Posted on 05/21/2016 6:21:30 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
(CN) — Pope Francis condemned the sin of "living off the blood of the people" while criticizing immoral employers for not providing health care for their employees, calling them "true leeches."
During his homily on Thursday, the pontiff brought up a hypothetical situation in which a business employs a worker from September to June but does not provide health care coverage.
"Exploitation of people today is a true slavery," he said. "We thought that slaves do not exist anymore. They exist. It's true, people don't go to Africa to take them and then sell them in America, no. But it's in our cities."
Francis' critique of greedy employers was published in the National Catholic Reporter, which quoted the pontiff as saying that "living off the blood of the people is a mortal sin."
He elaborated on his hypothetical scenario by explaining how the mindset does not reflect Christian values and instead represents an immoral focus on becoming wealthy.
"I will pay you this much, without vacation time, without health insurance, all under the table — but I will become rich!
"May the Lord make us understand today that simplicity that Jesus tells us in the Gospel today. A glass of water in the name of Christ is more important than all the wealth accumulated by exploitation of people," Francis said.
Francis has commented on economic and health care issues since becoming pontiff in 2013. He criticized trickle-down economics, stating that it has never worked. He also called for a more balanced economic system that cares for the poorest people in May 2014.
Francis has discussed health care issues less frequently, and there's been a divide within the Catholic Church regarding the mandates outlined in the Affordable Care Act, specifically regarding contraception. In 2010, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops officially opposed the Affordable Care Act.
But Sister Carol Keehan, the president of the Catholic Health Association, defended the act in a 2012 speech, citing the bill's assistance in extending lives
"As I mentioned at the beginning of my remarks, the ACA is not a perfect law but it is a tremendous beginning for getting coverage for all," she said. "It is a pro-life law that matches Catholic and American principles for fairness and compassion."
Pope Francis also spoke of temporary workers who perform intense labor without receiving sufficient compensation in his comments Thursday, saying that when their job ends they're expected to "eat air."
Those who employ the temporary workers are "true bloodsuckers," the pontiff added.
This guy is a full blown Marxist. He should be Bernie’s VP.
Important to notice:
1- He is speaking to the entire world.
2- This is from the National Catholic Reporter which is notoriously liberal.
(Wait to see how the National Catholic Review reports this)
But wait. Slaves can’t quit and go someplace else where they can get a better offer.
Francis continues to reveal his real beliefs. How much longer do we have to suffer this blowhard?
But greedy, self-centered, incompetent employees are alright then?
Are morally right to seek more money and more benefits and more “rights” than they are worth?
Yeah, those workers live in Islamic countries.
This guy seems to be nothing but Karl Marx in a white Yamulka
This puke needs to crawl in a hole
The man is economically ignorant, in a classic leftist way. He's an Argentinian populist, so it's no surprise.
Someone needs to whisper in his ear that health benefits, vacation benefits, retirement benefits, and pay are all the same thing.
Important to notice
this liberation theologian has been spouting this and similar crap for a long time
Jesuit trained. Loves the Marxists. Just can’t help himself
If all the people who say this would put their money together they can start and buy companies that don’t make a profit. They don’t need to change our system, they just need to invest their money in the capitalist system with no expectation of return besides getting their original money back in 10 or 20 years. The can employ A LOT of people this way with no profit motive that they complain about.
I wonder where Michael Moore and his buddies invest their money. My guess is that it’s not buying MacDonald’s franchises that operate without profit so they can pay $15/hour. It’s much easier to tell franchise owners to pay $15/hour than to do it with your money. He could put the franchise in the worst parts of Detroit, Phily, or wherever he complains other owners won’t invest. What could go wrong? He’ll get his original money back in 10 years and make lots of employees happy if he’s right about things. Does he really need interest on his 10s of millions of $$$ over the next decade?
And, if unions would get involved there’s a lot more money to buy companies and they wouldn’t need to deal with those messy negotiations. GM was almost free a few years ago (as far as companies like that go). Why wouldn’t the unions want to own it and run it as a private company for the employees? And buy other failing companies to reinvigorate them instead of letting them be sold off in pieces or move overseas?
If only the union members and MacDonald’s employees realized there’s a huge risk that deserves a profit for the owners for providing them jobs the way Michael Moore and union leaders do but won’t admit.
Funny how government centralizers are never “leeches”, by contrast.
Jesuit trained. Loves the Marxists. Just can’t help himself
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One wonders what his true religion really is? Seems he is always pontificating all things liberal rather than spiritual.
Does this explain his kind words for islam?
Islam is a totalitarian ideology disguised by a cloak of religion.
In the past, the Marxists tried to destroy the church. Now they infiltrate, wrapping their totalitarian ideology in a cloak of religion.
Because a man living free of charge in a palace with hundreds of servants knows all about the plight of the downtrodden
Pope Marx strikes again, and again, and again...
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