Jesus Christ lived in poverty. He was the evangelizer of the poor. Yes, He encouraged spirituality over possessions, having little or none Himself. What a shining example He set; the embodiment of humility, love and compassion. He got his hands dirty healing the sick and He dined with the lowly and sinner alike. A beautiful example of God's mercy.So how in holy hell is this person setting an example for the masses?
The Pope stands in front of a crowd in golden silk robes, having arrived in a plush private jet from his palace afar that glistens with gilded marble halls adorned with priceless works of art and all the beautiful objects of a charmed life hypocrisy...his falsely conceived freedom...
Pot, meet kettle.
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Pope links prosperity with spreading 'spiritual desert'
July 20, 2008 - CBC News - As he wrapped up a visit to Australia on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI warned a crowd of 400,000 young people that a feeling of spiritual emptiness often accompanies material wealth. He urged them to avoid the pitfalls of prosperity as he led an outdoor mass for pilgrims who had gathered for the Roman Catholic church's six-day World Youth Day festival in Sydney. "In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair," the pontiff said. The Pope referred to the modern world’s “hard crust of indifference” to God and said the world “wants to forget God, or even reject him in the name of a falsely conceived freedom.” He urged followers to throw off indifference and embrace a new age free from "shallowness, apathy and self-absorption," which he said "deadens our souls and poisons our relationships." “A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God’s gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished — not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed,” the Pope told the crowd. The pope, 81, also announced that Madrid, Spain, would host the next World Youth Day in 2011 and told the pilgrims that he looks forward to being there in three years. The mass came a day after the pope made an apology for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, keeping up efforts begun in the United States to publicly atone for what he called "evil" acts by priests and a "grave betrayal of trust."
2 comments:
As usual, you hit the nail right on the head. Oddly, the claim to represent and speak for Christ and yet live antithetically to Who He Was.
Yes, the Pope of the Ermine Cape and red Italian leather shoes, dwelling in marble corridors, is hard to take seriously when he preaches to those of us trying to fill our gas tanks.
AMEN! I know I am one of those peasants who clutch my chest and have a heartastroke whenever I fill my tank. Yeah, the prosperity of the working class is overwhelmingly blinding in this economy.
Maybe instead he should take a more positive approach and encourage and preach brotherhood and community in sharing car rides and being kind to God's earth in this economic crisis.
The best hiding place for the "Antichrist" is among the flock. No one looks there.
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