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Crash2Parties

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30. And in that year...
Tue Apr 29, 2014, 06:34 PM
Apr 2014

He has *personally* excommunicated several priests who dared to speak out against the oppression of women and LGBT people. He also *personally* spent time with a Bishop in Spain to encourage him to give a strong sermon against allowing gay people to adopt.

And then there are all those North American and African Bishops who, if the apologists are to be believed, must've gone completely rogue with their efforts to harm gay people.

At some point, Catholics and everyone else are going to have to open their eyes and realize that Pope Prettywords is just working the crowd with his PR schtick. The words he has spoken were intentionally vague; the actions have served to further the oppression of women and LGBT people.

And he has done *nothing* to actually fix the problem of the child raping priests and the Church's protection of the same.

Instead he focuses on the message of helping the poor. Funny, with all the hospitals the Church has bought lately in order to have control over women's health and end-of-life medical decisions, I don't see them offering free health care to the poor. Likewise I see them running soup kitchens and shelters, but only under very lucrative US Government "faith based initiative" contracts...

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Amazing how the GOP links itsef to Christianity... marew Apr 2014 #1
Right-Wingers are doing their best to get the votes of the religious people from the Bible Belt. I Cal33 Apr 2014 #4
So all people are equal now, huh, Pope? So I guess your Churh is going to treat women Arugula Latte Apr 2014 #2
He's been in office only a year, and he's already accomplished a lot. Give him some time. Cal33 Apr 2014 #6
Why are you not calling on him to speak out against the Ugandan pogrom his Bishops Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #8
This is something pretty new. Maybe he will. Who knows? Give him time and see what happens. n/t Cal33 Apr 2014 #11
No, it is not 'pretty new'. The law has been on the books for two months now, it was Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #13
I agree. Even one day is not acceptable. But I don't know what's going on in Pope Francis' Cal33 Apr 2014 #16
It has to be hard work, crafting excuses for evil. He could fire the Bishops doing this. Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #19
Quick aside ... Nihil Apr 2014 #27
You are correct. John Paul I. Cal33 Apr 2014 #29
After taking money from banks and corporations Tempest Apr 2014 #3
the filty rich pope and his obscenely wealthy church talk about inequality? ok nt msongs Apr 2014 #5
This is one of the things Pope Francis is trying to change. He appointed a group Cal33 Apr 2014 #9
The Ugandan Bishops are persecuting gay people. Francis says nothing. Here is a letter Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #10
I sure hope Pope Francis will speak out soon, the sooner the better. As for the well educated Cal33 Apr 2014 #14
The words you think are mine belong to a person being persecuted in Uganda, it is he Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #15
I'm just feeling sorry for a 77-year-old man taking on such an enormous task as Cal33 Apr 2014 #18
I feel sorry for the victims of that old man's criminal cohort, his subordinates who Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #20
You are assuming that Pope Francis knows about every wrong that's going on in his Cal33 Apr 2014 #21
Seriously, you must be kidding. theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #24
It's a pretty big church with 1.2 billion followers all around the world. That's one-sixth Cal33 Apr 2014 #25
So basically, your objections appears to be that the Pope's priorities are not the same as yours Fortinbras Armstrong May 2014 #33
And in that year... Crash2Parties Apr 2014 #30
What about the Ugandan LGBT people whom his Bishops and followers are attacking Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #7
I believe the topic of the post is income inequality. mmonk Apr 2014 #28
Both the title and the Francis Superstar's 'tweet' say simply 'inequality'. Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #31
Francis fans are defined by their inability to so much as acknowledge the horrific things Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #12
Results of Alert stevenleser Apr 2014 #26
Nice to see a whole jury unwillig to play patsy cake with genocide Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #32
Ya, and I'm sure if he could force men to carry fetuses to term cprise Apr 2014 #17
Perfect. Phlem Apr 2014 #22
Rush Limbaugh Was In Pope Bashing Mode... TomCADem Apr 2014 #23
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