Pope says economic crisis requires brotherhood

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http://news.yahoo.com/pope-says-economic-crisis-requires-brotherhood-125914498.html


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Benedict also expressed concern in a speech at the Vatican Thursday that there is a risk that hope will diminish amid the growing troubles, including the uncertainty that young people feel amid the economic crisis.

"Humanity is searching for signs of hope," he said.

Benedict lamented what he called the "divide" between wealthy and poor nations, and the harm many people are suffering to their dignity. He cautioned that helping the needy means more than feeding the hungry — people must explore the causes of hunger, he said.

Benedict was speaking to members of the Italian branch of Caritas, a Catholic charity.
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the vatican is like a dragon's den. the pope and his buddies sit on top of a vast wealth.

and what's with 'brotherhood'? the women/children of the world feel the economic crisis way more then men do.

[Ilsa]

1. Ignoring the sisterhood, the Pope proclaims women must continue in servitude

to men, bearing more children than they can support, forcing many into greater poverty.

Maybe he'd feel more compassion towards women if he was sexually and emotionally involved with one (unless he's gay). I realize that not every man needs that to feel something for the other sex, but maybe he does.

[rug]

2. He's correct.

That's a correct statement regardless of who made it.

[Snotcicles]

3. I agree. nt

[Maccagirl]

4. Lip service by Benedict. He will personally do nothing to bring

more hope to the young, poor and powerless, or to change inequality. It's just like whenever a war starts, the pope (whoever it is) decries the violence and hate and "prays" for peace. Nothing ever changes.

[saras]

5. When the Pope says brotherhood, I think Cain and Abel

[Huey P. Long]

6. excerpt- Huey Long's Share Our Wealth Speech

I refer to the Scriptures, now, my friends, and give you what it says not for the purpose of convincing you of the wisdom of myself, not for the purpose, ladies and gentlemen, of convincing you of the fact that I am quoting the Scriptures means that I am to be more believed than someone else; but I quote you the Scripture, or rather refer you to the Scripture, because whatever you see there you may rely upon will never be disproved so long as you or your children or anyone may live; and you may further depend upon the fact that not one historical fact that the Bible has ever contained has ever yet been disproved by any scientific discovery or by reason of anything that has been disclosed to man through his own individual mind or through the wisdom of the Lord which the Lord has allowed him to have.

But the Scripture says, ladies and gentlemen, that no country can survive, or for a country to survive it is necessary that we keep the wealth scattered among the people, that nothing should keep the wealth scattered among the people, that nothing should be held permanently by any one person, and that 50 years seems to be the year of jubilee in which all property would be scattered about and returned to the sources from which it originally came, and every seventh year debt should be remitted.

Those two things the Almighty said to be necessary—I should say He knew to be necessary, or else He would not have so prescribed that the property would be kept among the general run of the people, and that everyone would continue to share in it; so that no one man would get half of it and hand it down to a son, who takes half of what was left, and that son hand it down to another one, who would take half of what was left, until, like a snowball going downhill, all of the snow was off of the ground except what the snowball had.

I believe that was the judgment and the view and the law of the Lord, that we would have to distribute wealth ever so often, in order that there could not be people starving to death in a land of plenty, as there is in America today.

http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth-speech.php