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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe pope "kissed and washed" the feet of 12 AIDS patients in 2001 (w/ video)
As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he showed compassion for the victims of HIV-AIDS and in 2001, visited a hospice to kiss and wash the feet of 12 AIDS patients.
In 2008, the Catholic News Agency reported that Bergoglio washed the feet of 12 recovering drug addicts at a rehabilitation center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is from. YouTube video apparently shows photographs from the event.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57574195/pope-francis-sympathy-to-drug-addicts-aids-victims/
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)condoleeza
(814 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)that is where reason comes into the equation.
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)that his position made an exception in the case of condoms for disease prevention..
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)9. He also believes condom can be permissible to prevent disease
http://allafrica.com/stories/201303140358.html
woodsprite
(11,854 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)opposing condoms.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Drug addicts.
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)"As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he showed compassion for the victims of HIV-AIDS and in 2001, visited a hospice to kiss and wash the feet of 12 AIDS patients."
Are you saying it's inaccurate?
Control-Z
(15,681 posts)other than to have possibly made the people "feel" better (that someone had paid attention to them - or had appeared to care,) I have to ask, did he kiss and wash? Or did he wash and then kiss? Big difference. Seriously.
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)But it looks like wash first. The video is really a photo slide-show
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Said he did that with recovering drug addicts.
Spanish is my mother tongue.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...runs
Puhleez....
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)I think some people are determined to hate no matter the reality. They are determined to believe he is some sort of war criminal hypocrite (which is a dubious story anyway), but are unwilling to accept that his biography is more complicated.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... if this post isn't about trying to boost the image of the guy, despite the positions he has taken, and the awful positions and things The RCC has and still does take and does, then what is it about?
Seriously, how fucking dumb do you think people are? You think we're as stooooopid as Teabaggers?
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)I haven't seen this posted previously.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)You really do think people are stupid, don't you?
Pa-fucking-thetic.
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)Some just can't do anything about it.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)because it opposes condoms!
Thank you SO MUCH for this! I feel GREAT about this Pope and this fine institution now!
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...(not that that is a new trait in the catholic church - See Hitler's Pope) and whilst he may have bathed the feet of 12 people with AIDS, what about the millions that his organisation has sent to their agonizing deaths because they won't allow contraception?
His partaking in a display of public humility absolves neither him, nor the organisation he now heads for the untold suffering of MILLIONS of people throughout the world, and throughout history...
Dpm12
(512 posts)Just screwing around
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)I'm not religious but have always had an interest in all religions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_washing
Because I have a scholarly interests in religion and cultures it precludes me from mocking or deriding them. Not that I would anyway.
Iggo
(47,489 posts)Go Pope!
MattBaggins
(7,894 posts)Keep your lips off of people and put on some fucking gloves.
LeftinOH
(5,342 posts)Response to Renew Deal (Original post)
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Lint Head
(15,064 posts)cleaning their bottoms. Why is it is big deal when someone of privilege does it? I know very well the story of Christ washing feet but that was Christ not someone pretending to be Christ like. If he is doing it in honor of Jesus and Mary why doesn't he give at least 250 billion dollars of the 500 billion dollars that the church is worth to the poor in honor of Jesus. Jesus said to take the very clothes from your body and give it to the poor. He also said the poor will be with us always. But, the majority of poverty could be eliminated with 250 billion dollars. It could create clean water, provide health care among many things and the church would still be worth 250 billion dollars. It's time for the church to invest in people instead of real estate.
If a major dent was made in poverty the church would lose a cause.