Benedict XVI and the truth about charity

Tidings Online ^ | 7/24/09 | George Weigel

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Large bureaucracies TEND to talk out of both sides of their mouths and fingers chronically. It’s the nature of the beast.

Yep. That's why capitalism and a representative form of government with checks and balances are the remedy to what ails economics and politics.

[Quix]

True enough.

Thx for your kind reply.

[1000 silverlings]

"This is the institutional path -- we might also call it the political path -- of charity, no less excellent and effective than the kind of charity which encounters the neighbor directly," he said.

Christ said the two, charity(love) and politics, do not go together

Matthew 22:21

They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

[Quix]

Fits for me! lOL.

[bdeaner]

Thomas E. Woods, Jr. wrote, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. Still want to endorse his work, Dr. E?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Theologically he's more your cup of tea. But since we're discussing free market economics here as opposed to the pope's foolish endorsement of controlled trade, you might want to read Wood's other work, "The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy."

I doubt Woods would endorse Ratzinger's vision of a global superstructure controlling world economies by its teeth.

[fortheDeclaration]

"Laissez faire capitalism" is what has created the wealth of this planet in the first place. To blame "globalism" on capitalism is almost humorous if it weren't such a destructive deflection of the truth.

Amen!

What was occurring under globalism was not the growth of the Free Market, it was a return to Mercantalism, and more Government controls.