Pope Blames Refugee Crisis On ‘God Of Money’
Pope Francis says an unjust socioeconomic system has led to the refugee crisis.
In an interview with Portugal-based Radio Renascença aired yesterday, Pope Francis declared that the current refugee crisis in Europe is being caused by a “bad, unjust” socio-economic system that worships “the god of money.”
In the interview, where questions were posed in Portuguese and the responses were given by Pope Francis in Spanish, the pontiff said coveting money will bring about both human and ecological ruin
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Jimmy Smith September 14th, 2015 at 23:44
And he will be pilloried in the RW hate bubble for saying this because their Jebus is a free market capitalist who hates the poor
rg9rts September 15th, 2015 at 04:52
You a member of the Jim Smith Club??
bpollen September 15th, 2015 at 04:50
Mammon did it!
rg9rts September 15th, 2015 at 04:51
Mars and Aries are more likely candidates
Southern Logic September 15th, 2015 at 11:24
Well Pope seems that the ones that have the God Of Money are the refugees that are coming to America to get more of it.
Bunya September 15th, 2015 at 14:01
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/vatican_billions.htm
Sorry pontiff, but isn’t that a little like the pot calling the kettle black?
arc99 September 15th, 2015 at 14:45
After browsing your link, I went to the full text of the interview with the Pope.
Pope Francis is certainly a more saintly man than I could ever be. He is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. If he continued business as usual by the Church, he would be condemned by the usual critics of the Vatican. When he makes small steps to change things for the better, the response is to be reminded of past transgressions by the Church.
If I were the Pope, I would just say f*ck it.
Centuries of practices at the Vatican will not be changed overnight.
I am not sure what point is being made by the article you cited other than to highlight the fact that many of the events happened centuries before Pope Francis was born. Not much he could have done about those events.
In the same interview, Pope Francis also talked about where refugees could live.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full-text-of-pope-francis-interview-with-portuguese-radio-station-44460/
Miguel: But the ideal (situation) would be that they don’t need to flee, that they stay in their land, right?
Pope Francis: That’s right.
Miguel: Holy Father, in the Sunday Angelus, you made this challenge of a widespread welcome. Are there reactions? What do you expect concretely?
Pope Francis: What I asked was this: that every parish, every religious institute, every monastery welcome a family. A family, not a person. A family gives more assurance of stability, a little to avoid infiltrations of another type. When I speak of a parish welcoming a family, I’m not saying they’re going to live at the rectory, at the parish residence, but that the parish community sees to it there is a place, a corner of a school to make a “small apartment” or, in the worst case, rent a modest apartment for the family, but that they have a roof, to be welcomed, and that they are integrated into the community. And there were many reactions. Many, many, right? There are convents that are almost empty.
Bunya September 15th, 2015 at 15:11
Then he could start with forcing Cardinal Dolan out of his $34 million mansion and into a rectory, making room for the refugees. There are many of these Vatican-owned mansions around the country, but Dolan’s is the most expensive I’ve seen so far. Next, he can sell all those Catholic hospitals to secularists, making them safe for women again. There is no doubt that the Vatican is sitting on a ton of money – just not enough to pay the therapy costs for all the children the priests have molested.