The Weekly Francis – 19 May 2013

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 6 May 2013 – 19 May 2013 (subscribe hereget as an eBook version for your Kindle, iPod, iPad, Nook, or other eBook reader):

Angelus/Regina Caeli

General Audiences

Homilies

Speeches

Papal Tweets

  • “Am I faithful to Christ in my daily life? Am I able to “show” my faith with respect but also with courage?” @pontifex, 13 May 2013
  • “It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother’s womb.” @pontifex, 15 May 2013
  • “We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.” @pontifex, 16 May 2013
  • “Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?” @pontifex, 17 May 2013
  • “We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.” @pontifex, 18 May 2013
  • “The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.” @pontifex, 19 May 2013

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Author: jeffmiller

Jeff Miller is a former atheist who after spending forty years in the wilderness finds himself with both astonishment and joy a member of the Catholic Church.

One thought on “The Weekly Francis – 19 May 2013”

  1. The 16 May address to ambassadors contains strong criticisms of the free market values underpinning our economic system.
     
    “… poverty is becoming more and more evident. … One cause of this situation … our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society. Consequently the financial crisis … denial of the primacy of human beings! We have created new idols. … cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy … lacking any truly humane goal. .
     
    .. solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling. This imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good. … .
     
    … Ethics, like solidarity, is a nuisance! It is regarded as counterproductive: as something too human, because it relativizes money and power … ethics leads to God, who is situated outside the categories of the market. … God is unmanageable, even dangerous, because he calls man to his full realization and to independence from any kind of slavery. … I encourage the financial experts and the political leaders of your countries to consider the words of Saint John Chrysostom: “Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs”
     
    … need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. … Money has to serve, not to rule! … The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.
     
    … the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. … urges financial leaders to take account of ethics and solidarity.”

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