Miami Priest To Pope Francis: Why Condemn Capitalism So Strongly,But Not Communism?

Breitbart.com ^ | September 22, 2015 | Frances Martel

[Biggirl]

Prominent Cuban-American priest, Father Alberto Cutié, questions Pope Francis’ apparently warm attitude towards the Castro dictatorship during his visit to Cuba this week, asking in a Miami Herald column, “Why do you so strongly condemn capitalism … but we never see an equally strong condemnation of atheist communism?”

[goldstategop]

Why do religious Catholics tolerate a fraud who warmly embraced the Castros and turned his back on the Cuban people?

[skimbell]

Well that's it for him.

He'll never make Monsignor.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Why Condemn Capitalism So Strongly,But Not Communism?

And I wonder if Francis talked to the Castro’s about their political prisoners rotting in jail for years.

He certainly did not mention anything about them in public.

[goldstategop]

That was political. He wouldn’t meet the Ladies in White and refused to host Cuban dissidents.

But he pow-wowed with Fidel over mythical climate change.

The Pope kissed an atheist’s ass but found no time for Cuban Catholics opposed to the Communist regime.

[jimbug]

One of the devotionals I read regularly(and send out to a list of friends and family) is Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning and Evening.

Spurgeon was a Particular Baptist preacher in the 1800s; he regularly railed against 'Popery' .

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That's very typical for Latin Americans of his generation.

The problem is that it's not 1960 any more and he's not still in his early twenties.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I suppose a guy heading a church as the one “infallible” leader, complete centralized power where the underlings must obey the top, is blind to the idea that power corrupts and should not be centralized in government.

What people need to ask themselves is do they want their government to look like the government of the Catholic Church.

[grimalkin]

I really wish we had someone like Pope John Paul II again.

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[Dick Vomer]

because he’s a communist. see how easy that was to answer.

[ought-six]

Because Pope Francis is a Marxist.

[kearnyirish2]

I don’t know how many religious Catholics are “tolerating” him (as opposed to completely ignoring him); at this point he is just another Hispanic “dreamer” at the White House asking for American taxpayers’ money.

Same sh!t, different day...

[fishtank]

[NRx]

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this the same priest who quit the Roman Church and went over to the Episcopalians so he could marry his mistress?

[FreedomStar3028]

Socialism and Communism could work. Except people get in the way and mess it all up. That’s why Capitalism is the only way in a fallen world.

[itssme]

“I really wish we had someone like Pope John Paul II again.”

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So do I. Pope John Paul II was a good man, a holy man who did good works without fanfare, who fought the Nazi's and the Communists in Poland during and after WWII. He had common sense and believed in freedom and liberty for all. You knew you were in the presence of someone special when you were in his company, as many have said. Pope Francis is a “Trojan horse.” Like obozo, another Trojan horse, he made his socialist/communist way at the ballot box and through the doors of the Vatican. Here's to the next Pope. May he emulate the late Pope John Paul II. We can only hope.

[ealgeone]

One does not condemn what one supports.

[Uncle Miltie]

Because Frankie is first and foremost a Socialist.

Somewhere down the list of his priorities is Christianity.

[sockmonkey]

Isn’t this the same priest who quit the Roman Church and went over to the Episcopalians so he could marry his mistress?

Yes, he is THAT Priest.

[Heart-Rest]

"Someone correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this the same priest who quit the Roman Church and went over to the Episcopalians so he could marry his mistress?"

Yes he is.

While I agree with what he is saying here, the truth is that he is no longer a Catholic priest, but is now an Episcopalian (as explained at the following link).

   Alberto Cutié

[Heart-Rest]

Beat me to it!