Pope on Christmas:

[Jazzy]

Article-->Pope on Christmas: Jesus was poor, so don't be power-hungry

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Thoughts?

 

[Lucian Hodoboc]

What can I say? He's right. It's a nice message.

 

[Stravinsk]

Considering the wealth of the Catholic church, it's large influence throughout the last 1000 years or so and it's very bloody history, I'm always amazed the top representatives can give these messages in full seriousness. Obviously they are meant for the masses though, only. I just shake my head and smile.

 

[1689Dave]

Article-->Pope on Christmas: Jesus was poor, so don't be power-hungry

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Thoughts?

How loaded are the Pope and his enclave? Why are Catholic nations so poor? Protestant nations rolling in the dough?

 

[MoreCoffee]

How loaded are the Pope and his enclave? Why are Catholic nations so poor? Protestant nations rolling in the dough?

Your eyes see but do not perceive.

Austria, France, Poland, south Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Croatia, are all Catholic majority nations.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism.

In the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis presided over the evening Mass attended by about 7,000 faithful, including tourists and pilgrims, who flocked to the church on a warm evening and took their place behind rows of white-robed pontiffs.

Francis drew lessons from the humility of Jesus’ first hours of life in a manger.

“While animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbors, their brothers and sisters,” the pontiff lamented. “How many wars have we seen! And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt!”

“As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and the vulnerable,” said Francis, who didn’t cite any specific conflict or situation.

“This Christmas, too, as in the case of Jesus, a world ravenous for money, power and pleasure does not make room for the little ones, for the so many unborn, poor and forgotten children,” the pope said, reading his homily with a voice that sounded tired and almost hoarse. “I think above all of the children devoured by war, poverty and injustice.”

 

[1689Dave]

Your eyes see but do not perceive.

Austria, France, Poland, south Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Latvia, Slovenia, and Croatia, are all Catholic majority nations.

Many Protestants in the prosperous lands. What about the impoverished Catholic nations?

 

[MoreCoffee]

Many Protestants in the prosperous lands. What about the impoverished Catholic nations?

Pray for the poor that they may have sufficient and be blessed by the Lord.

And give to them what you are able to give for the relief of their poverty.

 

[1689Dave]

Pray for the poor that they may have sufficient and be blessed by the Lord.

I preach the Sermon on the Mount as a career choice. If followed, it will provide an abundance of basic needs.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I preach the Sermon on the Mount as a career choice. If followed, it will provide an abundance of basic needs.

It is laudable to preach the words of Christ in that sermon, more laudable is to live them, and more laudable still it is to help those who are in need.

 

[1689Dave]

It is laudable to preach the words of Christ in that sermon, more laudable is to live them, and more laudable still it is to help those who are in need.

Have you put the sermon into practice? Do you sell or give up your resources? Give a guy a dollar, and feed him for a day. Teach the Sermon, and feed him for a lifetime.