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pianistclare
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I’ll read more about this if you can find a more credible source than Yahoo news.
I think people who perceive that a person has power do tend to try to manipulate them to their agenda.
But I’m not convinced he actually said this. there have been so many various misquotes and misinterpretations…for various agendas…that I have come to doubt everything printed regarding Pope Francis.
I think people who perceive that a person has power do tend to try to manipulate them to their agenda.
But I’m not convinced he actually said this. there have been so many various misquotes and misinterpretations…for various agendas…that I have come to doubt everything printed regarding Pope Francis.
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philipl
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I edited my comment.
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arkwright
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In his first interview with an independent radio station with no connection to any religious organization, Pope Francis spoke about friendship, fundamentalism, and the defense of Creation, saying “You, an Evangelist, I, a Catholic, let us work together for Jesus”. Pope Francis granted the interview to his personal friend and journalist, Marcelo Figueroa, from the Argentinian radio station, FM Milenium 106.7 out of Buenos Aires. It aired on Sunday afternoon, 13 September.
The interview was conducted at Casa Santa Marta as a friendly conversation. The theme of friendship took a central place in the discussion.
Pope Francis emphasized the holiness of true friendship, saying: “Friendship is something very sacred. The Bible says ‘keep one or two friends’. Before considering someone your friend, let time test him, to see how he reacts in your regard.”
At this point, Pope Francis introduces a more painful, personal note about false friends, saying that he has been used, or instrumentalized, by some who have claimed to be his ‘friends’. “But the utilitarian sense of friendship - to see what I can get out of being close to this person and making myself his friend - this pains me. I have felt used by some people who have presented themselves as ‘friends’ with whom I may not have seen more than once or twice in my lifetime, and they used this for their own gain. But this is an experience which we have all undergone: utilitarian friendship.”
The Holy Father also went on to point out the dangers of religious fundamentalism which distances one from God, saying that fundamentalism in any religion “is a transversal darkness which robs us of an horizon, which closes us in convictions”.
“No religion is immune from its own fundamentalisms. In any confession there will be a small group of fundamentalists, whose work is to destroy in the interests of an idea, not of a reality. Reality is superior to an idea. God, whether in Judaism, in Christianity, or in Islam, in the faith of those three peoples, accompanies God’s people with His presence. In the Bible we see it, Muslims in the Koran. Our God is a God of nearness, which accompanies. Fundamentalists push God away from the companionship of His people; they dis-Incarnate Him, they transform Him into an ideology. Therefore, in the name of this ideological God, they kill, attack, destroy, and calumniate. Practically, they transform this God into a Baal, into an idol,” Pope Francis said.
The Holy Father also spoke of friendship towards Creation, underlining the dangers of deforestation and the hydroelectric installations in the Amazon rainforest.
Source: Vatican Radio
The interview was conducted at Casa Santa Marta as a friendly conversation. The theme of friendship took a central place in the discussion.
Pope Francis emphasized the holiness of true friendship, saying: “Friendship is something very sacred. The Bible says ‘keep one or two friends’. Before considering someone your friend, let time test him, to see how he reacts in your regard.”
At this point, Pope Francis introduces a more painful, personal note about false friends, saying that he has been used, or instrumentalized, by some who have claimed to be his ‘friends’. “But the utilitarian sense of friendship - to see what I can get out of being close to this person and making myself his friend - this pains me. I have felt used by some people who have presented themselves as ‘friends’ with whom I may not have seen more than once or twice in my lifetime, and they used this for their own gain. But this is an experience which we have all undergone: utilitarian friendship.”
The Holy Father also went on to point out the dangers of religious fundamentalism which distances one from God, saying that fundamentalism in any religion “is a transversal darkness which robs us of an horizon, which closes us in convictions”.
“No religion is immune from its own fundamentalisms. In any confession there will be a small group of fundamentalists, whose work is to destroy in the interests of an idea, not of a reality. Reality is superior to an idea. God, whether in Judaism, in Christianity, or in Islam, in the faith of those three peoples, accompanies God’s people with His presence. In the Bible we see it, Muslims in the Koran. Our God is a God of nearness, which accompanies. Fundamentalists push God away from the companionship of His people; they dis-Incarnate Him, they transform Him into an ideology. Therefore, in the name of this ideological God, they kill, attack, destroy, and calumniate. Practically, they transform this God into a Baal, into an idol,” Pope Francis said.
The Holy Father also spoke of friendship towards Creation, underlining the dangers of deforestation and the hydroelectric installations in the Amazon rainforest.
Source: Vatican Radio
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Johann_du_Toit
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The “fake friends” the Holy Father was referring to are likely certain politicians who try to get his support for their own political agendas, while ignoring his moral and social teachings.
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J_Peterson
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Or fellow clergy.
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pianistclare
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Thank you for this source info.
Peace!
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Bubba_Switzler
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The two are not mutually exclusive.
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LongingSoul
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Lol. He says things out loud that most people keep in their head. But I can clearly see how he’d be utterly repelled by those fawning types like Mr Collins from Pride and Prejudice and the cliques like the ‘too cools’ from Highschool trying to get one to join their clique,
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