Pope meets with Fidel, misses out on dissident greeting, Pope Francis on Sunday alleged on association to assure its "smallest" and a lot of accessible members, including the unborn.
Speaking spontaneously to a accumulation of Cuban nuns, priests, seminarians and bishops, the pope said that Jesus shines in the lives of hidden and abandoned people, such as those who ache from degenerative diseases.
He aswell referred to prenatal testing that can anticipation illnesses in the womb, arch some parents to "return it (the baby) afore it comes into the world."
The pope, who is in Cuba until Tuesday afternoon, said he capital to allege off-the-cuff in acknowledgment to two "prophets," who batten afore him Sunday evening. One was a nun who works with acutely ill children.
Repeating a accustomed theme, Francis aswell alleged for the abbey to embrace a "spirit of poverty," adage that "wealth takes abroad the best of us."
"Bad accountants are abundant for the church, because they accomplish it free, accomplish it poor," the pope said. "God wants it to be poor ... . Blessed are the poor of the heart, those who aren't absorbed to money."
Later Sunday evening, beneath a dribble of rain, Francis apprenticed a army of adolescent Cubans in Havana to "open yourself, and dream."
"Dream that if you accord the best of yourself, you'll advice accomplish the apple a altered place."
While alienated candidly political statements, the abbey aswell again his common criticism of a "throwaway culture" and the "idolatry of money."
"Children aren't loved, they're dead afore getting born," he said. "The aged are befuddled away, because they don't produce. Some countries accept euthanasia. But in some others there (is) a hidden euthanasia. The adolescence is befuddled abroad because they accept no job opportunities."
In the able animadversion that he did not bear on Sunday but said will be appear shortly, the pope compared communities that don't altercate to an old brace who accept absent absorption in anniversary other.
"Conflicts and disagreements in the abbey are to be accepted and, I would even say, needed," said the pope. "They are a assurance that the abbey is animate and that the spirit is still acting, still activation her."
Such sentiments are a aciculate breach from Francis' apostolic predecessors -- Saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI -- both of whom beat bone aural the church.
Francis' comments appear as the Catholic Abbey is captivation a angry agitation over several arguable issues, including whether afar and remarried Catholics should be able to accept Communion. Earlier this month, Francis fabricated it easier and cheaper for Catholics to abate their marriages, arch some American conservatives to allege him of "vandalizing" the sacrament.
In October, the Vatican will host a ample affair of top bishops to altercate challenges adverse avant-garde families, including annulments, and beat to gays and lesbians.
Earlier on Sunday, Pope Francis met briefly with above Cuban Admiral Fidel Castro, again captivated a best affair with his brother, accepted Admiral Raul Castro.
On Tuesday, Francis will fly to Washington, the aboriginal stop on his three-city cruise to the United States. In a arresting assurance of the disagreements a part of American Catholics, Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican -- and Catholic -- from Arizona, said he affairs to avoid the pope's accent to Congress.
"When the pope chooses to act and allocution like a advocate politician," Gosar said, "then he can apprehend to be advised like one."
Other Catholic politicians, such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is active for president, said the pope was amiss to advice agent a adept detente amid the United States and Cuba.
"The actuality is that his accuracy is on religious matters, not on political ones," Christie told CNN's Jake Tapper.
Speaking spontaneously to a accumulation of Cuban nuns, priests, seminarians and bishops, the pope said that Jesus shines in the lives of hidden and abandoned people, such as those who ache from degenerative diseases.
He aswell referred to prenatal testing that can anticipation illnesses in the womb, arch some parents to "return it (the baby) afore it comes into the world."
The pope, who is in Cuba until Tuesday afternoon, said he capital to allege off-the-cuff in acknowledgment to two "prophets," who batten afore him Sunday evening. One was a nun who works with acutely ill children.
Repeating a accustomed theme, Francis aswell alleged for the abbey to embrace a "spirit of poverty," adage that "wealth takes abroad the best of us."
"Bad accountants are abundant for the church, because they accomplish it free, accomplish it poor," the pope said. "God wants it to be poor ... . Blessed are the poor of the heart, those who aren't absorbed to money."
Later Sunday evening, beneath a dribble of rain, Francis apprenticed a army of adolescent Cubans in Havana to "open yourself, and dream."
"Dream that if you accord the best of yourself, you'll advice accomplish the apple a altered place."
While alienated candidly political statements, the abbey aswell again his common criticism of a "throwaway culture" and the "idolatry of money."
"Children aren't loved, they're dead afore getting born," he said. "The aged are befuddled away, because they don't produce. Some countries accept euthanasia. But in some others there (is) a hidden euthanasia. The adolescence is befuddled abroad because they accept no job opportunities."
In the able animadversion that he did not bear on Sunday but said will be appear shortly, the pope compared communities that don't altercate to an old brace who accept absent absorption in anniversary other.
"Conflicts and disagreements in the abbey are to be accepted and, I would even say, needed," said the pope. "They are a assurance that the abbey is animate and that the spirit is still acting, still activation her."
Such sentiments are a aciculate breach from Francis' apostolic predecessors -- Saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI -- both of whom beat bone aural the church.
Francis' comments appear as the Catholic Abbey is captivation a angry agitation over several arguable issues, including whether afar and remarried Catholics should be able to accept Communion. Earlier this month, Francis fabricated it easier and cheaper for Catholics to abate their marriages, arch some American conservatives to allege him of "vandalizing" the sacrament.
In October, the Vatican will host a ample affair of top bishops to altercate challenges adverse avant-garde families, including annulments, and beat to gays and lesbians.
Earlier on Sunday, Pope Francis met briefly with above Cuban Admiral Fidel Castro, again captivated a best affair with his brother, accepted Admiral Raul Castro.
On Tuesday, Francis will fly to Washington, the aboriginal stop on his three-city cruise to the United States. In a arresting assurance of the disagreements a part of American Catholics, Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican -- and Catholic -- from Arizona, said he affairs to avoid the pope's accent to Congress.
"When the pope chooses to act and allocution like a advocate politician," Gosar said, "then he can apprehend to be advised like one."
Other Catholic politicians, such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is active for president, said the pope was amiss to advice agent a adept detente amid the United States and Cuba.
"The actuality is that his accuracy is on religious matters, not on political ones," Christie told CNN's Jake Tapper.
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