Social Justice: “We’re telling you to do what we say Jesus said and having the government make sure you do it.” -TZ
Posted on 11/27/2013 3:29:16 PM PST by navysealdad
In a far-ranging 50,000 word statement released by Pope Francis on Tuesday, he illustrated that he is sympathetic to the tenets of liberation theology and hostile to capitalism.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Social Justice: “We’re telling you to do what we say Jesus said and having the government make sure you do it.” -TZ
“...some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”
This is very likely a case of a poor translation or they are taking Pope Francis’ words out of context.
“...they are taking Pope Francis’ words out of context.”
Yeah, but that’s what we keep hearing about this guy.
Not content with socalism within countries it sounds like he wants socialism across countries. I am not surprised. Latin america is full of socialists.
Hotshot parishioner: “That was a damned fine sermon Father! I thought you really kicked a**!”
Father Murphy: “Well, really, I appreciate your enthusiasm but I can’t say that I care for, um, you see, the words are a little ... “
HP: “In fact I liked it so damned much, I just put a check for five grand in the plate!”
FM: “No s***?”
This is the posting I’ve been waiting for. Rush Limbaugh railed on it in his first and second hour. Then receieved a message it was miss-interpredted.
How much do you think the Vatican is worth? Maybe he should sell it off and redistribute it to the worlds poor??
“It is not our own goods which we hold, but theirs”
Caesar=====Caesar.......God=======God.
Why should we bother to read all 50,000 words when the excerpt is full of socialist claptrap? I don’t need to dig all the way to the bottom of a dunghill to guess that it’s crap all the way down.
Chances are the 50,000 words were translated (as much as they cared/dared) by the liberal media to create friction?
The proof is the success of the USA itself.
What ELSE is Pope Francis ignorant of?...
I mean if the Pope does not know capitalism makes peoples lives better and socialism makes peoples live WORSE...
WHat else does he NOT know about?..
Francis is a fraud.
“We need to be convinced that charity “is the principle not only of micro-relationships (with friends, with family members or within small groups) but also of macro-relationships (social, economic and political ones)”-
I have spent a lot of time defending what this Pope says because a lot of it sounds like the Church I grew up in - part of which was to love they neighbor and help the poor - out of our own pockets. I have to disagree with him on this point though - charity is not the job of government - the job of government is to create the conditions by which people are then free to pursue happiness (to the greater extent unimpinged).
I tend to agree with him that what we call free markets have become tyrannical - not because they are free however but because they are far from it and are manipulated by people with more wealth and influence than we can ever even contemplate. It’s funny but those same people, the rich ones, once they become rich tend to display left leanings but they are more about control than any sort of altruistic notions and the last thing they want is a free market when they can manipulate them and not risk losses.
Mel
**POPE FRANCIS ATTACKS CAPITALISM, CALLS FOR STATE CONTROL**
This is a false headline. He calls for all to stand abortion and for the poor.
Have mercy.
I can’t believe that someone at Breitbart is this much of a liberal.
Which is why there was a Reformation to throw off the suffocating yoke of the Roman Catholic Church .
It would appear the new Pope is calling for a counter Reformation
I’ve been reading it. It is far too easy to make global judgements from selected sections. The Breitbart article is pretty much a drive-by piece.
One thing that strikes me as I read, more than anything else, is the huge departure in depth and scholarship from Francis’ two predecessors -Sort of disappointing.
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