He wasn’t taken out of context and he’s not a Marxist. He’s the Pope (as was said upthread). The job of Pope is to lead people in the faith, not devise the best economic system.
It’s become clear to me now his economic ideas and mine differ, and that’s ok. The charism of infallibility has absolutely nothing to do with economics. A Pope can be wrong about anything he says really (even matters of faith and morals); the charism must be clarified and stated in a very specific way to be applied to any statement he makes. This is why many do not believe “ex cathedra” has been witnessed very often in the history of the Church.
So, now, all we (anyone) has here to disagree, or lambaste if that is one’s desire, the Pope with is his apparent affection for some people who are Marxists.
Big whoop. Again, he’s the Pope. He can’t show affection for people he knows personally who are Marxist, when taking about Marxism?
Maybe he’s friends with such people because he’s trying to share his witness of Christ with them. Anyone here think of that possibility?
After all, Christ associated with the sick too, not the healthy.
Can we (FR) move on now? Or are we going to try to continue to look for a Papal Marxist Boogyman in every interview/exhortation/encyclical he offers?
He is the one who made comments about his economic beliefs, and did so as Pope…and now our Marxist President has glomed onto those comments as his talking points. I’m sorry, but that horse done left the barn. I wish he’d never said any of this, but he did, and it’s out there, and it’s now fodder for the Obama spin machine on income inequality and all of the rest of the redistributionist program. Sorry, that’s a fact.
BUT No, he’s not a marxist for sure, but he has bought into some marxist ideas about free markets and free enterprise. I don’t think anyone said anything more than that, and I do not think that is possibly out of context. He really does think free enterprise is all about greed, and must be regulated by some kind of angels of power, I presume government. There’s a name for that, and it ain’t free enterprise…….