POPE FRANCIS' 'THOUGHT FOR THE DAY' ON RADIO 4 WAS READ IN THE MOST LUDICROUS FAKE ARGENTINIAN ACCENT BY AN ACTOR.
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Pope urges 'hope and kindness' in Thought for the Day message
Listen: The Pope says "hope and kindness" leads to a more beautiful world
The Pope has called for "hope and kindness" in a message for Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Pope Francis emphasised the importance of humility in the recording broadcast on Saturday.
"A world full of hope and kindness is a more beautiful world. A society that looks to the future with confidence and treats people with respect and empathy is more humane," he said.
He also quoted British writer GK Chesterton, whom the pontiff says invites us to "take the elements of life with gratitude and not for granted".
The message - recorded in Italian and translated into English - marks the Catholic Church's Jubilee year, which began on 24 December.
A jubilee is a Church tradition which takes place only once every 25 years in which Catholics re-establish their relationship with God. This jubilee is also dedicated to the theme of hope and will involve special celebrations, including tens of millions of pilgrims travelling to Rome.
On Thursday, Pope Francis visited a prison in Rome where he opened a "Holy Door", part of a prison chapel, which is one of a number of doors only opened during Jubilee years.
In his message he said: "Even if we do not know what tomorrow may hold for us, we should not look to the future with pessimism and resignation.
"War, social injustices and the many forms of violence we are exposed to everyday should not dishearten us nor draw us towards scepticism and discouragement."
He added that kindness is not a "diplomatic strategy", or a "set of rules to ensure social harmony or to obtain other advantages."
The pontiff ended the Thought with his "wish for hope".
"I hope that during this jubilee we can practice kindness as a form of love to connect with others. May the new year bring us peace, fellowship and gratitude."
Pope Francis has appeared on Thought for the Day once before, in 2021, ahead of the COP26 climate summit.
He used that message to appeal for the world to take "an urgent change of direction" to preserve the planet for future generations.
His predecessor Pope Benedict XVI was the first to appear on Thought for the Day, broadcasting a pre-recorded message on Christmas Eve in 2010.
Ah, yes, Gene, when beaten out of sight yet again, the usual pitiable blog tactic - post a meaningless story in an attempt to push your humiliation down the page, as if anyone will read about it anyway.
ReplyDeleteHow juvenile you are.
But, as Detters so rightly says, sooner or later you are going to have to face these facts:
When the senior management team at your old school get his memorandum on the subject, complete with your verbatim testimony to your sexual touching offences, they will not dare ignore it, particularly as Detterling will make it clear to them that if they do ignore it, then he will refer the matter onward to Ms Catherine Edgington, Head of Safeguarding in the Diocese of Westminster.
This is in view of the fact that it is almost certain that some of the women you groped will still be teaching, and will probably confirm that they were repeatedly the objects of your grubby attentions.
No school senior management team in its right senses would ignore such information - not least because it comes with your repeated confessions, one of which makes clear that you knew what you were doing was wrong - vide your tactic of seeking out secluded or secret locations for your grubby sexual assaults.
You can't worm and weasel your way out of this one, Gene.
You have, in Samuel Pepys's classic phrase "shit in your hat and then clapped it on your head"...and that shit will, on February 2nd next year, hit the fan and cover you neck deep in a midden you have filled yourself over many years of dealing out shit to other people behind a mask of anonymity.
I can hardly wait.
Mr Anonymous of Northwood.
"post a meaningless story"
ReplyDeletePope Francis' message is extremely meaningful.
GENE