How will the Church react if weekly donations start going to charities instead of the offering basket?
I have tried very hard to give this Pope the benefit of the doubt, taking into account where he is from and his life experiences. At this point, however, I am very, very disappointed.
I remember briefly hearing about he involvement of Naomi Klein as a consultant to the Vatican months ago ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/28/pope-climate-change-naomi-klein ), and not really thinking much about it. Now, when I look at it in detail in the context of the Pope’s comments about global warming (which he personally has no scientific background to assess), I’m appalled. This is an agenda-driven secular woman who’s also not a scientist, but is definitively anti-capitalism, and whose parents were apparently self-described ‘hippies’ who moved to Canada from the US during the Vietnam war. Her grandparents were at one point Communists. Why would he pick her to advise? What does this say?
I have watched over the past decades the decline in so much that was good in the world. Even the racism that I thought we’d gotten past is now back uglier than ever, with the arrow pointed more in the opposite direction than was the case in the days of MLK. I’m not even sure what my American citizenship means anymore, as I don’t really feel that anyone cares to know or represent what I personally think. Regarding Marxism and this Pope, he would do well to look back upon the suppression of Christianity in the Soviet-controlled countries before the fall of the USSR. He should be more concerned about the persecution of Christians that is occurring around the world than about what Naomi Klein might be telling him.
Nicely said. As to the good in the world, be at peace in the knowledge that the good in the world is still present, vastly out numbering the evil. But evil has infiltrated our institutions that were formed as bulwarks against evil and corrupted them as is their want. The anger you feel and identify as racism is probably truly directed at the injustice of the attack upon us by the Marxist black left. It is easier to condem the race because it is a quick emotional way to vent anger at the injustice. In this you are not alone. However upon reflection the number of people in the radical black marxist group is small compared to number of good decent black folks who don’t believe the nonsense. What is an issue is our need to break through the brainwashing these people have been subjected to by Marxist education institutions and the marxist democrat party. Our candidates should hammer this theme any time they get a chance and go into black communities and hammer it there too. Don’t despair people are waking up. Which is why 0 is importing foreign nationals and is placing them in large cities, generally controlled by dims and I am sure the dim machine will have them voting in no time flat. IMHO this is the stealth issue at present. Have a great day. And remember God is in charge.