ROTFL!
Posted on 04/29/2015 12:44:37 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
From the Pope's mouth to God's ear.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church made a passionate appeal for financial equality in the salaries of women and men.
"Why is it taken for granted that women must earn less than men? No! They have the same rights," said Pope Francis Wednesday during his general audience to tens of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square.
His voice rising, the pontiff said "The discrepancy is pure scandal."
U.S. figures show women earn 77 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts. In European Union countries, females are paid an estimated 16% less than men, according to reported numbers.
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The Catholic Church can start by paying female pastors the same as the male pastors.
Oh wait. They don’t have female pastors. I bet that meann that in the church hierarchy, women on average are paid less than the men are.
I wonder how he is going to fix that?
If he has his way, female Priests, Bishops Cardinals and Popes will be paid the same as their male counterparts...
People will gladly suffer if they see those they perceive to be better off than them suffer as well.
This is none of his business.
Pope-boy should have better things to occupy his time like arranging a Crusade against ISIS.
Time to spin the “What Will Pope Francis Say Today???” wheel. Will it be in line with Church doctrine? Will it be off the wall Liberal talking points? Will it make sense? The result is always a crapshoot.
He’ll be meeting with 0bama soon enough. They’ll get it figured out.
Next up on the new improved progressive approved papal declarations...
Same sex marriage
“Reproductive justice”
Abortion on demand
Free birth control.
This pope sounds more an more like Pelosi every time I hear from him.
There are more Mosque's around Vatican City than Churches
I haven’t contributed to the Church in years (no reason for me to go deeper into debt so they can re-distribute my hard-earned money), but if I did it would stop with this nonsense. I’ve been fortunate that token females have been promoted (seemingly to fend off lawsuits) at my job, and now us guys have reduced our hours to “work like the ladies”. Our male bosses can’t do anything about it; we have some goofy “gender equity” policy that they thought would benefit women but has really benefited us men. I earn more now than I ever did before (not a whole lot of money, but I can pay my bills and apply some to debt), and I have never worked less hours than in the last couple of years (the 50-60 hours of work per week have been reduced to the bare minimum). If this keeps up I’ll be set like a public school teacher soon...
Curious about how much he pays his female priests...
So what's the payscale for female priests, bishops, cardinals, and popes, your pontiffness? Just in case you're outraged about that as well.
The popes had lived in France for 67 years, all of Catherine of Siena’s life and then some, when she decided to visit Pope Gregory XI (r. 1370–1378) in the summer of 1376. Catherine spent three months in Avignon tirelessly working to realize her dream of the pope's returning to Rome. Gregory resisted and demurred, but she persisted, and even startled him by telling him that she knew about the private vow Gregory had made before God that if elected pope he would return the papal residence to Rome. Finally, the humble yet firm saint from Siena convinced him to fulfill his vow, and Gregory made plans to travel to Rome.http://www.catholic.com/blog/steve-weidenkopf/how-st-catherine-brought-the-pope-back-to-rome
Successful in her mission, Catherine left Avignon and returned to France. Later that fall she received reports that Gregory, influenced by the French cardinals, was having second thoughts. Catherine (who, though a Doctor of the Church, was illiterate) dictated letters urging the pope to fulfill his promise and make the hard decision: “I beg of you, on behalf of Christ crucified, that you be not a timorous child but manly. Open your mouth and swallow down the bitter for the sweet.”[1]
She also encouraged him to cast fear aside and ignore the advice of his cardinals:I have prayed, and shall pray, sweet and good Jesus that He free you from all servile fear, and that holy fear alone remain. May ardor of charity be in you, in such wise as shall prevent you from hearing the voice of incarnate demons, and heeding the counsel of perverse counselors, settled in self-love, who, as I understand, want to alarm you, so as to prevent your return, saying, "You will die." Up, father, like a man! For I tell you that you have no need to fear.[2]Gregory XI listened to the pleadings and prayers of St. Catherine of Siena and returned the papacy to Rome on January 17, 1377. The scandal and shame of the Avignon papacy was at an end. The humble yet powerful mystic from Siena died in 1380, was canonized in 1461 and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970.
ROTFL!
Women don’t work as much overtime, avoid the dangerous jobs in construction that pay more, work more in the indoors and service professions that give flexible hours or part time jobs and thus more demand by employees and lower pay.
My personal theory on why Catholics tend to be Democrats and why Protestants tend to be Republican is this: People like their government to resemble their church.
They find it easier to comprehend a form of government whose structure is familiar and comfortable to them.
Thus Protestants prefer government where the authority is concentrated at the lowest level possible and they are inherently distrustful of a powerful central government.
Catholics, on the other hand, like their government to look like their church: bureaucratic, hierarchical, and with power concentrated in an authoritarian manner that is far removed from the local level.
In a similar vein, Protestants/Republicans tend to invest authority in both Scripture and the Constitution while Catholics/Democrats tend to invest authority in their respective bureaucracies.
Just an observation and thesis on my part.
As an afterthought to what I just posted the Muslims are just the same in that they like their church and their government to be dictatorial, authoritarian, autocratic, intolerant, corrupt, dishonest, bloodthirsty, untrustworthy, and etc.
Of course they will SAY otherwise, but their actions speak louder than words.
This is why democracy and Islam are incompatible.
Catholics look to Europe, and government, a Monarch, a government church, something to be over them.
He should find out the facts before believing what he reads in the NYTimes.
When you take into account absence from the workforce, women are paid more than men.
Why should they get more pay for less time in the market?
We have a Pope Obama here.
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