[SeekAndFind]

PAPA FRANCISCO PRIMERO

[Travis McGee]

Sounds about as good as we could have hoped for. I was waiting to hear that he was a Chavista.

[1010RD]

In as much as Marx meant “the free market” when he used the word “capitalist” there are no free market structures that disadvantage the poor. Actually, the free market places the poor at an advantage over any other market system.

The poor are the least likely to be able to influence or control government. Every move away from the free market is acutally anti-poor and pro-poverty. Innovation is the way to knock market leaders off their perch.

The economic forms that Catholic missionaries encountered in the 3rd world are all oligarchies and crony capitalism in which legalized theft is the norm. The poor, being without political, legal or market power are disadvantaged in highly regulated systems. They cannot “work the system”.

[goodwithagun]

Can he be Pope Francis I? Isn’t he Pope Francis?

[BfloGuy]

The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.”

I was afraid of that. He believes that goods are "distributed". They are earned. Big difference.

[Yardstick]

liberation theology — a branch of Catholic social thought which emphasizes the importance of reforming capitalist structures that disadvantage the poor

It's euphemistic phrasings like this that make me barf when I read papers like the WaPo.

[LucyT]

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