Posted on 11/27/2013 5:59:31 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
Economics: It seems the official position of Pope Francis is that the free market is a wicked enemy that must be restrained. With all due respect, he's mistaken. The free market has been a heavenly blessing. Two days before our American Thanksgiving, the Argentinian pontiff, in his first apostolic exhortation, called the free market a "new tyranny." "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," he wrote in the Vatican report. Claims of free-market success, he said, have "never been confirmed by the facts." He went on to condemn "a financial system which rules rather than serves." Actually, no economic system has brought more prosperity to more people than free-market capitalism. Neither socialism nor communism has increased prosperity, and are themselves ruled by tyrants.
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Where did all that gold in the Vatican come from? Was it donations from those who earned it and contributed faithfully, or did you just take it?
socialism is what creates poverty
I’ve had a sinking suspicion we’d get a Liberation Theologist (to wit, socialist) Pope if he came from SA.
The Church longs for the days of Innocent III and feudalism.
Francis is "Peter the Roman" !
The man only has one lung. I hoped that would limit his ability to say stupid stuff. Apparently not, unfortunately.
CEW - I read this the other day and Rush talked at length about it today...either the Pope is nothing but a 6-figure university professor parallel who is stuck in a bubble of make believe or he really is a hard core Marxist who thinks all should have equal share of the pie no matter their workload, input or otherwise...or, do you think the Pope’s speech was purposely mistranslated by Marxists?
My niece is a Catholic. She believes Francis is evil.
I am not a Catholic, but my feeling is that this guy talks too much. So much that what he says has no meaning or importance. He should not be into politics. Just matters of faith.
Bring back the other real pope.
Wouldn't be the first time.
If so, then a bunch of other stuff he has said was mistranslated as well. It becomes less and less believable that nearly EVERYTHING this clown says is mistranslated — especially considering how seldom Benedict was subject to this kind of “mistranslation” by comparison.
Actually, I don’t know what Pope Francis actually said, but I suspect they got this from Rush, who seems to have gotten it from an MSM report. I’d like to see what the document actually says—and not out of context.
FWIW, when he was a bishop in South America, Pope Francis was famous for OPPOSING Liberation Theology and socialist politicians. That doesn’t mean he’s a total capitalist, but on the record he is not a Liberation Theologist.
Perhaps we’d better wait for a better look at what he said. He has been misrepresented about a hundred times by the press since taking office.
Oy vey. They’ll be more correct on economics than he. Plus I’ve skimmed the document and scrunched over para s 52. - 56.
Awful
I’ve just about had it with Pope Frankie.
Hot cocoa, anyone?
This Pope should be introduced to Ayn Rand’s brilliant thinking. A little dose of “Atlas Shrugged” would be good for him.
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. - Montesquieu
“do you think the Pope’s speech was purposely mistranslated by Marxists?”
Hmmm...translation done by the Vatican. That makes it kind of hard to blame anyone but the Vatican.
I’d like to know what Bergoglio was up to during Argentina’s “Dirty War.”
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