Posted on 02/12/2022 4:18:20 AM PST by Kaslin
"It makes no sense to accumulate, if one day we will die."
Pope Francis said this to a crowd in front of the Vatican the other day. He wasn't trying to be depressing; he was trying to inspire us.
Storage spaces are somewhat ubiquitous in modern-day America. Save for Christmas decorations, the odds are we don't need most of what's in them. And yet we cling, like we cling to a false sense of security about our health and wealth and a new normal.
It's that clinging -- and the utter fear of suffering and death -- that makes physician-assisted suicide possible. "Medical aid in dying" is the new language used by advocates of a culture of death, one recently endorsed by conservative columnist George Will. To make choosing when to end one's life a mainstream issue is a poisonous direction to go in, especially for a country that has already had legal abortion for a half-century. The vulnerable unborn and sick and elderly are merely to be cast aside when inconvenient? That is what laws allowing abortion and assisted suicide are saying, whatever euphemisms of choice are utilized to pretend that we aren't talking about killing human beings.
No one wants to suffer unexpected pain. None of us wants to watch someone else in agony. And yet just as medicine advancements mean longer life spans, the field of palliative care is a tremendous mercy for patients who are suffering from horrible diseases. To oppose assisted suicide is not to be masochistic. It is to recognize that life is not a human creation -- there's more to the picture than all that we can see.
Those who work with the elderly, like the religious order the Little Sisters of the Poor, testify to the mercy that is often found around a deathbed. There are reconciliations. There are moments of grace -- expressions of love that no one could have ever imagined or scripted.
Accumulate "charity and the ability to share," Pope Francis urged, "the ability not to remain indifferent when faced with the needs of others." He asked: "What is the point of arguing with a brother or with a sister, with a friend, with a relative, or with a brother or sister in faith, if then one day we will die? What is the point in being angry, in getting angry with others?" He added: "Before death, many issues are put into perspective. It is good to die reconciled, without grudges and without regrets! I would like to say one truth: We are all on our way towards that door, all of us."
How does that fact, one strenuously avoided by our current culture, change the way we conduct our days? Would we spend so much time on social media, engaging in the worst sort of interactions?
Rather than shake us into right order, the pandemic seems to have exacerbated some of our worst tendencies. The things we say about people who are not vaccinated! They are not all conspiracy theorists. Some are doctors. The things we say about people we don't agree with politically! These are our fellow human beings living in the world today, and those of us who believe in God are going to have to answer for our time here and what we said and did.
And, as Pope Francis points out, there will not be a moving van behind the hearse that carries our body away. As many a wise person has pointed out, the measure of our lives is how we love. That involves sacrifice and empathy. That's why assisted suicide is so wrong. It's the opposite of love, however we try to delude ourselves. It opens the door to not only more suicide, but more violent disregard for the human person in the very place where we count on it being protected -- the doctor's office, the hospital bed.
Do no harm. Love, already -- from the beginning to the end. We'll all be better for it.
And give things away -- it's a good practice for giving our lives away in love. The generosity might just catch on.
When this COMMUNIST pope sells off all the gold and silver and artwork and ornate elaborate buildings of the church and gives all that money to the the poor, then he can lecture others. Till then he needs to shutup.
“Rather than shake us into right order, the pandemic seems to have exacerbated some of our worst tendencies. The things we say about people who are not vaccinated! They are not all conspiracy theorists. Some are doctors. The things we say about people we don’t agree with politically! These are our fellow human beings living in the world today, and those of us who believe in God are going to have to answer for our time here and what we said and did.”
And yet, not until now does he recognize those who preferred to not get vaccinated, up till now he has provided no such comforting words and instead used the power of his authority to passively allow governments to force the vaccine, only stating people should get it, nothing about a choice.
He changes his words now as the tide changes in sea of the average person. NOT A CHARITABLE MAN AT ALL! That is the best I can say of him without getting vulgar.
Then by golly; I ain't gonna go!
Remember...... the Pope’s a communist Christian.
Think Amana, think Onida, think Shekina
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (property).
That is the only rational, logical and reasonable means of providing for one’s posterity.
Blessed to be a blessing.
Never yet met a homeless penniless indigent able and willing to care for himself let alone others temporal needs.
Socialism and false piety simply is a selfish act of wallowing in misery.
Meanwhile, political and religious leaders of such organizations live in the lap of institutional luxury achieved on the backs and taxes and offerings of the “least of these”.
You're funny you know that. Communists don't believe in GOD. The only thing they believe in is Communism and nothing else!!!
Not very Christian. LOL
A Jew can be Communist, a Lutheran can be a Libertarian, a pope could be a Catholic Cardinal and a Communist, a husband or a pedophile. The categories are not mutually exclusive.
I cited several Christian groups that were/are communist in nature.
“”It makes no sense to accumulate, if one day we will die.” Pope Francis said”
well, Popey Boy, following that logic, no one should ever strive for anything ... be born,live with your parents without getting a job until they die, have no kids of your own, eat chips and drink beer until YOU die yourself ... see how that works, Popey? After all, we’re all gonna die ... if everyone did that, who would feed you and clean your robes, Mr. Pope?
“Then by golly; I ain’t gonna go! “
If you could take it with you it would just burn.
I once watched “Storage Wars” for an hour or so while waiting somewhere. It’s a “reality” show about people who buy the contents of self-storage units where the rent hasn’t been paid.
I was thinking how sad it was that people had paid to store things that must have been valuable to them, but ultimately were left for scrap. However, later I thought that maybe it was a way to get rid of things you don’t need. “Decluttering” experts say to put things in a box, leave them there for a period of time, and then give the box away, unopened. If you needed anything in the box, you would have gotten it out.
The storage unit could be like that: put things in a garage-sized box, pay the rent a few months, and then walk away. You obviously didn’t need those things.
Save the stooopid for someone else. He spouts off all the socialist, commie talking points. His biggest focus has been on the main goals of communists, climate change and wealth redistribution. If it walks like a commie and talks like a commie, it is a commie.
Plus who can become a pope IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT.
Communists don’t believe in GOD. The only thing they believe in is Communism and nothing else!!!
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That describes the ImPopester.
This “pope” is of this world, and his pronouncements clearly indicate that. He doesn’t use the words of Christ in his lectures; he doesn’t echo the admonitions of Christ or God. HE is a permissive get-along guy at best, an atheist at worst.
Once you get society to accept abortion the next logical step is to kill old people.
From the article: “conservative columnist George Will”.
I thought it was obvious to most that George is not a conservative.
https://elamerican.com/pope-francis-true-believer-castro-communism/
https://spectator.org/pope-franciss-communist-mentor/
https://opentheword.org/2020/10/04/pope-francis-pushes-communism-one-world-government/
I don’t have kids yet but I’m aware that most people “accumulate” not for themselves ultimately, but for their families.
Instead of “accumulate,” you could say “provide for.” Unless you don’t want it to sound like something laudable?
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