Sunday, December 15, 2013

Katie Mcdonough — Pope Francis to Rush Limbaugh: I’m no Marxist, but I have known plenty of good Marxists


Pope Francis throws another log on the fire. Things are heating up.

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Pope Francis to Rush Limbaugh: I’m no Marxist, but I have known plenty of good Marxists
Katie Mcdonough

For a more complete report of the La Stampa interview, see Pope says he is not a Marxist, but defends criticism of capitalism — Pope Francis says trickle-down economics do not help the poor, in a wide-ranging interview with Italian daily La Stampa, Lizzy Davies in Rome for The Guardian
Railing against food wastage, he said that at a recent general audience he had seen a mother with a hungry baby who was crying and had told her to feed the child in spite of being in front of the pope. "She was modest," he said. "She did not want to breast-feed him in public while the pope was passing by … I would like to repeat what I said to that woman, to humanity: feed those who are hungry!

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