Political Pope

[Sherman]

It just seems hypocritical to me for him to be criticizing Trump for wanting to build a wall, when there is a huge wall around the Vatican to keep people out. Go figure.

 

[Cruciform]

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[ok doser]

People already tried that approach before Kennedy was elected. It was a silly argument then and it's not any better now.

The fact is that the Pope isn't commanding American Catholics on the point and isn't trying to...he's speaking his mind and Catholics will do the same thing that Protestants do about it, which is make up their own minds.

:think:

Pope Francis has called on Catholic leaders to seek a ban on the death penalty.... He said: 'I appeal to the consciences of those who govern to reach an international consensus to abolish the death penalty.

well, how about that

 

[musterion]

It just seems hypocritical to me for him to be criticizing Trump for wanting to build a wall, when there is a huge wall around the Vatican to keep people out. Go figure.

The RCC does not love the poor like it tells poor people to love the poor.

 

[musterion]

You mean this pope?

"The matter is a person that has that condition [and] that has good will because they search for God," said the pontiff.


"Who are we to judge them?" he asked, reframing his famous phrase from 2013 into the plural. "We must accompany well -- what the Catechism says. The Catechism is clear."

Not a sin. A condition. Your pope said it.


https://www.ncronline.org/news/vati...-must-apologize-gay-people-marginalizing-them

 

[musterion]

The "WALL" around the Vatican was built around 847, after the Saracens pillaged the Basillica. Hmmm, seems reasonable. So the wall is now a historical edifice….

AMDG

Tear it down.

House the poor in the cavernous, climate controlled Vatican.

 

[musterion]

"Sell all you have and give to the poor."

 

[annabenedetti]

It just seems hypocritical to me for him to be criticizing Trump for wanting to build a wall, when there is a huge wall around the Vatican to keep people out. Go figure.

Except there isn't a huge wall around it.

[h=1]In Defense of Trump, Some Point (Wrongly) to Vatican Walls[/h]

 

[ok doser]

there's all sorts of walls:

The only way to become a citizen is for the King of Vatican City to appoint you as one. And the King only appoints you a citizen if you work for the Pope -- who is also the King. And because the King is all-powerful your citizenship is at his whim. If you quit your job for the Pope, the King -- who is also the pope -- will revoke your citizenship. https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-become-a-citizen-of-Vatican-City

 

[annabenedetti]

Nice non sequitur.

 

[ok doser]

looks like a wall to me :idunno:

 

[annabenedetti]

How'd all those people climb over the wall?

 

[ok doser]

How'd all those people climb over the wall?

do you think that trump is proposing a wall that will keep everybody out? :darwinsm:

:mock: annabanahead, who can't tell the difference between illegal immigration and invited guests

 

[annabenedetti]

do you think that trump is proposing a wall that will keep everybody out? :darwinsm:

:mock: annabanahead, who can't tell the difference between illegal immigration and invited guests

sod, who tries to compare the administration of a city-state with Trump's Mexico wall and then when that doesn't work, can't figure out how to explain how a couple million people managed to get themselves inside a walled city...and when that doesn't work, goes for plan c, which yeah, plan c was funny. I laughed. :chuckle:

 

[ok doser]

....can't figure out how to explain how a couple million people ...

i believe trump's america will have more than that north of the wall :idunno: