Vatican announces symposium on popular movements
September 06, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has announced that it will host a symposium to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Pope’s first address to popular movements.
The event, entitled “Planting a flag in the face of dehumanization,” will take place on September 20, and is cosponsored by the Encuentro Mundial de Movimientos Populares (World Meeting of Popular Movements).
In his 2014 address, Pope Francis emphasized the “three t’s” (tierra, techo, and trabajo, or land, housing, and work), which has become a theme of his teaching:
This meeting of ours responds to a very concrete desire, something that any father and mother would want for their children – a desire for what should be within everyone’s reach, namely land, housing and work. However, nowadays, it is sad to see that land, housing and work are ever more distant for the majority. It is strange but, if I talk about this, some say that the Pope is communist.The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.
They do not understand that love for the poor is at the center of the Gospel. Land, housing and work, what you struggle for, are sacred rights. To make this claim is nothing unusual; it is the social teaching of the Church.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Sep. 08, 2024 4:35 AM ET USA
No Catholic worthy of the name would oppose extending the corporal and spiritual works of mercy to everyone, including the economically poor. The issue is not the fact that Catholics are bound by their faith to do these works of mercy; the issue is the language and manner used by Francis and some of his colleagues to communicate the "social teaching of the Church".
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Posted by: feedback -
Sep. 06, 2024 9:55 AM ET USA
Pope Francis needs to ask anyone (of the hundreds of millions who survived) who lived under communist regimes, if communism has anything to do with "the love of the poor," or the Gospel. He is seriously detached from reality.
