In his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis strongly criticized leaders who take advantage of others in the workplace. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope reflected on connection to riches, reminding and warning they can either take away one's freedom or be a source of life if used generously and responsibly. <\/p>\n EXCERPTS FROM THE POPE'S HOMILY<\/strong> \u201cEven here in Italy people are left without a job in order to preserve capital investments. This goes against the second commandment, so: \u2018Woe to you\u2019, Jesus warns. Woe to you who exploit others and their work by evading taxes, not contributing to their pension \t\t\tfunds, and not giving them paid vacation. Woe to you!... \u201cDiscounting,\u201d not paying what's owed, is a sin. You are not in God\u2019s grace. It\u2019s not I who say it, but Jesus and James the \t\t\tApostle. That\u2019s why riches keep you from observing the second \t\t\tcommandment, which is love for your neighbor.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n \u201cYou are not free regarding riches. To be free regarding riches you must distance yourself from them and pray to the Lord. If the Lord has given you riches, they are to be given away, in order to do many good things for others in His name. But riches often seduce \t\t\tus, and falling into this seduction, we are made slaves to them.\u201d<\/em> May 24, 2018. The pope reflected on connection to riches and warned they can take away one's freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AfhblRQozqU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2405eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2405int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n \u201cWoe to you who exploit others and their work by evading taxes, not contributing to their pension funds, and not giving them paid vacation. Woe to you!... \u201cDiscounting,\u201d not paying what's owed, is a sin.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n
\n(Source: Vatican Media)
\n\u201c'Woe to you who are rich.' If someone today were to preach these words, \tthe media the next day would write: \u2018That priest is a communist.\u2019 But poverty is at the center of the Gospel. \tPreaching about poverty is at the heart of Jesus\u2019 message: \u2018Blessed are the poor\u2019 is the first of the Beatitudes. It is \tthe identity card with which Jesus presents himself in the \t\t\tSynagogue when he returns to his town of Nazareth. \u2018The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor.\u2019 But we have historically given in to the weakness of not preaching about poverty, believing it to be a \t\t\tsocial or political question. No! It is the Gospel, pure and simple.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n
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