Posted on 09/14/2015 7:00:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In an interview with Portugal-based Radio Renascença aired yesterday, Pope Francis declared that the current refugee crisis in Europe is being caused by a bad, unjust socio-economic system that worships the god of money.
In the interview, where questions were posed in Portuguese and the responses were given by Pope Francis in Spanish, the pontiff said coveting money will bring about both human and ecological ruin:
This is the tip of the iceberg. We see these refugees, these poor people who are escaping from war, escaping from hunger, but thats the tip of the iceberg. But underlying that is the cause, and the cause is a socio-economic system that is bad, unjust, because within an economic system, within everything, within the world, speaking of the ecological problem, within the socio-economic society, in politics, the person always has to be the center. And todays dominant economic system has removed the person from the center, and at the center is the god of money. Its the fashionable god today. I mean, there are statistics. I dont remember very well, but this is not exact and I could be making a mistake 17% of the population has 80% of the wealth.
Pope Francis said that refugees from rural areas are being deforested and driven into big cities:
Why are favelas (shantytowns) formed in big cities? Its the people who come from the country because they have been deforested. They have made a mono-cultivation. They have no work, and they go to big cities.
Ultimately, the world is at war against itself, the Pope declared:
Today, the world is at war, is at war against itself. That is, the world is at war -- as I say -- a war in parts, piecemeal. But it is also at war against the earth, because its destroying the earth, that is, our common home. The environment, the glaciers are melting. In the Arctic, the polar bear goes increasingly northward to survive."
Read full interview translated by the Catholic News Agency.
As a Roman Catholic, both born and educated, I can assure you that the Vatican played no role whatsoever in funding all the sex abuse settlements.
Parishioners nationwide (in the United States) funded all the settlements, and some parishes (in the United States) sold off much real estate (Schools and churches and other charitable service buildings.)
It's hard to take the "argument" seriously that people who are supposed to be moral exemplars and uniquely called to the service of God are no better than the general population.
Read the actual interview. There’s surely things in it that I disagree with, but it is in general much different than the way it’s presented.
People flee Cuba...is that due to money or Communism???
This Pope is the product of leftist economic worldview. Shame
Scary times.
You have the logic of a two-year old.
Yep. When they sell the solid gold crucifix and the hundreds of millions in artwork they have and give the money to the poor, THEN you can preach to me.
They are not the poverty stricken victims of some cold hearted capitalistic oppression
They have never been hungry and they and their welfare dependent families have never worked a day in their lives..
In other words, THEY are the product of exactly the Socialist system the Pope is is advocating for.
We are supposed to do as the Pope says, not as he does. It his job only to pontificate.
No! The Pope is a pure Commie! In a long white dress. :>)
Bull crap.
“Scary times”.
Yes, and Evil compounds it.
Not true. One is 3 times more likely to be sodomized by a school teacher than a priest.
Remind me again how wealthy the Vatican is. The Pope should give his ring to the first refugee he sees. Spread the wealth, ya know.
Painfully, it has become clear that in Francis, Catholics must endure a bad pope who, among other severe faults, credits Marxist ideas about how markets work and wealth is created and distributed. Remarkably, on that unreliable foundation, Pope Francis now seems to blame capitalism for the destructive furies of Islam and the current wave of refugees it has unleashed on Europe.
Thanks.
...and then there's the actual poor.
Poverty and indolence are actually distinguishable.
Where’s St. Malachy when we need him.
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