Only fair to give the complete text and let folks decide for themselves.
Not a word regarding Planned Parenthood.
What is the point in having a Pope if atrocities like this are not addressed????
the man couldn’t hold Billy Graham’s slippers
Biden’s title is not “Vice-President.” It’s “President.” He’s President of the Senate.
There’s just enough there so that neo-Catholic Papolaters will be able to torture some sort of “pro-life” message out of it, but it’s so subtle and bland that it will never, ever embarrass Pelosi, Biden, or Obama.
He praised Dorothy Day, a communist, a number of times.
Yeah, it's crystal clear now. He is a Marxist and a tool of the left.
Sadly, I see great similarity in the way that both Barack Obama and Pope Francis were
uniquely positioned to take action that would have a positive impact on America and the
ways both squandered their opportunities to push similar leftist social and political agendas.
Of all the Catholic women out there, who does this pope praise? Dorothy Day. After reading about her, Jane Fonda sounded holy in comparison. Day was a total socialist who praised all manor of communist dictators and more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day
Where was the gospel of Jesus Christ? Where was the message of salvation by fatih? Without a nation repenting and coming to Christ, the rest is just meaningless blather.
"A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to "dream" of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther King sought to do; when it strives for justice and the cause of the oppressed, as Dorothy Day did by her tireless work, the fruit of a faith which becomes dialogue and sows peace in the contemplative style of Thomas Merton.
You could pick out your four depending on your evaluation of America. I think Pope Francis gave us a good one.
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The speech is all generalities, except for banning the death penalty. As a Catholic, I am scandalized that he mentioned Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. Day’s offenses have been mentioned already. Merton died a practicing Buddhist in Asia, and in a scandalous situation.
The Left will trumpet endlessly that the Pope is on their side.Local Sierra Club here has already declared that the Pope’s encouragement will stimulate their further efforts to “save the environment.”
“Holy Father”? Not mine.
“Nowa you all gotta be nice, right? And whattsa wrong with taking some refugees? You gotta some space outta there, right? You know whatta I’m saying? I been to Passaic, there’sa nothing happenin there, you know whatta mean? And whattsa up with alla da smokestacks? I step outside to hava my cigarette, and I’ma choking out there. Get ridda some of da carbon.”
Oh sorry. I suppose not everyone got the premium cable service with Father Guido Sarducci as translator.
I am baffled by the religious who think Almighty God is incapable of preparing the Earth in full anticipation of everything that we might do.
Of all the great American men and women over the centuries, how many would name Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton among their top 100?
In before the 'He was poorly translated' crowd.
Oh really?
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I don’t agree with this article. Everyone need to take a deep breath.
To my eyes it is a biased diatribe, though I do agree that Pope Francis is inferior to recent popes.
Many commenters say he didn’t mention Christ. He did. He Mentions “God” nine times as in “Moses leads us directly to God and thus to the transcendent dignity of the human being. Moses provides us with a good synthesis of your work: you are asked to protect, by means of the law, the image and likeness fashioned by God on every human face.”
Since when isn’t Christ God.
Sounds like a sermon to my ears
“Capitalism” is not in itself a moral system, it must be animated and fused with one.
The wide-spreead quite blind supporters of “God”less Capitalism fail to realize that it is that “God”less Capitalism has destroyed our nations economy.There is a attendant failure of politics. I cite the greed that led us to sellout each other(we are our community) and even ourselves to China for cheap products and greater middle-man profits.
A king would not betray his own treasury, a democracy of “takers” would. This democracy of traitors has.
We are Economic Cannibals. If this is a political problem it is because we elected capitalists who are Economic Cannibals.
The Pope’s position on “Global Warming” has been grossly exaggerated. He asked in Laudate Si for a dialogue on the issue.
He often plainly says (and does in Laudate Si) that he is not sure of his position that climate change is not understood. He says we need to talk I am fine with that since we seem tobe talking past each other.
In this speech he mentions this issue exactly once in his over 3500 words.
“This common good also includes the earth, a central theme of the encyclical which I recently wrote in order to “enter into dialogue with all people about our common home” (ibid., 3).
So the liberals meed to listen.