Pope Turns Bishops’ Attention to Family Crises in Mideast

Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Africa from Nov. 25-30, with his first stop in Kenya from Nov. 25-27, followed by Uganda Nov. 27-29, and finally the Central African Republic Nov. 29-30. The US has always had an interesting relationship with the Roman Catholic Church, ever since the founding of our nation.

“I’m here today to talk about the bridegroom and his love for his bride – God’s love for His Church”, Bishop Olmsted said.

Anti-Catholicism in the USA has primarily been associated with xenophobic attitudes during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as with attacks from the Evangelical right prior to the election of John F. Kennedy.

The trick for Francis is to convince the assembled celibate clergymen, many of whom have opposing views to what he has in mind, to open their own hearts and minds to his words.

That is, everyone except conservatives. The bishops met to read to the pope, and one another, speeches only on the topics pre-approved by the pope. Call him the pope of the digital age – getting to see Pope Francis in person was a once in a lifetime event and people wanted the selfies to prove it. Never one to disappoint his followers, Pope Francis made time to pose for dozens of selfies throughout his trip and the results were enviable.

These 22 holy men and women, “whose blood has been the seed of Christianity in this country” Archbishop Odama said, were executed by the king in the 1880s for refusing to denounce their faith.

Pope Francis, while technically a head of state, is primarily a religious figure.

The Catholic Church, along with the papacy, is as old as Christianity itself, and trying to label the pope using post-Enlightenment concepts such as socialism, Marxism or progressivism would be an anachronism.

UK Aid Match, which helped SCIAF’s Wee Box Lenten campaign this year to record results, will double public donations to Mary’s Meals’ Feed Our Future’ appeal, a move which could give over 100,000 children in the developing world the vital nutrition they need and the chance to stay in school.

In 1891, Pope Leo VIII, in his encyclical “Rerum nova rum,” criticized both capitalism and socialism while calling for just treatment of the laborer, the right to form labor unions and the right to private property.

I have been truly graced to be able to travel once again to Rome, reporting on this month’s session of the Synod as a lay Catholic to other lay Catholics.

He then listed the many people who experience such solitude: the elderly, widows and widowers, and those abandoned by their spouses. Gosar had stated before the arrival of Francis in the states that he would indeed be boycotting the Pope’s address to Congress. As he understood it, the Pope “has adopted all the Socialist talking points, wrapped false science and ideology into “climate justice” and is being used to guilt people into leftist policies”. Go back to your job spreading angry and hateful speech while the Holy Father continues his mission of love, peace and charity.