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PopeWatch: Contradictions

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PopeWatch is old enough to recall when Popes were all about Christ rather than all about the environment.  The above video contains some interesting contradictions.  The Pope claims to be concerned about the environment and poverty.  He ignores that when it comes to fighting poverty and taking care of the environment, no system has been as successful as Capitalism, hands down.  The Pope wishes us to turn away from consumerism.  Globally, of course, one of the major problems is too little consumerism for about two-thirds of the human race.  Additionally, the Pope seems to have the mistaken belief that people being able to have a wide choice of products in the West, somehow causes people in the Third World to be poor.  The Pope, by all external evidence, does not seem to have a clue as to how economies function, and how masses of people rise from poverty.  In short, the Pope holds the economic and environmental beliefs that one would expect of  a member of the contemporary Jesuit order.  Pope Francis of course is not the first pope to have beliefs that were factually challenged.  Few popes, however, have made such beliefs the centerpiece of their pontificate.

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Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Tuesday, February 9, AD 2016 5:52am

This pope cares not a whit for the poor. They are nothing more than a prop. His views on economics have been discredited by history and even his own experience. He has aligned himself on the environment with people who view humans as the problem. I am way passed the pope “does not seem to have a clue”. His problem is not ignorance, it’s arrogance.

ave
ave
Tuesday, February 9, AD 2016 8:24am

I guess in this insane world, that “man must have dominion over…” means that man can not use creation?
I also see the parable of the talents as meaning; the better one uses the given gifts (creation) the more God says it is good. That’s hardly a call to have no carbon footprint…..

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Tuesday, February 9, AD 2016 3:42pm

As I have said before, this pontificate is the product, not the cause, of an ever left-lurching hierarchy. It may very well be true that many of those Cardinals who elected him are not enamored with him. But they they certainly wanted a left-wing pope. They may have just got more than what they bargained for. Watch what you ask for. You just might get it…in spades!!!!!!!

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Wednesday, February 10, AD 2016 4:12am

Pope Francis has become irrelevant and ridiculous by not placing God first as the solution to all our problems. It is high time that he be replaced by someone who understands what the job is all about.

Dr. Robert Schwartz
Dr. Robert Schwartz
Wednesday, February 10, AD 2016 9:48am

The theme of Pope Francis’ leadership is “mercy.” Within this worldwide call for mercy is his overwhelming concern for the poor and deprived. It is this theme that some readers, writers and observers mistake for an anti-capitalist position. If a global call to help the poor, to share with them the fruits of the earth and to counsel them on bettering their lives is in any way contrary to the way that Christ lived and preached and taught us by example, then please point that out to the Christians of this world! Think of the non-profit organizations operating across the longitudes and latitudes: Will someone dare to denigrate their efforts on behalf of the same groups that the papal vocation is struggling to awaken in hearts that too often see themselves mirrored as an example that all should follow?

It is pure folly to argue that others should “be like me” in a world where vast numbers of human beings’ lives more closely resemble those of animals as they forage for edibles, construct their flimsy dwellings and walk great distances to bring questionable water to nurture their own, and this on a daily basis.

Is the divine call to help these a departure from the economic system that has proven best overall in the contemporary world? Is anyone calling for government by distribution instead of government by production? It is a purely rhetorical question. It needs no answer. What is needed is a hand, palm up, reaching out to assist those whom Christ reached out to, offering today’s assistance to the same kinds of people and from the same kinds of hearts and feelings that have been inspired to identify with the neediest of mankind in a world that too often highlights the glitz and glitter of human success and achievement to the eclipsing of “the other real world,” the one in which the mercy of the Gospel has not yet arrived. Pope Francis’ theme will continue to cast a cloak of awareness across the oceans as he invokes our sentiments and convictions that capitalism can do more to offer a constructive and progressive lifetime to so many people that have never enjoyed the benefits of our times simply because of the place or family where God chose them to live. It is we who now must grasp the reins of realistic civilization and do for “the other” to reflect our gratitude for the place or family where we have been blessed to live.

@FMShyanguya
Wednesday, February 10, AD 2016 2:02pm

There was a traitor Apostle who tried to cover his true motives by his being overly concerned about the poor.
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@Father of Seven: spot-on!
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@Greg Mockeridge: re – cause being an ever left-lurching hierarchy. It is worse than that. The cause is from those who have infiltrated the Church, and they are satanic.

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