Pope Francis has called for more regulation of financial markets and rejected suggestions that his criticisms of unbridled capitalism smack of Marxism.
“Markets and financial speculation cannot enjoy absolute autonomy,” he said in an interview published in La Stampa newspaper on Sunday, calling for greater ethics in the economy and a better distribution of the earth’s resources.
“We cannot wait any longer to resolve the structural causes of poverty in order to cure our society of an illness that can only lead to new crises,” he said.
Conservative Catholics, particularly in the United States, have criticized some of his past pronouncements on the economy, with several openly calling him a Marxist. But the Argentine pope said he was just stating Church teachings.
“If I repeat some sermons by the first fathers of the Church in the second or third centuries about how the poor must be treated, some would accuse me of preaching a Marxist homily,” he said. “The New Testament does not condemn wealth but the idolatry of wealth.”One America News Network
Pope calls for more market regulation, denies he is Marxist: paper
2 comments:
So what if he is a "Marxist?" It's just a label that is hurled around by fools anyway. Is being for people and against big business a bad thing? When he denies it, it just lends more credence to those critical of his ideas. It makes him look guilty of something, just like when MMT proponents say, "No, deficits do matter."
Mike the Pope (and hence Christendom) is still remaining ignorant of what the Lord and then Paul taught about "authority"...
He is just acting similar to most who think that businesses or corporations or 'the market' or whatever possesses the authority to impose economic justice. .... anything but our institution of civil govt which is the entity that truly possesses this authority as Paul taught...
The Pope's platonic and usurping" first fathers of the church" went off the rails and completely ignore what Paul taught so this is what you get... creeds, sects, dogmas, pagan practices, chaos, metal love, etc.... this is going on 2,000 years....
Paul prophesied all of this dysfunction btw... but Paul also prophesied eventual "peace and security" for the nations so I remain in high expectation for our eventual success in all of this.... rsp
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