Pope warns of 'a desert of godlessness' in Good Friday address

[Caveman]

Pope warns of ‘a desert of godlessness’ in Good Friday address
By Daily Mail Reporter

Pope Benedict XVI last night attacked the rise of aggressive secularism in Western societies, warning them that they risked drifting into a ‘desert of godlessness’. He used his Good Friday meditations to compare deliberate attempts to remove religion from public life to the mockery of Jesus Christ by the mob as he was led out to be crucified.

‘Religious sentiments’ were increasingly ranked among the ‘unwelcome leftovers of antiquity’ and ‘held up to scorn and ridicule’, he added. ‘We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink,’ said the Pope at an evening ceremony at the Coliseum in Rome.

'Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode. ‘Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.’

 

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[sonofourlady]

Pope warns of ‘a desert of godlessness’ in Good Friday address
By Daily Mail Reporter

Pope Benedict XVI last night attacked the rise of aggressive secularism in Western societies, warning them that they risked drifting into a ‘desert of godlessness’. He used his Good Friday meditations to compare deliberate attempts to remove religion from public life to the mockery of Jesus Christ by the mob as he was led out to be crucified.

‘Religious sentiments’ were increasingly ranked among the ‘unwelcome leftovers of antiquity’ and ‘held up to scorn and ridicule’, he added. ‘We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink,’ said the Pope at an evening ceremony at the Coliseum in Rome.

'Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode. ‘Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.’

Is it just me or does Pope Benedict speak a little more clearer than his predecessor? I don’t mean this as an insult to Pope John Paul II, but in his book Crossing the threshold of hope, he reveals himself as a philosopher and Pope Benedict is more of a teacher (having taught at Seminaries). I just seem to understand Pope Benedict better.

 

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Pope warns of ‘a desert of godlessness’ in Good Friday address
By Daily Mail Reporter

Pope Benedict XVI last night attacked the rise of aggressive secularism in Western societies, warning them that they risked drifting into a ‘desert of godlessness’. **He used his Good Friday meditations to compare deliberate attempts to remove religion from public life to the mockery of Jesus Christ by the mob as he was led out to be crucified.
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‘Religious sentiments’ were increasingly ranked among the ‘unwelcome leftovers of antiquity’ and ‘held up to scorn and ridicule’, he added. ‘We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink,’ said the Pope at an evening ceremony at the Coliseum in Rome.

'Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode. ‘Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.’

AMEN! It saddens me that some of the proponents of such secularism in our country come from Catholics. I hope and pray that the words of our Pope may give them pause in their spreading of such heresy.

 

[edwest2]

Over the last 40 years, the Body of Christ was slowly, gradually poisoned. In the 1960s, Christianity was respected. The TV ended the day by showing a film of a beautiful silver jet in flight and ended with the words “and I touched the face of God.”

No one filed lawsuits because a Nativity was in front of a public building. Nobody filed lawsuits in a community near mine that played religious songs to people passing by local shops. Today, they can play the music but not the words.

Wake up, Catholics. The ACLU is saying they are ‘protecting’ you while removing religious displays from buildings. Right before the Communists came to power in Russia, prayer was part of the school day. “Destroy the family and you destroy society.” V. I. Lenin

The Pope is exactly right. Pray. Read a few pages from your Bible daily. Read Catholic newspapers and magazines.

Peace,
Ed