[Salvation]

**It is the encounter between Jesus Christ and the rich tax collector Zacchaeus, as a result of which Zacchaeus made a radical decision of sharing and justice, because his conscience had been awakened by the gaze of Jesus. **

One of the prime examples of evangelization and conversion.

[rollo tomasi]

"...made a radical decision of sharing and justice..."

A tax collector who overcharge with the backing of Roman power repents and quits overcharging along with righteously giving back the money to the people he ripped off in the first place has what to do with government confiscation by gunpoint for redistribution purposes again?

The Pope or this "mistranslation" are being



I don't know if the Pope laid out specifics, but the vagueness of an issue of government redistribution and taxation is very complicated. If left undefined and vague, politicians can run wild over the bewildered Roman Catholics seeking to covet the wealth of others.