The Pope Has Picked A Side In America’s Election

Right Wing News ^ | April 8, 2016 | Greg Campbell

[ebb tide]

Nothing has done more for the world than capitalism. It has lifted people from poverty, from serfdom and from servitude. It has provided a future for people who otherwise would have been born and died in servitude to others. Still, the Pope has embraced socialist Bernie Sanders to ask him to speak on the importance of a “moral economy.”

Democratic presidential candidate and middle class crusader Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be taking a short hiatus from his campaign following the next debate to fly to Vatican City. There, he will join the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences for a conference with his Holiness Pope Francis on social, economic, and environmental issues.

“I am delighted to have been invited by the Vatican to a meeting on restoring social justice and environmental sustainability to the world economy,” Sanders said in the release. Pope Francis has made clear that we must overcome ‘the globalization of indifference’ in order to reduce economic inequalities, stop financial corruption and protect the natural environment. That is our challenge in the United States and in the world.”

The democratic socialist from Vermont continued to celebrate the invite on MSNBC’s Morning Joe (see video below). “I was very moved by the invitation, which just was made public today,” he said. “I am a big, big fan of the pope. Obviously, there are areas where we disagree, on women’s rights and gay rights. But he has played an unbelievable role — an unbelievable role — of injecting a moral consequence into the economy…you know, people say Bernie Sanders is radical — read what the pope is writing.”

Pope Francis has gained enormous popularity for his progressive ways and his determination to bring the Papacy into the 21st century, to slacken the tight reins of doctrine in the face of a rapidly changing world while still commanding enough moral authority to try to inject some kind of positive emotion and charitable values into the ruthless and predatory anarchy that is free-market capitalism. Senator Sanders has been working towards those same goals from a secular, legislative approach for decades. It’s become a popular joke “that for everything we’ve done wrong in the past thirty years, there’s a video of Bernie Sanders telling us not to do it” – because Senator Sanders has been the harbinger we ignored until it was nearly too late.

The Holy Father and Senator Sanders make a formidable team. They are equally devoted to resolving income inequality, preserving the environment, expanding access to healthcare and promoting peace – not just for Catholics or Americans, but for every human being. It is not many politicians who would abandon their campaign trail days before a key primary, but it just goes to show that Sanders’ ideals are more important to him than winning an election.

Just to clear up any confusion spread by right-wing trolls, Senator Sanders DID NOT invite himself to the Vatican. Reuters has obtained the invitation, sent by Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo on March 30th.

Do you know what is a “moral economy?” Allowing people to make their own decisions about their future is moral. Refusing to reward the lazy at the expense of the hardworking is moral. Fostering opportunities for people to better their lives and the lives of their family members is moral.

In contrast, socialism, communism and various collectivist ideologies have been responsible for untold misery and oppression.

In this view, it is hard to see how the Pope could embrace Sanders as anything more than a charlatan peddling an immoral philosophy.

[all the best]

He has picked the side of abortion, sodomy, envy, resentment, covetousness, jealousy and theft. Sounds pretty satanic.

[oh8eleven]

He picked a commie, go figure. Birds of a feather ...

[SoFloFreeper]

There is a report that Bernie “invited himself”.

I have problems with some of what the Pope has been doing...but let’s not jump to conclusions.

And I am not Roman Catholic. Reformed. Evangelical. Sola Scriptura.

[Robert DeLong]

Nothing this pope does surprises me anymore. If is as big a phony as Cruz.

[Don Corleone]

The Pope was raised, just like Obama, to detest and despise capitalism.

[loveliberty2]

"Socialism attempts to vanquish nature by a front attack. Individualism, on the contrary, is the recognition, in social politics, that nature has a beneficent as well as a malignant side. The struggle for life provides for the various wants of the human race, in somewhat the same way as the climatic struggle of the elements provides for vegetable and animal life—imperfectly, that is, and in a manner strongly marked by inequalities and anomalies. By taking advantage of prevalent tendencies, it is possible to mitigate these anomalies and inequalities, but all experience shows that it is impossible to do away with them. All history, moreover, is the record of the triumph of Individualism over something which was virtually Socialism or Collectivism, though not called by that name. In early days, and even at this day under archaic civilisations, the note of social life is the absence of freedom. But under every progressive civilisation, freedom has made decisive strides—broadened down, as the poet says, from precedent to precedent. And it has been rightly and naturally so.
I.46
"Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegations of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove." EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON

See the Liberty Fund Library "A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation," edited by Thomas Mackay (1849 - 1912), Chapter 1.

[Robert DeLong]

Nothing this pope does surprises me anymore. He is as big a phony as Cruz.

[TalBlack]

Listen to Bernie Sanders, he is as JUDGMENTAL as any cleric yet he has no god. He demands, using a purely moral argument, to be put in charge of all the money and all the guns. Sound familiar?

[ClearCase_guy]

I hope the next Pope is interested in Christianity. It would be a nice change.

[ebb tide]

Just to clear up any confusion spread by right-wing trolls, Senator Sanders DID NOT invite himself to the Vatican. Reuters has obtained the invitation, sent by Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo on March 30th.

Did you not read the full article?

[Durbin]

He’s a Marxist. So of course this makes sense.

[joshua c]

Socialism is burning down your apartment building because someone has a nicer apartment than you.

Now you are all equal. All living in cardboard boxes.

Yea! Socialism!

[dfwgator]

Will Francis wash Bernie’s feet as well?

[Nifster]

No he hasn’t. Sanders campaign finagled an invite. Vatican protocol not followed. They are upset

[Democrats hate too much]

The pope should spend time in Venezuela so he can experience socialism.

[SMM48]

I'm Catholic but this Pope is the Catholic Church's Obama.

What an embarrassment.

[OttawaFreeper]

This guy makes Benedict XVI look so much better in comparison.

[BlatherNaut]

There is a report that Bernie “invited himself”.

So claims Margaret Archer. Bernie is the more believable of the two.

[Calvin Locke]

Along with the cardinals that thought he’d make a nifty pope.