were was the pope when Katrina victims need him?

Question

the people need a little prayer and since the pope is a man that the world seems to believe is the person to bring peace and stability were was he

Answer 1

Here are just a few of the Catholic responses for the victims of Katrina:

8/31/2005 - Pope prays for victims of Hurricane Katrina: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-08-31-katrina-pope_x.htm

9/2/2005 - Catholics mobilize to offer food and housing to hurricane refugees: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0505021.htm

9/2/2005 - Catholic Agencies in High Gear to Aid Hurricane Victims: http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=75893

9/2/2005 - Catholic Schools Nationwide Open Doors To Displaced Students: http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2005/05-191.shtml

9/17/2005 - Pope's Katrina envoy: 'Shameful' poverty in U.S.: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486851/posts

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Pope? You must be kidding. Sure people need prayers and spiritual guidance in time of crises, but you are way off the mark. First of all the president and Fema head Mike Brown had at two maybe three days warning. They were briefed on the storm category and what category was needed to break the damns.
Even if all they could do was bring people to super dome, where are the generators any normal sane person with a conscious (never mind the duty and responsibly of fore mentioned.) Where was all the bottled water, the diapers, the food, nurses, police (not outside shooting at people looking for help), but inside calming people assigning cots blankets and food rations. Along with communications set up to communicate to the outside.
After these priority life saving things, that should have been in place before Katrina hit land, then their would be no need for the Pope to fly a continent away where their are more Catholics in trouble across Africa and South America. Now if Pat Robertson or some one like him wants to go pray fine. I'm more inclined to think he'd rather go to either Washington to lobby money or beg direct via media.

Answer 3

I don't know honestly, maybe he was giving an equal amount of time to the tsunami victims that all the Katrina victims called on themselves. Someone please explain something to me, why is Katrina victims still getting airtime years later while the tsunami was forgotten a month after it happened. I don't think Katrina people can complain about getting stuck there when they had several days to leave, tsunami victims had a max time of one hour at the farthest point hit hard.

Also, a quick history lesson. In Nazi Germany all children and teenagers not old enough to serve in the military were forced to become members of the Hitler Youth. A brainwashing, military-like group for kids. The current Pope was old enough during that time that when he aged and the war was still going on. He was forced to serve. After a month of trying, he successfully fled his unit and put into a POW camp. In 1945 he rejoined the seminary at age 18.

Answer 4

The pope was on his knees praying for the victims and for peace in the world. He was, therefore, in the heart of God. He was, through his prayer, bringing divine grace into the lives of all those who were suffering. And there, he did much more for the victims of Katrina than he could have done anywhere else.

I hope this helps you.

Answer 5

I can see some of your reasoning but...............
Other than offering prayers - which he did at the Vatican what would of been his purpose in coming to the US at that time?
Not all the victims of Katrina were Catholic - so if the pope made a special visit for them , it only stands to reason that other religious dominations would of felt slighted and the atheists would of been angry about a disaster being used as a religious platform.

Answer 6

There are claims; but there was nothing but empty promises and shameful condemnations for Americans from that sorry jack-***. He did this because the USA defeated his Hitler run fatherland. To date, the Catholic donations from Europe totaled $27, 214.16. (Figure from the Congressional Oversight Committee) However, the USA sent a trillion dollars to countries that hate Americans.

The Catholic Church is about claims; they are not about recognizing that American dollars and a strong military is the only reason the world even has a sorry pope.

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

i think of it relatively is incorrect enjoying up the church and Jesus and whatnot. He became a adverse guy, yet He helped out the adverse and the ill rather of Himself, it relatively is tremendously lots cool in anybody's e book. i'm a Christian myself, so I do have faith he's a deity, yet i think He became extra like a everyday guy of Palestine, no longer some king drowning in riches with golden cathedrals saying His glory and would. i think of he's extra useful praised in inner maximum, or consisting of your loved ones on your individual living, than in a alluring, high priced, huge development. And burying the popes like Pharaohs... it relatively is a crying shame. What could mom Theresa think of?

Answer 8

First, the pope was a brownshirt Nazi[look it up] and could care less about victims in the US. Where was the pope when the Nazi's were marching the Jews right in front of the Vatican in WW2. He was protecting his assets and keeping the pedophiles in business.

Answer 9

Poping around the p-mobile.

Answer 10

What did you think the Pope could do? He's not God, only a man, human. He can't change a hair of his head or heal a cut.