What if MDM is right? 

MDM Dec 25th 2013 "On that day, they will applaud the god of social justice, human rights and the money they will say that they have raised for the world's hungry." 

Oh my... can we let this travesty go ahead? Should we be worrying about such things, especially on Christmas day? 

Other Popes didn't speak about the poor on Christmas day? Or did they?

Pope St John Paul 11 "The Word cries in a manger. His name is Jesus, which means "God saves", because "he will save his people from their sins" (Mt 1:21).

It is not a palace which sees the birth of the redeemer, destined to establish the eternal and universal kingdom. He is born in a stable and, coming among us, he kindles in the world the fire of God's love (cf Lk 12:49). This fire will not be quenched ever again.

May this fire burn in our hearts as a flame of charity in action, showing itself in openness to and support of our many brothers and sisters sorely tried by want and suffering!

Pope Benedict...."I am also repeatedly struck by the Gospel writer’s almost casual remark that there was no room for them at the inn. Inevitably the question arises, what would happen if Mary and Joseph were to knock at my door. Would there be room for them? “he came to his own home, and his own people received him not” (Jn 1:11). The great moral question of our attitude towards the homeless, towards refugees and migrants, takes on a deeper dimension: do we really have room for God when he seeks to enter under our roof? We are so “full” of ourselves that there is no room left for God. And that means there is no room for others either, for children, for the poor, for the stranger..... Let us ask that we may make room for him within ourselves, that we may recognize him also in those through whom he speaks to us: children, the suffering, the abandoned, those who are excluded and the poor of this world."

It seems all the Popes have spoken at Christmas time about the great need to care for the poor and abandoned. They have encouraged us to do something for those who will really NOT be celebrating Christmas this year....Not for the reason MDM gives, but because most of those poor and abandoned ones will have no home....just like the little Jesus...this Christmas. Mary needed someone in her time of need, but there was no room anywhere in Bethlehem for a woman with child. And no room in anyone's hearts on that day. Will we also turn our back on Him by ignoring the plight of our brothers and sisters in need?

God loves the poor. He is among them. And if we are going to celebrate the birth of His Son with any sense of conscience, we must be with them, as well.

Praise God the Pope WILL speak about the poor of this world at Christmas, just as his predecessors have always done.