“Examples of such sins abound, the Pope said, from money launderers to business owners who take beach vacations while stiffing their employees.” CNN report from Pope Francis radio sermon Fed 23, 2017.
Yesterday Pope Francis gave a sermon about the “fakeness” of many Christians. Fakeness? Mar a Lago on a private no trespass beach in Florida? And what is the only specific name that comes up throughout the world who is factually known to stiff his employees?
“The scandal is those who don’t pay [their] employees proper salaries, exploit people, do dirty business, launder money… a double life. And so many Christians are like this, and these people scandalize others.”
Pope Francis also doubled down on atheists being better than Christians who live in scandal. Scandal as hypocrites and the greedy.
But the core of his talk goes to the very heart of the divide between Catholic and Protestant.
“To be a Christian means to do: to do the will of God — and on the last day — because all of us we will have one — that day what shall the Lord ask us? Will He say: ‘What you have said about me?’ No. He shall ask us about the things we did.”
“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone. “‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! We must meet one another doing good. ‘But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!’ But do good: we will meet one another there.”