This Pope sucks.
When was the last time the Pope said anything about furthering the message of Christ?Because I must have missed all that.
Guess this shouldn’t be a surprise.
MMCC has always been more of a religious faith than anything else.
First by flood, then by fire....on his timetable, not ours. Guess that doesn’t count.
KYPD (and cool.....is it getting hot in here?)
Thus says “Pope””Francis” “the “Talkin””Pope”. Maybe it’s time to MAKE ALL Churches PAY TAXES!
Argentina has been steeped in 70 years of collectivism, big government statism and socialism. They go from man-made economic crisis to economic crisis. Those connected to the government, or who can game the complicated rules, lobby the bureaucracy and work the system get rich. The rest of the country gets poorer.
People in the country, and I’m sorry to say, the Pope is included, see this massive gap, and not knowing enough, simply swallow the “social justice” nonsense of the left - which then gaurantees the same cycle continues.
Is this guy the second coming of Karl Marx, or what?
Tax the Church!
This Pope neeeds an exorcism.
You want to fix the Earth? Promote real Capitalism. Capitalist countries, on the whole, produce more goods in a more environmentally friendly way than non-Capitalist countries.
You want to fix the economic system so that the rich don’t exploit the poor? Promote real Capitalism where people choose goods and services based on market factors and not crony Capitalism or corrupt state planning.
Whatever you do, don’t institute Communism or Peronism, which drive people into abject poverty.
Meanwhile, Christian children continue to have their heads lopped off in ISIS-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria.
Don’t say anything about THAT, “pope.” Wouldn’t want to upset your moon-god worshipping pals now, would you?
I am not Catholic, so my theological views are often polar opposites of the pope. Until now, I always respected the various popes that I didn’t agree with - I assumed they were good men and well-intentioned. Not this guy! Something is rotten in Rome!
There is a wrongful notion that "the rich" exploit "the poor". No such dynamic happens, and it is only a matter of perspective that this seems to be the commonly accepted explanation.
Face it, poor people give rich people money, and make it possible for "the rich" to exist as a class apart. In every society, there are some few that command a certain degree of distinctive difference over their fellow human beings, that a genuflection is made in their direction. Call it submission, call it admiration, call it a genuine feeling of awe, but the phenomenon does exist. Whatever level in the hierarchy an individual ends up at, that is the one that the peers of that individual have generally, by consent or just non-assertion, permitted the person to rise to in the structure.
Now, of course, we have all seen the effects of "the Peter Principle", that within a hierarchy, the individual rises to the level of his (or her) incompetence, after which there are no more promotions. And every society, admitted or not, is a hierarchy.
There is one glaring exception to this order of events, and that is what is known as the "post turtle". A protege is taken under the wing of a much more powerful individual in the hierarchy, and the promotions, for whatever reason are swift and sometimes result in the "post turtle" being artificially elevated to a position so far beyond any possible expertise, that others can only wonder how the exalted position was ever achieved.
For those of you who may still be puzzled at the term "post turtle", he didn't get up there by himself, and he sure as heck doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do up there and you just wonder what kind of an idiot put him up there in the first place.
“It’s not politics anymore,”
Hope, it’s a religion, just like Islam.
Francis goes after the planet molesters.
Why don't you Mr. Pope fix your ‘perverse’ Vatican?????
So an economy based on sugar cane fields, cigar rolling and prostitution is not perverse ? (Communist Cuba).