You wrote:
“I doubt your Pope is being disingenuous. It’s more likely he’s just revealing his lack of understanding.”
Except you have nothing but your own opinion to demonstrate that - and that’s not enough.
“I realize it’s very hard for RC’s to criticize anything your Pope says or does and that anyone who does you perceive to be attacking your church and your faith.”
I’m sorry but you’re completely embarrassig yourself. I have absolutely no problem criticizing the pope when he deserves it. Most Catholics I have known have been traditionalists and we - as a group - have little or no difficulty criticizing the pope when he goofs up. Also, I’m not an RC. That’s a cola brand. I’m Catholic, not “RC”.
“However, this socialist drivel is naive and wrong and I suspect the conservative RC’s know it. The naivete is the idea that a large centralized bureaucracy with the power to enforce it’s decisions will let authority rest at the lowest levels.”
The pope is not naive. The “naivete” is your assumption that the pope - who has long worked in a bureaucracy - does not understand the pitfalls of bureaucracy. Did that idea even occur to you? No, apparently not.
“I have yet to see this happen on a national level let alone a global level. The socialist drivel that by redistributing wealth everyone will be better off has been shown throughout history to be a bitter failure. The USSR could never get their wheat to market and suffered severe famines as a result, yet the little plots of land that Russians were allowed to grow their own vegetables on flourished.”
And that was never a redistribution of wealth to the poor of Russia. They were the ones robbed of land (that’s wealth!) in the first place! Your understanding of the USSR is as abysmal as everything else.
“If he wants to see the poor nations improve he should embrace free markets not blame them for the consequences of govt incompetence and manipulation of them.”
And if you want to understand something it helps for you to know what you’re talking about. Study. Learn something.
If the pope is not naive and understand the 'pitfalls' of bureaucracy, why then does he want more of it?
And that was never a redistribution of wealth to the poor of Russia. They were the ones robbed of land (that’s wealth!) in the first place!
Uh, like socialists have not always operated that way?
Cordially,