18 June 2016. The Rightwing Pro-Lifers Fuck Up Yet Again… Distort What the Pope of Rome Actually Said

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Right now, all the rightwing Pro-Lifers are howling about what Francisco Bergoglio, the Pope of Rome, said. Well, this is what Pope Francisco said:

It’s provisional, and because of this, the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null. Because they say, ‘Yes, for the rest of my life!’ but they don’t know what they’re saying because they have a different culture. They say it, they have good will, but they don’t know.

In short, he was criticising today’s refusal to commit to anything permanently. That is, he was UPHOLDING tradition and morality. Life Site News is a pack of rightwing nutters who lie and distort shamelessly. The rest of the Pro-Life crowd is just as bad and lie just as shamelessly (as the recent Planned Parenthood vids showed to all concerned). Pope Francisco was reiterating ancient truths, but these jabronies are so stupid that they didn’t see it.

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Pope Francisco Rips “Bloodsucking” Bosses and Prosperity Theology

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On Thursday, 19 May, Pope Francisco blasted employers who don’t provide health care as bloodsucking leeches, and he took aim at the popular “theology of prosperity” in a pointed sermon on the dangers of wealth. Referring to businesses that hire employees on part-time contracts so they don’t have to provide health and pension benefits, the pontiff said at morning Mass in the chapel of the Vatican guesthouse where he lives:

This is akin to sucking the blood from their workers’ veins, leaving them to eat air. Those who do that are true leeches; they live by spilling the blood of the people who they make slaves of labour.

Cutting staff during the summer months to avoid providing benefits is a phenomenon in Italy, but the pope said this type of mistreatment and enslavement of workers is happening all over the world:

We thought that slaves don’t exist anymore… they exist. True, people don’t go and get them from Africa to sell them in America anymore, no. However, they exist in our cities. There are traffickers, those who use people through work without justice.

From trafficking sex workers to failing to grant vacation to employees, Francisco criticised those who seek profit at any price:

(They’re) living on the blood of the people. This is a mortal sin. This is a mortal sin. This demands a great deal of penance, a great deal of restitution, to convert oneself from this sin.

Francis also focused attention on the “prosperity theology”, which, as the pope explained, says, “God shows that you’re good by giving you great wealth”. The so-called prosperity gospel is popular in the USA, where its preachers are often on cable television, and it’s a common phenomenon in Latin America, where the Argentine pope is from, and in Africa and Asia. Francisco said in his homily on Thursday:

The problem is that you can’t serve both God and riches because the love of money becomes a chain that makes it impossible to follow Jesus.

Francis took his cue from one of the day’s readings for Mass, a fiery passage from the Epistle General of St James about the punishments the rich will suffer for having exploited the poor. The pontiff summarised the broad meaning of homily with a simple image:

A glass of water in the name of Christ is more important than all the riches accumulated through exploiting people.

The Argentine pope’s comments continue a theme of his papacy, during which he has tried to create a “poor church” that rejects the idolatry of money. Francisco isn’t only critical of the global financial system; he’s also critical of the greed and the power-hunger of Catholic leaders themselves.

19 May 2016

RNS Religious News Service

http://religionnews.com/2016/05/19/pope-francis-rips-bloodsucking-bosses-and-prosperity-theology/

Editor:

I should note that His Holiness mostly agrees with the Pope of Rome on social issues. That is, all the loudmouthed rightwing caterwauling by the konvertsy isn’t only ignorant, it’s Antichristian and Anti-Churchly (I’m thinking about the Russian concept of protivotserkovnost and of theomachy). In short, instead of glorifying Our Lord Christ, they pervert His teachings into an unseemly Black Mass honouring the Evil One. One either internalises “lived Orthodoxy” or one has nothing at all, no matter how often one attends services. I think that Our Lord Christ called such “whited sepulchres”. We should attend to the social teaching of the Church, or we have no faith at all, we’re not real believers. That sounds harsh, but it’s true…

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1 May 2016. Christians Build BRIDGES… Not WALLS!

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A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, isn’t Christian. This isn’t the gospel.

Francisco Bergoglio

Archbishop and Pope of Rome and Patriarch of the West

Look at who builds bridges and who builds walls… the first are secure in themselves and unafraid of meeting the Other… the latter are loud-clashing phonies scared and terrified of having to treat the Other as equal human beings… you see, God told them to hate all “sinners”, dontcha know. Always mistrust those who say, “I only speak the truth in love”… what they speak isn’t truthful nor is there any love in it. Do attend to what the Apostle said on love… the “Speak the Truth in Love” lot missed the bus, I’m afraid.

Bite the coin… there be some flagrant counterfeits in circulation…

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17 April 2016. Pope Francisco Invited Bernie… NOT Chilly Hilly… NOT Trump or Cruz

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Pope Francisco Bergoglio even gave Bernie a short personal audience… something usually reserved for heads of state (Putin, Medvedev, and Lukashenko have had such private personal audiences). What do those Guineas in the Curia know that we don’t? They’ve got one of the best intel nets in the world and they’re a sharp bunch… after all, they’ve been around for a LOOONG time… you don’t survive that many centuries by being stupid.

Chilly Hilly is toast. It’s all over save for the media circus…

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