Pope Francis promotes the KGB world view that free enterprise economies are driven by greed and that poverty is a result of economic freedom. Communists and totalitarians are said to care about their people when they deny them freedom or opportunity.
The poor are used as an ideological weapon against progress. The poor are use as an ideological weapon against personal freedom and personal responsibility. The poor are used as an ideological weapon against America.
Pope Francis is unaware and/or refuses to accept that free economies are dominated not by rich and poor but by the middle class.
Pope Francis is trying to turn the Catholic Church into a tool to promote totalitarianism. His heroes are the people who have created misery and suffering in Venezuela, Cuba and other Communist countries.
Pope Francis is an evil man. He is not a man of God.
If Obama was pope...
Post #1 >>>Pope Francis is trying to turn the Catholic Church into a tool to promote totalitarianism. His heroes are the people who have created misery and suffering in Venezuela, Cuba and other Communist countries.
Pope Francis is an evil man. He is not a man of God.<<<
Judge not so harshly, lest you be judged in the same measure.
Have a delightful day...
The whole issue is how the Bible and in a special way, the NT is understood.
Take care of the disabled, mentally deficient, orphans and the elderly. Let the other “poor” people fend for themselves.
Pope Francis acting the part of “High Sparrow”.
If the poor are such a wonderful resource, why doesn't Pope Francis get off his fat a$$ and donate his billions, tear down his wall, and move 7000 muslim refuges into Vatican City, so that he will cease being a mega hypocrite?
Only if the most RC zealots here on FR would figure that out...(your post)
If poverty is so noble and great, everyone should become impoverished, NO EXCEPTIONS FOR THE POPE AND HIS NWO COLLEGUES!
God must love poor folks,
‘cause he made so many of ‘em.
-—Brother Dave
And we should kneel and kiss the ring of the Pope, pray to dead Mary and other saints. Yeah, I think evil and not a man of God pretty much sums it up. Worship (and don't split hairs over the meaning of veneration) belongs only to God. Capitalism has helped millions and socialism has brought misery and destitution to millions but that is lost on the Pope in the palace.
Most poor people are religious fundamentalists of one sort or another. How do liberals manage to love one and hate the other???
Fiddler on the Roof: " Dear God, you made many, many poor people. I realize there's no shame in being poor...but it's no great honor either.
Less fossil fuel
or
fewer fossil fuels
It is really a shame that J school no longer requires proficiency in the English, or probably any other language, to write for publication.
Pope Francis hasn’t betrayed anyone, because there is no such a person as “Pope Francis”. “Anti-pope Francis” I will allow, but not “Pope Francis”.
All you authors, journalists, bloggers, and commenters are guilty of helping to prolong the lie that the man is the pope.
Says Saint Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church that a heretic cannot be a Christian and therefore a heretic cannot be a pope.
So stop doing the Church a disservice by commenting on this travesty, heretic, and mouthpiece of Satan as “the Pope”!
Among other things, every year we host a week for homeless people to come to live at the church (BTW-this is in conjunction with a number of other churches including a Catholic church in the area). We are not allowed to evangelize or even help them find a job. We are simple to house them. I'm not sure this is a Christian principle and have become more and more convinced it is not. Especially if social services will not allow us to evangelize.
At first I thought there was something wrong with me, not caring for the poor enough. Yet the more I think about this and search the scriptures, I do not find any responsibility towards the poor in this manner. Rather it is just the opposite. We are called to be generous but that is all. Not to give away everything. Often people will quote the verse in Acts where the early Christians had “all things in common” pointing out how socialistic they were or they will misquote Christ saying to the rich, young ruler “give all you have to the poor” as a motto for Christian living. Yet they neglect to quote Paul statement that “if a man does not work he should not eat” or the number of Proverbs talking about failure to be productive. Even our Lord Jesus complained about people wanting free handouts (John 6).
The gospel was never about socialism nor having “all things in common”. The trouble is when you bring all this up you sound like a real Christian “creep” which is typical of liberal pressure.
NO WAY!!!
Exactly!
Why does one glorify the peasant lifestyle with a ruling lord in charge and the other rejects it?
The answer is Romanticism.
The communist wants everyone, save a select few, to be a peasant, wear quaint clothes, live in small picturesque villages and tug their forelock as the lord, who provides all, rides by.
The capitalist wants everyone to be middle class or higher, own a small (or large business) if they wish or just have a job at one of those businesses. They should live where they want, dress as they wish and bow to no one.
The communist is the medieval romance. The capitalist is the garage workshop.
The pope is poor in spirit...
“How I wish that Christians could kneel in veneration when a poor person enters the church.”
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That’s not what the LORD Jesus Christ told us to do...
He ignored them and said “Poo, there’ll always be lots of poor...” and then he told us how to prosper...
The Christian Bible is full of ways to help poor people...
families supporting ancient grandfathers, widows indeed, etc...
What about “If a man wont work he doesn’t get to eat” ???
No veneration there...