21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Matthew 21
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, I hid my face and was wroth: and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Isaiah 57:17
And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Luke 12:15
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:24
CATHOLIC pilgrims and the public will be able to buy papal mementos after Sydney's archbishop gave his blessing to indulging in "a little commercialism".
Shoppers will be able to buy World Youth Day (WYD) souvenirs such as special WYD rosary beads, Pope Benedict XVI baseball caps, rugby jerseys and even teaspoons featuring a photograph of the pontiff.
Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell opened one of at least four merchandise stores to be erected in Sydney for the six-day WYDay event.
Cardinal Pell said the church was not looking to make a profit from merchandise sales.
“The church doesn't expect to make a profit,” Cardinal Pell said.
“It was never a moneymaking venture.”
He said he hoped the company established to run WYD merchandising, Event Merchandising Group, made a profit.
“There's nothing immoral with a little commercialism,” Cardinal Pell said.
“Our way of life is built on commercialism, on trade, on industry, on finance and people have got a right to make a living out of doing a good thing, which is spreading Christ's message in a modern way.”
He said he expected merchandise, such as the “WYDGET” token trading bracelet, to be a big hit with pilgrims.
7 comments:
Damn straight. Personally I think Christ would be appalled. Especially the fascination in the manner in which he died as opposed to the things that he said.
<“The church doesn't expect to make a profit,” Cardinal Pell said.>
Funniest line of the day. Pratchett would be proud.
So screwing $86m out of federal, state and city governments wasn't enough for them? I'm amazed they haven't lobbied for a tithe of the $5,500 fines imposed on people who annoy them this month.
You know - it's all very well to say they should spend their $200m on worthy causes but surely if those little Ethiopian kiddies spent more time praying to a Christian god instead of searching for food and water and trying to live through the ravages of diseases like AIDS, then God would provide. Maybe if they opened their hearts to God, all would be well.
All the famine and disease is designed to teach them to worship the right God. Oh and it's also God's punishment for all those gay people getting married and all those women clergy.
(Can you tell I've sat through a few too many sermons?)
you're sitting through sermons from an idiot, nyree. a lot of those ethiopian kiddies are christians, an offshoot of coptic christianity to be exact. they were christians around a thousand years before western europe.
Gam
You really have issues mate. Tell me where in Scripture Testament does it give backing to your statements about religion, specifically Christianity and its one true Church which is Catholic.
Go on.
Yet the Coptic Christians Gam would be appaled with your selective smorgasboard opinions of what to include and what teachings you would like to exclude from the Church, even the Coptic !
You have lots of explaining to do Gam.
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