Pope Francis: Exploiting Workers Is a ‘Mortal Sin’

breitbart ^ | Thomas D Williams

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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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So is Matthew (the inerrant Word of God).

Often the words of the Apostles have to be studied and analyzed in context to be fully understood.

Given that Luke 6:20 was about what Jesus said after moving off the "mount" and down to a "plain" and was said to the disciples instead of the multitude of Matthew 5, there has been a great deal of study and commentary about exactly what he (Luke) meant by the word "poor." Was this a recitation of what was just said on the Mount or was this a completely new pronouncement in which the "poor in spirit" was expanded to include all "poor"? And "poor" in what terms?

Most interpretations agree that he said "Blessed are YE poor" in direct reference to the disciples (and possible referencing all they had given up to follow Jesus).

Whatever was meant, the Pope has co-opted the Gospel here to spread his communist message...and that was not the intend of the Gospel (even after taking into account Acts 4:32-37).