the state had to enter in and help.
But we in our generation have more and more come to consider the state as bountiful Uncle Sam. "Uncle Sam will take care of it all. The race question, the labor question, the unemployment question." We will all be registered and tabulated and employed or put on a dole, and shunted from clinic to birth control clinic. "What right have people who have no work to have a baby?" How many poor Catholic mothers heard that during those grim years before the war!
:)
And did any media pick-up on his statement on lack of job opportunities? I don’t think so.
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