Pope Francis recently addressed some 7,000 children, parents and teachers at the Vatican for an Italian initiative called The Peace Factory, which seeks to promote peace, tolerance and inclusion among the multi-ethnic, socially diverse and differently-abled children attending Italian elementary schools.
When an Egyptian child living in the suburbs of Rome asked the Pope, “Why don’t powerful people help schools?” the Pope answered, “We can ask a bigger question. “Why don’t so many powerful people want peace?”
“Because they live off war, the arms industry is a serious matter! The powerful earn a living by producing and selling arms to countries: it is the industry of death, they make money from it. You know greed is really bad for us, our desire to have more, more money: and when we see that everything revolves around money, that the economic system revolves around money and not around people, around men and women, a great deal is sacrificed and people go to war to defend money. This is why so many people do not want peace: you profit more from war and money but you lose lives, culture, education, you lose so many things. An elderly priest I met some years ago, used to say: the devil enters through people’s wallets, through greed and this is why they do not want peace,” 78-year-old Pontiff said.
Then a wheelchair-bound 9-year-old boy asked the Pope to to define peace. “Peace means above all, no more wars but it also means joy, friendship among all, taking steps toward justice every day, taking steps to ensure there are no starving and sick who do not have the means to obtain health assistance. Doing all this is peace. Peace takes effort, it isn’t about being relaxed. We need to work in order to ensure that everyone has a solution to the problems and needs of their land, their country, their family and their society: this is how you make home-made peace. Peace is not an industrial product, peace is a home-made product, it is created day by day with our work, our life, our love, our closeness, our care. Peace is built every day. Where there is no justice, there is no peace,” Francis said.
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I’m not the biggest supporter of religion, in fact I’m atheist, but I like what this pope has to say.
ikr , for maybe the 1st time I really like what a religious leader said @@”
What the pope say`s would be Great .But my question is Why is the church so rich then.Does`nt this mean that the church revolves around money as well .So we are then just puppets
Exactly. And the church is a money making institution, directly the opposite of what it preaches. Everything is tainted by greed.
If they truly lived off war, Pope Francis wouldn’t have been alive to excrete all this bullshit through his stinky mouth.
puppets being raised by puppets *sigh*
Pope Francis is the Best Pope yet , He has begun divestment, the walk of His talk , of the Catholic Wealth from all Warmongering investments . He’s absolutely and most obviously right in pointing the finger of Blame toward the Greed of Man .Only people who will lose money oppose Him .
Everything the pope says is true. I an a practicing Christian although not a Catholic. I have always thought that the two worst words in the english language are GREED and REVENGE. the only way to have peace is by LOVE and FORGIVENESS
Kate Stewart..
Im glad hes using his platform to call the oligarchs out. 40 years of killing third world people for profit. How many more people will we let die for corporate profits before we demand change? The pope is one of the few world leaders willing to tell the truth on this subject. Im a nature priest, so not christian, but love the pope. Keep it up brother 🙂
HE SEEMS TO BE SETTING HIMSELF UP FOR A “FATAL ACCIDENT”….BLESS HIM.
The Pope should tell this to the the RUSSIANS,IRAN AND SYRIA.
Do Russia, Iran and Syria make money out of armaments and war? Yes? Then he is talking to them, TOO.