Pope to meet with homeless, prisoners and immigrants in US

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Pope to meet with homeless, prisoners and immigrants in US
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press | June 30, 2015 | Updated: June 30, 2015 3:19pm

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will meet with homeless people, immigrants and prisoners during his upcoming trip to Cuba and the United States and become the first pope to address the U.S. Congress. He'll also preside over a meeting about religious liberty — a major issue for U.S. bishops in the wake of the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision.

The Vatican published the itinerary Tuesday for the eagerly awaited Sept. 19-28 visit.

Francis added the Cuba leg onto the start of his U.S. trip after helping contribute to the historic thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations.

In Cuba, he'll celebrate Mass in Revolution Square in Havana — as both of his immediate predecessors did during their trips to the Caribbean island nation. He'll travel to Holguin and pray before the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, the patron of Cuba, and meet with Cuban families in the eastern city of Santiago.


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[HFRN]

1. i heard the Vatican is selling off it's art, to feed the homeless

just kidding

[pnwmom]

2. Oh that will really help the world.

For about an hour.

And all that art is much better off in the private collections of the Koch brothers and Donald Trump, than where ordinary tourists can see it.

[Romeo.lima333]

3. agreed i see this lots it's such an uninformed thing to say

[Beacool]

6. They'll do that after the Metropolitan, the Louvre, etc., sell theirs.

The Vatican is mostly a museum.

[MisterP]

8. people aren't really poor because the Vatican has art

and what of all the nouveaux riches who'd be buying that art?

[McKim]

4. A Real Christian

Pope Francis is living out true Christian ideals in all the things he is doing. His Climate Change Activism and now his highlighting the plight of our enormous prison population, the immigrant crisis and the homeless is so refreshing.

I saw him in person with thousands of others in St. Peter's Square, he has a really magnetic presence and radiates love. And yes his selling of his art collection could feed the world's hungry for quite a long time.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Let's take a closer look! Francis is going to

"preside over a meeting about religious liberty — a major issue for U.S. bishops in the wake of the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision"

Let's just look at the US Bishops had to say about the SCOTUS decision:

"Regardless of what a narrow majority of the Supreme Court may declare at this moment in history, the nature of the human person and marriage remains unchanged and unchangeable. Just as Roe v. Wade did not settle the question of abortion over forty years ago, Obergefell v. Hodges does not settle the question of marriage today. Neither decision is rooted in the truth, and as a result, both will eventually fail. Today the Court is wrong again. It is profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage.

The unique meaning of marriage as the union of one man and one woman is inscribed in our bodies as male and female. The protection of this meaning is a critical dimension of the “integral ecology” that Pope Francis has called us to promote. Mandating marriage redefinition across the country is a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us, especially children. The law has a duty to support every child’s basic right to be raised, where possible, by his or her married mother and father in a stable home.

Jesus Christ, with great love, taught unambiguously that from the beginning marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman. As Catholic bishops, we follow our Lord and will continue to teach and to act according to this truth.

I encourage Catholics to move forward with faith, hope, and love: faith in the unchanging truth about marriage, rooted in the immutable nature of the human person and confirmed by divine revelation; hope that these truths will once again prevail in our society, not only by their logic, but by their great beauty and manifest service to the common good; and love for all our neighbors, even those who hate us or would punish us for our faith and moral convictions.

Lastly, I call upon all people of good will to join us in proclaiming the goodness, truth, and beauty of marriage as rightly understood for millennia, and I ask all in positions of power and authority to respect the God-given freedom to seek, live by, and bear witness to the truth."


Which side are you on?

[Beacool]

7. I don't give a flip about the naysayers.

I like this Pope, he's the best the Church has chosen in a very long time.

[harun]

9. +1

[olddots]

10. this Pope knows that to lead you have to read

and to be aware of the world's surroundings .If only the so called Christian Conservatives in this country could be half the person this Pope is .