"Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."(Mother Teresa)
Mother Teresa made this statement while addressing The National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C.,February 3, 1994.
I've read most of this thread and if you've gotten to my comment there may be hope for you.
I think His Holiness was somewhat addressing today's Gospel which is the parable of the rich man who walked past Lazarus everyday and never helped him. Many rich countries, not necessarily this one, don't help others at all. There is a great disparity, but that is more determined by personal choices than not.
This pope has NEVER advocated socialism and in fact comdemns it in the Catechism that bears his name, even if the clergy and a lot of laity don't want that to be. That's not his point.
It has also been determined that if all the art and property in the Church's care were to be sold, the money would feed the world for three days. Then what? All that art would be in private collections and not part of any trust to God's people, as it is now.
Sometimes the answer is not as simple as black and white. Pope John Paul II is the most misquoted and misunderstood man on earth. I believe this to be more of the same.