Posted on 04/15/2021 7:08:19 PM PDT by marshmallow
The video message was delivered to participants at an international online conference, 'A Politics Rooted in the People,' and included Catholic groups in the United States, European Union and United Kingdom.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In an online message to grassroots community organizers on Thursday (April 15), Pope Francis criticized a modern form of politician that he said “turns their back on the poor,” and he laid out his vision for a “politics with a capital P.”
“Popularism,” what Pope Francis calls his alternative to populism, “is about finding the means to guarantee a life for all people that is worthy of being called human, a life capable of cultivating virtue and forging new bonds,” he said.
The video message was delivered to participants at an international online conference, “A Politics Rooted in the People,” which was organized by the Centre for Theology and Community together with Catholic groups in the United States, European Union and United Kingdom.
Francis first introduced his vision on politics, seen as a service and borne from the ground up, in his 2020 book “Let Us Dream,” written in collaboration with the Vatican commentator and papal biographer Austen Ivereigh.
“It is a politics not just for the people, but with the people, rooted in their communities and in their values,” the pope said at Thursday’s online event, in contrast to populism, which he said adopts “political paternalism,” stripping individuals of their agency so they are “in thrall to ideology.”
A good politician, like a good priest, he said, must be a “true shepherd of the people,” willing to lead the way, walk amid his flock and cater to the stragglers who are left behind. Francis repeated his desire that “every diocese in the world have an ongoing collaboration with the people’s movements.”
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It would be nice to see some biblical reference to whatever he’s talking about.
Funny why maternalism is never criticized.
Gynocentric cucks.
This guy is almost stupid, ignorant and anti-Christian enough to be a Hollyweird actor.
The high-level event, “Fraternity, Multilateralism and Peace,” focused on Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, “Brothers All,” and the Document on Human Fraternity the pope co-signed with the grand imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb.
Parolin called for vaccines for all, continued collaboration on the welfare of migrants and refugees, the promotion of humanitarian rights, dignity in work and nuclear disarmament. On this last point, the cardinal said the resources and talent dedicated to arms and weapons are “cause for scandal” that undermines all global efforts for peace.
Yeah, Dope Francis is a complete POS. We’ve gone from President Reagan and Pope John Paul II to Biden and Dope Francis.
He’s become a bore, always droning on about politics.
What happened to the religion?
From the book of Marx VI:6:6
Does this Pope ever talk about Jesus Christ?
Fake pope shits out of mouth again. Film at 11.
Another political message from this Pope.
I would think Joke Biden and his professed catholic abortionist friends would be in serious trouble with an il Papa who is not seriously conflicted.
I wonder if Frankie ever considers those who take advantage of the poor like Biden is doing right now?
would not keep people from the Mass and would not put restrictions on good nuns and religious.
Yea Papa. He does know where the word “Pope” came from doesn’t he? The idiot.
Oh, the irony, il Papa.
Tax the Church!
The pope weighs in at 166.6
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