Pope urges activists to struggle against 'structural causes' of poverty

Catholic News Service ^ | Oct. 28, 2014 | Francis X. Rocca

[daniel1212]

In Before FRoman Catholics Claim He Was Misquoted.

Or the Interpreter is misinterpreted by RCs who solve that problem by having a supreme Interpreter. Before they get to the caveats.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Deploring the displacement of his "brother peasants" from their "native soil," the pope warned that traditional rural life is at "risk of extinction."

Since when do leftists have any feeling other than pure hatred for rural people?

[cva66snipe]

Well for starters many third world nations are so or become so {like the U.S. is heading} for refusing to shake off tyranny and also allow a man to keep what he earns rather than redistribute half of what he makes among the masses. There's nothing wrong with making money or even being rich. It's when the means to obtain the riches {the love of money become greed and coveting etc comes in the way of mans relationship with GOD {IOW sinning to obtain} that it becomes morally wrong.

The United States taxpayers have likely spend close to Trillions of dollars both in form of government foreign aid and private charity including church missions to third world nations. Yet even after decades they refuse to change. We have one of the most generous welfare programs in the world. Look at Detroit, Chicago, etc and see what it wrought when government replaced work with welfare for those able to work. Look at what the Unions did to Detroit and our jobs nation wide. Thank them for jobs going overseas. Greed of thugs sitting in officers who never worked a day of labor in their life but extort corporate money. Is Pope going to attack Labor Unions? LOL

Mexico today could be like the U.S. Instead it is corrupt and a civil war is happening with drug cartels running the nation. The nations with Ebola outbreaks where vaccination, hygiene, and sanitation, {It takes all three working together} could eradicate many of their illnesses refuse to do for themselves. Culture dictates they avoid lifting themselves up and out. That is not the fault of the world.

Developers, love them or hate them create jobs which allow everyone from engineers to janitors to feed their families for their labor. The modern world as we know it would not exist with persons unwilling to risk their capitol for profit. In their early life late 1800's barons like Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and others had the talent to build empires which developed this nation. Some of them in their later years diversified much of their riches into charities & some did not. It was their choice as it should be.

How about the leader of the worlds largest church? How about church property holdings, art, etc worth fortunes? I remember visiting St Marks Cathedral in Venice. I remember seeing the gold and art. How about misinterpreted scriptures that cause married couple not to plan a reasonable size family they can afford to provide for? IOW why not allow basic birth control measures & still not allow abortion which is a completely different act all together. Lot's of things contribute to poverty including some churches dogma.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not sure what histories you read but in real life anyone who creates a "stable accommodations in small communities" generally gets overrun by the people who formed a raiding force.

It is always easier to take what someone else has made rather then make your own. That is why there are always more hyenas then lions.

It is not replete with people willingly failing to support themselves.

Does the phrase "Starvation Moon" mean anything to you?

[Louis Foxwell]

I can see we live on different sides of the track. Sorry we could not share more.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yes, I think we do.

Have a nice week.