Posted on 02/28/2015 1:59:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
They sure hold onto all that gold at the vatican
The Catholic church is as disassociated as the U.S. Government.
to be charitable, they do have a love and reverence for beautiful things there. i’d like to take it all in one day.
Better then the muslims for sure but still longing for the old days where the Pope controlled things.
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He quoted his namesake, St Francis of Assisi, in calling money the “devil’s dung,” according to Vatican Radio. “When money becomes an idol, it controls man’s choices,” he added. “It makes him a slave.”
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Coming from the head of the richest church on the planet, this seems to fly in the face of economic equality the pontiff is striving for. Maybe the church is seeking to divest its fortunes and redistribute it to the masses of impoverished within its own church. But, I doubt it.
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What a wacko. We need to reform the globalist economic rip-off, not convert the globe to communism.
With the exceptions of abortion and contraception, the Catholic Church is a left-wing operation. Basta!
Exactly. Ludwig von Mises, the great liberal (now called classical liberal or libertarian) identified socialism as a form of Christian heresy. It’s goal was to create heaven on earth.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Get a new pope, this one sucks.
The Vatican condemned Communism with the Encyclical “Divini Redemptori” in 1937
Pius XI and his Secretary of State were following the Magisterium of the Church when they published on March 19, 1937, the Encyclical “Divini Redemptori.” It was a most comprehensive and devastating condemnation of Communism as “intrinsically perverse.” Already Pius IX, as early as 1846, pronounced in the Encyclical “Qui pluribus,” a solemn condemnation of Communism “that infamous doctrine which is absolutely contrary to natural law itself, and if once adopted would utterly destroy the rights, the property and possessions of all men, and even society itself.” Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical “Quod apostolici muneri,” defined communism as “the fatal plague that insinuates itself into the very marrow of human society only to bring about its ruin.” Pius XI and Pius XII were highly active, energetic and zealous opponents of totalitarianism and oppression in every form-for them, National Socialism and Communism were both intrinsically evil.
Francis is the first and only Pope that has been against the Magisterium of the Church on the condemnation of communism and opened the doors of the Vatican to the dissenters theologians who corrupted the Gospels with the doctrine of Marx.
Thank you.
There was nothing wrong with the old one.
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