“Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points.?” Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (1936), Argentinian, 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

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4 thoughts on “Little Papal Bling, but enough dazzle to grab our attention …”

This is where we are; we simply have to move forward. And the current church is not without stain (thinking about the so-called German Catholic ‘Bishop of Bling’, who allegedly spent tens of millions of $ on his residential palace). How can we, or anyone with any degree of common sense and literacy ignore the “massive poverty and obscene inequality” of which Nelson Mandela spoke, without continuing to write about this state of affairs. Wake up World … please!

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