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It is well known by now that the famous rhetorical question “Is the Pope Catholic?” doesn’t have a certain answer anymore. The present occupant of the Chair of St. Peter, however, has more than once given cause to ask instead, “Is the Pope Marxist?” To the surprise of nearly everyone in the world, however, Pope Francis has just warned against the dangers of Marxist theology. The Spanish-language Argentine edition of Aleteia reported Saturday that, in a letter to the Santa Maria Spirituality Center in Buenos Aires, the Pontiff warned against “the ideologizing of a Marxist tint of some Latin American centers in the ‘70s.”
Wait a minute. This is the pope who wrote in his 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti, “The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are asked to believe this dogma of neoliberal faith. Whatever the challenge, this impoverished and repetitive school of thought always offers the same recipes. Neoliberalism simply reproduces itself by resorting to the magic theories of ‘spillover’ or ‘trickle’ – without using the name – as the only solution to societal problems.” Actually, the name “trickle-down economics” is indeed used by critics of the view that those who innovate, create, and provide employment opportunities for others should be penalized for doing so.
The pope went even farther in the same encyclical, stating that “the Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute or inviolable, and has stressed the social purpose of all forms of private property.” Instead, “the principle of the common use of created goods is the ‘first principle of the whole ethical and social order’; it is a natural and inherent right that takes priority over others,” which certainly sounds a great deal like Marxism. Francis emphasized that this “common use of created goods” took precedence over any concept of private ownership: “All other rights having to do with the goods necessary for the integral fulfilment of persons, including that of private property or any other type of property, should – in the words of Saint Paul VI – ‘in no way hinder [this right], but should actively facilitate its implementation.’”
Only then did the pope grudgingly allow a place for individual ownership at all: “The right to private property can only be considered a secondary natural right, derived from the principle of the universal destination of created goods.” He lamented that this vision had not been widely implemented: “This has concrete consequences that ought to be reflected in the workings of society. Yet it often happens that secondary rights displace primary and overriding rights, in practice making them irrelevant. … The right to private property is always accompanied by the primary and prior principle of the subordination of all private property to the universal destination of the earth’s goods, and thus the right of all to their use.”
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somehistory says
It is clear…perfectly clear…that this idiot doesn’t *see* the Real solutions to mankind’s problems. He claims to be representing Jesus Christ and Jesus “preached the Kingdom of God” as the Real and only solution to the problems of man.
Jesus used God’s power to feed thousands, heal the sick, calm the waves of the sea, open the eyes of the blind, make the lame walk, raise the dead and forgive sins. He said, “Seek first the Kingdom and all these other things will be added to you.”
Clearly, so clearly, this *pope* has not learned to rely on God’s Kingdom, God’s Power, or the Words of our Lord and Savior. This *pope* does not represent Christ Jesus or His Kingdom. This *pope* “preaches” something different. Like the Apostle John said would be preached and Jesus Himself, warned about. “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” “false shepherds misleading the flock.”
Everything the “pope” says should be compared to what Jesus and His Apostles and other disciples, wrote as instructions for Christians.
john smith says
Somehistory says, “this idiot doesn’t see the Real solutions to mankind’s problems”. Agreed, In fact I’d go further, it’s people such as pope Francis that Are one of mankind’s problems.
somehistory says
I agree, John. He is a major problem for mankind.
bill says
“Jesus used God’s power to feed thousands, heal the sick, calm the waves of the sea, open the eyes of the blind, make the lame walk, raise the dead and forgive sins. He said, “Seek first the Kingdom and all these other things will be added to you.”
Well, believe that if you wish but it is all hearsay and there is total absence of evidence that anything like that happened. It has as much validity as today’s fake news. The m Catholic church is also the biggest and most corrupt business ever seen by man.
biil says
Roman Catholic
Prince Eugene says
Bergoglio, the indiscriminate modern liberal pope, has created his own religion. In Bergoglio’s Church of Nice there is no hell, no real presence and human life at conception is ignored. This heretical, demonic and contemptible bishop answers to the worldly masters of the NWO.
An article titled “The Pope: It is an honor to be called revolutionary.” was published March 28, 2018 in La Repubblica. The relevant section on Hell was translated by the respected web log, Rorate Caeli.
Scalfari: “You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?”
Francis: “They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.”
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
I am too lazy to read the 287-paragraph, 288-footnote encyclical “Fratelli tutti”; here it is:
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html
Maybe somebody will prepare a more candy-size version of this encyclical (“Fratelli tutti fruti”), with an explanation for the puzzling phrases “the principle of the universal destination of created goods” and “the universal destination of the earth’s goods”. According to Papa Francesco’s doctrine, all created goods (like the plays of William Shakespeare) and all the earth’s goods (like the supply of U235 in the earth’s crust) have a universal destination. What is this universal destination?
OLD GUY says
MAN is the problem in all religions, Men interpret the writings and scriptures of old to meet their need for wealth and power as leaders of churches and governments. Power and Money corrupt everything.
E Maria says
Frank Bergoglio is the head of the; ‘ape catholic church, not the true Roman Catholic church
E Maria says
Why are my comments not being posted..??
E Maria says
Bergoglio is the leader of the “ape catholic church, not the true Roman Catholic church