Afflicting the comfortable
By Adelle Chua | Dec. 08, 2013 at 12:01am
... At the onset, the Argentine Jose Maria Bergoglio or Pope Francis distinguished himself from many other Church leaders in ways both mundane and remarkable. Even after he was chosen Pope, he settled his own hotel bill, rode in a van alongside other cardinals and even personally called his newsboy back home to say he wouldn’t be having his paper delivered anymore. The telephone operator thought it was all a prank ...
The wealth does not really trickle down. “The powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized -- without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape” ...
When the Pope said “the thirst for power and possessions knows no limits,” he could have said “the sky is blue” or that “night follows day.” And if it can jolt millions of comfortable, complacent Catholics to think of their faith as more than an affiliation, it would suffice, today ...
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