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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What I am asking for are direct quotes, not some AP distorted nonsense.
When I provided the documents and quotations on the Church’s teachings, that is the kind of thing I am looking for.
That’s not what I’m talking about. Saying that there is a “right” to food means the socialist “right” that promotes indolence, and there is no religious obligation to help the obstinate. In none of the Judeo-Christian scriptures is any such “right” ever spoken of.
Then the Church should get right on that. In John 21:17, Christ isn’t speaking to government, he’s speaking to Christians.
Yeah, not going for the Vatican’s distortion. It is easy to see what leaders are rallying to the Pope, lefties all.
5 articles none by the AP: Renew America, Vatican News Agency, two by Forbes. Head in the sand defense.
Is fiscal conservative the same as economic conservative?
Will read.
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