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Pope: 'unjust' unemployment can mean sin, suicide
Assoc. Press ^ | 02/04/2014 | NICOLE WINFIELD

Posted on 02/04/2014 1:29:58 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis extolled the benefits of sharing wealth with the poor on Tuesday, warning that "unjust" social conditions like unemployment can lead to sin, financial ruin and even suicide.

The Jesuit pope has frequently railed about the excesses of capitalism and income disparity in a globalized world, and his message for Lent issued Tuesday echoed those same concerns

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"When power, luxury and money become idols, they take priority over the need for a fair distribution of wealth," he said in the short message. "Our consciences thus need to be converted to justice, equality, simplicity and sharing."

He said it's not enough to just make charitable offerings. ""Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt," he wrote.

~snip~

Francis has riled some conservative Americans for his denunciation of capitalism and trickle-down economic theory, which is says is based on a survival of the fittest mentality "where the powerful feed upon the powerless" with no regard for ethics, the environment or even God.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
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Is this from the Vatican? Or the Democrat Party Platform?
1 posted on 02/04/2014 1:29:58 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is nothing but “Social Justice” BS.

I’m sorry, there I said it.


2 posted on 02/04/2014 1:33:24 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yes...


3 posted on 02/04/2014 1:33:45 PM PST by Dutchboy88
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s from the AP ... what do you think? ;-)


4 posted on 02/04/2014 1:34:13 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Colonel_Flagg
"When power, luxury and money become idols, they take priority over the need for a fair distribution of wealth," he said in the short message. "Our consciences thus need to be converted to justice, equality, simplicity and sharing."

Is this from the Vatican? Or the Democrat Party Platform?

IB4TPWM

5 posted on 02/04/2014 1:35:23 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Responsibility2nd

As an economist, the Pope makes a good theologian and moralist. Like everybody else, he should stick to what he knows. It’s not economics. We live in a world of scarce resources. Only one thing will end that condition of scarcity, and the Pope is very well equipped to speak on that subject. I doubt he sees the connection.


6 posted on 02/04/2014 1:35:35 PM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Perhaps if we had a government that backs businesses and extolls the virtues of working and making money instead of pushing “income inequality”, maybe we wouldn’t have unjust unemployment?


7 posted on 02/04/2014 1:38:09 PM PST by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

How about cashing in a few tons of gold and jewels from your headquarters and doling out some money to the masses?


8 posted on 02/04/2014 1:39:16 PM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon; windage and elevation.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
When power, luxury and money become idols ...

Translation ... greed. I really don't think he's against capitalism as a financial model. His problem is with greedy individuals that corrupt the whole thing.

9 posted on 02/04/2014 1:39:17 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: al_c

Another bird-brained leftie reporter trying to understand the Catholic Church.


10 posted on 02/04/2014 1:39:51 PM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Responsibility2nd

First it was D.C. now the Vatican acting as field offices for the Soviet Kremlin.


11 posted on 02/04/2014 1:40:03 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: al_c

If you are right, then payday loan companies and credit card firms with 38% compounding interest are in for a very interesting few years.


12 posted on 02/04/2014 1:42:20 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Responsibility2nd

With a Pope who has a ‘social justice’ mentality, it is likely one and the same....considering all issues at the Vatican in the past several decades. I am surprised at his almost open support of Obama policies.


13 posted on 02/04/2014 1:43:54 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: Responsibility2nd

“the need for a fair distribution of wealth,” “

Does he define what is ‘fair’?


14 posted on 02/04/2014 1:44:35 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: headstamp 2

“I’m sorry, there I said it.”

You needn’t apologize, because it’s the truth! The Pope is from Argentina. Just look at the political history of that country. The Pope needs to buy a clue!


15 posted on 02/04/2014 1:47:28 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Responsibility2nd

If somebody is really to BLAME for the “unfair” distribution of wealth, then have the guts to point out WHO is to blame.

Or shut up.


16 posted on 02/04/2014 1:47:29 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Responsibility2nd

When is this socialist pig going to shut his pie hole?


17 posted on 02/04/2014 1:48:17 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: headstamp 2
I’m sorry, there I said it.

Well, that settles it then.
18 posted on 02/04/2014 1:50:24 PM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Responsibility2nd

Holy Father, employment is “just” if employer and employee agree to the terms of the job and the wages.


19 posted on 02/04/2014 1:50:45 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: dainbramaged

“How about cashing in a few tons of gold and jewels from your headquarters and doling out some money to the masses?”

You beat me to it.

The artworks alone must be worth billions.

Hypocrisy and liberalism seem to go hand in hand.

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20 posted on 02/04/2014 1:51:36 PM PST by Mears
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