Often times then not lately, you see celebrities point the finger at all others who , don’t have money and that do have money, telling them what THEY need to do in order to be seen as “Righteous” in THEIR eyes. You here this from our own POTUS Obama in regards to most everything. I’m tying the two together for Silverman’s staunch support for Obama to make you aware of how they twist the truth for political and personal gain rather then the gain for “The Common Good”.

Here is a great video on Obama’s Plan For the Catholic Church

Now -- here is a great post from American Papist with an answer to Sarah Silverman, and as I see it, any hypocrite.

Sarah Silverman’s modest proposal for the Pope,

Professional attention-searcher Sarah Silverman has released a YouTube video called “Sell the Vatican, Feed the World” which will soon pass half a million views.

You are welcome to watch it, but we warned that it’s extremely vulgar.

In the video, Silverman tries to make an argument that the Pope needs to sell the Vatican to feed poor people.

I’m not disagreeing with Silverman that poor people ought to be fed, but I’m sure sick of liberal know-it-alls getting away with stupid arguments and ignorant stereotypes of the Church. That’s what I’m going to focus on.

Even the Associated Press has covered this story, and it doesn’t help the reputation of the Church when Rev. James Martin, SJ -- culture editor of the Jesuit magazine America, writes that Silverman may be onto something.

…. excuse me?!

Silverman is trying to claim that if the pope doesn’t sell the Vatican to feed the poor, the pope and the Church are somehow being hypocritical -- that their actions don’t reflect their beliefs.

Well, let’s take a look at the facts:

* The Catholic Church already feeds more people than any private institution in the world. In the world. There’s not even a close second. As a Church, of course we could do more. But we are doing something -- and its a lot of something. Silverman might give credit where credit is due.

* Silverman makes the slur that the Vatican was involved in the holocaust. Seriously, Sarah? The historical evidence firmly exonerates the activity of the Church during the holocaust. Pope Pius XII personally saw to the protection of thousands of Jews, at great personal risk to himself and the Church. As a person of Jewish ancestry, how dare she attack the institution credited by Jews the world over with protecting Jews when so many world governments were deaf to their cries. This is beneath even her.

* Silverman likes quoting Christian sayings back to the pope -- does she know about motes and beams? I’m curious how much of Sarah’s profits, including her movie profits, have you used to feed the poor? If she is tired of seeing starving people on TV, what has she done about it, besides uploading a self-promoting video to YouTube? Shouldn’t those who work to feed the poor be outraged at the antics of Silverman, when she uses the plight of starving people to further her own popularity and distract from their needs?

* At the end of the day, it’s just a really stupid idea even in itself. The assets of the Vatican (St. Peter’s Basilica, etc.) don’t have a fair market value. Who is going to buy the Vatican? The best use of the Vatican is to continue to provide a place of worship to the millions of people who are members of the Church, who are in turn the economic engine behind the Vatican’s ability to feed the poor. Pure and simple.

Some of you may be thinking: “Thom, chill out, everyone knows this is a joke.”

Well not so fast -- we look at this proposal and find it preposterous, but plenty of people watch this and receive yet another confirmation of their ingrained opinion -- frequently reinforced by pop culture -- that the Catholic Church is a bunch of selfish hypocrites who use Christianity as a way of lining their fur-coat vestments.

Honestly.

So my last point is for Fr. Martin, who writes that Silverman “is on to something -- like Jesus was”:

* Attacks on the Church are not the correct opportunity for pius hand-wringing. The take-away from the Sarah Silverman proposal is not “Gee, I guess she has a point”. Rather it is: “The only good point Sarah makes we Catholics already knew, now has she heard any of the points we Catholics have in response?”

Continue reading here -- at American Papist for the rest of the article.