Posted on 09/14/2015 7:00:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In an interview with Portugal-based Radio Renascença aired yesterday, Pope Francis declared that the current refugee crisis in Europe is being caused by a bad, unjust socio-economic system that worships the god of money.
In the interview, where questions were posed in Portuguese and the responses were given by Pope Francis in Spanish, the pontiff said coveting money will bring about both human and ecological ruin:
This is the tip of the iceberg. We see these refugees, these poor people who are escaping from war, escaping from hunger, but thats the tip of the iceberg. But underlying that is the cause, and the cause is a socio-economic system that is bad, unjust, because within an economic system, within everything, within the world, speaking of the ecological problem, within the socio-economic society, in politics, the person always has to be the center. And todays dominant economic system has removed the person from the center, and at the center is the god of money. Its the fashionable god today. I mean, there are statistics. I dont remember very well, but this is not exact and I could be making a mistake 17% of the population has 80% of the wealth.
Pope Francis said that refugees from rural areas are being deforested and driven into big cities:
Why are favelas (shantytowns) formed in big cities? Its the people who come from the country because they have been deforested. They have made a mono-cultivation. They have no work, and they go to big cities.
Ultimately, the world is at war against itself, the Pope declared:
Today, the world is at war, is at war against itself. That is, the world is at war -- as I say -- a war in parts, piecemeal. But it is also at war against the earth, because its destroying the earth, that is, our common home. The environment, the glaciers are melting. In the Arctic, the polar bear goes increasingly northward to survive."
Read full interview translated by the Catholic News Agency.
“I know you’re tired, I’m gonna make you poor”
And then he’ll pass the tithing plate
Exactly - My unit did volunteer work for a "Catholic" orphanage while stationed in San Vito, Italy.
The place should have been condemned before we started working on it. Empty holes instead of windows, leaky roof, plumbing not connected, etc.
There was an old priest and two nuns staffing the place for about 35 kids. We were told the Church 'sponsored" the orphanage but wouldn't put a penny into it - that was for the locals to do via charity>
If I hadn't already left the Catholic Church before then, I surely would have did it then.
This Pope is an idiot and he sucks.
Do you think MY pittance would do more good than the hundreds of millions the Vatican owns?
So your solution is to take money from me instead of asking the Catholic church to give up anything?
I know, I know. I am now using corrugated steel on my head vs tinfoil. Although it is a little heavier.....
[You just can’t reason with idiots. You just can’t.]
No, no you cannot. I’ve tried, in various forms, for years. I have learned you cannot help any of them who adhere to “logic” like that.
I suspect you're right.
Michael Savage was good on this today. He said, to paraphrase, “well lets see, Pope Francis, are the refugees running away from money? or are they running TO the money?”
“even Malta is working its way to abortion...”
More like: being pulled toward abortion, as a drowning man in desperation might pull down his rescuer.
Where is Sinead OConnor when you need her?
Still at it...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/sinead-oconnor-pope-francis_n_5674718.html
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