Posted on 10/24/2014 9:29:41 AM PDT by cleghornboy
"The Man who would one day be Pope Francis had come to hold a service far from the grandeur of the great cathedral of Buenos Aires. He had travelled – taking the subway train and then the bus – to arrive in one of the shanty-towns, which Argentines call villas miserias – misery villages. He had picked his way down crooked and chaotic alleyways, criss-crossed with water pipes and dangling electricity cables, along which open sewers ran as malodorous streams when the rain came. There, amid ramshackle houses of crudely- cemented terracotta breezeblock, he fell into conversation with the middle-aged mother.
She told him of life in an impoverished slum, terrorised by gangs peddling paco – the cheap chemical waste product left over from processing the cocaine sent to Europe and the United States, or sold to the affluent middle classes of the Argentinian capital. Dealers mix the residue with kerosene, rat poison or even crushed glass and sell it for a dollar a hit to the people of the slums. So addictive is the drug that one day’s free supply is enough to get hooked, creating a short-lived high followed by an intense craving, paranoia and hallucination.
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So what did he expect....a stretch limo??
Nitpick alley!
No.
He gave a pastoral response to ease her mind.
Minimizing the importance of the Mass is not pastoral.
After all either of them can do is pray the son turns it around.
He could have said that.
Increasingly it looks like Catholics must again rely on God to save His Church from a pope.
It is kind of interesting that this Pope is getting so much scrutiny. Is it the net or do they really think he’s going to change that which cannot be changed? I don’t know. Time will tell.
Maybe he did say that. No was not a stenographer there, now was there?
I meant, he could have said that INSTEAD and thus been genuinely pastoral. Whatever else he said, "that's [being a good kid] what matters" minimizes the importance of the Mass.
There’s an article in the current National catholic Register about a certain Cardinal Kasper and Pope Benedict XVI. The short drift of it is that Cardinal Kaspar has been pushing for the kind of reforms that would go against Church teaching about divorce and remarried as well as “gay” couples for some time now. And he has been opposed by Pope Saint John Paul II and POpe Benedict XVI in the past. Well, Pope Francis put this particular cardinal in charge.
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