Posted on 12/05/2013 6:26:41 AM PST by NYer
Rush is 100% correct when it comes to matters of the media but he sometimes misses when it comes to individuals which is surprising because what we hear about an individual in the news is through the news and Rush knows the danger of relying on the news reports about anything.
I will have to study a bit where things have run amiss but one thing I know is that ‘capitalism’ is not equivalent to ‘greed’ and ‘love of money’; thus capitalism is not evil. Greed hiding behind capitalism is evil in much the same way that a pedophile hides behind priestly vestments.
I think Pope Francis is a very very intelligent man who is also very articulate so I will have to see the essence and spirit of which he wrote. But one thing is for sure, the bankers of today are not so regulated as they have been in the past and that has allowed greed to mix with capitalism. We call them banksters and they are indeed evil, hoarding trillions and doing nothing to help local economies with the power they have been granted which is the power to print and trade money and its derivatives.
So I would think Pope Francis is addressing the evil greed that has occupied the upper ranks of the world’s prime banks for which not one of them has been brought to justice for the incredibly huge heist they pulled off in the 2000s, to the sum of many many trillions.
The actions and behavior of these banksters did not constitute capitalism but greed taken to criminal theft. And I would expect that is what the Pope is addressing.
As for my respect of Rush, he is a treasure to the conservative movement and if anything he can be a little quick to pull the trigger on anything that smells of Marxism.
Catholic priests sometimes take the ‘vows of poverty’ a little too far. While there is no vice in humility and humble surroundings, there is plenty of it found in attitudes of sloth and stoic perspectives.
One of my admired priests is the Anglican Arch Bishop Nicholas of Ghana who exhorts his people to get out and work their butts off to create wealth and prosperity. In other words it’s OK to get rich and live rich, after Our Lord’s Parable of the Talents, we are not to kick back and let it ride, we are to profit and prosper. The Catholic Church could use a different perspective in this regard to encourage people to work and get rich and not just bestow itself with the riches of its members ‘for the Church’ but to actually teach people to fish, to get them a boat and show them how to navigate and facilitate bringing products to market that meet quality standards.
The Catholic Church is indeed often too far to the Left in its economic philosophy, and that should change. This maybe is why Rush jumped on this perhaps a little too quick.
He made 12 million illegals INSTANT citizens.
“Having attended as an auditor the 2012 Synod on the New Evangelization, whose work touched on many of the themes raised in this Apostolic Exhortation, I wholeheartedly welcome our Holy Father’s Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium as an important and timely contribution to the cause of the New Evangelization. Specifically, this exhortation shows us Pope Francis’ missionary spirit. It highlights his belief that the Gospel message and loving outreach of the Church are for everyone, that the Church must go outside itself and welcome those on the margins with love and healing in the spirit of Christ himself. Finally, it shows clearly the importance of the Marian dimension to the New Evangelization - calling her, again, the “Star of the New Evangelization.” If this document is embraced by the Church throughout the world, it could mark a key moment for a reinvigorated New Evangelization of our culture, which too often has forgotten the Good News of the Gospel, which is central to our faith”
~ Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
No he didn’t.
What does that have to do with the price of rice in China today?
Ronald Reagan hasn't been President for 24 year.
Well done and brilliant.
Can I roll my eyes yet?
I have absolutely no problem with John Paul II’s take, and I suspect Francis wouldn’t either. I wouldn’t have even before. Capitalism works best, if not ultimately only, when and where the players are on the same page ethically and morally. The problems arise where they’re not. And as far as consumerism, even MasterCard admits that there are some things money can’t buy.
“Not holding my breath but Limbaugh owes an apology to his audience.”
Limbaugh loves tossing verbal pipe bombs. Only time he ever apologizes is when an explosion scares off a bunch of advertisers, as with the whole Fluke-Slut thing. So long as Carbonite, Gold Bond foot powder and the rest stay put, Rush will revel in his new found Calvinism.
The Savior spoke for Himself…..and since Limbaugh has never claimed to do so, your snark is just empty fluff. Limbaugh was right about what the Pope said, and the Pope is just wrong wrong wrong about free enterprise.
Not a syllable of what you said makes any sense whatsoever…from pipe bomb to Cavlinism, you were trying to be too clever but you simply whiffed.
But that’s a problem with human nature, and not capitalism per se. Those same human nature dynamics work in crime, socialism ,communism, etc, and even more pronounced.
“Rush is right, though, that Capitalism has done the only decent job of lifting people up to a higher economic plane.
The rest of the “isms” are crashing failures”
Any economic “ism” will foster a nation’s prosperity, so long as that nation remains true to God’s word and supportive of His people. The Soviet Union and its satellites murdered millions of clergy and faithful. God doesn’t look kindly on that, and thus the USSR was doomed whether its economic policy was based on Marx or Hayek.
…so what?
72 is even worse than 68…….
Tony Alamo, is that you?
I don’t get him either and have lost all interest in him.
And Obama and socialists are taking Francis' comments as sanctioning their redistributive habits…..
Yes he does... and it is clear who and what that man is.
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