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 ...
He was surprised, not upset. He went to the memorial of the Jesuit priest who first created the image before he saw the President.
He’s also wearing the same image.
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Ah...true..I would be interested to hear how capitalism should be ‘fettered’ according to the Pope and other socialists. We need a definition of ‘fettered capitalism’. Fetter means ‘hinder’,’restrain’,fetters are handcuffs and tied hands. I’m a Catholic and this Jesuit Popes politics are no surprise, never knew a Jesuit who wasn’t just like him. He’s a third world, socialist liberal who happens to be Pope,it is his core; the religion is the candy coating.
THIS Catholic considers that quote devil dung. Islam is Satan worship, plain and simple. It’s an evil death cult worshipping Lucifer and I consider EVERY Muslim evil and my enemy. So much for your generalization of Catholics.
Right. Would people prefer if there were no laws against unfair business practices? If so they'd quickly change their minds if they were on the receiving end. Or would they encourage an absense of moral restraints against greed, as in the case of Farid Fata, the doctor who was giving chemotherapy to patients who didn't need it, just to make a buck? Other than satanists, who out there believes that greed and amoral anarcho-capitalism is a good thing?
Crony/state capitalism is all there is in post-Peron Argentina (which is why it’s a continuing economic basket case, especially compared with its neighbor Chile). It’s the incubator of our Bergoglio.
This gross misunderstanding of what the market is shows, among other things, how horribly provincial and unread this guy is.
metmom was obviously being sarcastic.
I said that tongue in cheek. Just anticipating the usual reactions to excuse or justify what he said.
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