Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:41 PM

two great things about the new pope

1) he's used to being completely ignored and humiliated by the civil authorities in his country!!!!
2) he seems to somewhat believe that the church should be serving the poor rather than lording it over them

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two great things about the new pope (Original post)	Fresh_Start	Mar 2013	OP
being as the church is obscenely wealthy, will he sell the vatican art and use the funds to	msongs	Mar 2013	#1
Yes, he even housed the poor political prisoners in his vacation home.	Gravitycollapse	Mar 2013	#2
He's still a bitgot/homophobe	sakabatou	Mar 2013	#3
He also helped the military junta of Argentina.	Ikonoklast	Mar 2013	#4
Don't bother people who think their own ignorance does not matter, Fresh_Start. nt	patrice	Mar 2013	#5
He wants to fight poverty -- great! Can't wait for the Church to embrace birth control!	Arugula Latte	Mar 2013	#6
And if the poor don't CHOOSE birth control, they don't deserve help? If I find myself working on a	patrice	Mar 2013	#7
What's the most fundamental issue? a root cause?	patrice	Mar 2013	#8

Response to Fresh_Start (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:43 PM

msongs (64,152 posts)

1. being as the church is obscenely wealthy, will he sell the vatican art and use the funds to

do anything to help "poor" people?

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Response to Fresh_Start (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:44 PM

Gravitycollapse (8,155 posts)

2. Yes, he even housed the poor political prisoners in his vacation home.

What a great man.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/04/argenitina-videla-bergoglio-repentance

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Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:46 PM

sakabatou (39,188 posts)

3. He's still a bitgot/homophobe

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Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:47 PM

Ikonoklast (23,973 posts)

4. He also helped the military junta of Argentina.

He's just another pope in the long string of right-wing ass-kissers.

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Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:50 PM

patrice (47,992 posts)

5. Don't bother people who think their own ignorance does not matter, Fresh_Start. nt

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Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:53 PM

Arugula Latte (50,566 posts)

6. He wants to fight poverty -- great! Can't wait for the Church to embrace birth control!

Any day now!

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Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 06:24 PM

patrice (47,992 posts)

7. And if the poor don't CHOOSE birth control, they don't deserve help? If I find myself working on a

community service project, shoulder to shoulder, with someone who meets my personal criteria for being anti-fascist and, yet, whom I know is an advocate for CHOICE, even when that choice is to have a baby that I'd never bring into this world, what should I do?

two great things about the new pope

1. being as the church is obscenely wealthy, will he sell the vatican art and use the funds to

2. Yes, he even housed the poor political prisoners in his vacation home.

3. He's still a bitgot/homophobe

4. He also helped the military junta of Argentina.

5. Don't bother people who think their own ignorance does not matter, Fresh_Start. nt

6. He wants to fight poverty -- great! Can't wait for the Church to embrace birth control!

7. And if the poor don't CHOOSE birth control, they don't deserve help? If I find myself working on a

8. What's the most fundamental issue? a root cause?