Posted on 03/11/2019 7:04:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Pope Francis railed against unjust employers Friday, saying it is hypocritical to go to church on Sunday and then exploit one’s workers.
“Many Christians, even Catholics, who say they are practicing Catholics exploit people! They exploit their workers!” the pope said during his daily homily at Mass in the Casa Santa Marta Friday.
They send them home at the beginning of summer to avoid having to pay benefits and then take them back again at the end, he explained.
“And so many of these call themselves Catholics. They go to Mass on Sundays and then they do this. This is a mortal sin!” he said.
“How many humiliate their workers!” he added.
This is not the first time that Francis has used strong language to condemn the exploitation of employees.
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“’Woe to you who are rich.’ If one were to preach like this today, the headlines in the next day newspapers, would say: ‘That priest is a Communist!’” he said. “But poverty is at the center of the Gospel. Preaching about poverty is at the center of Jesus’ message: ‘Blessed are the poor’ is the first of the Beatitudes.”
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In Jesus’ day the rich kept slaves, and Jesus did not call for all the be freed.
Yet this Pope thinks sending them home for the summer when there is no work is a sin.
Laughable.
Of course we know what “exploited” means to the Marxist Roman Catholic Pope.
He has a point. The USA practices human trafficking (legal H-1 h-2 immigration) just to undercut and lower American wages which I think is beyond humiliating.
But you know that’s not what he meant.
The church continues to desperately attempt to regain the world-wide political influence it lost hundreds of years ago.
Who cares? It all comes out to the same thing politically.
Would be very impressed if he also loudly proclaimed that the predatory abuse of young boys by criminal homosexuals is also a mortal sin.
So -
Who exploits workers more? Those who would freeze the individual worker in a nothing job, going nowhere, with no chance for advancement, but who is “guaranteed” a government-dictated “minimum wage” and “right to health care”, or those who encourage the well-trained person who may work for LESS than what is considered “minimum wage” while serving as an apprentice, gaining the skills of his specialty, and upon becoming a journeymen, commands decent compensation for his skills and willingness to show up on time on a daily basis?
The New Soviet Man and the Union Maid may gain some degree of power, but only so long as they hold a number of wage slaves beneath them to do the bidding while the “workers” negotiate with the “bosses” for ever greater compensation for less and less actual input.
That is what killed General Motors, you know. And grew Toyota to be an industrial giant on American soil.
Yes, I worked my butt off...
but buggering children who work for you is ok?
The ImPopester is a full blown communist.
Luke 6:20-22
Might want to familiarize yourself with the Bible, before accusing others of not getting the Bible right.
Sure. Exploiting workers is a sin. So is exploiting bosses by not delivering solid work for pay, but you never hear about that. You also hear about how showing favoritism for the rich by virtue of their money is evil, but you never hear that punishing the rich because of their wealth is also evil. Does a thief deserve to go free because he robbed a rich man?
Pope Francis still thinks we’re back in feudal or Dickensian times, where there was no labor mobility or unionization. Nowadays, workers shirking and stealing from their employers under government protection has replaced wage slavery. Fire an underperforming black, and your reward is a lawsuit heard by a jury pool biased against you.
It is clear where his priorities lie.
Defrauding workers of their just wages is a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance
Does he pay priests and nuns?
Besides what is a mortal sin? All sin is mortal and has only one remedy. I wish he was more concerned with the catholic politicians that vote for infanticide, but apparently that is not a problem for him
They always point out that thing about paying a day’s wage by sundown.
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