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 ...
Catholic Ping for the truth.
So Gov. Sarah Palin was right again?
anti capitalist
be tolorent of islamics
Wow what next?
Was this a statement or an encyclical?
How many more words will we hear “taken out of context”?
Seems to be the common phrase of many.
54. In this context, 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. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.
Vatican website http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html#No_to_an_economy_of_exclusion
How many times has an article come out purporting to speak for the Pope and we later find out we have been "misinformed"?
Francis isn’t the first pope to embrace leftist economics.
“Papal Promotion of Collective Ownership and Theft”
by Richard Bennett (former Roman Catholic priest) and Robert J. Nicholson
“The present pope, Benedict XVI, and his Vatican system teach that private property is not personal as such, but belongs to all people. His predecessor, Pope John Paul II stated, “Private property, in fact, is under a ‘social mortgage,’ which means that it has an intrinsically social function, based upon and justified precisely by the principle of the universal destination of goods.” The principle of “the universal destination of goods” is clearly observed in what the present pope endorses in the second part of his encyclical entitled “God is Love.” Benedict wholly sanctions the principle of the universal ownership of all goods embalmed in the writings of popes Leo XIII, Pius XI, John XXIII, Paul VI, and John Paul II. The phrase, “all goods,” includes not only the goods found in nature but manufactured goods as well. As John Paul II stated, “The vast majority of people can have access to those goods which are intended for common use: both the goods of nature and manufactured goods.’’Another Vatican Council II document upholds the same principle of the “universal ownership of all goods” and emphatically teaches, “If one is in extreme necessity, he has the right to procure for himself what he needs out of the riches of others.”
follow the link to read the rest (it opens a PDF):
http://www.bereanbeacon.org/assets/articles/sorted/01_On_Catholicism/Papal_Economics.pdf
This vid is from May:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p95yKudQjL4
Also worried me with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBN_w3IxDCI
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not ‘Catholic bashing’ at all. I just find the comments curious.
That remains to be seen..............
Maybe YOU thought so...
Liberation theology is garbage period...but Catholic liberation Theology and Black Liberation Theology are 2 completely different stupid things.
You thing so? I've found him disappointing from the start. Of course, that's probably just the contrast with Benedict XVI, whom a lot of us Orthodox felt was the best Pope of Rome since the Latins' schism from the Church in the 11th century.
Francis has mustered every leftist's favorite quote from St. John Chrysostom in support of his position, ignoring the critique of leveling the Golden-Mouth offered elsewhere:
“Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich person’s gold and distribute it among his destitute neighbors? Should we beg the emperor to impose a tax on the rich so great that it reduces them to the level of the poor and then to share the proceeds of that tax among everyone? Equality imposed by force would achieve nothing, and do much harm. Those who combined both cruel hearts and sharp minds would soon find ways of making themselves rich again.Worse still, the rich whose gold was taken away would feel bitter and resentful; while the poor who received the gold from the hands of soldiers would feel no gratitude, because no generosity would have prompted the gift. Far from bringing moral benefit to society, it would actually do moral harm. Material justice cannot be accomplished by compulsion, a change of heart will not follow. The only way to achieve true justice is to change people’s hearts first—and then they will joyfully share their wealth.”
--St. John Chrysostom in On Living Simply XLIII
Of course, had Francis left out the call to political leaders for "reform" there wouldn't really be anything to object to. Unfortunately he did not, and so there is.
When he was chosen, he reminded me of this movie and what Hollywood wanted from a Pope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60gxojYX5UU
Beautiful film, tho it is, I felt it had socialist undertones. JMO....as usual.
“The Pope will find the left become even more rabid about him embracing gays, women priests etc.”
At least Pelosi will continue to take communion too!
Do you have a link to that exact post?
No wonder conservatives have been leaving the Church in droves.
Its soveriegn so the buyers get to make their own laws
that has to be worth a lot
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