Posted on 12/21/2013 8:58:16 AM PST by MarkBsnr
God has blessed us three times in a row - each one more than the last.
Social Gospel is popular with the masses.
Is there a Nielsen rating for popes?
What a stupid headline. The Pope’s value is not in crowds.
The people worshipped the golden calf and chose Barabbas over Jesus Christ.
After all, Jesus is for everybody; that is all sinners. He instructed his disciples to go and spread the Good News and heal the sick. They are to do this without the pompous regalia, but the supports from the people (I am using Luke 9:1-6 example).
This is the best Pope the Catholics ever had. So proud to be Catholic!!!!!
Pope Benedict was a blessing. Pope Francis is the result of a curse.
I’ve tried to be Catholic, really I have.
Although I was not raised Catholic, my wife was. I nonetheless have read Aquinas, Augustine, More, Maritain, Chesterton, Belloc.
Neither my wife no I trust any religious institution.
If there are lifeboats in this flood, I have yet to find one.
And the prophets and biblical scribes warned us thousands of years ago.
We have the pop star president and now the pop star pope. It’s hip to be marxist.
We learn in many ways.
The Pope is not Marxist.
He’s a Jesuit; same thing.
He speaks in words that resonate of populism and class warfare. I do not doubt for a moment that he is a humble man and a man of faith, but I do not like nor do I think it is constructive to condemn capitalism when it is the non-capitalist political systems that have caused most of the world’s ills—communism, socialism, fascism, etc. His statements are confusing. To say that the world’s greatest wrong is the lack of opportunities for youth and the loneliness of the elderly is just not accurate. Are they wrong? Yes, absolutely. However, the greatest moral wrongs of our age are the growing secularism of society including the rise of moral relativism. Benedict XVI nailed this on the head, and there was no confusion about what he meant. We live in a world, and a country, that accepts euthanasia, abortion, class warfare, homosexuality, and a blatant lack of respect for human life and for self. These are the issues that I would like the Pope to speak about. John Paul II and Benedict XVI were very concise in calling evil out for what it is. I am not so sure about Francis.
No, it is NOT. (Fr. James Schall comes to mind ....as well as many others.)
PS Generalizations are not logical.
He didn’t *condemn* capitalism.
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