Pope Says Entrepreneurship Needed in Face of ‘Scandalous Poverty’

'The possession of goods is an opportunity to multiply them with creativity and use them with generosity,' the Pope said

Pope Francis spoke of the need for creative entrepreneurship in the face of “scandalous poverty” Wednesday, stressing the importance of generosity with one’s possessions.

“If there is hunger on earth, it is not because food is missing!” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square Nov. 7.

“What is lacking is a free and far-sighted entrepreneurship, which ensures adequate production, and a solidarity approach, which ensures fair distribution,” he continued.

“Possession is a responsibility,” Francis stressed. “The ownership of a good makes the one who owns it an ‘administrator of Providence.’”

“The possession of goods is an opportunity to multiply them with creativity and use them with generosity, and thus grow in love and freedom,” he said.

Quoting the catechism, Pope Francis said, “Man, using created goods, must consider the external things that he legitimately possesses, not only as his own, but also as common, in the sense that they can benefit not only him but also others.”

The pope’s remarks on entrepreneurship and ownership came during a reflection on the seventh commandment, “Thou shall not steal.” In recent months, Pope Francis has dedicated his weekly general audiences to a series of lessons and reflections on the Ten Commandments recorded in the scriptural books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.

There are grave problems with the Pope’s proposition, that wherever a person is hungry there is a moral imperative to redistribute food to that person.

Let’s say a person is hungry in a desert, so that it is costly to transport food to that person. It efficient to remove that person from that isolated place. Then, having relocated that person, if that person is of normal ability, that person should feed himself. There is a commandment that compels this: “Six days you shall labor and do all your work and on the seventh day you shall rest.” Both parts - the work part and the rest part - are commanded.

Historically, a person in a desert would recognize that remaining there would mean starvation, and would relocate to a place where it was possible to survive through work. This happened automatically. The problem was, until capitalism, people everywhere lived at merely the subsistence level. So, there was no difference between eking out a living on the periphery of a desert, or eking out a living in a jungle, or eking out a living among the urban or rural poor in civilization. Aside from a mere handful of princes, everybody lived at the subsistence level. Life expectancy was short. There were recurrent waves of death due to drought and starvation, to epidemics, to wars and other such causes. Life was often “nasty, brutish and short.” With capitalism, the economic circumstances of man have been so changed as to make stark the difference between the least well-off in modern economies and those who live in desolate places.

But, we can put a stop to the relocation of people from desolate places to places where they can live well, by setting up feeding stations in those desolate places. This way we can keep millions of our fellow human beings poor forever. This would be a hateful thing to say if the person saying it wasn’t a well-meaning but ignorant do-gooder.

The Pope should call for the establishment of the rule of law everywhere in the world, not for the distribution of the abundance that comes from the establishment of the rule of law to those places that - lacking the rule of law - have meager standards of living.

It appears that Commie Pope is trying to co-opt and redefine the word "entrepreneur" and "entrepreneurialism" from capitalism and adopt it in the Liberal/socialist/Marxist/postmodernist world.

Here's the Pope's new Liberal definition of "entrepreneurialism": "The possession of goods... [so as to] multiply them with creativity and use them with generosity." In other words, create property so the government can redistribute it.

When you watch the Left, you can see how they regularly change the meaning of words and bring them into their agenda.

Here they are taking entrepreneurialism.

In the Presidential presser on Wednesday, Yamiche Alcindor, WH correspondent from PBS, showed the President and the world the new meaning of the word "nationalist."

The President calls himself a "nationalist" to declare that he is a "patriot" and is for protecting our borders and, hence, our people. "Nationalist" as opposed to "globalist."

They have made that an ugly thing. They have co-opted that word and redefined it to mean "white nationalist" or "white supremacist" (i.e. "racist").

See what they are doing.

As George Orwell told us, "control the language and you can control the people."

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