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To: newheart
"It’s clear, though, that he wasn’t calling for widespread and massive confiscation of wealth by governments."

Well, OK, he did not use the words "massive" or "widespread", but he did call for states to redistribute the wealth of their people, according to some concept of legitimacy:

"A contribution to this equitable development will also be made both by international activity aimed at the integral human development of all the world’s peoples and by the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the State, as well as indispensable cooperation between the private sector and civil society."

31 posted on 05/09/2014 8:43:15 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I sooooo miss America!)
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To: Mr Rogers

“by the State”

ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS MEANS

“at gunpoint”.


34 posted on 05/09/2014 8:45:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Mr Rogers

You are right, as Morrissey also points out, that the debate hinges on the term “legitimate.” If we assume that the State ought to play absolutely no role in the distribution of social benefits, then we would do just as well to have no government at all. As tempting as that sounds, the result would be chaos. The Pope is not some closeted Marxist and is willing to speak to the flaws in the economic systems of both the Left and the Right.


38 posted on 05/09/2014 9:07:54 AM PDT by newheart (The greatest trick the Left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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