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WH: Pope SMACKs GOP
Last edited Wed Sep 23, 2015, 01:05 PM - Edit history (2)
POPE: As the son of an immigrant, I’m happy to be a guest in this country,
which was largely built by such families.” —@Pontifex #PopeInDC
https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/646683628525744128
https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse
UPDATE TO ADD:
Francis introduced himself to the crowd in his first sentence as “the son of an immigrant” – his family came from Italy to Argentina – and described the United States as “largely built by such families.”
The words are likely to resonate at a time where the political debate in the United States has been marked by a divisive debate over immigration
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Mr. President, I find it encouraging that you are proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution. Accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our “common home”, we are living at a critical moment of history. We still have time to make the changes needed to bring about “a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change” (Laudato Si’, 13). Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them. Our common home has been part of this group of the excluded which cries out to heaven and which today powerfully strikes our homes, our cities and our societies. To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.
The words are likely to resonate at a time where the political debate in the United States has been marked by a divisive debate over immigration
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Mr. President, I find it encouraging that you are proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution. Accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our “common home”, we are living at a critical moment of history. We still have time to make the changes needed to bring about “a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change” (Laudato Si’, 13). Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them. Our common home has been part of this group of the excluded which cries out to heaven and which today powerfully strikes our homes, our cities and our societies. To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.
MORE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith-live/liveblog/updates-pope-francis-in-america/#fa4871b5-36e8-434b-9366-50cee019844a
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of politics
I actually love watching the USA react
Personally, I hope it leads to dialogue. I don't care whose god he represents - if he can encourage USA to talk about, poverty, social justice and planet sustainability, I'm listening...
I certainly would not want him on the SCOTUS, but as head of a religion i gave up decades ago:
- not the worst pope ever.
Actions, not words move me,
I will watch not so much what He does but what WE do.
in the meantime,
more popcorn?
Zappa said it best:
