Pope to global elite: Do more for poor
Source: CNN
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Pope Francis has challenged the world's business elite to do more to help the poor and vulnerable.
In an address read by Cardinal Peter Turkson at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics said it was intolerable that thousands die each day from hunger.
The pope urged leaders to adopt a new "political and business mentality" and to put their skills to work for the benefit of those living in dire poverty.
"I ask you to ensure humanity is served by wealth and not ruled by it," he said.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/21/news/pope-speech-davos/index.html
Berlum
(7,044 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)think that they only need to do more for the poor who belong to their own church. The visit with President Obama should help to clarify that issue.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Seen this go on many times.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)all along. We are a very liberal church and many of the food programs are administered out of our family room. Also other programs such as AA.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)and presented me an award in their church. That's when I left.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)characterizations he has offered to and about LGBT couples and families. Here he is consolatory, but with LGBT people he has been absolutely venomous, accusing us of being demonic and all sorts of strident nonsense. It is very telling.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)Poverty will not be eliminated on the whims of the rich. The world's resources belong to everyone, not a tiny fraction of the population. "Wealth" doesn't drive economic activity, human labor does.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)to reduce poverty! Oh, but I guess that undermines the church's essential mission, which is to stomp down women.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Vatican has untold wealth it has horded over the ages,,, maybe it should lead the way on using it's wealth for the Poor!
cinnabonbon
(860 posts)So I like him for that and his passion in protecting the poor. I just hope that he'll turn around on some other issues that are important to me.
malthaussen
(17,186 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)Many acknowledge and welcome Pope Francis' redirect the Church's focus to the fundamental teaching of Jesus. However the hypocrisy and the massive abuse of children that was systematically covered up can not be easily dispelled. The redirection of the Catholic Church's rigid interpretations and stringent doctrines on a number of issues appears to make it virtually impossible to reexamine the Church's position on a number of critical issues any time in the near future.
The Tea Party extremists remind me of the same danger they share with the Catholic Church of taking positions that do not allow for any deviation or possible compromise. The question remains can the Catholic Church change its positions on these fundamental issues and remain the Catholic Church. Its positions on these so called immutable issues indeed is the very definition of itself. Timeless and unchanging.
The only choice for many Catholics was not to remain and hopelessly cling to the notion that the Church would change its views, but, often with a sad heart to simply abandon the Church. Some left in anger, some, including clergy and nuns, disillusioned by the dashed hope that had been fostered by Vatican II, and the massive exodus of young people who simply see the church as totally irrelevant to their lifestyles and needs. A large portion of those who remain simply choose to want to belief and what the simple ignore. Francis has an impossible task and is a prisoner of the very doctrines that define who and what he is.