Pope:abortion and homosexual dangerous threat to world
On Thursday, May 13, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his views about abortion and homosexual marriage as the two most 'insidious and dangerous' threats, the world is facing today.
"I have come to Fatima to pray, in union with Mary and so many pilgrims, for our human family, afflicted as it is by various ills and sufferings," Benedict, the third pontiff to visit Fatima, said to an audience of at least 400,000 people. Urging the infirm to take heart, he told the crowd it can "overcome the feeling of the uselessness of suffering which consumes a person from within and makes him feel a burden to those around him when, in reality, suffering which is lived with Jesus assists in the salvation of your brethren." "Fatima makes miracles. When my son was seriously ill, I prayed to the Virgin of Fatima and he survived," she said. "I find it very moving here. For me, this is the most beautiful place in the world," she said, sitting beneath a red umbrella on the fringe of the crowd. Like Lourdes in France, Fatima attracts millions of pilgrims a year seeking cures. One of the rituals pilgrims perform at Fatima involves casting replicas of body parts — eyes, lungs, hearts — on sale at local shops into a big bonfire while reciting a prayer asking for healing. Benedict has spoken repeatedly about the sufferings of the world and even the church's troubles during the trip, saying the "sins of the church" were responsible for the clerical sex abuse scandal. Portugal is nearly 90 percent Catholic, but only around 2 million of its 10.6 million people describe themselves as practicing Catholics. In recent years, Portugal has drifted away from the church's teachings.
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its interesting to note that the catholic church conducted 7 inquisitions, and the man who led the last was elected pope who then proceeded to create a jewish containment center 300 yards from the vatican patterned similar to the one the third reich instituted in poland. the centered was finally liberated after 300 years when the italian republican army defeated the vartican troops
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