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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstwo great things about the new pope
1) he's used to being completely ignored and humiliated by the civil authorities in his country!!!!
2) he seems to somewhat believe that the church should be serving the poor rather than lording it over them
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two great things about the new pope (Original Post)
Fresh_Start
Mar 2013
OP
being as the church is obscenely wealthy, will he sell the vatican art and use the funds to
msongs
Mar 2013
#1
Don't bother people who think their own ignorance does not matter, Fresh_Start. nt
patrice
Mar 2013
#5
He wants to fight poverty -- great! Can't wait for the Church to embrace birth control!
Arugula Latte
Mar 2013
#6
msongs
(67,405 posts)1. being as the church is obscenely wealthy, will he sell the vatican art and use the funds to
do anything to help "poor" people?
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)2. Yes, he even housed the poor political prisoners in his vacation home.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)3. He's still a bitgot/homophobe
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)4. He also helped the military junta of Argentina.
He's just another pope in the long string of right-wing ass-kissers.
patrice
(47,992 posts)5. Don't bother people who think their own ignorance does not matter, Fresh_Start. nt
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)6. He wants to fight poverty -- great! Can't wait for the Church to embrace birth control!
Any day now!
patrice
(47,992 posts)7. And if the poor don't CHOOSE birth control, they don't deserve help? If I find myself working on a
community service project, shoulder to shoulder, with someone who meets my personal criteria for being anti-fascist and, yet, whom I know is an advocate for CHOICE, even when that choice is to have a baby that I'd never bring into this world, what should I do?
patrice
(47,992 posts)8. What's the most fundamental issue? a root cause?