Posted on 12/24/2022 1:26:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism.
In the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis presided over the evening Mass attended by about 7,000 faithful, including tourists and pilgrims, who flocked to the church on a warm evening and took their place behind rows of white-robed pontiffs.
Francis drew lessons from the humility of Jesus’ first hours of life in a manger.
“While animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbors, their brothers and sisters,” the pontiff lamented. “How many wars have we seen! And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt!”
“As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and the vulnerable,” said Francis, who didn’t cite any specific conflict or situation.
“This Christmas, too, as in the case of Jesus, a world ravenous for money, power and pleasure does not make room for the little ones, for the so many unborn, poor and forgotten children,” the pope said, reading his homily with a voice that sounded tired and almost hoarse. “I think above all of the children devoured by war, poverty and injustice.” […]
“Jesus was born poor, lived poor and died poor,” Francis said. “He did not so much talk about poverty as live it, to the very end, for our sake.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
I agree - Has father owned a business, which Jesus took over and ran. Sounds very “middle class” to me.
Jesus came from what we would call a middle class family.
Power hungry like the Vatican.
“He’s a man that’s sick with power.” — Msgr. Adriano Bernardini, the then nuncio to Argentina speaking about Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
The Pope is not taking his own advice. He is using his royal power over his church to spread his ideology over the entire planet.
Funny how he’s railing against “money, power and pleasure” and yet keeps in good standing politicians and clergy who are saturated in those things while laicizing those who are the opposite.
Jesus commanded the wealth of creation.
Says the Pope who is the head of one of if not the richest organizations in the world.
Projection from the popey
What would a Marxist pope know about Jesus anyway? Your average Sunday School kid knows more.
And it wasn’t a stable...but likely a place in a home usually reserved to bring animals in during adverse wearher.
Fck this Commie Pope.
“In the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica,”
Ok ...
I read an article that the purpose of the gifts from the Three Wise Men was their flight and life in Egypt.
Do you mean they used the gifts or sold the gifts to aid their journey?
Correction. Speculation that the gifts were used to fund their flight to Egypt and for living expenses.
http://www.hypotyposeis.org/papers/Carlson%202010%20NTS.pdf
Correct. A manger, yes, but no stable.
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