Quite a good rundown on Pope and capitalism
Pope Francis & Capitalism: Are We Overreacting?
Quite a good rundown on Pope and capitalism
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Published by Jim Bowman
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by. View all posts by Jim Bowman
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I thought I had left my comment just a short time ago, but it seemed not to take so I am re-posting what I put on the blog above:
The pope had best leave economics to those who understand it. What his statements have done is give fuel to the Left at a time when all aspects of Christianity and its heritage, Western culture, are under enormous attack as they hope to remake us into a giant socialist experiment. Just in Illinois, the few Democrat hold-outs in the Assembly used his remarks about “Who am I to judge?” homosexuals as their reason to capitulate to supporting same-sex marriage. Many of those legislators who voted in favor were “Catholics” who quoted the pope. I think he is doing serious damage to the Church in its struggle to maintain any semblance of teaching on human sexuality. If I, an ordinary Catholic lacking degrees in theology, flinched when I read his interview in America, then he should never have been so naive and then compounded his anti-capitalism remarks in Evangelii Gaudium.
The USCCB over a decade ago pronounced on economic matters and made a Leftist hash of it and took loud criticism for their efforts. Didn’t anyone learn from that? I realize that the pope has his own personal history in the forefront of his mind in his remarks, but he should have spent more time traveling the world and getting to know societies more thoroughly before issuing an encyclical.
Further, I took the trouble to read his dialogues with his good friend, Rabbi Skorka, On Heaven and Earth. He seems to skirt heresy in some of his remarks. I think he wants too much to be liked so he hedged his remarks to not offend his friend. Skorka, I noticed, did not hedge his remarks at all where he disagreed with Catholicism.
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