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14. Much as I have many issues with him, this Pope seems to me

Tue Dec 1, 2015, 12:20 AM

Dec 2015

to be the most forthright high clergy concerned with the poor and their oppression since Oscar Romero denounced the Black Hand reactionaries in El Salvador in the late 1970s early 1980. Romero was cut down by a Salvadoran death squad while he was celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

I'm in awe at that kind of courage and wish I had a tenth of that sort of commitment and fortitude.

Like the White Rose in Germany in the 1940s, who openly opposed Hitler and paid for it with their lives, this current Pope has a great measure of empathy for the poor and oppressed. I just wish he'd see that LGBT folk are just as deserving of his support, and that the priesthood would be so vastly improved by the elevation of women to the priesthood.

I look forward to more stands he might take.

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Pope Francis: Christmas a ‘Charade’ This Year Because ‘Whole World Is at War’ [View all] MADem Nov 2015 OP

Ya' know, no matter what differences I have ... Ferretherder Nov 2015 #1

I'm thinking of a bit from the old TV show MASH Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2015 #2

'In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.' MADem Nov 2015 #3

Have you ever read "All Quiet on the Western Front"? thucythucy Nov 2015 #13

+1,000! nt MADem Dec 2015 #16

Excellent! nt jonno99 Nov 2015 #8

it does seem rather contradictory restorefreedom Nov 2015 #4

He's right to point it out, too. nt MADem Nov 2015 #7

He doesn't pull punches, okasha Nov 2015 #5

He's in a tough spot of late--traveling in rough territory. MADem Nov 2015 #6

Interesting. However, isn't Christmas kinda like Thanksgiving? It's not neccessarily a statement jonno99 Nov 2015 #9

Well, Thanksgiving is a secular American holiday. MADem Nov 2015 #10

Well I certainly can't argue with that as I have the same opinion re: the superficiality. However, jonno99 Nov 2015 #11

As the video said, it's typical Francis, calling attention to the plight of the marginalized. nt MADem Nov 2015 #12

Much as I have many issues with him, this Pope seems to me thucythucy Dec 2015 #14

I have to agree with you. I think he came up in that day of the "social justice" priests and nuns, MADem Dec 2015 #15