To: Antoninus
Remember, the Pope is the shepherd for millions of poor Africans, Indians, Latin Americans and Philipinos--not just rich Americans." Then he would do well to tell these people to follow America's example of individual liberty, hard work, and free-market capitalism...not condemn them to perpetual poverty through outdated, collectivist fallacies.
86 posted on
07/07/2009 11:14:01 AM PDT by
americanophile
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To: americanophile
...That’s why Popes are almost always off on this stuff. They’re Europeans. Americans (well, until recently) surpassed everyone in economic practice.
101 posted on
07/07/2009 11:20:06 AM PDT by
SMCC1
To: americanophile
Then he would do well to tell these people to follow America's example of individual liberty, hard work, and free-market capitalism.
Where does the Pope condemn any of these things in his encyclical above?
not condemn them to perpetual poverty through outdated, collectivist fallacies.
What is described in this encyclical is not collectivist communism so much as distributism. There is a big difference. Look it up.
122 posted on
07/07/2009 11:33:23 AM PDT by
Antoninus
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