“- the simplicity and spontaneity of Pope Francis’ style can be confusing and somewhat deceptive.
While renouncing the notion that the market alone is sufficient to meet all human needs, Francis is also prepared to denounce a “welfare mentality” that creates a dependency on the part of the poor and reduces the Church to the role of being just another bureaucratic NGO. The complexity of his thought “
Pope John Paul, who matured during WWII and grew up under Communist socialism had no problems identifying the cause of poverty.
This Pope has issues, The Church has had other like him before and has survived.
It is better to teach a man to fish than to force other to provide their fish to the worthless.
Note - Worthless - not Helpless
Well said, I agree. In other words:
"We cannot respond with truth to the challenge of eradicating exclusion and poverty if the poor continue to be objects, targets of the action of the state and other organizations in a paternalistic and aid-based sense, instead of subjects, where the state and society create social conditions that promote and safeguard their rights and allow them to be builders of their own destiny." -- Abp Bergoglio, 2009