Looks like to me he is undergoing a real step down from the Vatican (actually).
Posted on 03/16/2013 10:44:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rome (CNN) -- The new pope gave an insight into his choice of the name Francis in an audience with journalists Saturday -- and said how he wished for a church that was both poor and "for the poor."
His words came in his first meeting with the media since he became the only Jesuit and first Latin American to be chosen as leader of the Roman Catholic Church three days ago.
Francis, who before he became pope was known as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, said a fellow cardinal from Brazil had told him "don't forget the poor" as the votes stacked up in his favor.
This thought stuck in his mind, Francis said, as it became clear that he had won the two-thirds majority that meant he was the new pontiff.
"Right away, with regard to the poor, I thought of St. Francis of Assisi, then I thought of war," he told the assembled journalists. "Francis loved peace and that is how the name came to me."
He had also thought of St. Francis of Assisi's concern for the natural environment, he said, and how he was a "poor man, a simple man, as we would like a poor church, for the poor."
St. Francis of Assisi, who gave up his own wealth and prestige, is revered among Catholics for his work with the poor.
The journalists included Vatican communications staff and several Latin American reporters, mostly from Argentina.
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Sounds like new world order; citizens of nations with high per capita wealth see their economy (and charities) shifting funding/investment/jobs to third world nations.
It’s the modern notion of “internatioal charity”, government-funded “spread of democracy” and the modern slave concept of bringing the work to the slave as opposed to the old way of bringing the slave to the work.
New world order loves communism/socialism/dictators and supports them with money it gathers in the free world from taxes and monopolistic businesses.
One needs a basic understanding of what global private equity does, and how it fits into the foundation/influence/lobbying system, in order to begin to understand not only how but why new world order runs their third-world operations.
I can only hope and pray the right things happen, but I am not naive enough to think that they won’t be supremely difficult.
I don’t think so based on what I’ve learned about Pope Francis.
What we have moved to is ceding charity to the government, the welfare state. Part of the reason for this lies in religious organizations. We need to take this back - to localize it and take more of it out of government’s responsibility.
I think Pope Francis is and will be calling on Christians to be Christian, rather than more government.
South America seems to be all about socialism and communism (new world order fronts).
Seems to be fertile grounds for research for Roman Catholics. Pursuing the truth is a good thing, right ?
IMHO, many governments and Churches have financials that they do not share with their respective citizens and members for no legitimate reason.
Looks like to me he is undergoing a real step down from the Vatican (actually).
William Flax
I would agree with that. Problem is government strong arms The Church into thinking they can do it better. In any case, pray for the Pope.
Yes it is. I think this is a good place to go after it. Challenge is best where the challenge is greatest.
Plus this is our own backyard making it all the more important to U.S.
Very appropo!
If we could only start on this path..
BTW, there was a slight typo in your link. I recommend it for those here:
http://www.truthbasedlogic.com/chapter1.htm
Yes, and we have someone gotten to the point where the think the government is the people, that it is our agent for pretty much everything.
Government charity (it's not really charity since it is coerced) drives out true charity. Churches have been complicit in this. We have to take it back.
In any case, pray for the Pope.
Amen to that. Thanks for your reply..
Oh, yes, definitely!
My very humble opinion: The role of the Church and religion in general is to address the deep and underlying causes, as opposed to top level specific political legislation. I'm thinking along the lines of Benjamin Franklin: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
Thanks for your reply.
Well the odds may be against Pope Francis, but I hope he can penetrate a lot of minds. I pray for his good health in the coming years.
One can be for 'social justice', and NOT be for big government, and Pope Francis is in that camp.
That being said, I have no problem with the Pope living at Castel Gandolfo. It is more than just a home outside the city for the Pope. It also includes the Vatican Observatory, at which REAL science is done every day.
The Vatican houses a wonderful museum of art, collected over the centuries, mostly by donations of the artists themselves, or from people who had bought the art at some point. Many try to say that the Vatican should sell it to feed the poor, but selling it all wouldn't feed the poor of the whole world for very long. The collection is a celebration of the gifts God has given artists and sculptors, and is there for anyone who goes to Vatican City to see and enjoy it, just as they would going to any museum anywhere in the world.
William Flax
And.....All humankind should be very **grateful** to the Catholic Church for having preserved this artistic treasure and library of human knowledge.
Do you have any links to his speeches or writings that would indicate that he is against liberation theology?
the best way to help the poor is to support the institutions and values of private property rights,rationality, technological progress, and capital accumulation, and the economic system and political system that is compatible with those institutions and values, which are capitalism and limited government.
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