Y'all know the answer.
Posted on 01/14/2018 6:12:06 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME - In a sense, every papal liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica has symbolic value, but rarely was that symbolism more overtly on display than on Sunday, when Pope Francis led a Mass for the Catholic Church’s Jan. 14 World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
Obviously intended to drive home the message that migrants are refugees and not just abstractions for Catholicism, but part of its family of faith, there were representatives of 49 nations on hand in the basilica, including 2,000 immigrants and refugees from the Philippines, more than 1,200 Ukrainians, 800 Romanians, 650 Indians, as well as groups from Lebanon, Syria, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Capo Verde, and China.
Speaking directly to those groups, Francis said on Sunday, “This year, I wanted to celebrate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees with a Mass that invites and welcomes you especially who are migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.”
“Some of you have recently arrived in Italy,” the pope said, “others are long-term residents and work here, and still others make up the so-called ‘second generation’,” calling for an attitude of “welcoming, knowing and acknowledging” the other.
In his homily, Francis acknowledged that today’s rising numbers of immigrants and refugees often generate fear in host societies, saying those anxieties are “fully comprehensible from a human point of view.”
“Having doubts and fears is not a sin,” Francis said.
“The sin is to allow these fears to determine our responses, to limit our choices, to compromise respect and generosity, to feed hostility and rejection,” he said.
“The sin is to refuse to encounter the other, the different, the neighbor, when this is in fact a privileged opportunity to encounter the Lord,” he said.
The important thing, Francis said, is “to overcome our fears so as to encounter the other, to welcome, to......
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Being a communist Pope is a sin.
Jesus obeyed the law.
Even when it condemned him to die for a crime he didn’t commit.
Marxism is a sin.
And the demolition of the wall around the Vatican is scheduled for when?
Thats like saying “I don’t think so but I doubt it’’. God this man is an idiot.
Why does anyone think massive one way “immigration” is some norm in the first place? Or the solution to problems in dysfunctional countries. It isn’t.
Well said.
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Selling your soul to George Soros is a sin.
Y'all know the answer.
This pope has lost every semblance of reason, faith, grace, wisdom that he may ever have possessed.
Pope Francis- OxyMORON
By my standards, yes.
As a Catholic I say F*CK the pope!
The desire to maintain a country’s culture and heritage including it’s ethnic make up is not fear and certainly not a phobia. It’s normal and rational.
Yeah, since they’re catholic constituency, opposing them coming here is a sin, right Bergoglio?
Great; we finally have a place for all the immigrants. We’ll just ship them all to the Vatican.
Phuk this pope!
I want John Paul Back!!!!!
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