Posted on 03/13/2013 12:18:30 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
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See BS (CBS) said that the new pope, while a cardinal, has criticized free market economics.
the pick-a the pope-a contest is a-over. Father Guido Sarduchi did not a gett-a the job-a.
If this is true, and we now have a decidedly left-leaning pope, I weep for my friends who are catholic.
The Jesuit Order is renowned for trickery, cruelty, and disturbance, as the following sources attest:
John Adams (1735-1826; 2nd President of the United States):
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as painters, publishers, writers, and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell it is this Society of Loyola’s.ii
I just heard he’s big on “social justice.” Yikes!
Argentina has a vigorous Fascist movement so you just never know what they mean by ‘free economy’ with those guys.
The Brits are going to catch hell from the Catholics now.
From wikipedia...
“Bergoglio is an accomplished theologian who distanced himself from liberation theology early in his career. He is thought to be close to Comunione e Liberazione, a conservative lay movement.”
Methinks he is OK.
He fought hard against “gay marriage” in Buenos Aires. He will probably be conservative on moral issues, less so on economic ones- The rest of the world is far less free market than the United States.
‘Church changing big time,’ says Cardinal Dolan
Sunday, March 03, 2013 3:40:31 PM · 11 of 41
Dr. Thorne to NYer
The next Pope will be the Catholic Obama. He will:
- claim he is all things to all people
- be seen as a great uniter
- be seen as a necessary change agent
- elicit the kind of worship seen among Obama adorers.
He will have a worldwide honeymoon of six months media adoration after which he will begin his real work of turning Catholicism into the religious equivalent of Progressivism. Then, he will:
- soften the church's stance on abortion
- embrace homosexual marriage
- endorse the redistribution of wealth
- decry all military action
- loudly proclaim ecumenism as the road to world peace.
He will be a lamb who speaks like a dragon.
He is the 1st Jesuit Pope -
“The archbishop of Buenos Aires is a Jesuit intellectual who travels by bus and has a practical approach to poverty: when he was appointed a cardinal, Bergoglio persuaded hundreds of Argentinians not to fly to Rome to celebrate with him but instead to give the money they would have spent on plane tickets to the poor. He was a fierce opponent of Argentina’s decision to legalise gay marriage in 2010, arguing children need to have the right to be raised and educated by a father and a mother. He was created a cardinal by John Paul II on 21 February 2001.”
What's wrong with that? He didn't say that government should give more to the poor.....Charity SHOULD come from individuals, not from governments.
CBS' credibility aside, it wouldn't surprise me. The Catholic Church is neither a supporter of free market capitalism nor of "Americanism". The chances of picking a Pope who supports either are practically zero.
“What’s wrong with that?”
Nothing
Capitalism is a neutral concept, it can be used for good, or it can be used for evil.
When it is used for good, there is no other economic system that can touch it. But in the hands of evil men, it can be the worst.
“The rest of the world is far less free market than the United States.”
have to disagree with you there.
In Ireland it takes about 3 days to open your doors if you’re a business. We also have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Even China is more capitalistic :P
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