Posted on 11/08/2011 4:35:46 PM PST by fwdude
On Monday, the Vatican called for creation of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to regulate the world’s financial institutions. As Reuters reported, “The document from the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department should please the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn.”
The Vatican got very specific in its recommendations. It condemned the “idolatry of the market” and called for global wealth redistribution, asking nations of the world to participate in an “ethic of solidarity.” In a passage that could have been ripped from Marx, the Vatican stated, “If no solutions are found to the various problems of injustice, the negative effects that will follow on the social, political and economic level will be destined to create a climate of growing hostility and even violence, and ultimately undermine the very foundation of democratic institutions, even the ones considered most solid.”
This is wrongheaded in the extreme. By impoverishing the middle and upper class in order to press for greater “fairness,” the socialism implicitly supported by this document pushes a utopia of equality in poverty.
But the Vatican’s call for a “central world bank” is telling. It shows where countries that want to cut the U.S. down to size are putting their efforts – into multilateral financial schemes.
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If true, I am embarrassed as a Catholic.
Who knew? Catholic = Socialist? I sure didn’t!
So Catholicism is now the official religion of the New World Order? /slight sarc
Great move, Pope. Guess you never read Revelations, ya putz. Small wonder Catholicism is dying around the world.
I think you might want to look into this:
1) The document is not from the Pope, nor was it issued by the Vatican as a Vatican document.
2) The Catholic faith is actually growing, not dying.
http://theamericano.com/2010/02/22/catholicism-growing-in-the-u-s-and-worldwide/
And you still don’t.
Don’t be. This was not an official statement of the Vatican. It’s essentially meaningless.
Many of the posters here at FR are simply too stupid to know that.
It is - because the article is essentially a lie.
When are you expecting the Pope to disown, and thereby, negate the announcement?
yeah a little eerie isn’t it....
If so, do you believe the Pope disagrees with the announcement?
If so, why doesn't the Pope publicly declare that the announcement doesn't represent The Official Catholic Church's position?
I think the Catholic Church is the beast of Revelations
I have no doubt that a signficant part of the Vatican bureaucracy has, at a minimum, socialist leanings. Most of them are, after all, European, and educated in European universities, which are heavily infested with "socialist-think". Does that mean the Church is socialist....no....but the aroma does occasionally break loose from its bowels.
It came out of the Vatican Justice Dept & its not official? Cry me a river. Why don’t you stand up for what your religious leaders are doing instead of trying to cover up for them?
Thank God.
You wrote:
“Do you believe the Pope is aware of this announcement?”
Now? Yes, it was issued days ago, so he knows about it now. Did he know about it before it was issued? I don’t know. And neither do you.
“If so, do you believe the Pope disagrees with the announcement?”
I don’t know what the pope agrees with or doesn’t. I do know this is not an official Vatican document representing the official teaching of the Church in itself.
“If so, why doesn’t the Pope publicly declare that the announcement doesn’t represent The Official Catholic Church’s position?”
Since that is already the case, why would he have to say it? Essentially, what you are saying is this: “Because there are people too dumb to know how the Vatican works, the pope should make clear what they are too stupid to know.”
You are prejudiced by the garbage you heard in whateer “Protestant” church yo attend. They probably told you there are dungeons in convents too.
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