if NECESSARY??? how bout you START THERE???
Posted on 11/29/2018 7:22:14 PM PST by marshmallow
Message to the conference on the decommissioning of unused places of worship: “Change should not be welcomed with anxiety but as a sign of the times that requires us to adapt”
“The Church should not see “with anxiety” that “many churches, until a few years ago needed, are now no longer necessary, for lack of faithful and clergy, or for a different distribution of the population in cities and rural areas”, but welcome this change “as a sign of the times that invites us to reflect and requires us to adapt”. The Pope emphasized this in a message to the participants at the conference: “Doesn’t God dwell anymore? Decommissioning places of worship and integrated management of ecclesiastical cultural heritage” (29-30 November), stressing that “Decommissioning must not be the first and only solution to be thought of, nor must it ever be carried out with scandal on the part of the faithful” but should recall, at the same time, the “constant ecclesial teaching which, while teaching the duty to protect and preserve the goods of the Church, and in particular the cultural goods, declares that they have no absolute value, yet in case of need they must serve the greater good of the human being and especially in the service of the poor”.
“Following the thought of the ecclesial Magisterium”, one can elaborate “almost a theological discourse on cultural goods, considering that they have a part in the sacred liturgy, in evangelization and in the exercise of charity”, the Pontiff writes in the message read by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi at the opening of the conference organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture, in collaboration with the Italian Episcopal Conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
The “common sense of the faithful”, first of all, “perceives for the environments and objects destined for worship..........
(Excerpt) Read more at lastampa.it ...
Ah, the gay defender is now trying to buy respect.
for the poor sounds good but follow the money and see where it is really spent...........................
He can’t do it. More lies.
http://caritasetveritas.com/2013/03/the-myth-of-vatican-wealth-on-helping-the-poor/
So very sad. Lord, help us.
God help us.
The pope wants to liquidate the Vatican of its spoils?
Read #4
if NECESSARY??? how bout you START THERE???
Why not sell the Vatican’s great works of art that are not even on display? They are doing no one any good in storage.
And by the time he has sold all the church possessions, the churches will be bare and the poor will still be there... and in larger numbers.
The Church is collapsing.
Quote: John 12:3-6 New International Version (NIV) 3 Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[b]” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
Yes, I am saying Francis is following in the lines of Judas as any anti-Pope would.
Again, scary.
/a Catholic, but not a happy one - all that really matters though is faith in Christ and His sacrifice for us
You read my mind.
Paging Anthony Quinn, Please pick up the red courtesy phone and bring your sandals...
The Church has already collapsed. The walls just haven’t caved-in quite yet.
This Pope has no ‘goods’ to be sold. Only ‘bads’.
The Church has been doing it for years.
The parish school that I graduated from, the one my parents and the parents of my classmates built and that my fellow parishioners and I helped maintain was sold years ago...just like so many other parish and high schools in NYC.
The Bishops and the Cardinal still live in splendor though, while the faithful are relentlessly badgered to help the “poor”.
Yes!
HA! “The Camp of the Saints” predicted this..... on the same page that it also predicted U2 and Bono (without naming them, just their actions) ... four years before the band even formed.
All to ‘help’ third-worlders who will always hate Catholics anyway.
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