Posted on 05/31/2022 5:59:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
On World No Tobacco Day Pope Francis notes that health is a God-given gift and invites all men and women to take good care of it.
World No Tobacco Day, marked annually on 31 May, is part of a global campaign that aims to raise public awareness about the damage the use of tobacco wreaks on our health and about the many ways in which it threatens the environment we live in.
Pope Francis has joined his voice to the campaign saying that “The culture of life is a heritage that we Christians must share with everyone.”
His words came in a brief message addressed to the Argentinian Bishop Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi who was one of the promoters of an international seminar held last May 25, at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross entitled "The Catholic Church Towards The Problem of Smoking Harm Reduction”.
The Seminar was organized in collaboration with an Italian Association for healthcare and with the patronage of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
“Every human life, unique and unrepeatable, has inestimable value. This must always be proclaimed anew, with the courage of words and actions," the Pope said in the message that he concluded expressing hope that reflection on this issue "will help many people become aware that physical health is a gift from God that the Lord has given us and that we must take care of it responsibly."
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He probably smokes a lot of White Owls.
I’ll drink to that.
Tobacco bad sodomy good?
Smoking poles is ok, tobacco no.
The last priest that I knew, smoked like a chimney. Was loved by everyone. Mineral Point, WI
OK, so let's start by excommunicating abortion mongers like Pelosi and Biden.
I wish I knew. I would have had a cigar.
“I wish I knew. I would have had a cigar.”
Same here.
You mean care for the lives of all the people killed and raped by the savages that the likes of Bergoglio have unleashed on Europe?
"You're gonna go far."
Yet, every single U.S. bishop elevated to the college of cardinals by Bergogllio is soft on pro-abort politicians.
All of the pro-life bishops, like Strickland, Cordileone and Paprocki have been passed over.
I wonder if he actually hears how he sounds.
He’s a narcissist. He sounds lovely in his mind.
STFU Frankie.
To call him Frankie still uses his BS name. I call him “Bergy”
Good one!!
Whew, thank goodness! I thought I read “No Tabasco day”. I can’t live without my Tabasco.
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