This is
about a news story ten days old that I just ran into. The pope is on his way to
some parish in Rome. He sees a shanty town and tells his driver to pull over
and visits.
A good story
for a pope dedicated to the poor like Francis of Assisi, his namesake.
While it is
a good old fashioned human interest news story - The pope’s camera is rolling for Vatican
propaganda. And the poor living in this shanty town all seem to have
cell/mobile phones to snap photos of the visiting pope, no doubt e-mailing back
to South America in the Andes where most of these shanty town crowd seem to hail
from.
It is
cynical of me to question – how poor are the poor if the poor can afford cell
phones?
Or are we,
am I just not being 21st century and should accept cell phones as now part
of the human species package?
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