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Thursday, September 24, 2015
Without Saying A Word, Pope Francis Delivers a Message
Though Pope Francis is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress today, the biggest message he has delivered thus far has come without a word. It's a tiny Fiat that seemed lost amidst all the lumbering SUVs that surrounded him as he made his way to a lunch with the homeless.
He has previously warned against the "cult of money" that can enslave people.
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The guy is an Obama communist. Send him back to his socialist heaven of Italy.
ReplyDeleteHe is neither a socialist nor a capitalist. He is first and foremost a priest. His politics reflect his Latin American roots, and he appears to share the economic populism of the Peron regime.he has been called the Peronist Pope.
ReplyDelete1:37, you forgot to mention that he's a secret Muslim.
ReplyDeleteLook at what this guy lives in. I'm sure there are gold plated somethings in the Vatican.
ReplyDeleteIf he really believes in being frugal, let him live in a Volkswagen Camper
His climate change idiocy diverts resources from the poor. He's a Malthusian who believes in the worst of human nature. He's an intellectual lightweight; a People magazine Pope. He's perfect for today's society. God help us.
ReplyDeleteI should hope that Fiat is armored, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II_assassination_attempt
ReplyDeleteHell, Bernie, you have been showing piety riding around town in that broken down jeep for years!
ReplyDelete7:53........look up Society of Jesus, then rethink your idiotic remarks.
ReplyDeleteI am so impressed with the Pope. I am looking forward his speech to Congress. I hope that Congress treats him better than they treated Obama in joint session.
ReplyDeleteSo without saying a word, are we supposed to overlook that he arrived in an Airbus 330? And ,yes, I am Roman Catholic.
ReplyDeleteThe right-wing, know nothing teabagger contingent is out in force. You folks make Dark Ages mud farmers look like geniuses.
ReplyDeleteFox was funny as Hell in their coverage of this visit. You would have thought Stalin had been resurrected. They are just off the wall.
ReplyDelete"So without saying a word, are we supposed to overlook that he arrived in an Airbus 330?"
ReplyDeleteWas he supposed to come in a balloon?
"Hell, Bernie, you have been showing piety riding around town in that broken down jeep for years!
ReplyDeleteThe Jeep has retired and is owned by a former state trooper. But I have replaced it with a 1991 Toyota Camry that is even more beat up.
" He's an intellectual lightweight;"
ReplyDeleteNo Jesuit is an intellectual lightweight.
"Look at what this guy lives in. I'm sure there are gold plated somethings in the Vatican.
ReplyDeleteIf he really believes in being frugal, let him live in a Volkswagen Camper"
Francis does not live in the Papal apartments at the Vatican. He lives in the Vatican guesthouse, and takes his meals in common with other Vatican employees and guests.
http://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/pope-of-the-people-pope-francis-to-live-in-vatican-guesthouse-not-papal-apartments/13355
Society of Jesus contains lots of Malthusians. It's a dim view of human nature and not one that seemed to be shared by Jesus, through his teachings on forgiveness and redemption. Jesus saw the best that humans could be through redemption. Malthus saw only the worst in his nihilistic view. The Pope is a Mathusian and that is sad and disturbing. It's also striking that he'll visit prisoners in the US, but declined to do so in Cuba, where so many have been persecuted because of their faith in Christ. He's as much a politician as any of our own political class. While Jesuits from Bernie Berg to Fidel Castro are no intellectual lightweights, their view of human nature is very dark. Compared to the academic rigor displayed in writings by the previous four popes, Francis is rather weak.
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ReplyDeleteYou're a garden variety jackass.
Urging people to be good stewards of the earth does not make one a Malthusian. That's a bit of an overreaction, as is calling him the "most dangerous person on earth," as someone did on Fox.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmentalism is a political ploy that primarily benefits the wealthy and connected while diverting resources from the needy. Prosperity leads to cleaner environments; not restrictions that the Al Gores of the world can easily afford or capitalize upon, while the neediest struggle to pay for the same things. I don't know how you go from calling one a Malthusian to calling one the most dangerous person on Earth. I don't believe he is dangerous. Although, breathless hyperbole is the stock and trade of those whose arguments have fallen flat. It's like banging the table when the facts and law are not on your side. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly can have that impact in the way it has been employed. But finding a bipartisan fix for environmental pollution is long overdue. I agree it should be done in a way that does not simply reward the wealthy, as is even the case in Northampton County's open space plan.
ReplyDeleteThe jesuits may not be intellectual lightweights but many have proven moral lightweights, like the Berrigan brothers.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bernie, that there are no Jesuit intellectual lightweights, and I also feel that they are strong on moral standards as well. The Berrigans are good examples of people who live their convictions, to the extreme.
ReplyDeleteWe all want clean air to breathe; clean water to drink and enjoy, and an uncluttered landscape that is free of hazards that can poison us.
ReplyDeleteHowever, climate change has been happening since the earth was formed billions of years ago. The earth is not a static planet, its atmosphere has been changing since it was formed. What the environmental movement wants is to cripple our economy.
We need carbon-based energy sources to fuel our economy. It isn't going to run on the power of the sun, or the power of the wind, or the power generated by green algae. We haven't built a new nuclear plant in almost 40 years, and we need the heat of burned carbon-based fuels to turn water into steam to power the turbines that turn the generators so we all have electricity.
Blaming humans for natural changes in our atmosphere is what the environmental movement is all about. What about the massive amount of pollution that is emanating from nations such as Communist China and India, who lack even basic controls on water and air pollution, with large toxic waste dumps.
NASA has shown there is no real change in atmospheric heating for the past 17 years, yet Obama says it is a crisis worse than Middle East terrorism.
I just just love the Tea Baggers.
ReplyDeleteThey're so quant.
I just love liberal homosexuals who are obsessed with scrotums. They're so ..... Sanduskyish and quant (sic).
ReplyDeleteJamie, we have carbon-based energy sources,but could survive and thrive without them. They are a finite resource. I know many in the energy industry who are completely in on exploring g alternative energy, and yes, I would support more nuclear energy. The pope was not driving away in a Prius. It was a Fiat. His message is NOT that we have to stop using fossil fuel. It was that we ne d to be less ostentatious and care more about our environment. As for your climate change argument, you are certainly correct, but that's no excuse for the way we murder this planet. And yes, China and India are as guilty or more than America. Unfortunately, the remedies proposed by Obama would be disproportionately felt by our poorest. I would support changes that have a more proportional impact. I suspect you would, too.
ReplyDeleteWhat message was sent by going to St. Patrick's where they just spent $200 million in renovations? That money could've bought quite a few solar panels. Or it might have fed a lot of hungry folks. I've heard they'll light the incense with crisp hundred dollar bills. Blessed are the poor.
ReplyDeleteConsidering that the cathedral was cracked and has 5 million visitors a year, I'd call the $175 million spent over five years for America's parish as money well spent. the candles you deride burned so brightly after 0-11 tgat the candle holders shattered. I am not a religious person, but my niece is a nun in NYC in an order tgat cares for the homeless. I'll ask her what she thinks.
ReplyDeleteHey, sailor.
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Just deleted a comment that really strikes me as being a tad bit anti-Catholic .
ReplyDelete@4:01 Newsflash to Jamie Kelton - China announced a cap and trade policy to limit carbon emissions this evening.
ReplyDeleteTHAT is what they are doing to address the crisis that you deny.
Cap & Trade, the Socialists' wet dream for quite some time.
ReplyDeleteI trust Al Gore exclusively.