“VATICAN CITY (AP) — Championing the cause of the poor, Pope Francis on Sunday lamented that “the wealthy few” enjoy what, “in justice, belongs to all” and said Christians cannot remain indifferent to the growing cries of the exploited and the indigent, including migrants…”

https://apnews.com/c183ed8b9269499ea0f537d9e8a9f2b6

Your new here, to our planet, aren't you?

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Your new here, to our planet, aren't you?

Yeah. How many times do we have to do the South American/Marxist/activist priest rant

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Pardon me, but Pope Francis sounds like a Communist

He (and many bishops of his age) would prefer to call himself a "progressive" ... but, yeah, he's a communist.

It's a world-wide disease of our times.

Well he is so....

We've been calling him Commie Pope for several years.

Talk is cheap. Franky should put the churches money where his mouth is.

There's a big fundamental difference between charity (giving) and government redistribution (stealing).

This guy is saying that the wealth of the rich belongs to the everyone. The Tenth Commandment says the exact opposite. Wealth belongs to who earns it and no one else. This man is a false prophet.

Yes...

EasyFire

I really enjoy being told by the Wealthy and Powerful what I should be doing with my time/money.

While he lives an all expenses paid life of luxury hoarding the church's wealth talking down to all the little people.
Maybe he should check out Venezuela to see how all that sharing is working out under their favorite political system. Or read a little history starting in 1917.
The great masses end up being mostly equal, equally miserable.

In a sense he's right. Spiritually speaking, this world was given to all mankind and everything in it. Where he makes his mistake is in ignoring free will. He does not understand that God gave us free will before he gave us this Earth communism seizes free will to execute it's goals. In that sense this Pope is a communist.

The Devil Wears Rossa

Why is it that leading figures from South America usually come in extreme flavors?

The toilets swirl the wrong way.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Why is it that leading figures from South America usually come in extreme flavors?

Corruption and extreme poverty. The former breeding the latter.



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Where he makes his mistake is in ignoring free will.

Yes, exactly.
Charity is a free will offering and is good.
Redistributing what someone else has worked for and earned is theft.

As long as we have free will, some will achieve more than others. You can't have equality of outcomes without taking away freedom. And... even if you do, you still won't have equality because those doing the taking will take for themselves first and will therefore be more equal than others.

The best that you can hope for is equality before the law, an equal playing field.
Also, redistribution isn't just for poor people. As long as we subsidize Amazon and anyone who wants to build an NFL stadium we won't have equality before the law.

More air conditioning for everyone!

As a lifetime Catholic let me tell you the leadership of the Church for the past 100 years would embrace Socialism, and would want the most money to go to them first, then what's left to the little people. Am I disappointed with them present leadership? Yes!