Monsignor Pope Ping!
Sweet!
The supply of aggregate wealth will always be less than the aggregate desire for wealth. To decrease poverty and increase wealth in the system as a whole requires increased economic progress, technological progress, capital accumulation, expanding division of labor, a rational political and economic system, more saving and investment and less consumption, private propery, and freedom.
Right on.
I sometimes observe that at no time under the Law did God ever tell a prophet, judge or king to institute a group of folks to go around with measuring rods and what not to make sure nobody in Israel reaped too far into the corners of their field/make sure nobody ever wend back to glean more/etc.
In Scripture it is clear that He wants His people to individually take care of those in need, but no where in actual Scripture is there a rigorous standard established by which that is measured.
IOW, He really does seem to want the people, on their own initiative and from their own means, to do this.
By contrast, given the attitudes of too many modern people about welfare from public funds, I often suspect that many today would be willing to honor old Ahab if only he’d taken Naboth’s inheritance for a vegetable garden to feed Samaria’s poor rather than his own belly.
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“Recall what Christ told us: “The poor you will have always with you …” (Jn 12:8). Those who want to eradicate poverty make the Son of God a liar. …”
BINGO. No one can eradicate poverty much less war. It’s the balance of the universe. We cannot all be rich nor we can all be poor. We cant have all peace all the time and same with chaos/war. One must live with the other as a counterbalance. (probably why I detest these liberal hypocrites with a peace sign)
I know there is no way to say this without is seeming to sound like an attack. But it is a simple observation that the Church benefits from poverty. They love being the hope and comfort of desperate people. It is much tougher work to
minister to people who are comfortable in the temporal world.
The church announcing poverty was gone would be like Jesse Jackson saying that race was not a big issue.
While there are a few minor points he makes that are worthy, there is one glaring error. The message of not feeling a need to eradicate poverty, is coming from a minister of a fabulously wealthy church.
The Msgr. needs to get his Greek books out.
In 1:52 the word poor is not in the Greek.
The word for humble is tapeinós (an adjective) – properly, low; (figuratively) inner lowliness describing the person who depends on the Lord rather than self. HELPS Word Studies http://biblehub.com/greek/5011.htm
What the Msgr. has done is eisegesis which is reading something into the text that is not there vs exegesis which is bringing out of the text what is there.
We won't even discuss the false title of Mother Mary.
Sarah for Pope!
Bergoglio was a run-of-the-mill lefty South American bishop, whose diocese was and is a disintegrating shambles, with no vocations, hideous liturgies, about 10% of “couples” actually married (but Communion given to all—no questions asked). Those who knew him, upon hearing of his election, wrote things like, “the horror!”
Not another Bergoglio!
Another Great one, Thanks!
God Bless
What's to REFLECT?
Do you NOT believe the very words of JESUS??
Jesus, Himself, said the poor would be with us, always.