THE LEFT HAS ITS POPE

"Pope Francis' own native Argentina was once among the leading economies of the world, before it was ruined by the kind of ideological notions he is now promoting around the world."

"Pope Francis has created political controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. We can no doubt expect more of the same during his visit to the United States."

"Pope Francis is part of a larger trend of the rise of the political left among Catholic intellectuals. He is, in a sense, the culmination of that trend."

"In 1900, only 3 percent of American homes had electric lights but more than 99 percent had them before the end of the century. Infant mortality rates were 165 per thousand in 1900 and 7 per thousand by 1997. By 2001, most Americans living below the official poverty line had central air conditioning, a motor vehicle, cable television with multiple TV sets, and other amenities."

"A scholar specializing in the study of Latin America said that the official poverty level in the United States is the upper middle class in Mexico. The much criticized market economy of the United States has done far more for the poor than the ideology of the left."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/09/22/the-left-has-its-pope-n2054920/page/full

Birds of a feather.

No wonder Pope Francisco expressed publicly his high esteem for the Cuban tyrant after a very friendly and familiar meeting with Fidel Castro. Not less was Francis’ admiration for Che Guevara, Castro’s cold bloody executioner who murdered hundred of Cubans at the triumph of the revolution. Francis proudly portrayed himself as the Che Guevara of the Palestine people before going to the Holy Land.

Pope Francis, who said to be the advocate for the poor and the oppressed, in Cuba he became the voice of the oppressors not the voice of the 11 million of oppressed Cubans.

Francis planned an encounter with the poor and prisoners in United States; but in Cuba he did not meet with the Cuban political prisoners of conscience, he did not even dare to receive the Cuban dissidents who are the real representatives of the whole Cuban people captive in the island prison.

For Francis socialism is a form of Christianity in stark opposition to the constant condemnation of socialism in all its forms by the Magisterium of the Church from Pope Leo XIII to Benedict XVI who considered communism as “intrinsically evil” (Pope Pius XI Enciclical “Divini Redemptoris”.)

Why doesn’t he criticize communism with the same zeal with which he attacks capitalism? Read the encyclicals of the Popes of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and their attacks on socialism. How is Francis even a member of the same Church?

One who breeds like rabbits

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