Posted on 05/08/2018 7:59:32 PM PDT by aimhigh
Several weeks back, Pope Francis was criticized for reportedly claiming "there is no Hell" -- a claim he did not deny -- and now his own newspaper at the Vatican, L'Osservatore Romano, has published an article that applauds German Cardinal Reinhard Marx for his praise of the founder of Communism, Karl Marx.
In the May 6 article, headlined Marx in controluce (Closer to Marx), Cardinal Reinhard Marx speaks proudly of Karl Marx, who wrote the Communist Manifesto, and whose teaching has been denounced by the Catholic Church and multiple Popes since the 19th century.
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In the Good ‘Ole Days you got Excommunicated if you were a communist...
The Pope actually did deny saying there is no Hell. It was hearsay from an Italian reporter only.
L8r
Maybe he’s a Hitler fan.
After all, without Marx there would have been no National Socialists Workers Party.
Pope Che strikes again.
Reinhard needs to be excommunicated. Any Christian praising Marx is like a Jew praising Hitler.
...advances in Ukrainian agriculture...
...Pol Pot's skeletal catalog system...
...Soviet full employment in building the White Sea-Baltic Canal...
...thespian charity during the war...
...and the American Antifa (here getting clocked in the head)...
What's to fear?
Things they don’t teach, or dare show, in History classes, anymore.
He’s a Jesuit, what did you expect?
If true, perhaps the Pope should address the suffering, martyrdom and courage that Catholics experienced dealing with the followers of Marx over the past 100 years. Perhaps he can explain the meaning of their sacrifices and what they mean to him.
Early in his papacy he said he knew some good communists. That was pretty much all we needed to know how the tone would be. This is pretty much in line with that early moment. I guess old Karl was a good commie too.
Now when you are a faithful Catholic, chances are you might be excommunicated.
One almost envisions a bunch of Pink Panther Cardinals thinking they were voting for the poop, someone to retire before they did any damage.
I guess we can forgive them, considering who was our _resident and pres__ent for the last 8 years.
Wow, that is a shocker. A communist loves Karl Marx.
Knock me over with a feather!
Even lefty popes would need a hell, to wish the right into.
Karl Marx thought religious people were idiots.
Seems he was right.
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