Posted on 07/10/2015 7:06:00 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Pope Francis on Thursday launched a blistering attack on the "new colonialism" of austerity, describing unfettered capitalism as “the dung of the devil” and apologising for the Catholic church's role in the conquest of indigenous populations in the Americas.
He delivered a powerful mea culpa on the part of the church in the highlight of his South American pilgrimage, "humbly" begging forgiveness during an encounter in Bolivia with indigenous groups and other activists and in the presence of Bolivia's first-ever indigenous president, Evo Morales.
The first Latin American pope noted that church leaders in the past had acknowledged that "grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God." St. John Paul II, for his part, apologized to the continent's indigenous for the "pain and suffering" caused during the 500 years of the church's presence in the Americas during a 1992 visit to the Dominican Republic.
But the Pope went further and said he was doing so with "regret."
"I would also say, and here I wish to be quite clear, as was St. John Paul II: I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America," he said to applause from the crowd.
Then deviating from his prepared script, he added: "I also want for us to remember the thousands and thousands of priests who strongly opposed the logic of the sword with the power of the cross. There was sin, and it was plentiful. But we never apologized, so I now ask for forgiveness. But where there was sin, and there was plenty of sin, there was also an abundant grace increased by the men who defended indigenous peoples."
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Could be the altitude in La Paz...it makes one a little lite-headed.
I find it hilarious that this moron keeps yapping about the evils of Capitalism from Socialist third-world-S#*t-Holes that are totally failed economies.
Wonder what he’ll yammer about when he gets to Argentina, the home of the original dumpster divers.
Yeah. But perhaps it was due to the fact that the significance of Jesus being crucified on the hammer has several interpretations. One of which being the eradication of God under communism.
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One-lung disaster in the making
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But..... but..... but....
He was just misquoted....
Or mistranslated......
Or misinterpreted......
Or misunderstood.....
Or......
He’s the pope setting up for the end times for sure.
Don’t they interview these guys before they hire them? I know another place that made the same error...
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The parallels are indeed obvious.
My sister is a nun and despises this guy.
What in particular do you object to regarding these statements?
Quoting a fourth century bishop, he called the unfettered pursuit of money “the dung of the devil”, and said poor countries should not be reduced to being providers of raw material and cheap labour for developed countries.He also called for an end to what he said was the "genocide" of Christians taking place in the Middle East and beyond.
"Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus," he said in Bolivia, part of a three-nation tour to his native South America.
"Quoting a fourth century bishop, he called the unfettered pursuit of money “the dung of the devil”, and said poor countries should not be reduced to being providers of raw material and cheap labour for developed countries. "
This pope has made Pelosi sound sane and a good Catholic.
The Pope loves the poor and believes that they alone are virtuous. He wants all governments to agree to policies that will make us all poor, so that he can love us too.
Millions of people hanging on to every word a guy in a goofy hat says is “the dung of the devil”.
Capitalism does not advocate "unfettered pursuit of money". For example, it proscribes fraud and coercion in the pursuit of money.
However, the braindead in the progressive movement and the MSM are incapable of making such distinctions.
Unfortunately, His Holiness also seems incapable of making such distinctions. In all likelihood, he actually did mean this as an assault on capitalism.
Here's the "dung of the devil" quote in context:
Today, the scientific community realizes what the poor have long told us: harm, perhaps irreversible harm, is being done to the ecosystem. The earth, entire peoples and individual persons are being brutally punished. And behind all this pain, death and destruction there is the stench of what Basil of Caesarea called “the dung of the devil”. An unfettered pursuit of money rules. The service of the common good is left behind. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people’s decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and, as we clearly see, it even puts at risk our common home.The "dung of the devil" part is less offensive than the explicit statement that, when used to guide decisions, capital destroys ruins human society, etc. That is just arrant nonsense.
Excellent point!
Francis should shut his pope hole.
I was only pointing out that despite what the pope wants, the countries his religion dominates throws nickels around like they are manhole covers. Only pointing out who gives the money, did not state it did any good.
I am Catholic also. My brother and his sons were of upset when I told them this Pope sucks back in December but I think they are seeing it now.
Go ahead, keep that peasant attitude. Unfettered capitalism to me is the freedom to employ my talents and capital in the free exchange of goods without someone else looking to me as the welfare office. You pay me a fair amount, I provide you a fair service or good. You provide labor to serve me, I provide you a wage that we agree on. I owe you nothing more or nothing less. It is called LIBERTY, yes what the country was founded on. Maybe someone with a priest ridden peasant mentality would not understand that, but Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, and Lincoln would.
Ravenous wolves....LOL. Some days I feel that way when I roam the religion threads.
Nice!
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