Comments on: Pope Benedict XVI receives the Charter for Compassion in week before resignation http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/08/pope-benedict-xvi-receives-the-charter-for-compassion/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 00:22:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jeff Kelland http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/08/pope-benedict-xvi-receives-the-charter-for-compassion/comment-page-1/#comment-36857 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:36:53 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69142#comment-36857 I simply could not agree more, Graham. You are right on all counts!

Jeff Kelland

]]> By: Wizmo Blog » Blog Archive » Pope Benedict XVI receives the Charter for Compassion in week before resignation http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/08/pope-benedict-xvi-receives-the-charter-for-compassion/comment-page-1/#comment-30453 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:35:30 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69142#comment-30453 [...] Pope Benedict XVI receives the Charter for Compassion in week before resignation [...]

]]> By: Dr.Cajetan Coelho http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/08/pope-benedict-xvi-receives-the-charter-for-compassion/comment-page-1/#comment-30394 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:57:03 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69142#comment-30394 Compassion has been the key mantra for the origin, growth and development of India’s Anandwan or the ‘Forest of Joy’. Here in the State of Maharashtra, the late Murlidhar Devidas Amte,(1914-2008) way back in 1949, unfurled the flag of compassion on a piece of parched and barren land on the outskirts of Warora in the district of Chandrapur in Central India.

Men and women exiled and expelled on account of leprosy are living together in harmony, fellow feeling and solidarity. Among them are Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians and atheists. Engaging in useful life-promoting social work is their main ministry. They run schools and manpower training units for the benefit of the visually challenged, the speech impaired, the hard of hearing and those disabled on account of polio and leprosy.

They shower tender love and affection on orphans and those affected by natural disasters and man-made calamities. In their own way they continue to evangelize our Society.

Dr. Cajetan Coelho

]]> By: Graham ASH-PORTER http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/08/pope-benedict-xvi-receives-the-charter-for-compassion/comment-page-1/#comment-30390 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 08:48:29 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69142#comment-30390 I’m sorry to be negative to Karen Armstrong, but the only compassion I’m seeing from this pope is to protect paedophile priests from arrest after their molesting and raping of children – Worldwide. Moving priests to other area so they are free to continue. Threatening Bishops with excommunication if they went to the police and reported the offending priests.
He can have this award when he shows compassion to the victims, the children.
As for the other religions, most are monotheistic, with a thousand year or more history of hatred and ‘holy’ wars against each other, with each claiming to be the one true religion and their opponents as infidels.
The only way to achieve true peace and compassion is for the quiet majority in all religions to speak up against the remaining religious, who cause hatred torture and deaths worldwide, with literal translations of each religions ‘holy’ book! Better still would be to scrap these bronze-age ‘good’ books and start again. Or even better, to put all religion behind us.
The good that religion does do, can equally be done as well without doing it in the name of your religion, resorting to an invisible friend.

]]> By: Wizmo Blog » Blog Archive » Pope Benedict XVI receives the Charter for Compassion http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/08/pope-benedict-xvi-receives-the-charter-for-compassion/comment-page-1/#comment-30350 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:19:25 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69142#comment-30350 [...] Pope Benedict XVI receives the Charter for Compassion [...]

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