PoliticalChic
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Quite a stir, the new Pope, an Argentinean Jesuit, Pope Francis, has created!
In Francis we can see a return to the poor as the first and major concern of the church, borrowing 'liberally' from Pope Leo VIII's ' "Rerum Novarum."
Rather than a 'revolutionary change,' the meaning of "Rerum Novarum," a closer look reveals it to be an attack on capitalism, and, ultimately, America.
1. "Joy of the Gospel(Evangelii Gaudium) is the title of the pope’s November 2013 apostolic exhortation, a document that encapsulates Francis’s vision for mankind.... it’s especially striking for its tough and uncompromising appraisal of the global financial system,particularly capitalism, [calling it] “a new tyranny.”
2. .... Rush Limbaugh lambastedEvangelii Gaudiumas a full-frontal assault on America. “This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope,”he said. “Unfettered capitalism? That doesn’t exist anywhere. Unfettered capitalism is a liberal socialist phrase to describe the United States.”
a. .... the pope emphasizes the need for a new system that combats injustice and inequality, that defends the poor and weak, that protects the rights of humans. It all sounds appealing.But we need to think seriously about its fundamental economic and political tenets:tearing down free-market capitalism and introducing a new financial system.
3. ... Evangelii Gaudium,he has outlined the financial model he wants to implement.
While his plan sounds fresh and innovative, it is entirely unoriginal. In fact, it has been employed multiple times. The results have varied, from simple failure to painful and total destruction.
4. By the time of the defeat of French Emperor Napoleon in 1815, the last remnants of the old feudal economic system had been destroyed. Over the next century, two competing economic theories sprang up in its place.
a. The first was Adam Smith-style capitalism, which flourished in Britain and America. The second was Karl Marx-style socialism.
b. Whereas capitalist philosophy called for economic power to rest in the hands of the individual, socialist philosophy placed that power in the hands of the collective state.Both economic philosophies displeased the Vatican and Europe’s Catholic elite.
5. Pope LeoXIIIwas concerned by how these twin evils, as he considered them—Protestant capitalism and atheistic socialism—both marginalized the Catholic Church in state affairs. In 1891, he wrote an apostolic exhortation,Rerum Novarum(On the Conditions of Labor), that laid out a Catholic economic and social model. Leo’s model became the official social doctrine of the Catholic Church and soon gained wide acceptance as a “third way.” Pope Francis has admitted thatEvangelii Gaudiumis rooted in Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum.
6. .... Pope Leo’s new social doctrine was essentially an updated version of the medieval feudal order that had existed as far back as Justinian in the sixth century. The economic premise was the belief that equality is a cruel illusion, and that people are happiest when placed in a social and political hierarchy shaped and guided by the Roman Church."
Much More Than an Economic Plan - theTrumpet.com
".......people are happiest when placed in a social and political hierarchy ...."
Can any system, political or economic, be practical if based on a misunderstanding of human nature?
In Francis we can see a return to the poor as the first and major concern of the church, borrowing 'liberally' from Pope Leo VIII's ' "Rerum Novarum."
Rather than a 'revolutionary change,' the meaning of "Rerum Novarum," a closer look reveals it to be an attack on capitalism, and, ultimately, America.
1. "Joy of the Gospel(Evangelii Gaudium) is the title of the pope’s November 2013 apostolic exhortation, a document that encapsulates Francis’s vision for mankind.... it’s especially striking for its tough and uncompromising appraisal of the global financial system,particularly capitalism, [calling it] “a new tyranny.”
2. .... Rush Limbaugh lambastedEvangelii Gaudiumas a full-frontal assault on America. “This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope,”he said. “Unfettered capitalism? That doesn’t exist anywhere. Unfettered capitalism is a liberal socialist phrase to describe the United States.”
a. .... the pope emphasizes the need for a new system that combats injustice and inequality, that defends the poor and weak, that protects the rights of humans. It all sounds appealing.But we need to think seriously about its fundamental economic and political tenets:tearing down free-market capitalism and introducing a new financial system.
3. ... Evangelii Gaudium,he has outlined the financial model he wants to implement.
While his plan sounds fresh and innovative, it is entirely unoriginal. In fact, it has been employed multiple times. The results have varied, from simple failure to painful and total destruction.
4. By the time of the defeat of French Emperor Napoleon in 1815, the last remnants of the old feudal economic system had been destroyed. Over the next century, two competing economic theories sprang up in its place.
a. The first was Adam Smith-style capitalism, which flourished in Britain and America. The second was Karl Marx-style socialism.
b. Whereas capitalist philosophy called for economic power to rest in the hands of the individual, socialist philosophy placed that power in the hands of the collective state.Both economic philosophies displeased the Vatican and Europe’s Catholic elite.
5. Pope LeoXIIIwas concerned by how these twin evils, as he considered them—Protestant capitalism and atheistic socialism—both marginalized the Catholic Church in state affairs. In 1891, he wrote an apostolic exhortation,Rerum Novarum(On the Conditions of Labor), that laid out a Catholic economic and social model. Leo’s model became the official social doctrine of the Catholic Church and soon gained wide acceptance as a “third way.” Pope Francis has admitted thatEvangelii Gaudiumis rooted in Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum.
6. .... Pope Leo’s new social doctrine was essentially an updated version of the medieval feudal order that had existed as far back as Justinian in the sixth century. The economic premise was the belief that equality is a cruel illusion, and that people are happiest when placed in a social and political hierarchy shaped and guided by the Roman Church."
Much More Than an Economic Plan - theTrumpet.com
".......people are happiest when placed in a social and political hierarchy ...."
Can any system, political or economic, be practical if based on a misunderstanding of human nature?
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