Pope's Article in the Financial Times: A Time for Christians to Engage with the World

[HansTrappist]

VATICAN CITY, DEC. 20, 2012 - “Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God,” was the response of Jesus when asked about paying taxes. His questioners, of course, were laying a trap for him. They wanted to force him to take sides in the highly charged political debate about Roman rule in the land of Israel. Yet there was more at stake here: if Jesus really was the long-awaited Messiah, then surely he would oppose the Roman overlords. So the question was calculated to expose him either as a threat to the regime, or as a fraud…

zenit.org/article-36219?l=english

 

[Vouthon]

Great, thanks!

 

[HansTrappist]

Great, thanks!

You are welcome!

I found it to be a very enlightening and courageous article.

 

[Vouthon]

You are welcome!

I found it to be a very enlightening and courageous article.

So did I Hans

I appreciate you bringing it to my attention. I have since quoted it on another thread, actually.

 

[Mrs_Sally]

Very insightful!

Christians fight poverty out of a recognition of the supreme dignity of every human being, created in God’s image and destined for eternal life. They work for more equitable sharing of the earth’s resources out of a belief that – as stewards of God’s creation – we have a duty to care for the weakest and most vulnerable. Christians oppose greed and exploitation out of a conviction that generosity and selfless love, as taught and lived by Jesus of Nazareth, are the way that leads to fullness of life. The belief in the transcendent destiny of every human being gives urgency to the task of promoting peace and justice for all.