Pope Francis: Speech at World Meeting of Popular Movements
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis spoke Thursday evening at the World Meeting of Popular Movements, taking place in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
The World Meeting of Popular Movements, organized in collaboration with Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, brings together delegates from popular movements from around the world.
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Good afternoon!
Several months ago, we met in Rome, and I remember that first meeting. In the meantime I have kept you in my thoughts and prayers. I am happy to see you again, here, as you discuss the best ways to overcome the grave situations of injustice experienced by the excluded throughout our world. Thank you, President Evo Morales, for your efforts to make this meeting possible.
During our first meeting in Rome, I sensed something very beautiful: fraternity, determination, commitment, a thirst for justice. Today, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, I sense it once again. I thank you for that. I also know, from …More
My friend, David Goldman, an adherent to Modern Orthodox Judaism and brilliant essayist, once wrote that Pope Francis is more interested in saving the world than saving souls. Given that I do not see on first reading where Francis even mentions the word "soul", let alone talks about the religious dimensions of life and DEATH, sin and SALVATION, sacrifice and Jesus the Christ, rather just effuses the languare of left-wing, marxist oriented popaganda, along with a touch of socialistic fascism, and utters other remarks for "movements" to change this world (not to save the souls of this world for even "the poor and marginalized" have souls to be saved), given the barren absent of Christian religiosity, I think that this clarion call to action by Pope Francis can be seen, at least on a prima facie basis, to have confirmed the correctness of David Goldman' thesis. I do not encounter a religion of transcendence in the words of the Pope, only popularistic and socialistic propaganda.
I will repeat my tentative thesis borrowed from Goldman: Pope Francis is more, verbally much more, interested in saving the worldthan soul and that his preferred method of "saving" evinces a mixture of leftism, marxism and fascism (which is not surprising for an Argentinian).
Finally note: Year ago Iused to read statements from representatives or plants of the USSR at left-wing meetings, etc. Change a word or two here or there, words lending a slight religious overtone and I cannot ascertain any significant difference between the speech of Pope Francis and a USSR operative, other than the Leninist ideology of the operative is internally more coherent.