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applegrove

(118,648 posts)
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 10:28 PM Aug 2014

"Pope Frank Is Sounding Like A Commie Again"

Pope Frank Is Sounding Like A Commie Again

by Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/pope-frank-sounding-damned-commie-again

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Pope Frank is really taking this religion thing seriously:


Long a champion of the poor and vulnerable, Pope Francis went one step further during the Sunday Angelus message at the Vatican when he told his followers that, “Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own,” according to the National Catholic Register. “Our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life," he added.

Pope Francis denounced unnecessary luxuries early on in his career, choosing to drive a humble Ford Focus rather than a more opulent car, living in the Vatican guesthouse rather than the Apostolic Palace, and famously declaring, "Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor."

The rest of the Angelus focused on the parable of Jesus feeding the multitudes with loaves and fishes. “Compassion, sharing, Eucharist: This is the path Jesus indicates for us in this Gospel,” he said, according to Today's Catholic News. “It is a path that leads us to face the needs of this world with brotherhood, but one that leads us beyond this world because it starts with God the father and returns to him.”


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"Pope Frank Is Sounding Like A Commie Again" (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2014 OP
That is totally going to get his ass Assinated. /nt dballance Aug 2014 #1
Amen. gateley Aug 2014 #2
Yup. He and Putin both hate gays...nt SidDithers Aug 2014 #3
matthew 25: 31-45 is all you need. roguevalley Aug 2014 #4
If he keeps talking without making some edicts BrotherIvan Aug 2014 #5
Pope reinstates Revolutionary Marxist Priest in Nicaragua Ichingcarpenter Aug 2014 #6

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
5. If he keeps talking without making some edicts
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 04:43 AM
Aug 2014

Those under him will just keep on doing what they're doing. He needs to do something or become ineffectual.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
6. Pope reinstates Revolutionary Marxist Priest in Nicaragua
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 05:14 AM
Aug 2014

Pope reinstates Revolutionary Marxist Priest in Nicaragua


Pope Francis Reinstates Father Miguel D'Escoto, Suspended For Involvement In Nicaraguan Revolution. He is still a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), a political movement rooted in Marxist philosophy and which once had ties to the Soviet Communist party.





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/04/pope-francis-father-miguel-descoto_n_5647650.html
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