Posted on 09/23/2015 9:47:21 AM PDT by xzins
Jumping into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for action to combat climate change, calling it a problem that “can no longer be left to a future generation.” President Barack Obama, in turn, hailed the pontiff as a moral force who is “shaking us out of our complacency” with reminders to care for the poor and the planet.
The White House mustered all the pageantry it had to offer as the pope arrived at the White House before an adoring crowd of thousands and a nation that seemingly cannot get enough of the humble pontiff who is rejuvenating American Catholicism while giving heartburn to some of its conservatives.
Speaking in a soft voice and halting English, Francis delivered a strong message against those who doubt the science of climate change, saying that the warming planet “demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition” of conditions awaiting today’s children.
It was a message sure to delight the Obama White House, and liberals in general. But the pope’s message had something for conservatives, too, with a pointed call to protect religious liberties — “one of America’s most precious possessions.”
The pope should concern himself with making sure the priests aren’t buggering the choirboys and leave the climate change stuff to the real experts.
“If he doesn’t PUBLICALLY denounce abortion and gay marriage AT THE WHITHOUSE, he’s not the leader God intended.”
Well, reckon the College of Cardinals best plan on a get together.
Bergoglio had direct knowledge of human rights atrocities in Argentina during their “Guerra Sucia - Dirty War” of 1976-1983.
In Cuba he chose not to meet with dissidents and otherwise ignore over 50-years of atrocities in Cuba.
Is he the false prophet and if so, how close to the end of times are we?
South American Jesuit retard.
Francis said this trip wasn’t going to political.
Right out of the gate.....bam.....BS Gorebull wurming
Some republican should get up and read the Top 100 global warming predictions that never came true.
Bingo. Exactly so.
Well, so much for the doctrine of Papal infallibility...
Anyone with any scientific backgroud whatsoever KNOWS that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by liberal socialists and the pope is just another lemming.
hes sort of The Vatican’s own community organizer..
South American Jesuit Commie retard.
Perhaps embracing American-style capitalism in South America would provide more economic opportunity and prevent slash and burn deforestation.
Make that the leader of catholicism......there is a difference.
Well for the love of God, quit flying all over the damn world polluting the atmosphere!
Catholicism, provides for that also:
From Benedict XVI
ENCYCLICAL LETTER CARITAS IN VERITATE 67. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority,...
Furthermore, such an authority would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights. Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties,...
The integral development of peoples and international cooperation require the establishment of a greater degree of international ordering, marked by subsidiarity*, for the management of globalization. They also require the construction of a social order that at last conforms to the moral order, to the interconnection between moral and social spheres, and to the link between politics and the economic and civil spheres, as envisaged by the Charter of the United Nations.” *http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.
Related :
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders said it was the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay. Governments are obligated, therefore, to adopt the proper legislative, administrative and financial measures to provide such care along with other basic conditions that promote good health, such as food security, water and housing, the cardinal said. - http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1004736.htm
In speaking to a meeting at the Vatican on the theme "Investing in the Poor," which was organized, in part, by the University of Notre Dame, the pope said:
Representatives of the Roman Curia have joined you in these days of study aimed at assessing innovative forms of investment which can benefit local communities and the environment, as well as providing a reasonable return.
The logic underlying these innovative forms of intervention is one which "acknowledges the ultimate connection between profit and solidarity, the virtuous circle existing between profit and gift … Christians are called to rediscover, experience and proclaim to all this precious and primordial unity between profit and solidarity. How much the contemporary world needs to rediscover this beautiful truth!" (Preface to the book of Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Povera per i poveri. La missione della Chiesa ["Poor for the Poor." The Mission of the Church]). We are truly in need of this!
Here the pope quoted Gerhard Ludwig Müller, a pupil and friend of Gustavo Gutiérrez, the “father” of Latin-American liberation theology. [On] a visit to Peru in 1988, when the then Archbishop Müller met Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez OP, regarded as the father of the movement, convinced the him of its orthodoxy. “Liberation theology wants to make God’s liberating actions visible in the Church’s religious and social practice ... It would stop being genuine theology if it were to confuse the Christian message with Marxist or other social analysis,” he explained. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller#Peter_Kramer_controversy
Catholicism, provides for that also: First Catholic Conference on Geocentrism - http://geocentrism.com/Catholic_Geocentrism_1
Offered by rejected, even after things got far worse.
On this issue and some others at least.
KUDOS!!!
Millions of babies aborted, the slaughtered Christians in Africa and the Middle East or the oppression of the Cuban people under 55 years o Stalinism are the last things in Francis’ mind.
During his trip to the island prison Francis did not incited the Cuban youth to create “líos” (to mess up, to revolt) as he preached to the youth in a trip to Brazil just after been elected Pope.
Francis portrays himself as the voice of those who do not have voice, the poor, the oppressed; but in Cuba Francis called for reconciliation but he did not meet with the dissidents, the real representatives of the enslaved Cuban people, whose demand for freedom and respect for the human and civil rights have been ignored by the rest of the world for more than 55 years. Making a mockery of the Pope visit, the regime imprisoned all the leaders of the democratic dissidence during Francis stay in Cuba.
The Pope in Cuba called for “reconciliation” which in Francis’ Orwellian lexicon means not to create “líos” (not to revolt), to accept to remain slaves, to forget their martyrs and forgive their torturers, to be patient that, thanks to his Faustian pact negotiated among Obama and the Cuban Stalinist regime very soon American taxpayers’ dollars will flow to the island prison alleviating their extreme misery and making easier to endure their lack of freedom and the regime’s continuous human rights violations.
After Francis’ love fest with the Castro brothers in his well controlled trip to Cuba with addresses full of platitudes carefully avoiding to say anything that might annoy the regime, the Pope will arrive to the United States eager to denounce all the evils and exploitation done to the world by this imperialist nation.
In U.S. Francis will selectively quote parts of Pope Leo XIII Social Doctrine of the Church criticizing the capitalism at the end of the XIX century that doesn’t resemble the capitalism after the middle of the XX century. But in Cuba Francis did not dare to mention the position of the Magisterium of the Church on Communism an evil ideology that was condemned its very beginning by all the Popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
Francis’ enthusiastically embraced the hoax of the global warming during his address at the White House while ignoring an urgent real crisis - the genocide of Christians by Muslims in Africa and the Middle East this put him in complete accord with Obama’s world view. Jesus was not even mentioned by the Pope, much less he dare to speak condemning the abominable crime of abortion in front of Obama.
There is a parallelism among Obama and Francis. Obama violates the U.S. Constitution; Francis disregards the Magisterium of the Church. Both are doing irreparable damage, one to U.S.; the other to the Church.
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