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Pope Preaches About America’s Hope and Pain

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Posted on Apr 17, 2008
Pope Benedict
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Mass consciousness: Pope Benedict XVI leads a large and faithful following in Washington on Thursday.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass Thursday in a venue slightly different from his customary surroundings, leading a service at the Washington Nationals baseball stadium on the latest stop of his American tour. The pope took the opportunity during his Washington, D.C., visit to address some of the blights on the U.S. historical record with regard to Americans’ past failures to love their neighbors as themselves.


AP via Breitbart.com:

The pope, wearing scarlet vestments, led the service from an altar erected in centerfield of the recently inaugurated baseball stadium.

“Americans have always been a people of hope,” he said. “Your ancestors came to this country with the experience of finding new freedom and opportunity,” Benedict said.

“To be sure, this promise was not experienced by all the inhabitants of this land; one thinks of the injustices endured by the native American peoples and by those brought here forcibly from Africa as slaves.”

He turned for a third day to the clergy sex abuse scandal that rocked the American church, saying “no words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse.”

He called for healing and reconciliation and assistance to the victims.

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By purplewolf, April 18, 2008 at 11:00 am #

Thanks TDoff for remembering the Native American also, as they are too often ignored by society as a whole. Or as many people think today about Indians- that we were all dead a long time ago.

No, we maybe didn’t entice children into places of worship and rape them, but check out what the Carlisle (religious run)schools did to the Native children. They only stole and coerced the people to give up their children.

Many of these stolen children died at the hands of these so called “church people”, abuse was commonplace, children were prostituted out(found this out from people on the Red Road who had relatives that were victims of these church based schools). The children were worked as slaves and trained to be “cannon fodder”. More can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School

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By purplewolf, April 18, 2008 at 10:35 am #

P.G. I have often felt that those who think they are following in the footsteps of something righteous (God-Jesus?)are actually going down the path of destruction(Satan)as their actions seem to indicate.

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By Purple Girl, April 18, 2008 at 8:24 am #

Having been Baptized Catholic and indocrinated up til the age of 9- when my conscious (conscience ) mind Awoke, I have reconfirmed to myself this Orgnaization and it’s leaders are nothing more the the original Horsemen of the Apocalypse of Mankind- The right hand of the Beast(along with their other so called ‘ordained’ religions). These ‘religions’ “Savior” may actually be the Satan Mankind will be enslaved to for another few millenia.But there are times This ‘Atheist’ Hopes that a real Judgement day comes when none are able to oppress our minds, bodies and spirits any longer. May the Wrath of Humanity rain down upon their heads and regain the dignity and treasures they have stolen

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By Suspect Device, April 18, 2008 at 7:23 am #
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A man is respected because he talks to an invisible man in the sky? That’s why he’s respected?  Wait…what century is this?

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By Fadel Abdallah, April 17, 2008 at 8:50 pm #

Well, here’s the so-called holy white Pope, lecturing white America about the damned atrocities committed against the Native Americans and Black Americans. Yet he is doing this upon an invitation from his ideological comrade Bush who gave him a monarch-like treatment and reception. Is this more than what Bush bargained for?!

Compare this to what made the news few weeks ago about Rev. J. Wright’s comments on the same issues, with all the racially charged reaction to it, and you will have the classical example of hypocrisy, split vision and double standards the white media and politicians always display.

I want to see some sons of b…s making big news of comparing and contrasting the Pope’s words with those of the courageous Rev. J. Wright, and to put for us in perspective who has more right to speak about these issues: Rev. Wright who lived the pains of these atrocities or the Pope who only read about them from books?!

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By PatrickHenry, April 17, 2008 at 8:10 pm #

Priests everywhere.

Cherry blossum tourists are leaving and a new wave of nuns and priests is in town.

The usual congress staffers, lobbiests and now clergy will get out of the way of the mighty Ford.

Why does every other person seem to drive a dump truck during rush hour?

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By TDoff, April 17, 2008 at 6:39 pm #

Thanks a lot, Mr. Pope.
Just what the US needs, a lecture on morality from a Pompous, Pedopile-Protecting Putz. Our treatment of the indigenous American Indians and the enslaved, imported African Americans was atrocious, despicable. BUT WE DID NOT ENTICE THEIR CHILDREN INTO PLACES OF ‘WORSHIP’ AND RAPE THEM, AS YOU AND YOUR MINIONS DID, Mr. Pope.
Please, Mr. Pope, STFU, take your fat ass back to Rome, and watch your perverted empire continue to crumble about you. Or Not.
You are irrelevant, an amoral hypocrite.

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By rowdy, April 17, 2008 at 4:01 pm #

this old nazi is exactly like bush. he never shuts up,yet he never says anything. he should stay in rome and fuck boys, i’m sure he has a good supply of viagra.

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By DennisD, April 17, 2008 at 3:58 pm #
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Hope isn’t going to cut it. We need real action to fix what’s generated the pain in this country.

Should we all hope that we don’t keep electing incompetent, corrupt fools to further run us into the ground or do something about it, vote them all out and start putting them in jail where they belong for starters.

Hope never won a revolution.

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