Having said that, I love this line:
Friend, you are a socialist and your friends are socialists. And you are the reason for 70 years of misery in Russia and Europe now is seizing in pain from your policies. You believe in the redistribution of wealth and it makes entire populations poor. You want to nationalize everything and bring every human endeavor under your control. You destroy a man’s incentive to take care of his very own family, a crime against nature and nature’s God. You want social control over populations and incrementally you are making everything against the law. Together this ideology creates more poverty today than all the corporations you vilify have in the history of man....People being dominated by socialists need to know we don’t all have to be poor. Some poverty is part of our being cast out of the Garden of Eden. But look at the empire of dependency created by Hugo Chavez. Promising them, tricking them into worship of government and his very own person. Giving them fish but not allowing them to fish. If a fisherman does develop a talent today in Latin America; he is castigated and his catch stolen by the socialists. He stops…
I would dearly LOVE to have this interview authenticated...
If it is authentic, then Pope Francis has been listening to Rush! (Some of Rush’s catch phrases, such as “Low-Information Voters” are uttered by the the Cardinal in this interview.) Even so, it was a fun read!
ping babay!
“low information voter”
Makes me think it is a fake interview.
An excellent interview with Pope Francis before he was elected. worth reading in its entirity,
[Cardinal Bergolio to Reporter] — Friend, you are a socialist and your friends are socialists. And you are the reason for 70 years of misery in Russia and Europe now is seizing in pain from your policies. You believe in the redistribution of wealth and it makes entire populations poor. You want to nationalize everything and bring every human endeavor under your control. You destroy a man’s incentive to take care of his very own family, a crime against nature and nature’s God.
When I read the link was pulled - I decided it was for real.
It sounds like Him to me. I read somewhere, I think it was a Raymond Arroyo email containing a quote from somewhere - that Cardinal Bergoglio is known to be an ___-kicking kind of guy.
I got very skeptical after I saw the expression “low information voters” in the Cardinal’s quote.
The Pope preserved from the possibility of error? Has he read much history?
Don’t hold your breath waiting to learn the source of this fictitious interview. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope-francis-socialism-causes-misery.html
For fact-checkable information concerning Pope Francis’ economic and political views, please explore:
Pax on both houses: Pope Francis: “Free Markets Are Tyrannical ...
paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../pope-francis-i-criticizes-capitalist....4 days ago – In his first tweet after his inauguration on the @Pontifex account, Pope Francis said: “Let us keep a place for Christ in our lives, let us care for ...
Pax on both houses: Pope Francis and Social Sin
paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../pope-francis-i-and-social-sin.html5 days ago – Although Pope Francis is a conservative fellow, his Latin American upbringing forces recognition of social sin whose structure is responsible for ...
Pax on both houses: Pope Francis: “Mercy makes the world... more ...
paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../pope-francis-mercy-makes-world-...7 days ago – In his address from the balcony above St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, March 17, 2013, Pope Francis told the crowd that he wanted to talk about ...
Pax on both houses: Pope Francis’ First Papal Decision: “Carnival ...
paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../pope-francis-first-papal-decision.h...Mar 16, 2013 – Former cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio travelling on Buenos Aires subway in 2008 Pope Francis was known to use public transport in Buenos ...
Pax on both houses: Pope Francis: Comments On Economic Inequality
paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../pope-francis-comments-on-econo...Mar 16, 2013 – Pax on both houses. The best is ... Pope Francis: Comments On Economic Inequality ... Pope Francis Criticizes Capitalist World’s “Econom.
Pax on both houses: Pope Francis Set To Oppose...
paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../pope-frances-seems-set-to-oppose....Mar 17, 2013 – “When you pick up a volume of the social teaching of the Church you are amazed at what it condemns. For example, it condemns economic ...
Pax on both houses: Pope Francis and the junta: What really ...
paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../pope-francis-and-junta-what-reall...Mar 16, 2013 – In this 1966 photo released by the El Salvador School, Argentine seminarian Jorge Mario Bergoglio smiles for a portrait at the El Salvador ...
Pax on both houses: “Francis, a pope of the poor,” E.J. Dionne
paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../francis-pope-of-poor-ej-dionne.ht...Mar 14, 2013 – In winning election as Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio defied the papal pundits, even though they should have seen him coming. His rise ...
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How does an interview “not work out” - it is what it is.
What he really meant was he could not get the Pope to say what he wanted him to say
It can’t be real. He would never have used the phrase “low-information voter.” Pity.
Almost every line of this makes it clear, this thing is false, and the person who wrote is a moron.