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To: markomalley

No he doesn’t. He just has another project for redistributing what is left of our nation’s wealth.


12 posted on 04/15/2008 6:30:15 PM PDT by Little Ray (McCain, Obama, and Hillary: I HATE THEM ALL.)
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To: Little Ray; Matchett-PI
And where do you draw this conclusion? The Pope is no socialist.

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".. the overthrow by means of revolutionary violence of structures which generate violence is not ipso facto the beginning of a just regime. A major fact of our time ought to evoke the reflection of all those who would sincerely work for the true liberation of their brothers: millions of our own contemporaries legitimately yearn to recover those basic freedoms of which they were deprived by totalitarian and atheistic regimes which came to power by violent and revolutionary means, precisely in the name of the liberation of the people.

This shame of our time cannot be ignored: while claiming to bring them freedom, these regimes keep whole nations in conditions of servitude which are unworthy of mankind. Those who, perhaps inadvertently, make themselves accomplices of similar enslavements betray the very poor they mean to help.

The class struggle as a road toward a classless society is a myth which slows reform and aggravates poverty and injustice.

Those who allow themselves to be caught up in fascination with this myth should reflect on the bitter examples history has to offer about where it leads.

They would then understand that we are not talking here about abandoning an effective means of struggle on behalf of the poor for an ideal which has no practical effects. On the contrary, we are talking about freeing oneself from a delusion in order to base oneself squarely on the Gospel and its power of realization. ...

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~ Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (nka Pope Benedict XVI) August 6, 1984

(With special thanks to Freeper Matchett-PI's post here)

18 posted on 04/15/2008 6:52:42 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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