Should Pope Francis sell the family jewels?

the United States Government is an org has quite a history of coverups and some crimes they are willing to take credit for that I can fax to you.

You don't say! Hold up, I'll give you my PO box.

Since when is the Pope "unelected"? Just 'cause you didn't get a vote...

yes, be a card

PF a better propagandist against climate change than President Gas has been for 6.5 years

"Better" how? In the sense of "more likely to have his empty rhetoric actually lead to concrete action"? Not fucking likely. Nobody listens to the Pope about anything. They just smile (or grimace) and (rhetorically) pat him on the head and go about their business. He's got all the power and influence of the Dalai Lama; he's a photo op.

I'm never clear on whether the Pope is the leader of one of the oldest and widest spread organisations in the world, who is responsive for all kinds of things including AIDS in Africa and overpopulation, or if he is just a soft, impotent do-hooded who moons listens to anyway.

Do-gooder, who no one listens to

Nobody listens to Obama about anything, but that's a small victory

and again, concrete action doesn't matter as it's too late

If you want empty rhetoric to lead to concrete action in this world prepare to get in a very long line.

誤訳侮辱, Bill McKibben seems to think there's power and influence

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/19/two_cheers_for_pope_francis_im_no_fan_of_the_catholic_church_but_the_climate_movement_needs_it/

Well, Bill McKibben - he would know. I mean, his books sell in the hundreds of copies.

who are you, again?

someone who doesn't see the difference in trading one purported moral witness for another

i wish i wanted to figure that out.

a Democratic Catholic: "The pope is NOT PERFECT, but..."

I'm glad the pontiff has sided with scientists regarding the damage we're doing to the earth, but I don't understand why his word matters as much or more than any other politician. He also adduced abortion as environmental chaos in action, so, yay, I guess. Once in a while he says stuff I agree with, like Obama or Bernie Sanders or Beyonce.

no one's looking for more, and i'm glad you left off George Clooney

It matters because US politicians are always waving the faith flag as the ultimate moral foundation for their positions. It may not change the way things are done right now but progressive/positive statements from the Pope do underline how full of crap that often is.

The message all of this is sending is that faith is not something defined by one person, politician or Pope, which is a good message to send imo.

My differences w/Clooney concern men's magazine editors.

more for top man to fold his arms to:

Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.

"If you trust only men you have lost," he told the young people in a long, rambling talk about war, trust and politics after putting aside his prepared address.

"It makes me think of ... people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn't it?" he said to applause.

He also criticized those who invest in weapons industries, saying "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another."

http://news.yahoo.com/pope-says-weapons-manufacturers-cant-call-themselves-christian-184139430.html

There was an amazing letter to the editor in my local paper complaining about Pope Francis falling for the neo-pagan global warming hoax.

http://i58.tinypic.com/33aqbmv.jpg

selling the family jewels

I hope this gives Rick Santorum a stroke.

Seeing "Rick Santorum" and "stroke" appearing in the same sentence is surprisingly satisfying.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/pope-francis-i-have-felt-used-by-fake-friends?CMP=edit_2221

this is too perfect

big Joan Jett fan

"The Bible says to have one or two friends.”

jeez i'm a better Christian than i realized!

Echoing the bold appeal to care for the planet he issued in a sweeping encyclical in June, the pope condemned humankind’s “abuse of creation”.

“We’re not friends of creation. Sometimes we treat it like our worst enemy. Think of deforestation, misuse of water, methods of extracting minerals with elements like arsenic and cyanide that end up making people sick,” he said.

Of fundamentalists, he said: “Their mission is to destroy in the name of an idea, not a reality ... They kill, attack, destroy, malign in the name of an ideological god.”

if only we could get him to support women priests and drive-thru abortions.

Give him a few more years.

DRIVE-thru morbs have you not been fucking listening at ALL???????

so this is happening literally in my neighborhood. traffic already getting crazy. they told residents to buy all their groceries beforehand bc it's gonna be like a snowstorm hit and apparently i have to carry id w address so i can get through barricaded areas to get home. i will give updates if any of them are interesting.

On Sunday, Pope Francis did some off-script advice-giving to “existentially sad” Millennials in Cuba. One gem: “In Argentina, we say, ‘Don’t be wimpy.’”

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/pope-francis-advice-to-millennials-cuba/406435/

is the pope offering free conversions?

are there any photos w/ Fidel?

They were covering the Pope's arrival on the radio driving home, and all I could think was "This would be a great time for my Yamaha spot."

I don't know anything about religion.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4gU5aghpxEk/Ves5a1wOpdI/AAAAAAAANk8/7Su2-n_e704/s1600/Francisco%252C%2Bel%2Bpadre%2BJorge.%2BPel%25C3%25ADcula%2B560.jpg

everywhere around me, posters

il papa copter about to land 500 feet below us, everyone at the windows

such a lot of fuss over a CEO

saw him for about 5 secs, tiny Argentinian snowflake

Did you heckle him?

double pane of glass, 500 ft etc

plus Obama has landed there and he's actually killed, i didnt get up from my seat for that shit

well, Francis has forgiven pedophiles, so they cancel each other out before Minos.

Not sure if this belongs in things that should be Onion articles or not. You could have told me this was a new song from The Who and I would believe you.

http://pitchfork.com/news/61369-pope-francis-to-release-rock-album-shares-first-song-wake-up-go-go-forward/

Well until the latin(?) singing.

would pay to hear francis sing "we're not gonna take it"

lotta church ladies in lower Manhattan for lunch

And all the old ladies there
Are on their way to church
"Ya goin' to church?!"

how many people here like to take a taste of eucharist

I got no beef with people who take communion. It's a ritual. It's supposed to make symbolic and emotional sense, so of course it's nonsense in terms of purely materialistic rationalism, but then, materialistic rationalism is just boring when it's not being actively annoying.