I find it sad, yet interesting, that this guy speaks more about Global Warming, Unemployment, Global Economic Policy, Homosexual Rights, and whatever else crosses his mind, than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Posted on 02/28/2015 1:21:42 PM PST by SkyPilot
Pope Francis launched a fresh attack on economic injustice on Saturday, condemning the "throw-away culture" of globalization and calling for new ways of thinking about poverty, welfare, employment and society.
In a speech to the association of Italian cooperative movements, he pointed to the "dizzying rise in unemployment" and the problems that existing welfare systems had in meeting healthcare needs.
For those living "at the existential margins" the current social and political system "seems fatally destined to suffocate hope and increase risks and threats," he said.
The Argentinian-born pope, who has often criticized orthodox market economics for fostering unfairness and inequality, said people were forced to work long hours, sometimes in the black economy, for a few hundred euros a month because they were seen as easily replaceable.
"'You don't like it? Go home then'. What can you do in a world that works like this? Because there's a queue of people looking for work. If you don't like it, someone else will," he said in an unscripted change from the text of his speech.
"It's hunger, hunger that makes us accept what they give us," he said.
His remarks have a special resonance in Italy, where unemployment, particularly among young people, is running at record levels after years of economic recession.
The cooperative movement in Italy, whose roots go back to 19th century workers' associations, have long had close ties to the Catholic Church, with credit services, agricultural and building co-ops forming an important part of the overall economy.
Pope Francis said they could help find new models and methods that could be an alternative model to the "throw-away culture created by the powers that control the economic and financial policies of the globalized world."
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I find it sad, yet interesting, that this guy speaks more about Global Warming, Unemployment, Global Economic Policy, Homosexual Rights, and whatever else crosses his mind, than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Doesn’t he live mostly on donations from other people who work for a living? No disrespect meant, but he needs to get off his high horse.
To be fair, I can see his point. How much money is spent of frivolous consumption? People lament on FR that we don’t produce “real things” anymore, and it’s true.
People will buy and iPad, and then get rid of it in a few months because an iPad 2 comes out.
Not that Francis doesn’t have a problem of speaking in poor terms.
Similar to the Communist position voiced during the Weimar Republic:
What Keeps Mankind Alive?
(Weill/Brecht 1928)
You gentlemen who think you have a mission
To purge us of the seven deadly sins
Should first sort out the basic food position
Then start your preaching, that’s where it begins
You lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as well
Should learn, for once, the way the world is run
However much you twist or whatever lies that you tell
Food is the first thing, morals follow on
So first make sure that those who are now starving
Get proper helpings when we all start carving
What keeps mankind alive?
What keeps mankind alive?
The fact that millions are daily tortured
Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed
Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
In keeping its humanity repressed
And for once you must try not to shriek the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
Who decides what is “economic justic?” Who appoints the decision makers?
PFL
I gather that the Pope would prescribe much of the same Eurosocialism that has directly led to Italy's malaise.
Does he understand that the Bible doesn’t advocate getting involved in politics? Has he started wearing a Hillary 2016 button yet?
Of course, he could always mandate that assets of the church be sold to minister to those in poverty. I believe Christ told the rich young man to give up his wealth and follow Him.
It commands Christians to exercise godly dominion.
Yes, Christians absolutely should be not only involved in politics, but should be calling the shots.
It’s because Christians turned away from true Biblical doctrine and also allowed themselves to be marginalized that our government came to be run by globalist criminals.
How about throwaway political advocacy? What’s your take on that?
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Here comes again Francis attacking capitalism and freedom... Castro/Stalinism is good, America free enterprise is bad.
Bergoglio collectivist proclivity
Pope Francis has affirmed that he has met many good Marxists in his life.
Pope Francis is more open to the followers of proscribed Marxist liberation theologians than to orthodox traditional Catholics.
According to Cardinal Muller, the Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith, and he himself a follower of liberation theology, pope Francis have close ties with that Marxist movement.
The Jesuits have been at the front lines of the expansion of the “liberation theology” through out Latin America.
From “Dark REBELLION in the Church” - Jesuits, theology of liberation, Carmelites, Marianists and Socialists: the final complaint.” Ricardo de la Cierva. P. 11-13
“Your theology helps the transformation of Latin America more than millions of books on Marxism” Fidel Castro to Leonardo Boff and Frei Beto in the presence of the Spanish Bishop in Brazil, Pedro Casáldiga, C.M.F., who plays end the phrase in his book Nicaragua, combat and prophecy, Madrid, helped, 1986, p.134
“The Mission of the Jesuits in the third world is to create conflict. We are the only powerful group in the world that makes it.” César Jerez S. J., provincial of Central America 1976-1982, at a meeting of Jesuits in Boston, New England Jesuit News, April, 1973.
“At the same time we Christians are children of a Virgin and a whore (Ivan Illich) and believe that this is the truth.” Ernesto Cardenal, priest and then Minister of Nicaragua, in the biography of J. L. González, Salamanca, “Follow me”, 1978, p.23
“Are the Communists, and not the Jesuits, who are winning the battle of atheism.” Igor Bonchkovski in New Times, n.40, Moscow, 1975.
“The national planning of the Society of Jesus in the United States should, following the example of China, become an international planning. Towards the convergence of problems in all areas of the world around a single theme: the construction in different times and forms of a world Communist society.”
Strategic document of a group of Dutch Jesuits - in collaboration with other Jesuit revolutionaries—published for internal debate in the official journal of the society of Jesus in the United States, National Jesuit News, April 1972.
“Socialist societies are very ethical, clean, physically and morally. If it weren’t for his materialist doctrine it could be argued that they carried out the ethical teaching of the social doctrine of the Church.” Leonardo Boff on his return from a trip to Moscow, cfr.ABC, 16-VII-87, p.45
“Marxism provides a scientific understanding of the mechanisms of oppression in the world, at local and national levels; It offers the vision of a new world which must be built as a socialist society, the first step to a classless society, where genuine brotherhood can be hopefully possible, and by which deserves sacrifice everything.” Declaration of the theological Association of India in the magazine Vidyajyoti, of the Theological Faculty of the Jesuits in Delhi, April, 1986.
Pope Francis has persecuted traditional Catholics that follow the Tridentine Mass, but it seems to maintain close ties with the leaders of the Marxist liberation theology, a movement condemned by Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Pope Francis has affirmed that he has met many Marxists in his life who are good people, so he doesn’t feel offended when he’s questioned about his Marxist proclivities. In fact, he has proudly proclaimed that he is the Che Guevara of the Palestine people, the cold blooded murderer of hundreds of Cubans and thousands of Africans during the Cuban imperialist incursions to impose communism in the Black continent.
I wonder how pope Francis’ remarks would have been received if he were referring to the many good people he has met who were Nazis? After all, many more Christians have been murdered and persecuted by the “good Marxists” than by the “good” Nazis.
It is very worrisome that it is the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, cardinal Muller, he himself a follower of the liberation theology, who confirms that Pope Francis has close ties with the liberation theology, something that is in clear defiance to the Magisterium of the Church.
Obama and Bergoglio parallel paths. Francis is as damaging to the Church as is Obama to the United States.
Well, he looks like a phony to me. Just a Marxist using religion to sell his message.
Do you know about the De Medici family ?
Four De Medici Popes and a number of family and friends as Cardinals, etc., means things went off the rails hundreds of years ago.
Those people were the elite international bankers of their day.
The elites of international banking maintain corrupting connections with the major religions at the highest levels.
Large Protestant denominations are in with the same international banking people.
While I don't think he sees the US as the primary offender, it is clear he really does not grasp the virtues of a free economy in a democratic republic with the rule of law and property rights, such as the US has been. For this reason his unwarranted implications need correction.
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