The New York Times and Time Magazine report the value of the entire Vatican City-State at $10-$15 billion. The Vatican administers a flock of 1 billion people.
In comparison, the Harvard University endowment is $35 billion.
Does the current pope have socialist sympathies? It sure seems that way.
These old encyclicals might make you feel better:
On Atheistic Communism (1937)
On Socialism (1878)
On the Doctrines of the Modernists (1907)
Encyclicals are pastoral letters written to the bishops of the Church and are not regarded as infallible.
Your forgetting something there, Tom. RC’s believe their Pope is the head of Christianity, the rest of us Christians who are not RC’s must be in servitude to him. Which got a lot of Protestant dissenters, who said Christ alone is the head of the universal church, burned at the stake.
As a RC you are supposed to be subservient to this Marxist Pope, like him or not. I think you’ll find it a bit more difficult, however, to get FReeper Christians to bow the knee to this Marxist. FReepers have this deep seated thing against Commies.
This Commie IS NOT MY HEAD!