In a funny way, this kind of thing from these members of Congress is a good thing. It highlights their hatred for truth. They’d sign on for any kind of endorsement or commendation of the leader of any of the many false religions out there, but they hate the truth.
UnAmerican, hostile to religion unless it may be Islam,
money grabbing democRATS.
(Insult intended)
Of course there isn't a true 'RAT party member alive who would agree with any pope's affirmation of what the Framers stood for and wrote into our Constitution:
Pope John XXIII, On Establishing Universal Peace In Truth, Justice, Charity, And Liberty, April 11, 1963 Excerpts:
"Man's personal dignity requires besides that he enjoy freedom and be able to make up his own mind when he acts.
In his association with his fellows, therefore, there is every reason why his recognition of rights, observance of duties, and many-sided collaboration with other men, should be primarily a matter of his own personal decision.
Each man should act on his own initiative, conviction, and sense of responsibility, not under the constant pressure of external coercion or enticement.
There is nothing human about a society that is welded together by force.
Far from encouraging, as it should, the attainment of man's progress and perfection, it is merely an obstacle to his freedom."
"Hence, a regime which governs solely or mainly by means of threats and intimidation or promises of reward, provides men with no effective incentive to work for the common good.
And even if it did, it would certainly be offensive to the dignity of free and rational human beings."
"Consequently, laws and decrees passed in contravention of the moral order, and hence of the divine will, can have no binding force in conscience, since 'it is right to obey God rather than men.' " ~
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"[Some are involved in] a disastrous confusion between the poor of the Scripture and the proletariat of Marx." ~ Pope Benedict XVI Theologies of Liberation
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Pope Benedict XVI, notes that proper stewardship of our environment is one of the individual Christian's responsibilities toward God - - - BUT only in this order:
"..an authentic...theology: [is] one that puts:
[1] God and the life of the spirit first,
[2] DIRECT charitable care of others second,
[3] and only then draws consequences for a just social order."
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C.S. Lewis: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
As you ccan see, C.S. Lewis had the number of elitist do-gooder mentalities and the cynical opportunists that use them. bttt
You need to remember that opposition the church hierarchy, particularly the Pope is the basis of Liberation Theology. They include the Catholic Church as on of the great oppressors of the poor.
Senate Democrats are blocking a measure to commend Pope Benedict XVI
Why?
The anti-American, anti-Christian, Democrat party.