POPE FRANCIS SLAMS CAPITALISM, DEATH PENALTY, IMMIGRATION LAW

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Tear down the walls of the Vatican.....

And slams “fundamentalism in all religions”, despite being the very definition of Catholic fundamentalism.

Aurhoritarian marxist.

From the people that brought you the Inquisition™.

Like all socialists, he declines to address the root cause of the desire to illegally cross borders, and insists that the root cause is actually what’s best for all countries.

The fact that the Pope put these two persons on the same category as Lincoln and Martin Luther King tells a lot about his underlying ideology and why he and Obama have so much in common. I will respect his authority in matters of faith but not in matters of politics.
Dorothy Day
Founder of The Catholic Worker and well known leftist, pacifist who believed there could be a Christian Communism. She justified Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and believed Mao was a man of vision, a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.
Thomas Merton
A pacifist and who was deeply affected and attached to Eastern Religions. Merton became well known for his dialogues with other faiths and his non-violent stand during the race riots and Vietnam War of the 1960s.
Please see below details on Day and Merton:
The Pope’s American Catholic Heroes:
Dorothy Day
Founder of The Catholic Worker and well known leftist, pacifist who believed there could be a Christian Communism. She justified Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and believed Mao was a man of vision, a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.
The Catholic Worker is a newspaper published 12 times a year by the Catholic Worker Movement community in New York City. The newspaper was started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin to make people aware of church teaching on social justice.
Beginning in 1935, the Catholic Worker began publishing articles that articulated a rigorous and uncompromising pacifist position, breaking with the traditional Catholic doctrine of just war theory. The next year, the two sides that fought the Spanish Civil War roughly approximated two of Day’s allegiances, with the Church allied with Franco fighting radicals of many stripes, the Catholic and the worker at war with one another. Day refused to follow the Catholic hierarchy in support of Franco against the Republican forces, which were atheist and anticlerical in spirit, led by anarchists and Communists.[33] She acknowledged the martyrdom of priests and nuns in Spain and said she expected the age of revolution she was living in to require more martyrs:[34]
Day reaffirmed her pacifism following the U.S. declaration of war in 1941 and urged noncooperation in a speech that day:[40] “We must make a start. We must renounce war as an instrument of policy. . . . Even as I speak to you I may be guilty of what some men call treason. But we must reject war. . . . You young men should refuse to take up arms. Young women tear down the patriotic posters. And all of you—young and old—put away your flags.” Her January 1942 column was headlined “We Continue Our Christian Pacifist Stand”. She wrote:[41]
We are still pacifists. Our manifesto is the Sermon on the Mount, which means that we will try to be peacemakers. Speaking for many of our conscientious objectors, we will not participate in armed warfare or in making munitions, or by buying government bonds to prosecute the war, or in urging others to these efforts.
But neither will we be carping in our criticism. We love our country and we love our President. We have been the only country in the world where men of all nations have taken refuge from oppression. We recognize that while in the order of intention we have tried to stand for peace, for love of our brother, in the order of execution we have failed as Americans in living up to our principles.
In 1960, she praised Fidel Castro’s “promise of social justice”. She said: “Far better to revolt violently than to do nothing about the poor destitute.”[50] On January 3, 1962, a Vatican press conference revealed that Castro had excommunicated himself by his persecution of the clergy and bishops.[51] (This excommunication occurred latae sententiae,“by the very commission of the offense.”). Several months later, Day traveled to Cuba and reported her experiences in a four-part series in the Catholic Worker. In the first of these, she wrote: “I am most of all interested in the religious life of the people and so must not be on the side of a regime that favors the extirpation of religion. On the other hand, when that regime is bending all its efforts to make a good life for the people, a naturally good life (on which grace can build) one cannot help but be in favor of the measures taken.”[5

In 1970, at the height of American participation in the Vietnam War, she described Ho Chi Minh as “a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders” while telling a story of a holiday gathering with relatives where one needs “to find points of agreement and concordance, if possible, rather than the painful differences, religious and political.”

In 1971 Day visited the Kremlin, and she reported: “I was moved to see the names of the Americans, Ruthenberg and Bill Haywood, on the Kremlin Wall in Roman letters, and the name of Jack Reed (with whom I worked on the old Masses), in Cyrillac characters in a flower-covered grave”. Ruthenberg was C. E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist Party USA. Bill Haywood was a key figure in the IWW. Jack Reed was the journalist better known as John Reed, author of Ten Days That Shook the World.[64]

Day made her last public appearance at the Eucharistic Congress held on August 6, 1976, in Philadelphia at a service honoring the U.S. Armed Forces on the Bicentennial of the United States. She spoke about reconciliation and penance, and castigated the organizers for failing to recognize that for peace activists August 6 is the day the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, an inappropriate day to honor the military.[70][71]

In the Catholic Worker in May 1951, Day wrote that Marx, Lenin, and Mao Tse-Tung “ a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.” She used them as examples because she insisted that the belief that “all men are brothers” required the Catholic to find the humanity in everyone without exception. She explained that she understood the jarring impact of such an assertion:[80]

In 1970, she emulated Maurin when she wrote:[81]
“the two words [anarchist-pacifist] should go together, especially at this time when more and more people, even priests, are turning to violence, and are finding their heroes in Camillo Torres among the priests, and Che Guevara among laymen. The attraction is strong, because both men literally laid down their lives for their brothers. “Greater love hath no man than this.”
“Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.” Che Guevara wrote this, and he is quoted by Chicano youth in El Grito Del Norte.
In the first years of the Catholic Worker, Day provided a clear statement of how her individualism contrasted with Communism:[88]
We believe in widespread private property, the de-proletarianizing of our American people. We believe in the individual owning the means of production, the land and his tools. We are opposed to the “finance capitalism” so justly criticized and condemned by Karl Marx but we believe there can be a Christian capitalism as there can be a Christian Communism.
In regard to Fidel Castro’s Cuba, she explained: “We are on the side of the revolution. We believe there must be new concepts of property, which is proper to man, and that the new concept is not so new. There is a Christian communism and a Christian capitalism.... We believe in farming communes and cooperatives and will be happy to see how they work out in Cuba.... God bless Castro and all those who are seeing Christ in the poor. God bless all those who are seeking the brotherhood of man because in loving their brothers they love God even though they deny Him.”[92]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day
Thomas Merton
He was a pacifist and who was deeply affected and attached to Eastern Religions.
During his long years at Gethsemani, Merton changed from the passionately inward-looking young monk of The Seven Storey Mountain to a more contemplative writer and poet. Merton became well known for his dialogues with other faiths and his non-violent stand during the race riots and Vietnam War of the 1960s.
By the 1960s, he had arrived at a broadly human viewpoint, one deeply concerned about the world and issues like peace, racial tolerance, and social equality. He had developed a personal radicalism which had political implications but was not based on ideology, rooted above all in non-violence. He regarded his viewpoint as based on “simplicity” and expressed it as a Christian sensibility. His New Seeds of Contemplation was published in 1962. In a letter to Nicaraguan Catholic priest, liberation theologian and politician Ernesto Cardenal (who entered Gethsemani but left in 1959 to study theology in Mexico), Merton wrote: “The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, and they are in a death struggle with each other. It is a huge gang battle, using well-meaning lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies.”[23]
Merton’s influence has grown since his death and he is widely recognized as an important 20th-century Catholic mystic and thinker. Interest in his work contributed to a rise in spiritual exploration beginning in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. Merton’s letters and diaries reveal the intensity with which their author focused on social justice issues, including the civil rights movement and proliferation of nuclear arms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton

http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/can-you-trust-thomas-merton

The Thomas Merton Award

Has been awarded since 1972 by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It is named after Thomas Merton, and is given annually to “national and international individuals struggling for justice.”

Award recipients

1972: James P. Carroll

1973: Dorothy Day

1974: Dick Gregory

1975: Joan Baez

1976: Dom Hélder Câmara

1977: Dick Hughes

1978: Bishop John Harris Burt & Bishop James Malone

1979: Helen Caldicott

1980: William Winpisinger

1981: The people of Poland

1982: Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen

1983: not awarded

1984: Bernice Johnson Reagon

1985: Henri Nouwen

1986: Allan Boesak

1987: Miguel D’Escoto

1988: Daniel Berrigan

1989: Comrades of El Salvador & Elizabeth Linder

1990: Marian Wright Edelman

1991: Howard Zinn

1992: Molly Rush

1993: Reverend Lucius Walker

1994: Richard Rohr OFM

1995: Marian Kramer

1996: Winona LaDuke

1997: Ron Chisom

1998: Studs Terkel

1999: Wendell Berry

2000: Ronald V. Dellums

2001: Sister Joan Chittister

2002: Bishop Leontine T. Kelly

2003: Voices in the Wilderness

2004: Amy Goodman

2005: Reverend Roy Bourgeois

2006: Angela Davis

2007: Cindy Sheehan

2008: Malik Rahim

2009: Dennis Kucinich

2010: Noam Chomsky

2011: Vandana Shiva

2013: Martin Sheen

2014: Jeremy Scahill[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton_Award

The Vatican would have about $200,000 in its coffers if there was no Capitalism.

How would they pay for his jet travel and all of his trips?

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil”
Isaiah 5:20

MrD said he was anti gun and pro global warming so MrD is now anti Pope.

The sun revolves around the earth.

Right Pope?

Hundreds of thousands of Christians killed in Middle East But I guess you are not a Christian, anyway

Nothing lost in translation here.

He is a leftist tool.

I guess he's going to "fundamentally transform" the Church like soebarkho "fundamentally transformed" America.

How naive is this man? Capitalism has done more to eliminate poverty than any system ever. By increasing efficiency, the subsistence living that was almost universal up till the modern era has been virtually eliminated in most of the developed world.

Truly he is Peter of Rome.

Cannot wait for this a hole to leave our shores.

In the words of Sgt. Hulka: “Lighten up, Francis!”

When everyone leaves his beloved Argentina and other ****holes to move to the US, maybe we can all immigrate there and make the places function.

I wouldn’t walk across the street to see this lefty Pope, encouraging the US to be more forthcoming with aid, support and accepting more towel heads. Wasn’t it the US who has been keeping dictatorships at bay wherever they popped up and losing millions of life’s in the process, and this clown tells us to do more?

My suggestion would be to duplicate the American system, call it a miracle, like it USED TO BE and implement it world wide in order to lift people out of poverty, but not what these current clowns in leadership have done and continue to do, leading this country down the garden path in to the cesspool of socialism, which never has worked and only served to impoverish the population, and we are well on our way if things keep going the way they are.

Pope Francis should go piss up a rope.

I think he intends to leave that to the bishops in this country. From his speech to them ….

“I appreciate the unfailing commitment of the Church in America to the cause of life and that of the family, which is the primary reason for my present visit.”

“The innocent victim of abortion, children who die of hunger or from bombings, immigrants who drown in the search for a better tomorrow, the elderly or the sick who are considered a burden, the victims of terrorism, wars, violence and drug trafficking, the environment devastated by man’s predatory relationship with nature – at stake in all of this is the gift of God, of which we are noble stewards but not masters. It is wrong, then, to look the other way or to remain silent. No less important is the Gospel of the Family, which in the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia I will emphatically proclaim together with you and the entire Church.”

“Find ways to encourage their spiritual growth, lest they yield to the temptation to become notaries and bureaucrats, but instead reflect the motherhood of the Church, which gives birth to and raises her sons and daughters.”

He also spoke about family and life in his congressional address, but that surely went right over their heads and will thus be ignored.

Anyone else notice this “pope” doesn’t go stand before the Chinese or Indian Parliaments or the Russian Duma and rail on with the same leftist crap he’s throwing at this country.

It seems he’s trying to help realize the destroy-America vision of his fellow Argentine and comrade Che Guevara.

All of this while the pope flys over in a private jet and returns to the Vatican which has the most restrictive immigration laws in all of Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Queer marriage, like Muslims marrying children falls under the notion of inclusion. Nothing gay about one male coprophile marrying another.