Kaban ni D_BystandeR: HUSTISYA ANG IMPORTANTE ALANG NI PAPA FRANCISCO

Pope Francis halted the habit of granting the honorific title of monsignor as a way to stem careerism in the ranks and put the focus instead on pastoring. He told a gathering of his diplomats that he wanted them to identify candidates for bishop in their home countries who are, he said, "gentle, patient and merciful, animated by inner poverty, the freedom of the Lord and also by outward simplicity and austerity of life."

 To Francis, poverty isn't simply about charity; it's about justice. The church, by extension, should not reflect Rome; it should mirror the poor.  Which helps explain why he has turned the once obscure Vatican Almoner, an agency that has been around for about 800 years and is often reserved for an aging Catholic diplomat, over to the dynamic 50-year old Polish Archbishop Konrad Krajewski and told him to make it the Holy See's new front porch. "You can sell your desk," Francis told Krajewski. "You don't need it. You need to go out of the Vatican. Don't wait for people to come ringing. You need to go out and look for the poor." The Archbishop hands out small amounts to the needy, including a recent gift of 1,600 phone cards to immigrant survivors of capsized boat so they could call family back in Entrea. Francis often gives Krajewski stacks of letters with his instructions to help people who have written to him and asked for aid. In what sounds like a necessary precaution, the Vatican recently issued a denial after Krajewski hinted that Francis himself sometimes slips out of the Vatican dressed as an ordinary priest to hand out alms.

Pope Francis halted the habit of granting the honorific title of monsignor as a way to stem careerism in the ranks and put the focus instead on pastoring. He told a gathering ofhis diplomats that he wanted them to identify candidates for bishop in their home countries who are, he said, "gentle, patient and merciful, animated by inner poverty, the freedom of the Lord and also by outward simplicity and austerity of life."

 To Francis, poverty isn't simply about charity; it's about justice. The church, by extension, should not reflect Rome;

it should mirror the poor.  Which helps explain why he has turned the once obscure Vatican Almoner, an agency that has been around for about 800 years and is often reserved for an aging Catholic diplomat, over to the dynamic 50-year old Polish Archbishop Konrad Krajewski and told him to make it the Holy See's new front porch. "You can sell your desk," Francis told Krajewski. "You don't need it. You need to go out of the Vatican. Don't wait for people to come ringing. You need to go out and look for the poor." The Archbishop hands out small amounts to the needy, including a recent gift of 1,600 phone cards to immigrant survivors of capsized boat so they could call family back in Entrea. Francis often gives Krajewski stacks of letters with his instructions to help people who have written to him and asked for aid. In what sounds like a necessary precaution, the Vatican recently issued a denial after Krajewski hinted that Francis himself sometimes slips out of the Vatican dressed as an ordinary priest to hand out alms.

Pope Francis said in the first peace message of his pontificate that huge salaries and bonuses are symptoms of an economy based on greed and inequality and called again for nations to narrow the wealth gap.  In his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Peace, marked around the world in January 1, he also called for sharing of wealth and for nations to shrink the gap between rich and poor, more of whom are getting only "crumbs." "The grave financial and economic crisis of the present time... have pushed man to seek satisfaction, happiness and security in consumption and earnings out of all proportion to the principles of a sound economy," he said. "The succession of economic crisis should lead to a timely rethinking of our models of economic development and to a change in  lifestyles," he said.

Francis, who was named Time magazine's  Person of the Year on Wednesday, has urged his own Church to be more fair, frugal and less pompous and to be closer to the poor and suffering. His message will be sent to national leaders, international organizations such as the United Natons, and NGO's.  Titled "Fraternity, the Foundation and Pathway to Peace," the message also attacked injustice, human trafficking, organized crime and the weapons trade as obstacles to peace.

Anger at multi-million payouts for executives has swept across the globe as the economic crisis has deepened and the gap between the super-rich and the poor has widened.

(Bug-os ang  pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa magtatampo  nga si JOHNNY LOVE. Nagtakuban siya sa pangalan, "D_BystandeR".  Natawo siya sa Sugbo apan anaa na karon manimuyo sa Illinois sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika. Ang kusog nga koneksyon sa kasayuran pinaagi sa internet kanunayng naghaling sa iyang kadasig  pagtuki sa mga nagbukalbukal nga hisgutanan dinhi sa atong nataran. Usa siya ka magsusulat nga gradwado sa kursong komersiyo padulong sa pagka accountant sa University of San Carlos kaniadtong tuig 1961.  Nahimo siyang miyembro sa usa ka hugpong sa mga batan-ong magsusulat nga gitawag ug STUDENT PRESS.  Nahimo usab siyang   Associate Editor sa basahon  USC-JPIAN sa tuig 1962-63. Magtatampo usab siya isip magsusulat sa nasudnong magasin,  "Philippines Free Press" ug sa mga nag-unang peryodiko dinhi sa dakbayan sa Sugbo sa lunhaw pa ang iyang pangedaron. Nahimo siyang mamumuo sa usa ka pribadong kompaniya sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, ESCAÑO LINES, sulod sa napulo ug duha (12) ka tuig  dayon niyang tapon  ngadto sa NAPOCOR  ug nahimong kawani sa kagamhanan  sulod sa bayente dos (22) ka tuig. Niadtong tunga-tungang bahin sa tuig 2000, nilalin siya ngadto sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika ug sulod sa napulo (10) ka tuig, nagtrabaho siya sa  buhatan sa kagamhanan sa nasod sama  sa  UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS).  Karon sa pangedaron nga 68,  gihuptan gihapon niya ang walay pagkutat nga kadasig ug walay busganan nga kaikag sa pagpaambit sa iyang nahuptang abilidad  ug kabatid sa panulat.  Dili niya mapugngan ang kaugalingon sa pagpaambit sa iyang mga hunahuna labi na kon molambigit kini ug hisgotanan nga makadani sa iyang mga mata. Makadawat siya sa inyong mga hunahuna mahitungod sa iyang sinulat sa johnnylobedica@yahoo.com)