Posted on 07/10/2015 7:06:00 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Pope Francis on Thursday launched a blistering attack on the "new colonialism" of austerity, describing unfettered capitalism as “the dung of the devil” and apologising for the Catholic church's role in the conquest of indigenous populations in the Americas.
He delivered a powerful mea culpa on the part of the church in the highlight of his South American pilgrimage, "humbly" begging forgiveness during an encounter in Bolivia with indigenous groups and other activists and in the presence of Bolivia's first-ever indigenous president, Evo Morales.
The first Latin American pope noted that church leaders in the past had acknowledged that "grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God." St. John Paul II, for his part, apologized to the continent's indigenous for the "pain and suffering" caused during the 500 years of the church's presence in the Americas during a 1992 visit to the Dominican Republic.
But the Pope went further and said he was doing so with "regret."
"I would also say, and here I wish to be quite clear, as was St. John Paul II: I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America," he said to applause from the crowd.
Then deviating from his prepared script, he added: "I also want for us to remember the thousands and thousands of priests who strongly opposed the logic of the sword with the power of the cross. There was sin, and it was plentiful. But we never apologized, so I now ask for forgiveness. But where there was sin, and there was plenty of sin, there was also an abundant grace increased by the men who defended indigenous peoples."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
You think that America was founded on the principle of "unfettered capitalism"? Greed has always been considered a sin in Christianity. The only ones who say it is a virtue are libertarians, objectivists and satanists.
>>More appropriately, it is this leftist imitation pope who is the dung of the devil.
The Jesuit brain-works do have a long history of manufacturing Created Things and inflicting them upon the farm.
Evidently they were Marxists, before Marx was.
http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Jesuits+Marx+Paraguay+Reductions
Curiously, the Pope's attitude toward capitalism parallels George Soros'.
One thing is evident fro Soros' writings: he is convinced that capitalism is evil. Specifically, it can be used by conscienceless practitioners as a tool to destroy people and institutions. And what he claims is true -- capitalism can be used to further nefarious ends.
However, Soros is one of those people without a conscience -- and he assumes that everybody is just like him.
Jesuits were pushing ‘social justice’ before Marx started writing.
Best post of the thread!
Choose carefully. ELCA is rainbow. LCMS, maybe...
I suggest instead you consider Wesleyan or Nazarene.
But that's not UNFETTERED capitalism - that's VERY FETTERED capitalism, or crony capitalism - which is the opposite of real free market economics. That's why I like the term free markets much better. Evil people will take advantage of every system out there, period. It's the problem of evil, NOT the system.
Well said!
I, also, will not be driven from the one true Church.
Unfettered is the key word. What fetters would he propose to put upon it?
Better check out the local Traditional Roman Catholic chapel or church near you.
The Lutherans have been ordered to marry homosexual and lesbian couples.
Catholics believe in the office he holds—and has been abusing for two years. We are being punished.
The Popes’ complaints about “unfettered capitalism” are about as timely as warnings against the fox trot and rumble seats.
Good point!
>>Jesuits were pushing ‘social justice’ before Marx started writing.
“The whole management and organization of this farm [reduction] depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.”
Fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others? Hmmm.
The Pope.. The Anti-Christ. ??
or just.. The Anti-Capitalist :-)
People are talking as if capitalism is their Savior.
Why don’t Socialists ever just come put and say what they are??
Funny you should mention Che.
President Evo Morales was wearing a jacket emblazoned with Che’s portrait when he receive His Holiness.
See the 2nd photo in this article:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/pope-francis-calls-for-new-economic-order-criticises-capitalism-20150710-gi9cip.html
Morales also thought it appropriate to present His Holiness with a hammer-and-sickle carving with an image of Jesus being crucified on the hammer.
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The False Prophet.
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