Pope's Pronouncements - Bulls--t.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Unless you are willing to go out and demand living wages in the world you can play that poverty shit all you want. Unless you are willing to go out and demand social and economic justice and drop all the cultural bullshit, then STFU. I am sorry to seem so disrespectful, but I am so sick of all this Kabuki theater.

The churches can spout all the concern for the poor they want. But if you do not demand that business act morally and pay honest wages your pronouncements are meaningless. A good job with decent pay is the best poverty program there is.

The churches are a bunch of cowards, because the second they challenge corporations and CEO's over fairness the GOP will jerk "tax exemption" from them so fast their heads would spin.

And until the Church is willing to turn its pedophile priests over to the authorities they can sit on it.

As an ex Catholic I am tired of all the whining about poor people when you won't pressure businesses to pay their fair share and create decent jobs. The New Testament was about social justice. I don't see any skinny Cardinals.

[Mnemosyne]

1. Amen. nt

[MNBrewer]

2. And this

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. What Set Me Off Was - Unless You Accept Christ You Are Accepting The Devil.

What crap. If you really accepted Christ you would be going after the damned money changers. You would go after the RW fundy bastards selling the Bible for financial empire instead of empowering them and being their ally.

Who is the loudest mouth about getting rid of the safety net. The GOP and fundynutzie churches. Who is pushing starving women and children. The same fundynutzies.

[eomer]

8. What set you off where? Did the new Pope say that?

I checked the official text of his remarks and don't see it. Or did he speak a second time already? (I don't watch "news" on the teevee so maybe I missed it.)

[TheMastersNemesis]

9. I Believe There Was A Brief Bit Of Audio On CBS News On Progressive Radio.

[eomer]

10. OK, thanks, so he did say that.

Here is a story with the quote:

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/pope-francis-visits-ancient-basilica-in-rome/2013/03/14/f4e6446c-8c85-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_story.html

[stevenleser]

4. And he is not going to do that as he specifically rejected a Catholic movement along those lines

He rejected Liberation theology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology which was moving throughout Latin America during his time as a priest/bishop/cardinal.

[randome]

5. Not to mention the luxurious surroundings the Pope-sters maintain for themselves.

And the Cardinals. And all the rest of that hierarchy.

[Dawson Leery]

6. The RCC along with the evangelicals have openly campaigned for

politicians who protect the powerful at the expense of the working class.
This Pope has done the same. His words are empty as well as is actions. He has done nothing to deal with the macro-policies which affect the ability of people to live.

[JanMichael]

7. And all I did was tell the Catholics "I am sorry"

and I got piled on. Sadly, I couldn't see most of the thread because so many posters that responded were already on "ignore." Out of over 70 responses....I think I saw three.