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The lectern President Abraham Lincoln used to deliver the Gettysburg
Address is seen as John Meko, with The Union League of Philadelphia,
speaks during a news conference, Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, in Philadelphia.
Pope Francis will use the lectern when he speaks outside Philadelphia's
Independence Hall in September. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (The Associated Press)
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA -- When Pope Francis speaks outside Philadelphia's
Independence Hall in September, he will stand at the same lectern that
President Abraham Lincoln used to deliver the Gettysburg Address.
Later this month, conservators will remove the lectern from its
display space at The Union League of Philadelphia to prepare it for the
pontiff's speech.
Its loan for the pope's use Sept. 26 was announced Friday by the
Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Families, which the pope will be
attending.
Lincoln used the lectern on Nov. 19, 1863, to dedicate part of the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg as a cemetery.
His two-minute address became one of the most famous speeches in
American history. It ended with Lincoln's resolution that "this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
The pope is expected to talk about immigration and religious freedom
during his remarks outside Independence Hall, where the Declaration of
Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776.
The lectern's "simple beauty and humble role in one of American
history's most important moments reflects, in many ways, Pope Francis'
own world view," said Robert Ciaruffoli, president of the World Meeting
of Families.
The pope's appearance outside Independence Hall is expected to be a ticketed event. Exact arrangements have not been announced.
His two big public events in Philadelphia will be an appearance at
the closing of the World Meeting of Families on Sept. 26 and his
celebration of Mass on Sept. 27, both on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
The pontiff's first stops on his U.S. visit will be in Washington and New York.
Pope Francis rides on a popemobile on a road leading from El Alto to La Paz, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia.
Yes,
Pope Francis is encouraging civil disobedience, leading a rebellion.
Listen closely, Francis knows he’s inciting political rebellion, an
uprising of the masses against the world’s superrich capitalists. And
yet, right-wing conservatives remain in denial, tuning out the pope’s
message, hoping he’ll just go away like the “Occupy Wall Street”
movement did.
Never. America’s narcissistic addiction to
presidential politics is dumbing down our collective brain. Warning:
Forget Bernie vs. Hillary. Forget the circus-clown-car distractions
created by Trump vs. the GOP’s Fab 15. Pope Francis is the only real
political leader that matters this year. Forget the rest. Here’s why:
Pope
Francis is not just leading a “Second American Revolution,” he is
rallying people across the Earth, middle class as well as poor, inciting
billions to rise up in a global economic revolution, one that could
suddenly sweep the planet, like the 1789 French storming the Bastille.
Unfortunately,
conservative capitalists — Big Oil, Koch billionaires, our GOP Congress
and all fossil-fuel climate-science deniers — are blind to the fact
their ideology is on the wrong side of history, that by fighting a
no-win battle they are committing suicide, self-destructing their own
ideology.
The fact is: The era of capitalism is rapidly dying, a
victim of its own success, sabotaged by greed and a loss of a moral
code. In 1776 Adam Smith’s capitalism became America’s core economic
principle. We enshrined his ideal of capitalism in our constitutional
freedoms. We prospered. America became the greatest economic superpower
in world history.
But along the way, America forgot Smith’s
original foundation was in morals, values, doing what’s right for the
common good. Instead we drifted into Ayn Rand’s narcissistic “mutant
capitalism,” as Vanguard’s founder Jack Bogle called the distortion of
Adam Smith’s principles in his classic, “The Battle for the Soul of
Capitalism.” The battle is lost.
Pope Francis, leader of the coming 21st Century American Revolution
In
the generation since the Reagan Revolution, America’s self-centered,
consumer-driven, mutant capitalism lost its moral compass, drifting:
Inequality explodes, income growth stagnates, the poor keep getting
poorer. Yet across the world, billionaires have explode from 322 in 2000
to 1,826 in 2015, with 11 trillionaire capitalist families predicted to
control the planet by 2100.
But not for much longer, as Pope
Francis’ revolution accelerates, as his relentless socialist message of
sacred rights for all people makes clear. Why? Our mutating capitalist
elite have triggered a massive backlash, a “profound human crisis, the
denial of the primacy of the human person. The worship of the ancient
golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of
money.”
An aggressive Pope Francis is on a mission to transform
the mutant ideology of today’s capitalist world with its rampant
profits-centered climate-science denialism. Fortunately, the pope will
soon confront and challenge America’s GOP Congress directly, then the
United Nations General Assembly to challenge the capitalist world’s
failure to take climate change actions. Maybe they’ll finally wake up.
Pope
Francis’ recent trip to South America revealed a clear anticapitalism,
socialist message, calling for a “structural change to a global economy
that runs counter to the plan of Jesus,” as reported in Time by
Christopher Hale. Francis warned:
“The future of humanity does
not lie solely in the hands of great leaders, the great powers and the
elites.” The future “It is fundamentally in the hands of peoples and in
their ability to organize. It is in their hands, which can guide with
humility and conviction this process of change. I am with you.” The pope
is warning all capitalists everywhere. As Jesus says in the Bible, the
poor will always be with you, but the rich may not be after the coming
revolution.
Yes folks, Pope Francis is a
revolutionary destined to end up in the history books right up there
with Lenin and Marx, Mao and Castro. He is obviously inciting
revolution, wants civil disobedience and political insurrection, he is
egging the poor into rebellion against a vastly outnumbered rich.
In
fact, Francis has become one of the world’s great revolutionary
leaders. He not only is inciting an uprising of the masses against
wealthy capitalist billionaires, he’s out in front of the emerging
global revolution, encouraging the masses, shouting battle cries, a
leader in the tradition of Washington.
So the media should stop
mistaking Francis’s congenial nature, his perpetual smile, dismissing
his true intentions. His is an aggressive call to arms, a call for a
global revolution attacking today’s out-of-control, consumer-driven
“mutant capitalism,” a call to replace capitalism with a new economic
socialism giving the poor “sacred rights” on par with the superrich.
Time’s
Hale went on to outline the four “foundations” of the pope’s coming
“revolution.” Hale covered the pope’s tour in South America in, “Pope
Francis Isn’t Holding Back — And U.S. Politicians Should Watch Out.” In
Bolivia Francis warned that global capitalism is a failure and needs a
“structural change” because it runs “counter to the plan of Jesus.” Hale
then added that “leaders of both parties might regret their invitation
to the 78-year-old Jesuit pontiff” to address a historic joint session
of Congress in two months. Five reasons make the warning quite obvious:
1. Socialism: Everyone has a sacred right to land, lodging and labor
“Pope Francis argued that everyone has a God-given right to have a job,
to own land, and to have a home.” These rights go “well beyond the
traditional social teaching of the Catholic Church, which argues for the
dignity of work, but doesn’t go as far to say that everyone has a
God-given right to have a job.” But clearly, Pope Francis says the poor
do have inalienable “sacred rights” on par with those guaranteed in the
U.S. Constitution. And clearly, Scott Walker and the GOP already deny a
similar liberal agenda of “sacred rights” to a living wage, property and
a home.
2. Humans, not capitalist profits, must be at the center of global economics
Pope
Francis message is unambiguous: “Unbridled capitalism” has become a
“subtle dictatorship,” is now the very “dung of the devil.” Ouch, that
must hurt even the stone-cold Koch ego. Francis says that capitalism’s
greedy “unfettered pursuit of money” is destroying the “common good,”
setting a stage for revolutions. The pope urged the masses to “say no to
an economy of exclusion and inequality, where money rules,” because
capitalists will “destroy Mother Earth” in order to enrich the superrich
elite. Yet another revolutionary call to battle.
3. Billions worldwide, cannot wait much longer for action
Earlier
Pope Francis’ encyclical warned that “doomsday predictions” about
climate “can no longer be met with irony, disdain” or dismissed without
action. Now, Francis is aggressively pushing world leaders and humans
everywhere to fight against all economic injustices against individuals.
The clock’s ticking loudly, time is “running out: we are not yet
tearing one another apart, but we are tearing apart our common home”
here on Earth. Pope Francis also encourages people to start demanding,
“We want change!” Remember the 1976 movie “Network”: where an anchorman
gets listeners shouting, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this
anymore!”
4. Revolutions begin with angry citizens, not politicians or philanthropists
Time’s
Hale says the pope’s call for “structural change won’t be the result
from any one political decision.” The pope understands that politicians
rarely lead. Real change is triggered from below, by angry mobs, they
get “caught up in the storms of people’s lives,” fired up, rebel,
motivated to act, then revolutions ignite and move fast like a wildfire
on jet fuel.
5. Warning: Socialism is now a moral obligation, a commandment to obey
Admit
it, Pope Francis is clearly inciting people to rebel with his
passionate, provocative and inspirational message, which triggers
memories of Marx, yet is directly from the Gospels of Jesus: “Working
for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is
not mere philanthropy,” not just a handout from capitalist billionaires.
Instead Pope Francis shifts our focus: The socialism is now “a
moral obligation. And for Christians, the responsibility is even
greater: it is a commandment. It is about giving to the poor and to
peoples what is theirs as a sacred right.” And if we fail to do give it
freely, do not be surprised when revolutions explode across Planet
Earth.
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Worrying about global warming or climate change is plain and simple Creation or Nature Worship!
It is the worship of nature and the creation more than the Creator!
Fits in with Saint Francis of Asisi and his worshipping the creature.
Romans 1:22-27
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like
to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between
themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed
for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that
which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men
with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompence of their error which was meet.
The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five
languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’
exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the
battle against global warming?
Pope Francis on a visit to the Philippines in January. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent
catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the
world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday.
In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the
pontiff is expected to argue that humanity’s exploitation of the
planet’s resources has crossed the Earth’s natural boundaries, and that
the world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds. The
much-anticipated message, which will be sent to the world’s 5,000
Catholic bishops, will be published online in five languages on Thursday
and is expected to be the most radical statement yet from the outspoken
pontiff.
However, it is certain to anger sections of Republican opinion in
America by endorsing the warnings of climate scientists and admonishing
rich elites, say cardinals and scientists who have advised the Vatican.
The Ghanaian cardinal, Peter Turkson, president of the Vatican’s
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and a close ally of the pope,
will launch the encyclical. He has said it will address the root causes
of poverty and the threats facing nature, or “creation”.
In a recent speech widely regarded as a curtain-raiser to the encyclical,
Turkson said: “Much of the world remains in poverty, despite abundant
resources, while a privileged global elite controls the bulk of the
world’s wealth and consumes the bulk of its resources.”
The Argentinian pontiff is expected to repeat calls for a change in
attitudes to poverty and nature. “An economic system centred on the god
of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of
consumption that is inherent to it,” he told a meeting of social
movements last year. “I think a question that we are not asking
ourselves is: isn’t humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate
and tyrannical use of nature? Safeguard creation because, if we destroy
it, it will destroy us. Never forget this.”
The encyclical will go much further than strictly environmental
concerns, say Vatican insiders. “Pope Francis has repeatedly stated that
the environment is not only an economic or political issue, but is an
anthropological and ethical matter,” said another of the pope’s
advisers, Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Peru.
“It will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of
resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible
exploitation of nature and the consequences for people’s life and
health,” Barreto Jimeno told the Catholic News Service.
He was echoed by Cardinal Oscar RodrÃguez Maradiaga of Honduras, who
coordinates the Vatican’s inner council of cardinals and is thought to
reflect the pope’s political thinking . “The ideology surrounding
environmental issues is too tied to a capitalism that doesn’t want to
stop ruining the environment because they don’t want to give up their
profits,” RodrÃguez Maradiaga said.
The rare encyclical, called “Laudato Sii”, or “Praised Be”, has been
timed to have maximum public impact ahead of the pope’s meeting with
Barack Obama and his address to the US Congress and the UN general
assembly in September.
It is also intended to improve the prospect of a strong new UN global
agreement to cut climate emissions. By adding a moral dimension to the
well-rehearsed scientific arguments, Francis hopes to raise the ambition
of countries above their own self-interest to secure a strong deal in a
crucial climate summit in Paris in November.
“Pope Francis is personally committed to this [climate] issue like no
other pope before him. The encyclical will have a major impact. It will
speak to the moral imperative of addressing climate change in a timely
fashion in order to protect the most vulnerable,” said Christiana
Figueres, the UN’s climate chief, in Bonn this week for negotiations.
Francis, the first Latin American pope, is increasingly seen as the
voice of the global south and a catalyst for change in global bodies. In
September, he will seek to add impetus and moral authority to UN
negotiations in New York to adopt new development goals and lay out a
15-year global plan to tackle hunger, extreme poverty and health. He
will address the UN general assembly on 23 September as countries
finalise their commitments.
However, Francis’s radicalism is attracting resistance from Vatican
conservatives and in rightwing church circles, particularly in the US –
where Catholic climate sceptics also include John Boehner, Republican
leader of the House of Representatives, and Rick Santorum, a Republican
presidential candidate.
Earlier this year Stephen Moore, a Catholic economist, called the
pope a “complete disaster”, saying he was part of “a radical green
movement that is at its core anti-Christian, anti-people and
anti-progress”.
Moore was backed this month by scientists and engineers from the
powerful evangelical Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation,
who have written an open letter to Francis. “Today many prominent voices
call humanity a scourge on our planet, saying that man is the problem,
not the solution. Such attitudes too often contaminate their assessment
of man’s effects on nature,” it says.
But the encyclical will be well received in developing countries,
where most Catholics live. “Francis has always put the poor at the
centre of everything he has said. The developing countries will hear
their voice in the encyclical,” said Neil Thorns, director of advocacy
at the Catholic development agency, Cafod. “I expect it to challenge the
way we think. The message that we cannot just treat the Earth as a tool
for exploitation will be a message that many will not want to hear.”
The pope is “aiming at a change of heart. What will save us is not
technology or science. What will save us is the ethical transformation
of our society,” said Carmelite Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel, a climate
scientist who teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
in Buenos Aires.
Pastor Doug Batchelor has recorded a brief but important
analysis of a remarkable new video message from Pope Francis to a recent
gathering
of Christians from several denominations at a gathering in
Phoenix, Arizona.
This passionate call for unity from the Vatican was
delivered to members of the "John 17 Movement," which describes itself
as "a contagious
call to all professing Christians to relate together
properly, beckoning us to embrace the final prayer of Jesus." The pope
said that Christian
division is a wound in the body and is the work of the
"Father of Discord."
In the video, Francis uses language that conspicuously
echoes biblical imagery. Pastor Batchelor believes this Papal call for
unity between
Protestants and Catholics harmonizes with Revelation’s
prophecy, especially chapter 13, regarding the deadly wound. He urges
ministry friends
to prayerfully watch and share the video.
He says, "The Bible predicts a false religious movement will
arise in the last days to force the world to follow after unbiblical
teachings,
all cloaked in the forms of 'united Christianity.' It will
present itself as the one true church, a religious power that was
'mortally wounded,'
but whose 'deadly wound was healed.' The whole world will
marvel and follow this beast power at the expense of Bible truth.
Christians need
to know their Bibles and draw as near to Jesus so they can
to avoid this deception."
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Putin kept the
leader of 1.2 billion Catholics waiting for 70 minutes -- a rare
occurrence at the Vatican. At their first meeting in November 2013, he
was 50 minutes late. That was about how long their second encounter
lasted.
The meeting
got off to a chilly start. Francis looked solemn as he greeted Putin in
German with a simple “welcome” in his study at the Apostolic Palace.
Putin, who picked up the language as a KGB agent in East Germany,
responded with a gesture of thanks.
The
two men sat on opposite sides of the pope’s desk, gazing at each other
in silence as they waited for journalists and photographers to leave.
Once alone, they cut to the chase.
On
Ukraine, “the Holy Father stated the need to commit to a sincere and
great effort to achieve peace, and it was agreed it was important to
rebuild a climate of dialogue and that all parties commit to enforce the
Minsk accords,” referring to the cease-fire deal signed in February,
the pope’s spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said in a statement.
The pope asked that aid workers be given access to address the “serious” humanitarian crisis, Lombardi said.
The
conversation then shifted to the Middle East, in particular Syria and
Iraq, where both agreed on the urgency for peace with a special
reference to the plight of Christian minorities in the Muslim-dominated
region.
The
one-on-one ended with the pontiff, conceding a slight smile and gifting
Putin a medallion with a veiled reference to Ukraine and other
conflicts.
According to Lombardi, Francis told Putin the medallion
represented “the angel of peace, which defeats all wars and speaks of
solidarity among peoples.”
Francis has repeatedly called for peace in Ukraine, but diplomatically has stopped short of mentioning Russia by name.
Earlier
on Wednesday Kenneth Hackett, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See,
urged the pope to say “something more about concern of territorial
integrity, those types of issues.”
Asked
why Putin was so late, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were
delays in Milan, where the Russian leader was visiting the Expo 2015
world fair and seeing Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Peskov said the papal meeting was “very friendly” and Putin saw Francis as a “profound’ person.
Putin
left the Vatican in a black stretch Mercedes limousine, at the head of a
13-vehicle motorcade, just in time for a quick pow wow at the airport
with an old friend, ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi.
