Posted on 02/07/2015 11:58:57 AM PST by Olog-hai
Pope Francis emphasized the right to food as fundamental in a video address Saturday to 500 experts starting work on a wide-ranging document aimed at raising awareness and proposing solutions to issues including hunger, obesity and food waste.
Francis said the paradox of abundance described by Pope John Paul II—whereby there is food for everyone yet not everyone can eat—continues to be an issue “despite the multiplication of organizations and responses by the international community on nutrition.” […]
He also urged them (the experts) to show courage in protecting the planet “the mother of everything that asks respect and not violence.” …
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No one has a right to anything that has to be paid for by someone else.
In that case, the pope should start giving away free food immediately.
Yeah, he could sell some of those Vatican riches an live like the Little Sisters live.
It takes work to produce food. If you have a right to other people’s work, they are slaves. We’re not slaves. Get off your ass and get your own food. Root, hog, or die.
How about a right to a house?
How about a right to a car?
How about a right to a certain amount of money regardless of what they do/don’t do?
He abuses the word “right” - and that’s the nicest way of saying that.
There is no moral claim one can make to another to require them to give them food. One can appeal - not demand - on the basis of charity. If charity is a moral obligation one has no way to refuse, it’s not charity. That’s confiscation.
good. i want what michael bloomberg gets to eat every night.
“...the planet “the mother of everything “...
when will frankie start calling the earth GAIA???
Roman pope - everyone has a right to food
Apostle Paul - “...this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
And the earth is not my mother!
This man is a deceiver.
The earthly representative of Christ according to Catholic doctrine.
That’s all well and good, but the places where people have no food are precisely the Pope’s favorite “egalitarian” socialist countries that have completely interrupted the chain of production and squandered all the foreign aid they receive.
Witness Venezuela, which today seized another supermarket chain...because it had no food to sell. Whose fault is that? Prior to chavismo, VZ was a producer and exporter of food: now it has to import 70% of its food, and it doesn’t have the money to pay for it.
Stupid Pope. He’d re-write scripture.
This guy really IS the end-pope. He is the Anti-pope.
How do you know he wasn’t mistranslated again...It wasn’t ex-cathedra... I support the Pope....blah blah blah.
This omniscient Argentinean pope as been very prompt to criticize U.S. and the capitalist system, but thanks to them the famines have disappeared of the world. Remember the millions that used to die by starvation in India and China. The “green revolution”, created and sponsored by U.S., was the most important contribution in the war against hunger. Certainly there is hunger in the world, but it is mostly due to corrupt tyrannical rulers and by socialist schemes that always end in complete failure. Political and economic freedom is the main locomotives that move economies and bring prosperity for all.
Note that the Headline writer called it a “right” - not the Pope.
Pretty classic propaganda technique.
It is Christian to be charitable, and all Popes, all Christians would promote voluntary charity. The essential difference between charity and socialism is the use or threat of force to first take what will be given. That is what they seek to obscure, by using cleverly misleading words like “rights”.
By establishing “rights” to material things, rather than to freedoms, socialists seek to create a legal basis that requires a redistribution mechanism. It is one of the great lies promoted by the left, which would necessarily result in an oppressive government.
Universal redistribution can only be done with a powerful enforcement mechanism - the basis for the overwhelming power that they want. The ability to take anything from anyone - in fact, the ability to take everything from everyone.
End world hunger. Feed the obese to the starving.
Did you mean to link this story: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_ITALY_EXPO_2015?SITE=MYPSP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-02-07-09-42-07
If so, “...the mother of everything...” isn’t found in the story.
Soylent green?
This whole sentence doesn’t appear in the linked story:
He also urged them (the experts) to show courage in protecting the planet “the mother of everything that asks respect and not violence.” …
Where does this come from?
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