In before some of our Catholic FRiends try to justify the new Pope’s obviously leftwing economic statements. At this point it has become abundantly clear that Pope Francis is an economic populist leftist - which is pretty typical of South American Jesuits.
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
The author says Zacchaeus was a tax collector and not a loan shark.
I’d really like to know what his understanding of this passage in Luke 19:8 tells us about what Zacchaeus did before he repented:
” And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
Too late. I posted the same article on Friday, and they came out to justify his position. Even got a complaint about which paragraphs I excerpted and which I left out.
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
...they'll say it's not a duck. Rule One: The Pope is never in error, regardless of subject matter. Rule Two: If the Pope is found to be in error, see Rule One and kill the witnesses.
It is just as immoral to strip the earnings of a hard working family to redistribute to freeloaders as it is to deny a helping hand in time of need.
Christian leaders seem to lean to the left on charitable issues but it is understood that it must be within limits. Unlimited charity is not good for either the giver or the receiver.
He’ll do a bang-up job of filling the shoes of the Fisherman, if bang-up means dragging the Roman Catholic Church further into the secular ditch.
This will make a lot of cafeteria Catholics happy, but like his predecessors he’ll owe his Maker a lot of explaining before the level is pulled.