Posted on 03/25/2018 9:36:21 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, starting Holy Week services leading to Easter, urged young people on Sunday to keep shouting and not allow the older generations to silence their voices or anesthetize their idealism.
Francis spoke a day after hundreds of thousands of young Americans and their supporters answered a call to action from survivors of last month’s Florida high school massacre and rallied across the United States to demand tighter gun laws.
He did not mention the demonstrations. Catholic News Service (CNS) said Gabriella Zuniga, 16, and her sister Valentina, 15, both students from Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 people were killed in February, attended the service with their parents.
CNS posted a photo of the two holding up signs in St. Peter’s Square, with one reading, “Protect Our Children, Not Our Guns.”
The 81-year-old Francis led a long and solemn Palm Sunday service before tens of thousands in the square, many of them young people there for the Catholic Church’s World Day of Youth.
Francis led a procession in front of the largest church in Christendom to commemorate the day the Bible says Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was hailed as a savior, only to be crucified five days later.
“YOU HAVE IT IN YOU TO SHOUT”
Drawing on biblical parallels, Francis urged the young people in the crowd not to let themselves be manipulated.
“The temptation to silence young people has always existed,” Francis said in the homily of a Mass.
“There are many ways to silence young people and make them invisible. Many ways to anesthetize them, to make them keep quiet, ask nothing, question nothing. There are many ways to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive,” he said.
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He was likely never on the rails.
This is the most evil Pope in the history of the church.
One thing I noticed about that version is that it translates Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17 correctly, with “murder” instead of “kill”.
Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of church history knows we have had MANY popes not worth the powder to send them to hell. We have another one right now. Pope John Paul couldn't live forever. Benedict quit. Maybe we can form a draft. The cardinals seem to be in the tank.
The Pope must have skipped over the Beatiudes.
Amen and second it.
Real Catholics reject this Marxist “pope”.IMO the only Cardinals that can be depended upon to follow Christ’s teachings...to bend to *His* will...are those in Eastern Europe and Africa.
As a parent, I don’t pay attention to temper tantrums.
Shows you how close the Facebooks, Rothschilds, EU fascists, and Soros’ were to dominating the world for good.
Frankie was set up as the puppet Grand Inquisitor. Thank God we have Trump in office.
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Yes, Emerson witnessed the same problem in his own time:
With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations, beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go. Things have their laws, as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with.
Property will be protected. Corn will not grow, unless it is planted and manured; but the farmer will not plant or hoe it, unless the chances are a hundred to one, that he will cut and harvest it.
Under any forms, persons and property must and will have their just sway. They exert their power, as steadily as matter its attraction. Cover up a pound of earth ever so cunningly, divide and subdivide it; melt it to liquid, convert it to gas; it will always weigh a pound: it will always attract and resist other matter, by the full virtue of one pound weight.
And the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force, -- if not overtly, then covertly; if not for the law, then against it; with right, or by might.
There is no Pope on Rome.....
I’m tired of people shouting. The people who shout the loudest seem to be those with the least to say. Increased volume doesn’t make up for lack of content.
I can’t take the sacrament, anyway, because I wasn’t married in the RCC. I get a little tired of all the ridiculous rules the RCC has.
I’ve been married for 25 years, but for some reason that doesn’t count as being married. Yes, I could get married in the church but what’s the point when my husband is agnostic?
This pope is more than corrupt. They’re been corrupt ones before.
Prayers for you.
Pope Francis is a Liberation Theologist, in other words, a Communist with a capital C
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