Does the Pope ever think about what he is saying? From the General Audience this week:
This “sin of wanting to possess and dominate our brothers and sisters…nature and God Himself…is not the design of creation”, said the Pope.
Then a bit later:
Pope Francis went on to stress that, in order to ensure that what we possess “brings value to the community”, political authorities have the right and the duty to “regulate the legitimate exercise of the right to ownership for the sake of the common good.”
Go here to read the rest. PopeWatch assumes that the Pope did not consider that his second statement makes what he fears in his first statement an inevitable reality. There is a reason why Communist states, uniformly, have lousy environmental records. His Leftism makes certain that people are going to be dominated by the State with ultimately no rights that the State must respect if it is expedient for the State not to.
“Pope” program is a recipe for failure. Here’s an example:
“Fyodor Abramov’s novella, The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm (1963). Its deadpan exposure of the wastage, the confusions, and the hypocrisy of socialist agriculture shook the Soviet public. The reviewer for Time called it “a startling indictment of the apathy, discontent and frustrating failure of collective farm life that still exists after more than four decades of Soviet rule.”
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/08/27/no-feasts-without-god/
Previous popes (St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI) were impressive intellectuals and original thinkers. Need I say more?
Reminded of:
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!” ― Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll would have understood Pope Chastisement quite well. After all, he truly is a red queen.
This pope, an incompetent priest, deserves every bit of criticism he gets.
Ambiguousness is not from the Spirit but from the Devil.