Posted on 12/05/2013 6:26:41 AM PST by NYer
He said this: Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise ANY form of control.
He said nothing about redistribution.
Do you support capitalism without ANY controls?
There's pure self-interest in play there, since the South American illegals are likely to be dues-paying Catholic church members.
Hispanic Catholics voted for Obama 3 to 1 and in a higher proportion the 2nd time around, when most other groups’ support for Obama went down. The Pope comes from an extremely liberal ethnic group.
Perhaps it's even worse. His exhortation is causing an uproar in part because of its lack of balance, and seems to reveal a bias on his part. Had he specifically pointed out the evils inherent in systems where deprivation of freedom has led to poverty and death, his warning regarding the risk of greed and excess becoming paramount in a free market system might have been more well received.
Unfortunately, by attacking "unfettered captalism" - a boogeyman because it doesn't exist - he has provided the enemies of the Church (such as obama) with a fresh opportunity to promote their marxist agenda, this time replete with papal quotes.
Whether it’s “one area” or the “main theme” is irrelevant. He said it and we can analyze it.
Is it physically impossible for the Catholic church to elect a pope who ever says anything that's incorrect? Perhaps we should let them each write new testaments to the bible if we're so sure they speak for God.
The Pope’s Gospel message was almost 300 pages long. 99% of it was sharing the Word of God and how we can best serve our fellow man. Less than 1% mentioned economics, but of course that’s what the Catholic bashers want to concentrate on.
Pay no attention to those whose politics informs their religion rather than the other way around. The weed of heresy ALWAYS bears bitter fruit and you will note that virtually all of the anti-+Francis crowd are heretics of one stripe or another.
I understand what you are trying to compare here....but the question was whether or not one supports capitalism without ANY controls?
Is IS interesting, isn’t it....how the great wealth of good in this message is being ignored...often by those who most need to hear it.
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Ever heard of Catholic Charities? Ever heard of the Knights of Columbus?
Looking at your homepage on FR. Are you aware that John Wayne became a Catholic on his deathbed?
Have you read the entire exhortation?
If not, then how can you criticize, for you do not know what it really says and where it was mistranslated.
You have proven today what a hypocrite you are. You owe Rush an apology for gossiping.
Yeah, why smear capitalism as only working if people act in a moral fashion. What system works when people act immorally within it? Capitalism actually requires us to depend the least on the virtue of others, since the profit motive doesn’t require people to be generous to do stuff for you and competition filters the liars and lazy out of the lines of production.
You got it right! He has lied before and he will lie again when it suits his prerogative.
No it won't. This is why the early Pilgrims in America abandoned socialism for private property and free market capitalism. They were starving under socialism. Their morality never changed.
And John Wayne has a grandson who is now a priest.
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Capitalism has nothing to do with justice. You can lock people up for commiting murder, rape and theft under any economic system. If he’s using “justice” as the standard liberal code word for income redistribution, then that’s Exhibit A in Rush’s corner.
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