Would be very impressed if he also loudly proclaimed that the predatory abuse of young boys by criminal homosexuals is also a mortal sin.
So -
Who exploits workers more? Those who would freeze the individual worker in a nothing job, going nowhere, with no chance for advancement, but who is “guaranteed” a government-dictated “minimum wage” and “right to health care”, or those who encourage the well-trained person who may work for LESS than what is considered “minimum wage” while serving as an apprentice, gaining the skills of his specialty, and upon becoming a journeymen, commands decent compensation for his skills and willingness to show up on time on a daily basis?
The New Soviet Man and the Union Maid may gain some degree of power, but only so long as they hold a number of wage slaves beneath them to do the bidding while the “workers” negotiate with the “bosses” for ever greater compensation for less and less actual input.
That is what killed General Motors, you know. And grew Toyota to be an industrial giant on American soil.
Yes, I worked my butt off...
but buggering children who work for you is ok?
The ImPopester is a full blown communist.
Sure. Exploiting workers is a sin. So is exploiting bosses by not delivering solid work for pay, but you never hear about that. You also hear about how showing favoritism for the rich by virtue of their money is evil, but you never hear that punishing the rich because of their wealth is also evil. Does a thief deserve to go free because he robbed a rich man?
Pope Francis still thinks we’re back in feudal or Dickensian times, where there was no labor mobility or unionization. Nowadays, workers shirking and stealing from their employers under government protection has replaced wage slavery. Fire an underperforming black, and your reward is a lawsuit heard by a jury pool biased against you.
It is clear where his priorities lie.
Defrauding workers of their just wages is a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance
Does he pay priests and nuns?
They always point out that thing about paying a day’s wage by sundown.
Worst.Pope.Evah! (in my lifetime)
Wake me up when Frankie calls abortion a mortal sin.
And the Catholic Church is in Satan’s hands.....I seem to recall Jesus saying if one broke the least of the Commandments, then one broke all of them....only “Mortal” sin in the Bible is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
btt
Open borders. Human trafficking. Disregard for immigration and employment laws. Low cost unskilled labor.
Elite GW Bush-type Chamber of Commerce Republicans who wanted years of cheap labor. Democrats who just wanted more votes, favorable demographics for the census and a permanent underclass. Yes. A bipartisan marriage made in hell.
Mortal sin alright.
I agree with him.
Actually he is hypocritical in opposing exploitation of laborers yet supportive of illegal immigration.
Is raping young boys a mortal sin?
The bible requires that employees be paid as promised. (at the end of the day in the culture of that time). I have no idea what he even means by “exploiting” workers.