Posted on 10/28/2014 1:34:25 PM PDT by Gamecock
The Pope needs to take a long walk off a short pier.
So that part I agree with.
Truth is poverty is a planned product of corrupt government. It does not exist outside government control.
Pope urges activists to struggle against ‘structural causes’ of poverty
Interesting. One of the largest structural causes of poverty is the Democrat Party and there lock on the largest cities and their black communities.
He doesn’t seem to understand what causes, or corrects poverty.
and a shortage of respect for the person, his property, and an over-abundance of corrupt progressive governments.
Sacred rights? Really? Every one has a "right" to land, shelter, a job?
No wonder people conclude he's a commie.
Detailed Contents of Luke’s Sermon on the Plain:
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LUKE |
Matthew |
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Beatitudes: “Blessed are…” |
6:20-23 |
5:3-12 |
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Woes: “Woe to you who…” |
6:24-26 |
[ch. 23] |
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Love your enemies (do good, bless, pray) |
6:27-28 |
5:43-45 |
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“Turn the other cheek…” |
6:29-30 |
5:38-42 |
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Golden Rule: “Do unto others…” |
6:31 |
7:12 |
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“If you love only those…” |
6:32-34 |
5:46-47 |
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Love your enemies (repeated) |
6:35 |
x |
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Be merciful… as God is |
6:36 |
5:48 |
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Do not judge/condemn (cf. Mk 4:24) |
6:37-38 |
7:1-2; 12:36-37 |
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Can the blind lead the blind? |
6:39 |
15:14 |
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Disciples aren’t above teachers (cf. Jn 13:16) |
6:40 |
10:24-25a |
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Parable of specks and planks |
6:41-42 |
7:3-5 |
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Trees with good or bad fruit |
6:43-44 |
7:15-20; 12:33 |
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Good/evil people produce good/evil |
6:45 |
12:34-35 |
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Don’t just call out, “Lord, Lord” |
6:46 |
7:21-23 |
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Parable of two houses |
6:47-49 |
7:24-27 |
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Conclusion/Transition |
7:1 |
7:28-29; 8:1 |
Dear Pope Francis, you will find that the main structural cause of poverty is Marxism and your Holiness will find the misery promoted and well established in the Latin American countries where the seeds of that perverse ideology (as portray by H.H. Pius XI) was planted mainly by Jesuits and Maryknolls disguised under the cover of the “liberation theology”, an Orwellian misrepresentation of the Gospels.
But when you live in a country where 95% of the people are improving themselves and you're not, the only "structural" problem is your own structure.
In speaking to a meeting at the Vatican on the theme "Investing in the Poor," which was organized, in part, by the University of Notre Dame, the pope said:
Representatives of the Roman Curia have joined you in these days of study aimed at assessing innovative forms of investment which can benefit local communities and the environment, as well as providing a reasonable return.
The logic underlying these innovative forms of intervention is one which "acknowledges the ultimate connection between profit and solidarity, the virtuous circle existing between profit and gift … Christians are called to rediscover, experience and proclaim to all this precious and primordial unity between profit and solidarity. How much the contemporary world needs to rediscover this beautiful truth!" (Preface to the book of Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Povera per i poveri. La missione della Chiesa ["Poor for the Poor." The Mission of the Church]). We are truly in need of this!
Here the pope quoted Gerhard Ludwig Müller, a pupil and friend of Gustavo Gutiérrez, the “father” of Latin-American liberation theology. [On] a visit to Peru in 1988, when the then Archbishop Müller met Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez OP, regarded as the father of the movement, convinced the him of its orthodoxy. “Liberation theology wants to make God’s liberating actions visible in the Church’s religious and social practice ... It would stop being genuine theology if it were to confuse the Christian message with Marxist or other social analysis,” he explained. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller#Peter_Kramer_controversy
And from Benedict XVI
ENCYCLICAL LETTER CARITAS IN VERITATE 67. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority,...
Furthermore, such an authority would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights. Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties,...
The integral development of peoples and international cooperation require the establishment of a greater degree of international ordering, marked by subsidiarity*, for the management of globalization. They also require the construction of a social order that at last conforms to the moral order, to the interconnection between moral and social spheres, and to the link between politics and the economic and civil spheres, as envisaged by the Charter of the United Nations.” *http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders said it was the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay. Governments are obligated, therefore, to adopt the proper legislative, administrative and financial measures to provide such care along with other basic conditions that promote good health, such as food security, water and housing, the cardinal said. - http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1004736.htm
The cancer of Marxism with its sequel of misery, oppression and totalitarianism is spreading like wildfire in Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Argentina following Cuba’s example and leadership becoming in de facto lackeys of the Cuban genocide regime. Did Pope Francis ever condemn the daily brutal violations of human rights in Cuba and Venezuela? Has the Pope expressed his solidarity with their struggle for freedom? Did Pope Francis demand that those oppressive regimes stop trampling on the “human dignity” of the Cuban and Venezuelan people. The fact that Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, and a Cuban lackey, was recognized by the Pope as a paradigm of the struggle against poverty in Latin America denotes his delusion and pro-Marxist bias.
Incorrect.
Find poverty unaffected by government intrusion.
Matthew 26:11
No government. Rampant poverty.
In fact through out history despite places having little or no government there was rampant poverty.
Poverty is the natural state of the majority of people. Prosperity is the exception.
Using Scripture on FRoman Catholics is like trying to catch a greased pig.
I read history very differently. Left to their own devices people will create stable accommodations in small communities. There are, of course, famines but they normally occur under some kind of brutal dictatorship. Disease is a different matter.
Humans seek to avoid hunger and deprivation. It occurs when some humans determine that subjugation by force (the very definition of government) will alleviate their own need to work for a living. History is replete with atrocity. It is not replete with people willingly failing to support themselves. The earth is bountiful, fully capable of providing for those willing to hunt, till and weave.
Samalian poverty is a function of government corruption. It is not the lack of government that has produced famine. It is the corruption of those in charge who took needed resources for themselves and deliberately starved their countrymen.
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