Wow! He needs to come out with a book, "The Audacity of Pope."
To be fair to His Holiness, “dung of the devil” refers to the “unfettered pursuit of money” rather than “unfettered capitalism”.
Capitalism does not advocate “unfettered pursuit of money”. For example, it proscribes fraud and coercion in the pursuit of money.
However, the braindead in the progressive movement and the MSM are incapable of making such distinctions.
Unfortunately, His Holiness also seems incapable of making such distinctions. In all likelihood, he actually did mean this as an assault on capitalism.
Here’s the “dung of the devil” quote in context:
Today, the scientific community realizes what the poor have long told us: harm, perhaps irreversible harm, is being done to the ecosystem. The earth, entire peoples and individual persons are being brutally punished. And behind all this pain, death and destruction there is the stench of what Basil of Caesarea called “the dung of the devil”. An unfettered pursuit of money rules. The service of the common good is left behind. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people’s decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and, as we clearly see, it even puts at risk our common home.
The “dung of the devil” part is less offensive than the explicit statement that, when used to guide decisions, capital destroys ruins human society, etc. That is just arrant nonsense.
Under capitalism Christianity lives.
Under the Popes favored socialism and communism, Christianity fades away under constant persecution. Is he taking a page out of Obama’s playbook??
I’m sure his remarks were just misinterpreted by the press < /sarcasm>
Capitalism the cause of climate change? Really? How did someone this stupid get to be pope? Gravity the cause of unicorn farts I could respect but this is psychotically delusional.
Right. In what other system do people reap rewards for their contributions to society, with the result that the more they contribute, the more they receive?
Capitalism, simplified: From each according to his ability, to each according to his contribution.
I’m glad I don’t have a pope.
This idiot pope is to Christianity, is what Eric Holder is to Justice
Communist. He needs to pass out the riches at once.
World leaders will use the Pope’s position to hijack the world and push the ‘new world order’.
He’s ticking me off.
The stupidest of all stupid clichés is that “the Pope should sell all the Michelangelos and give the money to the poor.”
Who would buy them? A tiny handful of billionaires.
(The Michelangelos would then no longer be in one place, accessible to the public, as they are in the Vatican.)
Then the same stupid cliché-mongers would start up again: “Mr. Getty, Mr. Trump, Mr. Soros, Mr. Slim, etc., should sell the Michelangelos and give the money to the poor.”
And who would buy them? Some other billionaires, ad infinitum. Each time some billionaire buys a Michelangelo, the cry would start again: “Mr. Gotrocks should sell these treasures, and give the money to the poor, blah blah blah...”
The ONLY way the cliché-mongers will be happy is if somebody SMASHES all the sculptures and burns all the paintings, and tears down the Sistine Chapel and St. Peters, etc., etc.
Socialism and progressive politics is ALWAYS number 1. It is the alpha omega of socialists. There can never be a higher power than the state as long as they think ‘they’ will be in charge. Religion and all that God stuff... That’s just a handy tool with which to use to further progressivism. You think all those socialists really believe, or even understand the context of “My brother’s Keeper?”
Vatican city has very rich buildings and a bank to boot. The pope is the pot calling the kettle black.
Sounds just like all the other witch doctors and shamans who excoriate human freedom.
They can’t fill the churches.
The new revenue stream for Catholic Charities here in the U.S. is siphoning money off the cities, school districts in particular. Catholic Charities fines good minded people, often newly graduated social works, employees them to serve in city schools. They pay a pitense, like $18k. Then turn around and bill the city $33-$35k.
I know someone that was involved in this. They were making peanuts and only found out through a find in the school administration how Catholic Charities was profiting. Needless to say they became disalusioned.
This person also recounted what it took to get a 30 dollar print cartridge out of Catholic Charities. Basically, they were told something was wrong with them if they were using so much ink. That 30 dollars was cutting into Catholic Charities profits.
Further, this person was seeking a license in Social Work and that required an annual review and a couple semi annual reviews. Maybe three hours sitting down with her supervisor per year, no big deal right? WRONG! Catholic Charities could not be bothered helping this person in their career path. Why would they, the person my get the license and ask for more money or leave.
The entire racket is disgusting.
This is the new business model for the Catholic Church, if they can usher in global governance...and this Pope is pushing hard for it...they are sitting pretty to siphon enormous sums of money off the top for so-called charity work.
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