Posted on 06/24/2015 4:43:46 AM PDT by expat_panama
ROME— Pope Francis in his much-awaited encyclical on the environment offered a broad and uncompromising indictment of the global market economy, accusing it of plundering the Earth at the expense of the poor and of future generations.
In passionate language, the pontiff attributed global warming to human activity, blamed special interests for holding back policy responses and said the global North owes the South “an ecological debt.”
The 183-page document, which Pope Francis addresses to “every person living on this planet,” includes pointed critiques of globalization and consumerism,...
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“Economic powers continue to justify the current global system where priority tends to be given to speculation and the pursuit of financial gain,” he writes. “As a result, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of the deified market, which become the only rule.”
The Vatican published the document, titled “Laudato Si” (“Be praised”), on Thursday. The official release came three days after the online publication of a leaked version by an Italian magazine.
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The encyclical had been of enormous advance interest, especially after Pope Francis said he hoped it would make a contribution to an international environmental summit this autumn. Several oil companies offered their input to the Vatican office tasked with drafting the document.
Samuel Gregg, a Catholic who serves as director of research for the Acton Institute, a conservative ecumenical think tank that advocates for a free market, took exception to the pope’s economic premises, saying Pope Francis has “significant blind spots” with regard to market economies.
“When you read through the text, you find the free market, and finance in particular, is identified more or less as responsible for many environmental problems,” Dr. Gregg said. “It’s almost a subterranean theme of the encyclical.…In many respects, it’s a caricature of market economies.”
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Sede vacante
Just because an old priest in a dress says it is, DOESN”T MAKE IT SO!
This Marxist is an absolute embarassment to Catholicism and Catholics, though some of them may not realize it.
Bert, you are full of crap.
Perhaps we need a free market for Popes and then we could at the vary least price them appropriately.
Marx’s ideas are evil.
Why is this guy so attracted them?
>>Wait till the Marxists take over....the first thing to go? The Church
There’s the Created Thing that Jesuits/Marxists call “The Church” - and then there’s the body of Christ.
They are not the same thing.
>>Marx’s ideas are evil.
>>Why is this guy so attracted them?
Because it was Jesuits like Francis who gave Marx “his” ideas?
http://www.marxist.com/the-jesuit-pope-who-is-francis-and-who-he-pretends-to-be.htm
http://www.google.com/#q=Marx+Jesuits
I was shocked at how brazenly political the encyclical was. It went far beyond a well-intentioned clergyman buying into bad science, or even standard Argentinian boilerplate screeds against free market capitalism. This thing reads like it was written in an OWS encampment.
Not to mention turn off the AC, and pull all the Swiss Guards.
I get an envelope every month marked “Second Collection to Defray Heating and Air Conditioning Costs”. LOL!
What bothers me most is that the Pope should have just one focus at this time. That would be to stop the slaughter of Christians and other minorities.
>>like it was written in an OWS encampment.
Or a Jesuit Reduction (commune) in Paraguay, perhaps?
http://www.google.com/#q=Jesuit+Reductions+Paraguay
Holy asshole batman!
“If the Pope would sell off all the Vatican City assets, and donate them to the poor, wouldn’t the poor be better off? Maybe he should do this first, then he would have the moral high ground to criticize y .”
Here we go again with such nonsense. Exactly who would buy the Vatican’s library of priceless book, and who would be good stewards of such treasure?
There are enough good arguments against PF’s critique of free markets without resorting to tired old anti-Catholic drivel, The treasures of the Vatican are not for sale. In reality they belong to the human race, especially the Western world.
So when pope F. meets and greets the bigwig globalists at the various world summits, will he upbraid them or even mildly criticize them for their over the top conspicuous consumption and enormous carbon footprints?
once again...my late uncle was a Jesuit, and anything but a Communist. Apparently many of his compatriots were though.
Once again, was he a Jesuit Banker?
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