I like this new Pope.

Filed in National by on May 22, 2013

“This ‘closing off’ that imagines that those outside, everyone, cannot do good is a wall that leads to war and also to what some people throughout history have conceived of: killing in the name of God. That we can kill in the name of God. And that, simply, is blasphemy. To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy … The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! …

We all have a duty to do good. And this commandment for everyone to do good, I think, is a beautiful path towards peace. If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good. ‘But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!’ But do good: we will meet one another there,” – Pope Francis, in the weekly Wednesday homily (sermon) today at the Vatican.

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  1. Dorian Gray says:
    May 22, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    I read that earlier today and was happy to see it. I can’t say I “like” the pope, but his view on this is very good news. Seems like it’d be self-evident, but it isn’t.

  2. cassandra_m says:
    May 22, 2013 at 2:56 pm

    Can we get this new Pope to talk to this TN teajhadi who thinks that the bible tells you that people can starve? While this very same teajhadi continues to collect his unworked-for shekels from taxpayers?

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