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John Smith
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Bam wrote on Jan 16 th, 2014 at 11:45am: John Smith wrote on Jan 16 th, 2014 at 9:45am: Bam wrote on Jan 16 th, 2014 at 7:43am: John Smith wrote on Jan 15 th, 2014 at 8:58pm: Bam wrote on Jan 15 th, 2014 at 6:31pm: John Smith wrote on Jan 15 th, 2014 at 12:56pm: Bam wrote on Jan 15 th, 2014 at 12:11pm: John Smith wrote on Jan 15 th, 2014 at 10:12am: matty wrote on Jan 15 th, 2014 at 10:08am: They are hypocrites though. They bleat on about caring for the poor and do nothing, they think that voting for the Greens is good enough, whilst the rally compassionate people actually get out there and do charity work for the less fortunate. how would you know what they do for the poor? The pope bleats about caring for the poor, yet has over $700B in assets just sitting their growing in value .. you said something about hypocrisy? The current Pope has been in the role for less than a year and the Catholic church is not known for moving quickly to address issues. I would give him more time. you could give him 20 lifetimes, nothing will change. When he was Archbishop, he sold the Archbishop's extravagant residence and lived in simpler accommodation. He does his own cooking. He has spoken out on poverty issues more than once. You may be right. Perhaps nothing will change. We should wait and see whether there is change. you're kidding right? If he tried to sell the churchs assets on a grand scale, the others in the churchs heirarchy would make sure he met with an accident sooner rather than later ..... I never said that he would sell assets generally. It's more likely that he will bring more attention of Catholics onto poverty than has been the case in the past. It is within the teachings of Christianity. so he's going to try and milk more money out of his parishoners, using the poor as his excuse? My comment was about the church accumulating over $700 Billion in assets, that amount could wipe out poverty world wide. All the church seems to do is accumulate wealth rather than tend to the poor. Sure, they make a few token gesutres, send some priests out to some areas, but they send them out with nil or very little aid, no access to the church's money, and they then use that attempt to create a 'cause' to get people to donate more money. There are individuals in the church that care, and really do give their all, but the organisation as a whole, is just like every other organisation world wide ... they put Profits First. I believe that Pope Francis may bring some change, if the hierarchy of the Catholic Church will permit it. As I said previously, we should wait and see what happens. I do not expect the Church to divest itself of these assets any time soon, but I do expect that there will be some improvements to the relief of poverty driven by the Pope. Will they make a material difference? I do not know. But the Pope has made some remarks on poverty that go farther than any Pope I have seen. One can only hope, not that I'm holding my breath ...
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