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Pope: It's a mortal sin to exploit workers
Breitbart ^ | 11 Mar 2019 | Breitbart

Posted on 03/11/2019 10:33:28 AM PDT by O6ret

Pope Francis railed against unjust employers Friday, saying it is hypocritical to go to church on Sunday and then exploit one’s workers. “Many Christians, even Catholics, who say they are practicing Catholics exploit people! They exploit their workers!” the pope said during his daily homily at Mass in the Casa Santa Marta Friday. They send them home at the beginning of summer to avoid having to pay benefits and then take them back again at the end, he explained. “And so many of these call themselves Catholics. They go to Mass on Sundays and then they do this. This is a mortal sin!” he said. “How many humiliate their workers!” he added. This is not the first time that Francis has used strong language to condemn the exploitation of employees. Last May, the pope preached a similar homily, saying that those who exploit people at work, pay their employees under the table, do not contribute to their pension, and “scams” on their wages should not even call themselves Christians. “It is sin,” a “mortal” sin, he said. “Woe to you who exploit others and their work by evading taxes, not contributing to their pension funds, and not giving them paid vacation. Woe to you!” he said. “This injustice is a mortal sin,” he said. “’Woe to you who are rich.’ If one were to preach like this today, the headlines in the next day newspapers, would say: ‘That priest is a Communist!’” he said. “But poverty is at the center of the Gospel. Preaching about poverty is at the center of Jesus’ message: ‘Blessed are the poor’ is the first of the Beatitudes.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antipope; homosexualagenda; pope; popefrancis; religion; romancatholicism; sin
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Hmmmm....makes me wonder about the Pope's priorities. How does he compare this to priests to sexually abusing young boys or nuns?
1 posted on 03/11/2019 10:33:28 AM PDT by O6ret
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To: O6ret

How did he treat the four Cardinals who did the unthinkable of asking him to explain himself?


2 posted on 03/11/2019 10:37:16 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: O6ret
They send them home at the beginning of summer to avoid having to pay benefits and then take them back again at the end, he explained.

No, Your Foolishness, hiring workers for only the times they're actually needed is not "exploitation." I did seasonal work when I was younger - and was glad to have it.

3 posted on 03/11/2019 10:37:36 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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evading taxes, not contributing to their pension funds, and not giving them paid vacation. Woe to you!” he said. “This injustice is a mortal sin,”

I didn't see the satire tag. It's gotta be, right? RIGHT?


4 posted on 03/11/2019 10:37:47 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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Hmmmm....makes me wonder about the Pope’s priorities. How does he compare employers to priests who sexually abuse young boys or nuns? Is there a scale, say 1 to 10, that helps one grade mortal sins?


5 posted on 03/11/2019 10:38:17 AM PDT by O6ret
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It’s a mortal sin to rape little children.

Mass murder is also a mortal sin.
Be sure to tell your socialist fellow travelers, okay Frankie?


6 posted on 03/11/2019 10:39:17 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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It’s a mortal sin to bugger little altar boys too.


7 posted on 03/11/2019 10:39:52 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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memo to Pope: so then why are you in favor of the “cheap labor express” exploiting migrant labor. better look in your own eye.

and Pope, btw, are you aware that employees exploit their employers in many cases as well. do you think that’s a mortal sin too. just wondering.


8 posted on 03/11/2019 10:40:08 AM PDT by dadfly
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And all summer, they collect unemployment and love it.

Construction workers do the same thing on a different schedule.

9 posted on 03/11/2019 10:40:43 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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"Woe to you who exploit others and their work by evading taxes, not contributing to their pension funds, and not giving them paid vacation"

That's right out of the Bible, by the way. I think its from the Sermon on the Mount. It railed against capitalism and the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, etc.
10 posted on 03/11/2019 10:40:46 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Everything in balance.

You do no good if you give excessive benefits and bankrupt the company, costing everyone their job.

You do no good if you give insufficient benefits, and end up paying more because of staff turnover.

And you can’t have so called free trade with countries that exploit their workers and have no social programs, and who have excess labor. That’s a recipe for out of business.


11 posted on 03/11/2019 10:42:11 AM PDT by DannyTN
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There is no such thing as exploiting workers. Workers accept compensation between two boundaries.

Upper boundary:
You will never get paid more that what it costs to replace your skills, appearance, and value that you bring to the company.

Lower boundary:
You will never get paid less than what you are willing to accept for your efforts and skills.


12 posted on 03/11/2019 10:42:40 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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So then socialist and communist leaders are committing mortal sin. But we knew that already.


13 posted on 03/11/2019 10:42:47 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: O6ret

Catholics to Pope: It’s a mortal sin to abuse little boys (or ignore it when you are in charge.)


14 posted on 03/11/2019 10:44:22 AM PDT by spudville
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I believe a “living wage” and gender-neutral restrooms were the eleventh and twelfth commandments. I’m sure it was a distant ancestor of Trump who scratched them out millennia ago, just for fun.


15 posted on 03/11/2019 10:44:51 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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Indeed, the bigger issue is a “Church” that allows exploitation of it’s members to enrich itself and try and create a fog of caring to deflect attention from their activities

Hypocrites


16 posted on 03/11/2019 10:45:05 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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“To import laborers for the purpose of suppressing wages is a crime that cries out to Heaven for vengence.” — Rerum Novarum, by Pope Leo XIII, the foundational document for Catholic socio-economic policy.

“There are just jobs Americans won’t do [for the price we can get Mexican migrants to do them]” — Cardinal Mahoney of Los Angeles, noted rape enabler.


17 posted on 03/11/2019 10:45:08 AM PDT by dangus
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Well, it is certainly not good to withhold promised wages. But Christ is also clear since he’s using a principal of ownership to illustrate an aspect of how the Kingdom works (So the principal of ownership must be valid): if someone agrees to a wage and they get that wage they have no reason to complain.

Completely random aside: the autocorrect wanted to substitute “Sotheby’s” a “sothe” typo.

Anyhoo, meanwhile homosexuality is being normalized....


18 posted on 03/11/2019 10:46:54 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Dear Pope. People exploit people. The world is not like Dickens' ‘A Christmas Carol’. It isn't easily divided up into Scrooges and Tiny Tims.

There are those who are industrious, and work very hard to better their lives. Some of these people create jobs and opportunities for other people, allowing them to better their lives. Some exploit others, and perpetuate misery.

Among those with less in life, including those who are impoverished, there are those who work hard and are honest, but cannot rise above the oppression that has been laid upon their shoulders. Some, on the other hand, are resentful, and unwilling to put forth the effort to lift themselves up - and instead lay all blame on those who have lifted themselves up.

Ultimately, it is what is in our hearts and souls that defines us, not what is in our pocketbooks. Ironically, many of those who claim to want to benefit the poor have themselves very full pocketbooks, and still point their fingers at the greed of others. We all have to answer for ourselves, but to divide the world into simple categories, and place grace or blame on the basis of these simple and contrived categorizations is not Christian, not honest, and potentially very hurtful - for all.

19 posted on 03/11/2019 10:47:06 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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Evidently Pope-d-Dope believes employers sit on large ever-growing piles of money that they are too greedy to share.

Economic is not static. Employment depends upon the employer taking in more then he pays out.

When that doesn’t happen, jobs go away.

But Communist agitators like Pope-a-Dope know that. It’s all Cloward-Piven to them.


20 posted on 03/11/2019 10:47:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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