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Catholic leaders press GOP to heed pope on climate, poor
Associated Press ^ | July 2, 2015 | Rachel Zoll, Thomas Beaumont

Posted on 07/02/2015 1:10:43 PM PDT by familyop

The vocal pivot from such traditional social issues marks the first time U.S. Catholic bishops have publicly asked those seeking the White House to heed the admonitions of Francis' June encyclical, said Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines. In Francis' major teaching document, the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics called for a "sweeping revolution" to correct a "structurally perverse" economic system that allows the rich to exploit the poor and has turned the Earth into an "immense pile of filth."

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1 posted on 07/02/2015 1:10:43 PM PDT by familyop
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To: familyop; Salvation

Sal, what say you?


2 posted on 07/02/2015 1:11:59 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: familyop

GOP...tell them to get stuffed and mind their own damned business!


3 posted on 07/02/2015 1:13:29 PM PDT by pgkdan
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To: familyop

Are they asking Democrats to heed the words of the pope regarding abortion? Since 44 million babies have been put to death since 1973, this seems to be a more grave and obvious problem.

Yes, I know that the bishops do great pro-life work, but when have they ever publicly confronted Democrap politicians?


4 posted on 07/02/2015 1:15:02 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: familyop; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks familyop.
In Francis' major teaching document, the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics called for a "sweeping revolution" to correct a "structurally perverse" economic system that allows the rich to exploit the poor and has turned the Earth into an "immense pile of filth."
Really? And where is this "immense pile of filth"?
5 posted on 07/02/2015 1:16:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

The pope is anti-science and a lefty. Don’t follow him anywhere.


6 posted on 07/02/2015 1:17:42 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Not his scientific pronouncements.


7 posted on 07/02/2015 1:18:56 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: familyop

uhhh...they gay mafia is about to open a full frontal assault on your church...and you worry about this garbage?????


8 posted on 07/02/2015 1:19:40 PM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: familyop

Catholics need to impeach their Pope.


9 posted on 07/02/2015 1:20:14 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: familyop
Now they speak up...

Where were they when homosexual priests were raping young boys?

Screw 'em

10 posted on 07/02/2015 1:20:30 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: familyop

Iowa airwaves are being flooded with ‘Pope or Kochs’ ads from Citizens United.


11 posted on 07/02/2015 1:21:53 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: familyop
This is all you need to know.

OPEN LETTER To the Academicians of The Pontifical Academy of Sciences

12 posted on 07/02/2015 1:22:50 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: familyop

You know, because a denomination which has just about lockstep voted for the Democrats since the Kennedy presidency will switch to voting Republican if they drink the socialist kool-aid.

Or something.


13 posted on 07/02/2015 1:27:31 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: familyop
Sure, once you guys start practicing what you profess to believe. The best antipoverty program ever invented is . . . capitalism. If tempered with moral teaching and principals, it can be a powerful force for good.

But too many of you are too busy excusing pro-abortion socialist politicians who are allowed to wear the Catholic fig leaf, that you can't see you are hamstringing your own church, much less Christianity in general.

You call yourself leaders, but if global warming was really real, don't you think it would do a lot more good to find wholly or nearly uninhabited areas to divert rising sea levels (there are a lot of them), raise seawalls and other protections near inhabited coastal areas and do something other than silly carbon trading schemes and giving more money and power to self-appointed experts and tyrants?

Your blatant hypocrisy is also on display when you address only the weakest and most impotent of America's two major political parties.

14 posted on 07/02/2015 1:28:08 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: familyop

Stupid follows stupid


15 posted on 07/02/2015 1:32:21 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Vigilanteman

Obama has set back race relations 50 years and Pope Francis has set the Catholic Church back to the Middle Ages when the world was flat according to the Popes. Francis is a socialist to the core and is either stupid or duplicitous the same as Obama


16 posted on 07/02/2015 1:34:50 PM PDT by cmwy
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To: Vigilanteman

Obama has set back race relations 50 years and Pope Francis has set the Catholic Church back to the Middle Ages when the world was flat according to the Popes. Francis is a socialist to the core and is either stupid or duplicitous the same as Obama


17 posted on 07/02/2015 1:34:50 PM PDT by cmwy
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To: Vigilanteman

Obama has set back race relations 50 years and Pope Francis has set the Catholic Church back to the Middle Ages when the world was flat according to the Popes. Francis is a socialist to the core and is either stupid or duplicitous the same as Obama


18 posted on 07/02/2015 1:35:05 PM PDT by cmwy
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To: familyop

F the commie pope.


19 posted on 07/02/2015 1:36:33 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: familyop

The Catholic bishops should have worked this hard on abortion. It is difficult for me as a Catholic to have much respect for them.


20 posted on 07/02/2015 1:36:47 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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