Pope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings (tags)
Pope Francis urged international cooperation to tackle environmental crises, in a document released today. Laudate Deum – which in Latin means “Praise God” – is a follow-up to his 2015 Laudato Si, the most comprehensive Encyclical on climate and the environment.
Critique of religion and market religion and Post-colonialism (tags)
Critique of religion as critique of fetishism is a critique of earthly gods, which are false gods. "Man is the highest being for man." Marx develops it further in other words and formulates his idea of the liberation of man in the Communist Manifesto.
There is an alternative to maximizing profits (tags)
In a new encyclical, the Pope denounces the pursuit of profit. The Sonntagszeitung spoke about this with the business ethicist Peter Ulrich. He defends the Holy Father, criticizes the managers and calls for economy for fifth graders..Financial products seek to make money out of money, without the inconvenient real economy.
Pope Francis and World Leaders Call for Inclusive Economy (tags)
Pope Francis addressed a small group of Finance Ministers, the head of the IMF and noted economists urging the creation of new global debt and tax policies that can reduce inequality and end poverty.
The Great Ecumene of the Churches against Capitalism (tags)
"This economy kills!" The pope and the great ecumene of 350 churches reject the neoliberal economy of exclusion. Persons are reduced to consumers and then thrown away as trash.
Pope Francis: Mauritius Reject "Idolatrous Economic Model" (tags)
Reject your "idolatrous economic model," were the words Pope Francis addressed Mauritius' political leaders with on Monday.
It is time to champion a basic right to housing and ensure its reality. "An authentic faith that is never comfortable and individualistic always includes the deep desire to change the world," wrote Pope Francis.
Texas Can Call it An Execution,But It is A State Sponsored Murder of Hank Skinner.. (tags)
Pope Francis,please send over healers from the Catholic church with discernment ability to get this poor man Greg Abbott a deliverance from his demons, before they murder Hank Skinner..
Refused sharing and rediscovery of sharing are signs of this time. "This economy kills." So Pope Francis judges socio-economic conditions. Taxing the rich is vital. With additional revenue, workers would not feel threatened by immigrants
Pope Francis' Jubilee Year Begins (tags)
Pope Francis began the Catholic Church's "Jubilee Year of Mercy" at St. Peter's Square with a public mass and ceremony attended by 50,000 people. Pope Francis opened a "Holy Door" at St. Peter's Basilica to officially launch the year-long celebration with its themes of mercy and solidarity for the poor.
Pope Francis Calls for UN to Address "Oppressive" Lending (tags)
Obama's Duplicitous Remarks Welcoming Pope Francis (tags)
Obama
Pope Francis Will Not Fall For Lies Jerry Brown (tags)
California residents are being taken for a bunch of fools by Governor Jerry Brown & wife's political cabal. CAP & Trade's hundreds of billion$ being given to political cronies was the real plan from the very formation of this state legislation.
Pope Francis Calls for Global Bankruptcy Process (tags)
Pope Francis called for an international bankruptcy process in a news conference as he left Latin America on Monday. According to the Associated Press, when asked about the Greek debt crisis, Francis stated, "if a company can declare bankruptcy, why can't a country do so and we go to the aid of others?" Francis offered further comments noting that too many countries are struggling with high debts and he suggested a United Nations bankruptcy proposal could be the solution.
Pope Francis: Pope Of The Poor, Of Mother Earth, Of Prisoners (tags)
Pope Francis is working to make the Catholic church a church for the poor.
Pope Francis in Ecuador (tags)
Ecuador
It's Not Just Climate - Pope Francis Is Also Warning About The Health Of Our Oceans (tags)
In his 222-page encyclical, Pope Francis warned about (1) the polar plight, (2) sea level rise, (3) ocean-bound water pollution, (4) ocean acidification, (5) overfishing and (6) loss of marine biodiversity.
Capitalism and War: Pope Francis (tags)
Pope Francis was interviewed by the “la Vanguardia” newspaper from Catalonia. In the dialogue, Francis spoke about the state of reforms in the Vatican, Benedict’s retirement and prayer for peace on Pentecost.
Human rights groups close ranks after Pope urges UN resist Culture of Death. (tags)
Human rights group members ignore posts in which Pope urges UN to resist Culture of Death and UN Watch reports the rise of repressive States to prominent UN positions.
Global Jubilee Movement Meets Pope Francis (tags)
Pope Francis welcomed members of the global Jubilee movement to the Vatican on Wednesday as they were received for high level meetings with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The Catholic Church, various Christian Churches, Jewish groups and trade unions founded the global Jubilee campaign that successfully cancelled more than 130 billion dollars in sovereign debt and has won tax policies to benefit people living in the poorest countries of the world.
Structural Weaknesses of Capitalism (tags)
Ignorance and ideology replaced facts and economic fairness under Reagan. Reagan appealed to the Laffer curve and argued tax cuts bring higher revenues, He confused investment and speculation, SROs and SUVs, militarism and security and decried government as the problem.
Capitalism as a Secularized Religion (tags)
It is never too early or too late to challenge the dominant narrative. Capitalism is a fetish social formation, a demolishing of being not a reform of being. Capitalism may be the first case of an indebted cult, not an atoning cult, possibly the most bloodthirsty cult of humanity's history.
Billy Graham: Pro Christ or Anti Christ (tags)
Billy Graham was more a representative of the imperial American elite than a follower of the meek and humble Jesus. He comforted every president for 70 years in their shameful Korean War, Vietnam War and Iraq War. Fast cleaning and Graham soap marked "God's machine gun."
Pope Francis Sends Poverty Message with Selection of New Cardinals (tags)
Yesterday, Pope Francis appointed nineteen new Cardinals from around the world. Sixteen of the nineteen are eligible to vote for the next Pope. There were no new Cardinals selected from the United States.
Pope Francis Fukushima Anti Nuclear Pro Environment Tirade (tags)
Pope Francis Fukushima Anti Nuclear Pro Environment Tirade
This economy kills!: Pope Francis (tags)
The Cold War in internal church policy may be coming to an end. A religion without mysticism is merely a philosophy. Mysticism is a specifically modern form of faith. God's presence is no longer self-evident or plausible to the entire world. Francis' church is a hospital under the open air.
NSA
Video: Bill Moyers - Joblessness is Killing Us (tags)
Moved by the plight of the poor and unemployed, Pope Francis recently decried a global economy that “does us so much harm.” In this essay, Bill Moyers reflects on our broken economy.
"Pope Francis thinks politically" (tags)
"We are a society that has forgotten to cry and to sympathize. The globalization of indifference robs us of the ability to cry." Full of wisdom, the new pope says: "The greatness of a society is measured by how it treats the neediest." Modern society is barbaric, bloodless and cruel.
Pope Francis Concern for Poor Drives Review of Vatican Bank (tags)
Jubilee USA Executive Director Releases Statement on Pope’s Focus on Corruption and Illicit Capital Flight Impacts on Poor
Vatican Changing of the Guard (tags)
Vatican
Yeah But Did Jesus Masturbate? (tags)
So, a Dr. King agrees to look over an ancient piece of papyrus of a certain tested date and qualifies what seems to be a reference to a wife that Jesus might have had.
Despite Shooting Incident Pope Celebrates Mass (tags)
The Vatican was undeterred by an incident earlier in the day in the eastern city of Erfurt on the edge of the security zone in which a man fired an air gun at a security guard about an hour before a papal Mass.
The Prophet and the Professor (tags)
Liberation theology insists the poor are our teachers and the church is not an end-in-itself. The church that serves itself is different than the church that serves the world. The church that wants to return to the 19th century with little interest in social issues is a caricature.
FREEDOM x STATE CONTROLS - A NEW ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE (tags)
t is necessary to resist the prison of Assange with words and actions.
PROTEST THE POPE correct in saying Pope was willing Nazi (tags)
Myth that Pope resisted joining Hitler Youth exposed When I interviewed Berger in April 2005, just after Ratzinger had been elevated to the papacy, he spoke well of Ratzinger's intellect and discipline as a young man. But he said he couldn't understand why Ratzinger had insisted for so long in so many public statements that no one had a choice but to join Hitler Youth.
Massive display of outrage at Papal Visit to UK (tags)
First Protest the Pope event (a debate on the Papal visit) sent a clear message to the Catholic apologists involved. The UK will not tolerate hate cults and does not easily forgive child abuse. The massive crowd exceeded all expectations and were in no mood to hear feeble excuses and hypocritical rhetoric.
Support "Protest the Pope" week (tags)
Support the mass protests in London against the visit of the Pope to the UK. Join the mass march on September 18th or make a donation.
Rape the children..Amen (tags)
And cover it up...Amen
Latest Pedophelia Scandal Rocks the Vatican (tags)
The latest scandal has longstanding roots
and marches in gay parade
And was put in his place
Christianity without Christ (tags)
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) sought to introduce Christianity into Christendom when the state religion had become confortable and indistinguishable from the world. Kierkegaard like Boff calls us to authenticity in a world of reversible cups and self-righteousness.
A Missionary of Ignorance (tags)
The king of arrogance and the missionary of ignorance are part of a frozen elite consciousness of fear and indifferent reason where there are no alter-natives and bankruptcies are just normal business practice. Another world is possible of open arms, not clenched fists!
Sergio Garcia Fined $2M for Horking into the Cup (tags)
This could not go unpunished.
George Bush is Training Christian Suicide Bombers in Germany (tags)
Would you buy a used car from this man?
There is no escape from viewing them against the background of the new Crusade of Bush and his evangelist supporters, with his slogans of "Islamofascism" and the "Global War on Terrorism"--when "terrorism" has become a synonym for Muslims. For Bush's handlers, this is a cynical attempt to justify the domination of the world's oil resources. Not for the first time in history, a religious robe is spread to cover the nakedness of economic interests; not for the first time, a robbers' expedition becomes a Crusade.
The Politics of Pope Rat (tags)
Addressing an academic group assembled at his former university at Regensburg in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI launched into a mystifying homily against Islam. At the height of the diatribe, Pope Benedict quoted a medieval monarch who insulted Islam by stating that Islam was both "evil and inhuman."
Violence was and is not the prerogative of any single religion as the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestine demonstrates. During the Cold War the Vatican, with rare exceptions, supported the imperial wars. Both sides were blessed during the First and Second World wars; the US Cardinal Spellman was a leading warrior in the battles to destroy Communism during the Korean and Vietnam wars. The Vatican later punished the liberation theologists and peasant-priests in Latin America. Some were excommunicated.
Not to be backgrounded in world events, the new Hitler youth Pope of Rome, Ratzinger (by any other name) spouted his ultra-right-wing divisionist diatribes to the world today – are there any Muslims out there? Ratzinger’s highly inflammatory references to a previous crusading Pope’s diatribes against Islam were intended to inform the world that he has not forgotten his Nazi past, Ratzinger has left little doubt as to what he really represents – there is no cause for concern, however, as he is in ‘good’ company; neo-cons, Zionists and other ultra-conservative groups welcomed confirmation from the Pope that he is one of them. However, Ratzinger’s credentials as a representative of his God and saviour, the Prince of Peace Jesus Christ, took a severe battering today.
The pope is the religious wing of Bush and Cheney
Pope asks God why he 'tolerated' Holocaust (tags)
I always thought god approved of the Holocaust? Or since god doesnt exist i guess i would say that the pope approved of the Holocaust. Wasnt the vatican sleeping with the big wigs of both the Nazi Germany and the Fasist Italy at the time of the Holocaust happened? For that matter I think that the Vatican got its status as a country because of deals it cut with the Italian government.
My choises for Pope and my visit to the troops.
Arbeit Mact Frei.
Free Speach? Not on Conyors' blog this week. (tags)
I got suspened for a week writingabout historical facts that affect National Security. I think its only fair to let me reply! http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000174.htm#comments
Unrepent Criminal Gets Sainthood? (tags)
When I was 7 years old I was anally raped in the men's bathroom of the Capitol Theater in Winnipeg, Manitoba by a Catholic priest. I was lured into this situation with the promise money. I came from the home of a hard-working single mom struggling to raise four children on her own and where of course we did not have a great deal money. So the promise of money was very attractive to my seven year old imagination. Little did I know what the cost to my life over the next several decades would come too.
Italian INDYMEDIA Website Banned Over 'Nazi' Pope Picture (tags)
An Italian website that published a photo montage of Pope Benedict XVI dressed in a Nazi uniform was told to suspend its activities on Wednesday for offending the Roman Catholic religion, court officials said.
Former Nazi Youth Elected Pope (tags)
This is some background information on John Ratzinger.
THE POPE'S TWO PETERS (no pics please) (tags)
Two intelligence leaks from the Vatican have reached Texas despite massive media coverage indicating that JP 2, the incumbent pope as far as I know, had a tendency to favor "Peter", which is two books in the new testament which seem to describe the Kalpa, (end of all time and space), and the wheel of life, (hell if you want it), in two letters from two Peters.
A Mom's FYI: George W. Bush Unfurls Christianity (tags)
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NO HALO FOR A REACTIONARY POPE (tags)
History is unlikely to treat the legacy of Pope John Paul II as kindly as his contemporaries and his mourners.
Pope a War Criminal and Hypocrite for Bush (tags)
The torment of the Pope - or else a grand act of hypocrisy - can be seen in the pope's focus on the Culture of Death: Modernity. He opposed birth control, abortion, homosexuality and women in the church because he (Unlike anyone we know of on the left or right) understood that these were band-aids
A call for rallies to counter the pope propaganda (tags)
A call for rallies to counter the pope propaganda
Pope Was Right But Did Wrong (tags)
“Wealth should not be accumulated for its own sake. It should not be gained by injustice or oppression. Wealth often leads to covetousness. It belongs to God, not to us; we are simply stewards. We sin if we do not use it to help the poor, the weak, and the oppressed (Ezek. 22:29)
POPE DEAD; GIVE ISRAEL AND THE JEWS BACK THEIR PROPERTY (tags)
It looks at how the Vatican stole Jewish property for centuries. It then calls on the Vatican to make restitution and points out that Israel is the proper address for that restitution.
Pope John Paul II: The Passing Of A Monster (tags)
From women’s rights to abortion to contraception to gay rights to pedophilia, this Pope has been a champion of the most conservative, the most reactionary forces in society
Pope fears Bush is antichrist (tags)
Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends - Church - journalist Wayne Madsden - Brief Article
pp 162: When backtracking to the origin of this complexity of deception, it brings us straight to the real heart of the matter, the intense hatred of the Roman Catholic Church for anyone or anything that opposes her goals. It positively isn't a Jewish conspiracy, but strictly Roman Catholic, who have strategically used certain Jews for their cause's advantage.
The truth about the CROWN (tags)
You are a slave Neo, born into a world of bondage, a prison for your mind, blinded by a world that has been pulled down over your eyes to blind you from the truth...
EMERGENCY POLITICAL ACTION !! CONTACT POPE JOHN PAUL II (tags)
Pope John Paul II can STOP THE WAR Ask John Paul II to go to BAGHDAD as a HUMAN SHIELD
CONTACT POPE JOHN PAUL II (tags)
Pope John Paul II can STOP THE WAR Ask John Paul II to go to BAGHDAD as a HUMAN SHIELD
CONTACT POPE JOHN PAUL II (tags)
Pope John Paul II can STOP THE WAR Ask John Paul II to go to BAGHDAD as a HUMAN SHIELD
Pope, others portray possible strike on Iraq as criminal, immoral (tags)
"unilateral military strike would be a 'crime against peace' with no justification on grounds of self-defense."
Vatican Becomes Anti - War Rallying Point (tags)
But in some of the Vatican's strongest language against a possible war, its foreign minister Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran said a unilateral military strike would be a ``crime against peace'' with no justification on grounds of self-defense. . ``We want to say to America: Is it worth it to you? Won't you have have, afterward, decades of hostility in the Islamic world,'' asked the Vatican's No. 2 official, Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
CONTACT POPE JOHN PAUL II (tags)
CONTACT POPE JOHN PAUL II Pope John Paul II can STOP THE WAR Ask John Paul II to go to BAGHDAD TO STOP THE WAR ! ! !
Vatican Becomes Anti - War Rallying Point (tags)
But in some of the Vatican's strongest language against a possible war, its foreign minister Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran said a unilateral military strike would be a ``crime against peace'' with no justification on grounds of self-defense. ``We want to say to America: Is it worth it to you? Won't you have have, afterward, decades of hostility in the Islamic world,'' asked the Vatican's No. 2 official, Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
Contact POPE JOHN PAUL II (tags)
Contact Pope John Paul II and ask him to go to Baghdad as a "Human Shield" IT WOULD STOP THE WAR (which is reported to start March 18) (war is reported to start next week 3/18)
"MARCH 13TH. CHILDREN'S INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PEACE" (tags)
The children of Planet Earth will be uniting their spirits all over the world by drawing and writing a prayer or petition to stop Invasion to Irak. And will be sending their certions to his Holines The Pope, Dalai Lama and mediacommunications.
Contact Pope John Paul II and ask him to please go to Baghdad. He is the only person on earth who can stop Bush from attacking Iraq. If he took up residency in Baghdad . IT WOULD STOP THE WAR ! .
CONTACT THE POPE TO BE A HUMAN SHIELD IN BAGHDAD (tags)
If Pope John Paul became a Human Shield in Baghdad: There would be NO war! End of story. Contact the Pope! Contact info below:
CONTACT THE POPE TO BE A HUMAN SHIELD IN BAGHDAD (tags)
If Pope John Paul became a Human Shield in Baghdad: There would be NO war! End of story. Contact the Pope! Contact info below:
Urge the pope himself to become a human shield (tags)
If Pope John Paul becomes a Human Shield in Baghdad: There will be NO war ! (the war is starting next week)
100,000 Body Bags and 6,000 Coffins Sent To Italy (tags)
UP to 100,000 body bags and 6,000 coffins have been secretly delivered to a US base in Italy, a Catholic archbishop claimed yesterday. Archbishop Renato Martino, president of the Pope's Council of Peace and Justice, said the consignment had arrived at the Sigonella base near Catania on the island of Sicily 10 days ago.
" ... made a fool of the Pope" (tags)
With his stem-cell decision, President George W Bush did more than just anger prospective Nobel-Laureate researchers. He also made a fool of the man, revered by the world's billion Catholics as the "Holy Father".