Pope to church benefactors: We don’t need your blood money
Source: WaPo/AP
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis has a message for church benefactors: The church doesnt want your money if it comes from exploited workers.
Francis railed against employers who mistreat and underpay their workers during his general audience Wednesday. Its a theme the Jesuit pope has frequently emphasized, denouncing how the wealthy exploit the poor and working class for their own profit, often subjecting workers to slave-like conditions.
Francis told the crowd in a sunny St. Peters Square that when he thinks about church benefactors who offer donations that are fruit of the blood of exploited workers, he tells them: Please, take your checks back and burn them.
He added: The people of God and the church dont need dirty money. They need hearts that are open to the mercy of God.
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FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Just kidding but I like the direction he is taking the church
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Warts and all, I still have issues with the church about sex and gender, but not fake.
ian cameron dromore
(29 posts)For the first time in a long while it seems that he is tackling some issues that never would have been approached before
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)ever heard a Pope like this one before. He is a good man on the issues of poverty.
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)John H. Schnatter ( Papa John's)
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)too ingrained
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)He has shown the world he sees it as being far more than a colossal popularity contest within the Church.
Never ceases to amaze.
Thank you, bemildred.