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Oh I just meant that those young men will put women and Children in the most danger. There is Civil war coming to France.
posted by
Kabu
on September 29, 2015 at 6:48 AM
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NO comment actually. I didn't watch much of the visit. And really what could he say? Let the refugees drown? Let them be pushed into the sea so that babies wash up dead on the shore and the World can get hysterical?
posted by
Kabu
on September 28, 2015 at 8:05 AM
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It will be interesting to see if more take on the Bishop's viewpoint.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 28, 2015 at 5:30 AM
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There are so many people who seem to not know what to think and what to do, seeking answers from leaders who don't seem to know what to think and what to do. It seems to be a time of just hoping for the best, closing one's eyes to terrible things, and pretending it will all work out in the end.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 27, 2015 at 7:16 PM
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Nautikos
Excellent point, and I thought about that as I watched. I'm not Catholic, and as a Protestant, I generally have a bit of a problem with the whole priests/Pope part....and had a negative experience with my first introduction to Catholilcism in West Texas where the local migrant workers were held almost hostage by the local priest.
Over the years, of course, I gained new perspectives and I have spent a lot of the last few days enthralled....Pope Francis comes through the screen, and through interpreters very persuasively, very powerfully....his impact here has been palpable; it remains to be seen whether it will last beyond a news cycle for very many - I know it will, but will we hear about it? There have been some interesting side broadcasts about faith movements around the country I had never heard anything about before.
The thing is, his total perspective is that of the genuine Christian spirit, and I would not expect a person truly worthy of his position to, in reality, have any other. His way of expressing it is filtered through his personal paradigm of having grown up how/where/when he did....but the content is straight on, and anyone remotely spiritually 'in tune' at anytime in their life with the Christian dogma, knows it. So, I think it will always come down to.....as it has before his visit, whether people recognize the truth about the 'refugees'....and, then, whether their Christian values or their need for survivial wins out.
posted by
Krisles
on September 27, 2015 at 6:33 PM
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