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Cardinal Bergoglio said the challenge to eradicate poverty could not be truthfully met as long as the poor continue to be dependents of the State. The government and other organizations should instead work to create the social conditions that will promote and protect the rights of the poor and enable them to be the builders of their own future, he explained.

The problem of debt and social justice must be of concern to every sector of society, he added, including leaders in government, politics, finance, business, agriculture, industry, unions, the Church and other social organizations.

Not Liberation Theology; but rather a restructuring to allow more opportunity for the working poor? Hard to tell from what I've been able to find thus far.

1 posted on 03/14/2013 6:19:02 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
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To intentionally cause extreme poverty among people or to deliberately keep them there is indeed a violation of human rights. When their own behavior causes or keeps them impoverished, it is not.

The progressive left’s problem is that (1) their policies cause the violations and (2) they don’t recognize the difference.


88 posted on 03/14/2013 1:28:40 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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