Pope ends South America trip urging youths to ‘make a mess’

In this Wednesday, July 8, 2015 photo, Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, in La Paz, Bolivia. He also made numerous historical pronouncements and railed against ideologies.

Jimenez planned to have a meal ready for the Pope when he arrived.

Only 25 miles from the border with Argentina, tens of thousands of Pope Francis’ fellow Argentines filled the square in front of the shrine and the streets around it July 11 to pray with “their” pope.

The pontiff stopped at several homes to visit with and bless families living there.

The choices are not casual and the meetings are not private.

A reporter aboard the plane returning to Rome on Sunday evening noted the pope’s speeches in Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay concentrated on exploitation of the world’s poor but left no message for the middle class.

The Argentines who traveled to Paraguay to see their pope know well of his long-term love affair with their northern neighbor. The banner included a Pope Francis quote from 2013 on same-gender couples: “If they accept God and they have good faith, who am I to judge?” He is not coming home yet, so we brought it to him.

Pope Francis has been all over the map with when it comes to the LGBT community-first saying gays and lesbians had “gifts” to offer Catholics, then pulling a 360 and declaring same-sex relationships were a “threat” to the traditional family. He encouraged gratitude among those who live comfortably, with the opportunity to eat every day and pursue studies. That is who I am. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. It draws us closer to the lives of others.

“Then and now, you found the strength not to let this land lose its bearings”, he said to wild cheers from the crowd. It’s a faith without Christ, a faith without God, a faith without siblings.

“The Lord will shower down blessings, and our land will yield its increase”. Welcoming the different cultures, with which this land is so richly blessed.

The 78-year-old Francis appeared to doze off a bit at the end of Mass on Sunday when the archbishop of Asuncion, Paraguay delivered a lengthy speech of thanks for his visit.

“But in Paraguay, 92% of people are Catholic and love the Pope”, he says.

“The state doesn’t concern itself with us or look upon us kindly”, said local coordinator Maria Adolfina Garcia, who denounced real estate speculation plans by the city government “with projects that don’t favor us whereby they intend to displace us”. “Colonialism, both old and new, which reduces poor countries to mere providers of raw material and cheap labor, engenders violence, poverty, forced migrations and all the evils which go hand in hand with these, precisely because, by placing the periphery at the service of the center, it denies those countries the right to an integral development”. “All these critiques point toward the incoherence of the simple idea of free market economics, but they don’t prescribe a remedy”, said Mr. Johnson, of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He challenges them to take on a whole range of attitudes and ways of acting. But Jesus is quite precise, very clear. He says, “Take nothing for the journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money”. They are credited with keeping the country going during and after the war of 1864-1870, a disaster for Paraguay in which the majority of the country’s men died. Instead, corrections will be made in a blog post or in an article.