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Pope Blames Refugee Crisis on 'God of Money,' 'Socio-Economic System That Is Bad, Unjust'
MRCTV.org ^ | 09/14/2015 | Craig Bannister

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 that’s 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 today’s dominant economic system has removed the person from the center, and at the center is the god of money. It’s the fashionable god today. I mean, there are statistics. I don’t 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?” It’s 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 it’s 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.


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KEYWORDS: communist; francisoutofcontrol; liberationtheology; nwo; plant; popeclueless; popefrancis; popefranciscomment; popeoutofcontrol; poperedistribution; poperefugeecrisis; refugees; stfu; syriarefugees
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To: The Iceman Cometh
There didn't seem to be a problem coughing up the cash to pay off the sex abuse cases.

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.)

61 posted on 09/14/2015 7:46:12 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: laplata; E. Pluribus Unum
No, he shouldn't have said it, because it's an inane rationalization for evil, and nothing more.

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.

62 posted on 09/14/2015 7:46:44 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: Williams

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.


63 posted on 09/14/2015 7:47:22 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

People flee Cuba...is that due to money or Communism???
This Pope is the product of leftist economic worldview. Shame


64 posted on 09/14/2015 7:48:38 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: laplata

Scary times.


65 posted on 09/14/2015 7:51:33 PM PDT by funfan
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To: FredZarguna

You have the logic of a two-year old.


66 posted on 09/14/2015 7:53:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

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.


67 posted on 09/14/2015 7:54:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: crusadersoldier
The Jihadi who are the most evil, violent and psychopathic terrorists in Syria are affluent Europeans who have received all of the best the European’s Socialist welfare state can provide.

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.

68 posted on 09/14/2015 7:55:42 PM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Let me know when the Vatican liquidates it massive wealth to help the poor. I’m sure that will happen any day now.

We are supposed to do as the Pope says, not as he does. It his job only to pontificate.

69 posted on 09/14/2015 7:56:17 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (RINO)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No! The Pope is a pure Commie! In a long white dress. :>)


70 posted on 09/14/2015 7:57:02 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2015!)
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To: FredZarguna

Bull crap.


71 posted on 09/14/2015 7:57:11 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: funfan

“Scary times”.

Yes, and Evil compounds it.


72 posted on 09/14/2015 7:59:07 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Calpublican
Is it possible he has dementia or is drug addicted? Seriously.

Complicit?
73 posted on 09/14/2015 7:59:20 PM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
You do realize that perverts occur in the priesthood at the same rate as the general population and any profession you can name, including yours?

Not true. One is 3 times more likely to be sodomized by a school teacher than a priest.

74 posted on 09/14/2015 8:00:13 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Hildy
I am so sick of this Pope. Where is Sinead O’Connor when you need her?

I pray for Pope Francis because that is what Mary wants us to do, but your commentary did make me LOL ... =) .. Our poor country, our poor world; even Malta is working its way to abortion...
75 posted on 09/14/2015 8:02:32 PM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


76 posted on 09/14/2015 8:03:04 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


77 posted on 09/14/2015 8:03:11 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Thanks.


78 posted on 09/14/2015 8:04:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: ladyjane
There are millions of people sitting around not working and expecting others to provide food and housing.

...and then there's the actual poor.

Poverty and indolence are actually distinguishable.

79 posted on 09/14/2015 8:09:09 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: jsanders2001

Where’s St. Malachy when we need him.


80 posted on 09/14/2015 8:09:17 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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