Posted on 06/04/2014 7:58:25 AM PDT by Biggirl
WASHINGTON — Taking direct aim at libertarian policies promoted by many American conservatives, the Honduran cardinal who is one of Pope Francis’ top advisers said Tuesday (June 3) that today’s free market system is “a new idol” that is increasing inequality and excluding the poor.
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Good... how about letting Christ do it instead of “an organization”?
European was developing capitalism way before the Protestant Reformation. One can cite such developments as double entry bookkeeping, letters of exchange and other forms of credit, modern banking, for example, the Medici and Fuggers. The most capitalistic place in Europe could of be Northern Italy and the remained Catholic post-Reformation.
Argentina might be a warning of what capitalism sans faith will look like.
Capitalism can live arm in arm with faith and private charity. That way we can affirm that the worker is worth his wages, and that we put our hope in the fullness of God, and that we carry out His works of love and mercy. These principles are in tension but not bluntly contradictory. Without an orderly market, how do you hope to have something to help the poor with?
Whether or not they want to admit it, the various segments of the church have proved God’s opportunities for influencing the other segments to the good. Splits grieve God, but they don’t stop His plan. He already planned for this situation.
Like drilling a hole in your life boat because it’s not a space ship.
Quite correct - and those causes are the shackling of the creative potential of the world's people by statism.
This is a fruits vs. roots issue. Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford etc showed what capitalism can do.
I know. When I saw the headline I assumed that was the argument that he was going to make. But if all he talked about was the fiscal angle - he's basically showing that he's a closet commie (or not so closeted), and he believes Big Government should exist to confiscate and redistribute wealth. In other words he wants to turn Big Government into a god.
Forgive my post to you. I must learn to read. You had it right.
source?
I cringed when I heard Jesuit and Argentina. I hoped I was wrong, but history serves.
That’s right...priests are way down on the list so that makes it okay! Oooh, look...something shiny!
Christ wasn’t diddling little boys, so I agree he is better qualified.
As a Catholic, I always feel very lucky that nothing the Pope says in this area can ever be considered infallible, because, IMHO, it’s always very fallible.
Statist-coerced - as opposed to private-charitable - redistribution of wealth is a Catholic ideal?
‘Passing the trash’
It’s a dynamic so common it has its own nicknames—“passing the trash” or the “mobile molester.”
I’m not Catholic and I’m not libertarian. But what the Cardinal is talking about here is neither Catholic NOR libertarian.
He is just parrotting the Pope’s redistrubtion message which - as I say - is not a true Catholic or libertarian agenda.
It Socialism. And the muckety-mucks in Rome had better shut up.
It may be incompatible with libertarians, but obviously not Socialism, other wise why would 52 percent of them vote for Obama?
There are to points that make me beware of libertarians, that is their view that the Government should not interfere with gay marriage and that a woman has the right to do what she wants with her body.
I believe any one should have the right to do what they want with their body but not another body, which is the baby.
I have no problem with the rest of the libertarian view that I am familiar with.
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