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PopeWatch: Open Thread
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I had this thought yesterday: “maybe Pope Francis actually thinks of crony capitalism when he speaks on capitalism…”
But then I corrected myself: “no Dave, don’t… ,don’t play Twister trying to explain what Pope Francis says, you’ll tie yourself up into a knot and crash to the ground. Remember?? “
Whew, dodged a bullet.
Well, he is from Argentina where big business and government have both traditionally been quasi criminal enterprises.
Don’t … tempt me… (no more twister, no more twister.. …whew… it’s gone.)
In the hands of the Democratic Party, the political economy of this country is decaying into something on the spectrum that runs from Peronism to the PRI in Mexico. Don’t expect the tools at the Mercatus Center to notice.
Review Hernando de Soto on how his experience in business in Switzerland differed from his experience in Peru. The default settings of the Democratic Party are to move us ever closer to the Peruvian model of that time period.
I can’t stand provincialism that thinks it’s sophisticated. You make me pope and ask me about economics, I’d describe the crises in my part of the world then say I didn’t know if the same things were problems in your country. Then I’d go back to talking about the universals I did know about, those of the Faith.
It’s the same thing you get when a Catholic talks to an American atheist who assumes you’re a redneck who denies evolution. They’ve experienced a tiny part of the world and they’re projecting that onto the whole world. It’s the same as scientists giving speeches about peace, or pro athletes who think that everyone else in the projects should get paid millions of dollars for playing games too.
From a Catholic Redneck who denies evolution: have a wonderful day.
Oh my, what did he do/say now?
Don,
Is it possible that Francis is a false Pope?
As in not actually the Pope.
A yes answer seems like an Occam’s razor, but likely not?
No, he was duly elected Pope. Just because a Pope is a bad Pope does not mean that he is not really Pope.
I’d describe the crises in my part of the world then say I didn’t know if the same things were problems in your country.
And why would anyone fancy Francis knows jack-squat about Argentine political economy. Argentina in 1928 was among the world’s affluent countries. It was less affluent than the United States, but no more distant from our standard of living than is Britain today. It is now a middle-income country whose stock continues to sink. (It is one of about a half-dozen countries in the world which is neither ruined like Venezuela nor abidingly dirt poor a la Tropical Africa, but nevertheless suffers from double-digit inflation).