Posted on 09/22/2015 9:14:28 PM PDT by Mariner
IN HIS visit to the United States beginning Tuesday, Pope Francis will meet not just President Obama and Congress but also those marginalized by our society: homeless people, immigrants, refugees and even the inmates of a jail. He’s expected to raise topics that many Americans will find challenging, such as his harsh critique of capitalism. His supporters say it’s all part of the role the pope has embraced as an advocate for the powerless, one that has earned him admiration from both Catholics and some outside the church.
How, then, to explain Pope Francis’s behavior in Cuba? The pope is spending four days in a country whose Communist dictatorship has remained unrelenting in its repression of free speech, political dissent and other human rights despite a warming of relations with the Vatican and the United States. Yet by the end of his third day, the pope had said or done absolutely nothing that might discomfit his official hosts.
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“inequality is the root of all social evil”
It is, but not the kind of inequality some might think. When people who try hard see that their efforts mean nothing, and that those who don’t try hard do as well or better, they become demotivated and demoralized. Inequality of effort and sacrifice is often the underpinning of an inequality of outcome.
“Inequality of effort and sacrifice is often the underpinning of an inequality of outcome.”
“Inequality of outcome,” used in the context you have chosen to apply it, more accurately holds just the opposite desire:
Equality of Outcome.
However, equality of outcome is guaranteed to no one! In point of fact, the desire to obtain such equality is the underpinning of Communism.
I agree entirely. I was just trying to make the point that in Communism and socialism inequality of effort is not considered as a determinant, and this is entirely wrong. I would refer back to the story of the three little pigs. Communism/socialism would argue that the pig that worked hard and made his house strong with bricks should be forced by the government to share his house with the other two pigs who didn’t pan as well or work as hard. In a convoluted way, they would label this as fairness.
He is one of the elite, dictatorships are ok as long as your power structure is “in” with the dictator.
I would like to point the Pope to North Korea, on how you can find yourself in front of a firing squad at a moments notice.
Nightmare would be progressive church where clergy members are allowed gay marriage because it isn’t real in the eyes of the church but not heterosexual marriage.
Traditional Catholic bump
Even the left in Spain criticized Pope Francis trip to Cuba more aimed to realize his teenager dream of meeting Fidel Castro than to bring a message of hope for the oppressed Cuban people by demanding real religious freedom, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, political freedom, freedom to move inside the island and freedom to emigrate, the liberation of all political prisoners. At the request of the Church, the regime liberated over 3,000 prisoners but they were common criminals, but not a single prisoner of conscience.
Pope Francis, an admirer of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, asked for the meeting with Fidel Castro that later was described as very friendly and familiar covering tan important theme as Castro’s years as student in a Jesuit high school and other venalities. After the meeting Francis expressed publicly his high esteem for Fidel Castro, the most brutal and longest lasting tyrant in the history of this hemisphere.
When Pope Benedict XVI visited Cuba he didn’t ask to meet Castro, although Castro came uninvited to see him at the Vatican Nunciature in Havana.
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In my view the Pope is a ... Capitalist and businessman.
He’s selling a product, the Roman Catholic Church. In Cuba he sees a great untapped pool of customers. He wants to be the first one to get into the market, so he’s playing nice with the folks who are controlling entry to the market. He knows that if he doesn’t play nice they’ll slam the door in his face and he won’t be able to get back in for another 20 years. And possibly after others have been granted access to the market first.
“Pope Francis expressed his gratitude to Cuba for his contribution to peace and the preservation of the human specie in a world saturated by hatred and aggressions.”
I wonder how many faithful Catholic are leaving the Church after Pope Francis embraced and called to his side the leaders of the Marxist liberation theology, a heresy condemned by John Paul II and Benedict XVI following the Magisterium of the Church's condemnation of socialism from Pope Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
We saw the real Pope Francis during his peregrination to honor Fidel Castro, Cuba's murderous tyrant.
Lovely encounter among comrades
Francis ask Fidel for his blessing and prayers.
“According to the Gramma, the official newspaper of the Cuban regime “Pope Francis expressed his gratitude to Cuba for his contribution to peace and the preservation of the human specie in a world saturated by hatred and aggressions.” (Pope Francis’ quotation is not sarcasm or black humor.)
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