Posted on 02/28/2015 11:15:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In his address to the Italian Confederation of Cooperatives Saturday, Pope Francis employed muscular language in speaking about money — while acknowledging its importance to business. “Money,” he said, “is the devil’s dung.”
“It is not easy to talk about money,” Francis said. Quoting Saint Basil the Great, the Pope said: “Money is the dung of the devil! When money becomes an idol, it rules over a person’s choices. And then it ruins a person and condemns him, turning him into a slave.”
The Pope called for “creative imagination” to find new methods, attitudes and tools to combat the “culture of waste,” in which the world is immersed, “fueled by the powers that govern the economic and financial policies of the globalized world, whose center is the god of money.”
This isn’t the first time that Francis has resorted to a scatological illusion to denounce the evils of mammon. In a homily given in September 2013, the Pope used the same expression to decry wealth....
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What’s the word for “dung” in Latin?
Actually NO. When the Church becomes too worldly, God Himself will intervene. As Pope Benedict proclaimed, “the Church will become poor, counting only on the true disciples of Christ who will support Her in Her poverty. The moment the Church becomes too worldly, Christ Himself will separate Her from the world. And yes, we shall once again become poor. So be it. Christ Himself proclaimed that He had no place to lay his head.
Be not afraid! God Bless St. John Paul II.
fimus
Money is not evil. Money is a tool, like any other tool.
Using money improperly is evil. Worshipping money is evil. Using money to oppress people is evil. How you get it and what you do with it can be evil, because it’s powerful, and like any power, it can be abused. But the capitalist method has brought more peace and more benefits - by far - than any other social reward method discovered yet.
By far.
I like your post. Everything you’ve said makes sense.
What wrangles me is technology does not keep up the “old system” for back-ups in case of a major fail.
Did you hear about Arizon? They lost all i-net communcations because some a$$hole$ went out in the middle of the freakin’ desert with a backhoe in nowheresbille and cut the freaking cables.
It’s not widely publicized YET because the initial report was tryin to minimize the situation by calling the situation “vandalism”.
It could be a terrorist act.
Why has everyone ditched the most solid backups they could have = tell me why...
I'd like to agree, and understand the context.
Yet, we live in a Very material world; increasingly so. One may not 'love' money; and money may very much be the 'root of all evil'. But, no surprise, we live in a material world, where one needs money to almost breathe. Heck, one even needs money to properly dispose of a physically dead body.
Two weeks ago I started to really like this guy when he said, “All dogs go to heaven.”
Sometimes you have to know when to quit talking.
First of the month - Can I tell my landlord I don’t traffic in Devil Dung?
Because keeping those old backups operational requires time and resources. Do you have a horse in your garage in case your car won’t start?
Right? Pope... those collection plates at mass must get rather heavy packing all that dung.
I find this Pope to be an example of Marxist creative exhaustion.
I certainly keep a pair of legs and a bicycle available.
Those things require very little extra time and money to keep operational, unlike obsolete communications systems. A company that tries to keep maintaining and repairing everything that it has ever owned, just in case it might need it for some sort of “back-up” some day, will not be in business too long.
And still the Catholic Church has amassed more wealth than any other non-governmental organization in human history.
This Pope sounds exactly like a genuine socialist. Condemning money and wealth for everyone else while busy collecting it all with both hands for himself.
I’m talking about a piece of paper and a pencil or pen
I think this is the sort of thing Pope Francis is referring to. Having so much money you "need" to get one of these, while people who are qualified can't find work, because it's farmed out of the country for cheap labor and people who are unable to work may not be able to get help.
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