Pope's Propaganda

Pope Urges Youths to Spurn Materialism

SYDNEY, Australia -- Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a "spiritual desert" was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind.

He urged the young people in his more than 1 billion-strong flock to be agents of change because "the world needs renewal."

"In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair," the pontiff said.

The aim was "a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption which deadens our souls and poisons our relationships," he said.

I just love it. Here is a guy preaching for youths to spurn materialism and look at the garb he is wearing. The gold colors you see are not yellow paint or thread.

Wine drinkers I know drink their wine out of a wine glass. Not the Pope, he drinks his out of a precious gem and gold encrusted goblet.

You can bet the wine he drinks is not Ripple.

Do as I say not as I do. Give the church all your money and live in the dark.

He doesn't stop there.

The appeal came as Benedict finished a visit to Australia that touched on the themes that have defined his three-year-old papacy, including the struggle to rejuvenate a crisis-battered Church, reaching out to other faiths and raising global warming as an important issue.

Global warming, here we go, let's even have the Pope jump on that unproven bandwagon.

Let's review how the Pope is reducing his carbon footprint.

Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said 350,000 attended Sunday's Mass.

The pope flew over the scene early Sunday in a helicopter, dubbed "the holy-copter" by bleary-eyed pilgrims below, to see the assemblage.

So he flies around in a helicopter to see the masses below.

The reason to be flying over the masses and increasing his contribution to the so-called global warming?

Nothing more than self gratification.

He later took a slow drive through the crowd, stopping once to plant a kiss on the forehead of a toddler held up to the popemobile's window.

So he didn't waste enough fuel and increase global warming by flying over the crowd, he then had to take a slow drive through the same crowd in his popemobile.

So much for liberation from self-absorption.

Benedict flew to Sydney on a more than 20-hour flight from Rome. No, not on a commercial flight to reduce global warming but on an opulent private aircraft.

The Mass came a day after the pope made a forceful apology for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, keeping up efforts begun in the United States to publicly atone for what he called evil acts by priests.

To date the Pope has done nothing but make what is billed as a forceful apology for the sexual abuse of children by the Roman Catholic clergy.

Maybe he needs to come into a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption which deadens our souls and poisons our relationships.

In the mean time, keep giving your money to the Catholic Church so they can continue to pay lawsuits for the pedophiles that the Pope does nothing more than apologize for.

The priests must have one hell of a union that the Pope somehow can't fire them.