From Brazil’s largest basilica Pope Francis calls on young people to shun the idols of money and pleasure

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Pope Francis held his first mass as a pontiff at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida in Sao Paulo before thousands of faithful who gathered despite de cold and the rain. During the Wednesday mass, Pope Francis urged young people to shun the “ephemeral idols” of money and pleasure and cherish traditional values to help build a better world. Read full article

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brucey-babe
Shun money ? Half of them there in the crowd are pickpockets !
Jul 25th, 2013 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Kirk Nelson
Preach and put it on action. The Vatican is the richest world organization full of luxuries, gold, money and sexual miss behaivor activities.
All the above is against God in fact God give us his own son, Jesus, who lived on our world. Jesus born naked us we all do, but Jesus acquired nothing while on earth. His possessions were a par of sandals and a old tunic. That was all he had, but the Vatican and its inside people do the contrary.
So, how the Pope can ask Brazilians to abonden their only joy?

Kirk.
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Jul 25th, 2013 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
Back to the good old middle ages for the RCC “faithful”.

Can't see that going down well.
Jul 25th, 2013 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Trunce!
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“in fact God give us his own son”

Faith is not fact.
Jul 25th, 2013 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
What a typically “argie” pope. “shun the “ephemeral idols” of money and pleasure” “Don't ”lust“ after money, then there will be more for me.” “Go without ”pleasure“, so avoid books, films, television, music, only have sex the way I do. At the age of 76, the best I can manage is a choirboy sliding up and down after a couple of others have ”prepared“ me”. What a dumbo! Bet the boys got together afterwards and did some “reciprocal” shafting. And can't you just imagine the shafter telling the shaftee “Be grateful. I'm doing this for nothing. And hold still until I make a deposit”.
Jul 25th, 2013 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Baxter
Good for the Pope . Speak out with common sense and decency . It would do us all well to think of others ,help the needy , give help to schools which cater to the disadvantaged . Hospitals which attend all . A hand to a blind person crossing the street . Keep it my dear Pope . Ignore those who just sit and criticize .
Jul 25th, 2013 - 11:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Boovis
Waving gold around to an imaginary being in the sky is hardly the way to show the poor of the world to live in a modern or democratic way. If I wrote a book about the shit the bible says and tried to tell people there was an invisible boogy man watching everything I and everyone did, they'd lock me up as a frickin' looney, and rightfully so!
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