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The Pope Occupies Wall Street
FrontPageMag.com ^ | 10/28/2011 | Benjamin Shapiro

Posted on 11/08/2011 4:35:46 PM PST by fwdude

On Monday, the Vatican called for creation of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to regulate the world’s financial institutions. As Reuters reported, “The document from the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department should please the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn.”

The Vatican got very specific in its recommendations. It condemned the “idolatry of the market” and called for global wealth redistribution, asking nations of the world to participate in an “ethic of solidarity.” In a passage that could have been ripped from Marx, the Vatican stated, “If no solutions are found to the various problems of injustice, the negative effects that will follow on the social, political and economic level will be destined to create a climate of growing hostility and even violence, and ultimately undermine the very foundation of democratic institutions, even the ones considered most solid.”

This is wrongheaded in the extreme. By impoverishing the middle and upper class in order to press for greater “fairness,” the socialism implicitly supported by this document pushes a utopia of equality in poverty.

But the Vatican’s call for a “central world bank” is telling. It shows where countries that want to cut the U.S. down to size are putting their efforts – into multilateral financial schemes.

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bravosierra; catholocism; ows; pope; refutednonsense
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Unconscionable.
1 posted on 11/08/2011 4:35:49 PM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

If true, I am embarrassed as a Catholic.


2 posted on 11/08/2011 4:37:28 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: fwdude

Who knew? Catholic = Socialist? I sure didn’t!


3 posted on 11/08/2011 4:39:42 PM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: fwdude

So Catholicism is now the official religion of the New World Order? /slight sarc


4 posted on 11/08/2011 4:40:11 PM PST by Hugin ("Most time a man'll tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear"--Open Range)
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To: fwdude

Great move, Pope. Guess you never read Revelations, ya putz. Small wonder Catholicism is dying around the world.


5 posted on 11/08/2011 4:41:49 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: RightOnline

I think you might want to look into this:

1) The document is not from the Pope, nor was it issued by the Vatican as a Vatican document.

2) The Catholic faith is actually growing, not dying.

http://theamericano.com/2010/02/22/catholicism-growing-in-the-u-s-and-worldwide/


6 posted on 11/08/2011 4:45:07 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: DH

And you still don’t.


7 posted on 11/08/2011 4:45:45 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: yldstrk

Don’t be. This was not an official statement of the Vatican. It’s essentially meaningless.

Many of the posters here at FR are simply too stupid to know that.


8 posted on 11/08/2011 4:46:50 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: fwdude

It is - because the article is essentially a lie.


9 posted on 11/08/2011 4:47:29 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

When are you expecting the Pope to disown, and thereby, negate the announcement?


10 posted on 11/08/2011 4:50:02 PM PST by sklar
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To: RightOnline

yeah a little eerie isn’t it....


11 posted on 11/08/2011 4:50:54 PM PST by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: vladimir998
Do you believe the Pope is aware of this announcement?

If so, do you believe the Pope disagrees with the announcement?

If so, why doesn't the Pope publicly declare that the announcement doesn't represent The Official Catholic Church's position?

12 posted on 11/08/2011 4:54:16 PM PST by sklar
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To: fwdude

I think the Catholic Church is the beast of Revelations


13 posted on 11/08/2011 4:54:31 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: vladimir998
"And you still don’t."

I have no doubt that a signficant part of the Vatican bureaucracy has, at a minimum, socialist leanings. Most of them are, after all, European, and educated in European universities, which are heavily infested with "socialist-think". Does that mean the Church is socialist....no....but the aroma does occasionally break loose from its bowels.

14 posted on 11/08/2011 4:54:50 PM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: vladimir998

It came out of the Vatican Justice Dept & its not official? Cry me a river. Why don’t you stand up for what your religious leaders are doing instead of trying to cover up for them?


15 posted on 11/08/2011 4:56:14 PM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: GeronL
I have yet had anyone conclusively associate the Catholic Church to Esau. The fight has always been between Jacob & Esau and it will end with Jacob & Esau, just as the Tanakh prophesies.
16 posted on 11/08/2011 4:58:13 PM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: patlin

All that can be said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibWqDWGcBM


17 posted on 11/08/2011 5:02:09 PM PST by sayuncledave (et Verbum caro factum est (And the Word was made flesh))
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To: vladimir998

Thank God.


18 posted on 11/08/2011 5:05:10 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: sklar

You wrote:

“Do you believe the Pope is aware of this announcement?”

Now? Yes, it was issued days ago, so he knows about it now. Did he know about it before it was issued? I don’t know. And neither do you.

“If so, do you believe the Pope disagrees with the announcement?”

I don’t know what the pope agrees with or doesn’t. I do know this is not an official Vatican document representing the official teaching of the Church in itself.

“If so, why doesn’t the Pope publicly declare that the announcement doesn’t represent The Official Catholic Church’s position?”

Since that is already the case, why would he have to say it? Essentially, what you are saying is this: “Because there are people too dumb to know how the Vatican works, the pope should make clear what they are too stupid to know.”


19 posted on 11/08/2011 5:05:22 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: GeronL

You are prejudiced by the garbage you heard in whateer “Protestant” church yo attend. They probably told you there are dungeons in convents too.


20 posted on 11/08/2011 5:06:29 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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