This pope said "almsgiving is not just about the money; it is about being attentive to the actual needs of the person asking for help." And what might those needs be that can be addressed fully without any money to pay for the resources needed to address them? [2]
Below is a photograph of the pope meeting with street children in the Philippines. [3] What is wrong with this picture? The "street children" -- all of them children. Where were the "street parents," the other "street adults" and the "street seniors?" Had they all found money and lodging so that they were no longer on the streets? If that had not happened, then where were the smelly street people with tattered clothing, the mentally ill street people, the sick street people without any medication? Why were they not in the photograph? Why did this pope not demand to meet with them too? Why did the pope not look into their eyes? Was it because the pope did not bring enough money with him to give to them, but just for himself and his entourage to stay a few days and fly back on his private plane to Rome?
Why did this pope not call it as it is, that poverty is a consequence of Original Sin and therefore will always be with mankind, that poverty is the direct consequence of the failure of abstention from sexual intercourse, of unbridled breeding without giving any thought to the resources needed to raise offsprings, and say to it their faces that Catholics should not breed like rabbits! [4], [5]
[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+26%3A11
[2] http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-when-giving-to-the-poor-look-them-in-the-eyes-59625/
[3] Ibid.
[4] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/01/20/378559550/pope-francis-says-catholics-dont-need-to-breed-like-rabbits
[5] http://mentalfloss.com/article/29870/are-rabbits-prolific-everybody-says
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