Pope Francis visit to US

[hook]

Can we get him to bless the Steelers secondary while he's here?

 

[Coach]

I hope Obama realizes the Pope is against gay marriage, doesn't think women should be priests, did not punish one priest guilty of child abuse, etc... Essentially the pope is opposite of many of Obama's social positions.

Does the Pope know Obama has a ring with two snakes on it, with some obscure writing in Arabic? Does the Pope know Obama blamed Christians for the Crusades?

So what was this meeting about? Obama using the Pope’s popularity to advance his global warming agenda? I think so.

 

[Spike]

Trump: Pope is wrong on climate change

In his White House address Wednesday, the pope called climate change "a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation."

Asked whether he agreed with that on CNN's "New Day," Trump said no.

"I think that clean air is a pressing problem. You want to have clean air, clean water. That's very important to me, and I've won many environmental awards. I am not a believer in climate change," Trump said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-pope-francis-climate-change-214006

 

[oneforthebus]

No, it was after my divorce in 2007. I can't take communion until I get an annulment?

Did no one explain the rules of Catholic marriage to you before you got one?

By the way, you can still take communion after a divorce unless you remarry.

 

[IndySteel]

Did no one explain the rules of Catholic marriage to you before you got one?

By the way, you can still take communion after a divorce unless you remarry.

I knew but I didn't know how involved an annulment was. What a pain in the ***.

 

[oneforthebus]

I knew but I didn't know how involved an annulment was. What a pain in the ***.

I got one. It wasn't that big a deal. Met with my priest, filled out some papers, met with a tribunal, paid a processing fee of around 400 bucks (waived in cases of financial need) and got my letter in the mail a couple of months later. I actually found working through the issue and the counsel I received quite helpful in mentally and spiritually processing my failed marriage and preparing for my new one. The divorce itself was much more of a pain in the ***, especially since my ex refused to respond to anything.

My first marriage was very brief and no children so I imagine that would have complicated things some.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Can we get him to bless the Steelers secondary while he's here?

He's only going as far as Philadelphia and frankly the Eagles need more help than we do....

 

[Rod Farva]

First outlaw the smudge pots they use to announce a new pope.....then we'll talk.

 

[Spike]

Fifty years of cold war against Marxism and now we have Obama and the Pope trying to accomplish what the USSR could not.

 

[SteelChip]

Trump: Pope is wrong on climate change

In his White House address Wednesday, the pope called climate change "a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation."

Asked whether he agreed with that on CNN's "New Day," Trump said no.

"I think that clean air is a pressing problem. You want to have clean air, clean water. That's very important to me, and I've won many environmental awards. I am not a believer in climate change," Trump said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-pope-francis-climate-change-214006

 

[oneforthebus]

The Pope is about love and forgiveness and embracing sinners, respect for the planet God gave us and respect for the dignity of human life. He's reinvigorated the Church and these are all good things. I don't agree with his positions on economic policy except that I do believe strongly in our responsibility to be charitable...charity meaning giving of ourselves willingly, not greedy bureaucrats confiscating stuff from some people, taking a cut and passing on the rest to others.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Although the Pope wants us to open our borders the thought occurred, since I've been there, that The Vatican has a darn big wall around it.

 

[Tibs]

Too funny...

Andy Borowitz: "Pope Visits the Sick"

 

[IndySteel]

Too funny...

Andy Borowitz: "Pope Visits the Sick"

He should've performed an exorcism.

 

[Tibs]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...2-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html?tid=sm_fb

“He exudes humility, love and compassion, which are values sorely lacking in today’s world,” a 65-year-old retiree named Kerry Kemp told my colleague DeNeen L. Brown on Wednesday. “He’s the anti-Trump.”

In a race-to-the-bottom presidential campaign, Trump has called undocumented Mexicans “rapists” and dismissed the heroism of Sen. John McCain, who spent five years as a POW during the Vietnam War. He sounds right at home in a political environment in which talk radio hosts label women as “*****” and congressmen compare President Obama to Adolf Hitler.

And we Americans tolerate — even encourage — this brand of nasty, mean-spirited discourse. Instead of listening to one another respectfully, we get all tribal on big, complex issues, taking sides like it’s all a big football game, one side vs. the other, labels, camps, polarization, black-and-white, ignoring the gray.

This, Francis told Congress, is our folly.

He said to our elected leaders — the masters of the dark art of division — that the temptation to pit people against one another is “the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.”

“The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps,” he said. “We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within.”

Hear that, Trumpsters?

 

[DBS1970]

So tell us Commie Pope what should we do when our divisions come from FUNDAMENTAL differences of good and evil?

 

[Spike]

I don't think he mentioned Jesus even once in any of his speeches. Just the demon talk of 'socialism will make everything better.'

 

[oneforthebus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...2-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Trumpsters? Please. No one is more divisive than Obama who is helping to ignite a race war and the Democratic congress which rammed a massive new entitlement opposed by the majority of people in this country down our throats.

 

[Spike]

So it's just not me yappin...


Pope Francis Just Echoed Obama's 'Offensive' Prayer Breakfast Remarks

The pontiff said all religions are susceptible to extremism and violence, just like Obama said in February.

While delivering the first address from a pontiff to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday, Pope Francis touched on topics ranging from the plight of immigrants to climate change and the death penalty.

Many of his comments were lightly delivered and unlikely to elicit much controversy, though the reaction might be different if they were given by another world leader.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...akfast-remarks

 

[Ron Burgundy]

The pontiff said all religions are susceptible to extremism and violence, just like Obama said in February.

Well yeah, but Amish extremists just cut each other's beards off and not their whole head.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-...sh-indicted-hate-crime-forcible-beard-cutting

 

[Spike]

My favorite was his rant against air-conditoning


“People may well have a growing ecological sensitivity but it has not succeeded in changing their harmful habits of consumption which, rather than decreasing, appear to be growing all the more. A simple example is the increasing use and power of air-conditioning. The markets, which immediately benefit from sales, stimulate ever greater demand. An outsider looking at our world would be amazed at such behavior, which at times appears self-destructive.”

yeah, lets get rid of that evil air-conditioning, and hey, might as well do away with heating too....and look at all that clean water being wasted...let's get rid of indoor plumbing too!

maybe the Pope is Amish?

 

[steel dino]

The Most Holy One does seem to delve a bit too much into politics...doesn't he?

Unfortunate that this is taking precedent, during his visit to the states, over the spiritual messages that I have enjoyed from him.

 

[Tibs]

Wonder where all the anti-Pope sentiment comes from? Look no further.. lol

 

[oneforthebus]

He's religious, anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage, but liberals love him. LMAO.

 

[Tibs]

I watched the events last night in Philadelphia, the Festival of Families gathering. The Pope gave a beautiful talk there, stressing the importance of family life. The notion that looking after our grandparents and our children are equally as important. It was a message of love and hope. The Pope personifies the message of God in the most positive way. I consider myself an atheist, but am very impressed by this man, by his call for a shared humanity and empathy for others.

It's not shocking to me at all, that those that consider themselves conservatives - here on the board and elsewhere - are mostly upset and antagonistic about the Pope's message. It shows how far people have fallen from the ideals they think they believe in. I hope everyone can find some peace within themselves, and not allow the constant hate, anger and vitriol to dominate their lives.

The event was capped off by the Andrea Bocelli singing the Lord's Prayer. It was the end of another brilliant day from a man who represents the best of what religion has to offer, in my view.

Pope Francis's full speech at The Festival of the Families http://wapo.st/1Jw996y

In Philadelphia, Pope Francis challenges Americans to live up to nation’s ideals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...06be1a-60ab-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html

Pope Francis saw a boy with cerebral palsy. This is what happened next
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...th-cerebral-palsy-this-is-what-happened-next/