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"Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God's humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity," he said in his homily to about 10,000 people in the basilica and millions more watching on television throughout the world.http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2011/12/final-thought-about-xmas.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pope-ushers-in-christmas-decries-commercialisation/214822-2.html
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)monmouth
(21,078 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Or do they wear them on their right hands?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)He is doing this from his golden throne... irony meter not functional at this point
freshwest
(53,661 posts)SpiralHawk
(32,944 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)just like tony blair is now.
They like their Nazi pope.
Warpy
(111,332 posts)When the Vatican auctions its vast stores of stolen booty and uses the proceeds to feed and clothe the world's desperately poor, then they can lecture me on bling.
To tell the truth, I'm not fond of bling. I am wearing a couple of silver and azurite/malachite rings. They're cheap and I love the colors in the stones.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Stopped clocks and all.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)But it's a little hard to support the message when it's given among all the trappings of opulence that the Church somehow sees as "honoring" Christ.
Benedict... it all starts with you. Lose the gold, lose the fancy duds, and live life the way Christ did -- simply.
Then maybe I'll listen.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Latest Threads.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)Worried senior
(1,328 posts)and gold and the pope lives like a regular person I may reconsider my decision to leave my religion.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)across the planet?
matmar
(593 posts)contributing to global warming?
But that aside, the Pope article looks like it could have been from The Onion.