I read this in one of my Facebook groups. With the American Left crushing on the allegedly ‘Democrat’ Pope over his ‘message to GOP’ (not), I thought it was especially timely.
If there’s one important life lesson my mother taught me, it was QUESTION EVERYTHING (and she meant EVERYTHING) – but get your answers FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE.
Want to know whether a certain medication, supplement, or food additive is safe or not?
- Ask an unbiased chemist or, better yet, look it up in peer reviewed scientific journals.
Want to know what the Catholic Church teaches about a certain topic?
- Ask a spiritually committed priest or, better yet, look it up in official Church documents.
polination.blog 
A good comment on that Facebook thread: “Does it really matter being Catholic? The Catholic Church is taking me on a journey to perfect happiness, and there is joy in the journey. It doesn’t really matter to me if other people are going to arrive at the destination without ever experiencing the journey. What matters to me is that I’m experiencing it, and I’m getting a lot of benefit from it.”
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Wait wait wait! . .. you mean to say, that if the NY Times says the Pops said something, it mught not be accurate? /snark
Sorry, I’ve spent too much time the past few days using the figurative rolled-up-newspaper nose-thwap on too many people over this. so many people being so flipping stupid. . . *sigh*
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Wonderful image, Z. ROFLLLL I’ve been referring folks to Kathryn Jean Lopez’s piece.
I esp like the end: “Whatever your politics, be careful what you read into this. He’s talking to you. He’s talking to me. He’s reminding himself. The news isn’t that he isn’t “a right-winger,” as he tells us. It’s that he’s a pastor. He’s a priest, not a politician.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/19/lets-not-just-talk-about-sex-what-pope-francis-really-said-to-jesuit/
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Hard to believe this tweet … unless you consider the source is Jane Fonda, then it’s totally understandable, cuz nothing says Libtard like projecting all your hopes and dreams on charismatic figures about whom you know very little.
“Gotta love new Pope. He cares about poor, hates dogma.”
The Pope hates dogma. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. And the Viet Cong were warm-hearted Care Bears, just like Hugo Chavez.
http://twitchy.com/2013/09/20/chris-rock-thinks-pope-francis-might-be-greatest-man-alive-jane-fonda-loves-him-too/
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