“When the state tries to control wealth and mandates income redistribution that is Marxism and communism.”
And those who support the state implementing Marxism and communism are Marxists and communists. Pope Francis is a communist and a Marxist.
Jesus didn’t advocate this.
“What the Pope proposes is voluntary (Americans are already very generous) and that it comes from the heart.”
NO! What the Pope proposes is not that Americans donate to the causes the Pope wants its that GOVERNMENT open our borders, GOVERNMENT pay for illegal immigrants (Note he uses the same lines that dishonestly fail to distinguish between “illegal immigrants” and “immigrants”).
The Pope is a big-government Marxist, and supports forcing Americans to pay for it all. There is nothing voluntary about it. You know it. The pope knows it.
He’s turned the papacy into a political shill for liberal democrats and illegal immigrants.
Who the hell does he think he is? If he wants to turn Catholics into a worldwide liberal political bloc - which appears to be his strategy (rather than focus on moral individuals doing the right thing as a group) he will destroy your church.
He has cheapened the papacy, and prefers to reach into wallets (through government) to benefit and encourage lawbreakers who he practically canonizes on the spot (illegals) rather than do it the way Jesus commanded.
A cheesy Latin American Peronist politician who will take prosperity and hand it to immoral big government hacks.
No thanks.
You do not understand Pope Francis or the teachings of the Catholic Church.
He is a holy man and wants to help the poor and needy as he has done before becoming Pope so that they have an opportunity to gain eternal life with God.
He asks for this voluntarily, neither he or the Catholic Church can require (mandate) Catholics to part with their riches.
When people give from the heart to help others they receives many graces and benefits from God.
Did you listen to the 2nd reading today?
Reading 2 Jas 5:1-6
Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.
Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten,
your gold and silver have corroded,
and that corrosion will be a testimony against you;
it will devour your flesh like a fire.
You have stored up treasure for the last days.
Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers
who harvested your fields are crying aloud;
and the cries of the harvesters
have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure;
you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.
You have condemned;
you have murdered the righteous one;
he offers you no resistance.
I think what he was trying very hard to say, was that we are all here on this one big ball and we should remove all borders, language and cultures and all be the same, helping and being good to each other. But, ahhhh, I really don’t think he has thought it through. He seems very naive.