[ebb tide]

Full Title: The Pope nonsensically opines that war is how the great world economies ‘keep their balance sheets in the black’. I repeat: shouldn’t he be more careful with what he says?

[sagar]

The pope is clearly misconstrued. Don’t call for this trickery. Who benefits from this Papalphobia?

[A CA Guy]

The current Pope makes a Catholic want to become something else.

[hinckley buzzard]

“We discard a whole generation to maintain an economic system that no longer endures, a system that to survive has to make war, as the big empires have always done,” he said.

Actual quote.

He should be a lot more careful in what he says. It is fine for the Pope to hold forth on what he believes. But the fact remains that he has a very distorted history, dealing with paleofascist economics in Argentina. He literally does not know what characterizes classic capitalism, and his advisors are obviously just as ignorant and biased.

Case in point: WW II, far from helping her economy, pushed the British Empire into bankruptcy. Left Europe dead broke and flat on her back. Set the Soviet Union back a generation. Only the US, largely untouched by destruction of industry, escaped the war economically sound.

[all the best]

I had ben considering returning to the Catholic church. Francis has shut that door permanently.

[RoosterRedux]

Let me guess? Capitalism is again to blame.

This Pope is a Marxist.

He is probably well meaning and just a useful idiot of the South American Marxist variety.

But still...

[bunkerhill7]

Pax Romana

[Misterioso]

I sure didn’t vote for him.

[redgolum]

When did the Pope meet with Ron Paul? Sounds like what one of the Paulites said during the last presidential election.

[Jeff Chandler]

A bull who carries his own china shop . . .

[BlatherNaut]

His oft-displayed ignorance of economics is trivial in comparison to that horrible event he orchestrated on Pentecost and his brutal treatment of the FFI.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Full Title: The Pope nonsensically opines that war is how the great world economies ‘keep their balance sheets in the black’...actually I think this is an old Marxist theory - that countries can only boost capitalism by going to war - sounds consistent with a lot of the rest of his "teachings"....

[boatbums]

Pope nonsensically opines that war is how the great world economies ‘keep their balance sheets in the black’. I repeat: shouldn’t he be more careful with what he says?

The Pope should do a little study on how the Vatican has become so wealthy and keeps their balance sheets in the black. A good place to start might be The Vatican Billions - Two Thousand Years of Wealth Accumulation.

[BfloGuy]

I'll defend the Pope's statement up to a point.

War has always been the politicians' easiest excuse to abandon sound money and begin printing the stuff. In our own country that happened during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, both World Wars, Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq.

It continues today. The Pope must admit, though, that Socialist countries do it, too.