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To: NYer

Well he says he isn’t a Capitalist...so then he’s socialist, Marxist or some other economical-whacko group. Too bad he can’t stick to being a Christian...you would think that would be enough for a Pope.


24 posted on 12/15/2013 10:19:57 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (...and to the Republic for which it stood.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Catholic church doctrine is to reject socialism and lassiez faire capitalism. The position has been called distributism, most famously by G.K. Chesterton (The Man Who Was Thursday, Father Brown stories) and Hilaire Belloc (The Servile State), and more recently by E.F. Schumacher (Small is Beautiful) and Kirkpatrick Sale (Human Scale).

Many conservatives would, I believe, see distributism as an authentic capitalist economic system.

I do not consider myself distributist, but I have been influenced by distributist thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism


39 posted on 12/15/2013 11:10:37 AM PST by oblomov
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

“socialist, Marxist or some other economical-whacko group”

Socialists and Marxist are athiests. So are you calling the Pope an athiest?


58 posted on 12/15/2013 2:08:01 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("God never tires of forgiving us, we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy" - Pope Francis)
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