Posted on 07/11/2015 5:24:40 PM PDT by RightGeek
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — His speeches can blend biblical fury with apocalyptic doom. Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global capitalism. He compares them to the “dung of the devil.” He does not simply argue that systemic “greed for money” is a bad thing. He calls it a “subtle dictatorship” that “condemns and enslaves men and women.”
Having returned to his native Latin America, Francis has renewed his left-leaning critiques on the inequalities of capitalism, describing it as an underlying cause of global injustice, and a prime cause of climate change. Francis escalated that line last week when he made a historic apology for the crimes of the Roman Catholic Church during the period of Spanish colonialism — even as he called for a global movement against a “new colonialism” rooted in an inequitable economic order.
The Argentine pope seemed to be asking for a social revolution.
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Let us make the Vatican actually earn all their money instead of being given it by their parishioners, then we’ll see if the Pope likes capitalism or not..
“A pope stepping down hasn’t happened in my lifetime. How did they get Benedict to resign so they could get this guy in?”
Actually it’s been about 600 years since the last papal abdication. That said, Benedict opined even before his election that he thought Popes should consider stepping down when they reach a certain point in age and or health. He pointed out that modern medicine can keep people alive far longer than previously imaginable. But often alive does not mean fully functional. John Paul II was the classic example. As his health precipitously declined over the last years of his life, the Roman Church was effectively left without a leader even as modern medicine kept him breathing. Just a few decades ago this would not have been a problem. Someone as ill as John Paul was would simply have died.
Times have changed.
ahhh yes the Jesuit lectures us all again
So speaks “The Vicar of Christ”. As a protestant I am going to hell because I will not put myself under the authority of the Pope.
What a pantload.
The popes god is communism. Bible believing Catholics, I urge you to leave!
Going from John Paul II to this clown is like going from Reagan to Obozo. What a difference 50 years makes.
Capitalism has done more for the poor and needy than all the popes combined.
Your lifetime? It has been 500 years since the last pope resigned.
I think that there are some seriously EVIL people who forced Benedict out.
I am appalled by the "leader" of the church of my birth.
Francis is a disgrace. Not a pope.
He's a politician.
He must have a real problem with Proverbs 31, among other scriptures, such as the Parable of the Talents.
“19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’” Matthew 25:19-23
JP2 had a few things to say about “liberation theology”.
Francis who???
It sure has.
What happened to Pope? In less than a month he’s driven over the cliff of Marxism.
“This pope is a commie prick!”
Yes he is, and if I were a Catholic, I’d demand his removal, or I’d make it clear I was leaving.
That wasn’t a sudden trip, nor unexpected.
This communist pope should stick to things he knows - religion. Cause he sure as hell doesn’t know anything about economics!!!!!!
And what did JP2 actually do about Liberation Theology? nothing! The two previous Popes were Masons. That automatically Excommunicates them. Interesting, and tragic.
The Smoke of Satan that engulfed the Vatican under Pope Paul VI turned in a five alarm fire when Francis occupied the Holy See. It is a disgrace that Pope Francis wants to emulate his compatriot on hatred against free enterprise, Che Guevara, the cold blooded murderer of thousands of Cubans and Black Africans.
Marxist liberation was condemned and proscribed by H.H. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI following the Magisterium against Communism by all the Popes since H.H. Pope Leo XIII.
As soon as Francis was elected Pope, he rescued the Marxist liberation theology from the trash bin of history, a perverse corruption of the Gospels with the main tenets of the intrinsically evil Marxist atheistic ideology.
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