In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism

NY Times ^ | 7/11/2015 | JIM YARDLEY and BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

[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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[Ann Archy]

Amen!

[SkyPilot]

By the Catholic church’s own doctrine, being a Mason automatically Excommunicated two of its own Popes. But then again, rules are for the little people.

[CPT Clay]

wow, pope is a communist.

[ConservingFreedom]

This well catechized Catholic says the true dung of the devil is clergy's usurpation of the proper role of the laity in prudentially applying their knowledge and experience in light of the basic doctrines of the Church.