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Title: Unbridled capitalism is the 'dung of the devil', says Pope Francis
Source: The Guardian
URL Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/20 ... onomic-order-says-pope-francis
Published: Jul 10, 2015
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2015-07-10 17:57:08 by Willie Green
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Views: 10535
Comments: 43

The pontiff condemns the impoverishment of developing countries by the world economic order and apologised for the church’s treatment of native Americans

Pope Francis has urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order, denouncing a “new colonialism” by agencies that impose austerity programs and calling for the poor to have the “sacred rights” of labor, lodging and land.

In one of the longest, most passionate and sweeping speeches of his pontificate, the Argentine-born pope used his visit to Bolivia to ask forgiveness for the sins committed by the Roman Catholic church in its treatment of native Americans during what he called the “so-called conquest of America”.

The pontiff also demanded an immediate end to what he called the “genocide” of Christians taking place in the Middle East and beyond, describing it as a third world war.

“Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus,” Pope Francis said.

“In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end.”

Quoting a fourth century bishop, he called the unfettered pursuit of money “the dung of the devil”, and said poor countries should not be reduced to being providers of raw material and cheap labour for developed countries.

Repeating some of the themes of his landmark encyclical Laudato Si on the environment last month, Francis said time was running out to save the planet from perhaps irreversible harm to the ecosystem. Pope Francis bolivia Pope Francis shakes hands with a mining worker’s leader watched by Bolivia’s president Evo Morales, right, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Francis made the address in the city of Santa Cruz to participants of the second world meeting of popular movements, an international body that brings together organisations of people on the margins of society, including the poor, the unemployed and peasants who have lost their land. The Vatican hosted the first meeting last year.

He said he supported their efforts to obtain “so elementary and undeniably necessary a right as that of the three “Ls”: land, lodging and labour”.

His speech was preceded by lengthy remarks from the left-wing Bolivian president Evo Morales, who wore a jacket adorned with the face of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. He was executed in Bolivia in 1967 by CIA-backed Bolivian troops. Njuns bolivia Nuns on their way to Pope Francis’ mass in Santa Cruz on Thursday. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

“Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change,” the pope said, decrying a system that “has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature”.

“This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, labourers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable. The earth itself – our sister, Mother Earth, as Saint Francis would say – also finds it intolerable,” he said in an hour-long speech that was interrupted by applause and cheering dozens of times.

Since his election in 2013, the first pope from Latin America has often spoken out in defence of the poor and against unbridled capitalism but the speech in Santa Cruz was the most comprehensive to date on the issues he has championed.

Francis’ previous attacks on capitalism have prompted stiff criticism from politicians and commentators in the United States, where he is due to visit in September.

The pontiff appeared to take a swipe at international monetary organisations such as the IMF and the development aid policies by some developed countries.

“No actual or established power has the right to deprive peoples of the full exercise of their sovereignty. Whenever they do so, we see the rise of new forms of colonialism which seriously prejudice the possibility of peace and justice,” he said.

“The new colonialism takes on different faces. At times it appears as the anonymous influence of mammon: corporations, loan agencies, certain ‘free trade’ treaties, and the imposition of measures of ‘austerity’ which always tighten the belt of workers and the poor,” he said.

Last week, Francis called on European authorities to keep human dignity at the centre of debate for a solution to the economic crisis in Greece.

He defended labor unions and praised poor people who had formed cooperatives to create jobs where previously “there were only crumbs of an idolatrous economy”.

In one of the sections on colonialism, he said: “I say this to you with regret: many grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God.”

He added: “I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offences of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America.

“There was sin and an abundant amount of it.”

The audience gave Francis a standing ovation when he put on a yellow miner’s hat that was given to him at the end of his speech.

The pope made his speech at the end of his first full day in Bolivia, where he arrived on Wednesday. On Thursday morning he said a mass for hundreds of thousands of people and said that everyone had a moral duty to help the poor, and that those with means could not wish they would just “go away”.

Francis praised Bolivia’s social reforms to spread wealth under Morales. On Friday, he will visit Bolivia’s notoriously violent Palmasola prison.

The pope looked bemused on Wednesday night when Morales handed him one of the more unusual gifts he has received: a sculpted wooden hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism – with a figure of a crucified Christ resting on the hammer.
Francis leaves on Friday for Paraguay, the last stop on his “homecoming” trip. (3 images)

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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)

The pontiff

Speaking of dung...

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

CZ82  posted on  2015-07-10   18:00:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Willie Green (#0)

He's right.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-07-10   18:06:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Willie Green (#0)

I believe it was Castro that killed Che because Che was for the people and Castro was for Castro.

Progressive people just claim it was the cia. Hurricane destroyed a city! Yep cia did it!

Millions of babies murderered it was cia not progressives!/s

Justified  posted on  2015-07-10   18:37:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: CZ82 (#1)

Speaking of dung...

Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with ‘communist crucifix’

Hondo68  posted on  2015-07-10   18:40:06 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: redleghunter (#0)

It appears that the AntiChrist has arrived, but from the South not the East.

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-07-10   19:20:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Willie Green (#0)

I'll reserve comments until I actually see "unbridled " capitalism.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

tomder55  posted on  2015-07-10   20:13:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: CZ82 (#1)

The pontiff

Speaking of dung...

The vast wealth at the control this one who pontificates may be traced back centuries, and bulk of it was extracted forcefully under the Encomienda system of slave labor. It was very similar to the system used by the SS to exploit Slavic peoples in Eastern Europe, and I suspect that the economists of the SS may have used the Encomienda system as a template. This pope reminds of the Pharisee who loved to pray loudly boasting of his righteousness.

This pope has an opportunity to practice what he preaches and return the vast wealth stolen from the ancestors of Evo Morales. Step up Pontifex Maximus, do the right thing, build those bridges.

nativist nationalist  posted on  2015-07-10   20:47:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: tomder55, SOSO, liberator (#6)

I'll reserve comments until I actually see "unbridled " capitalism.

An example could be the Vatican bank.

redleghunter  posted on  2015-07-10   22:14:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Willie Green (#0)

Unbridled capitalism is the 'dung of the devil', says Pope Francis

A new pope with a new smoother version of Marxist support and organizing.

rlk  posted on  2015-07-10   22:26:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: hondo68 (#4)

Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with ‘communist crucifix’

Can't say I've ever seen one of those before.

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

CZ82  posted on  2015-07-11   2:08:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Willie Green (#0)

His speech was preceded by lengthy remarks from the left-wing Bolivian president Evo Morales, who wore a jacket adorned with the face of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

Also the idol of the leader of Greece,who has a photo of Che hanging on his office wall,and we all know how wonderfully Greece is doing.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-11   23:20:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Justified (#3)

I believe it was Castro that killed Che because Che was for the people and Castro was for Castro.

No,he was tracked down and captured by Bolivian troops led by USSF soldiers who had been tasked with tracking the SOB down. I used to know a couple of the guys involved in this operation.

The 3rd SF Group chased his ass out of Africa. He was only successful at one thing,and that was at becoming a leftist icon and having capitalists make money from selling his image on the sweatshirts of idiot airhead leftist college students and other assorted idiots.

The actual killing was done by Bolivians,though. IIRC,his body was chopped up and buried in pieces in different graves so the left would never have a grave site shrine to him.

His East German girlfriend fought to the death,but Che was a wuss and surrendered. I guess he thought he was too valuable to die and that Castro would somehow bail him out. Or maybe his multi-millionaire communist father.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-11   23:30:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: hondo68 (#4)

Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with ‘communist crucifix’

I keep telling people that Christ was the original communist,and get nothing but horrified denials.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-11   23:32:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: tomder55 (#6)

I'll reserve comments until I actually see "unbridled " capitalism.

You are already seeing it. Or would be if you just looked around.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-11   23:33:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: nativist nationalist (#7)

This pope has an opportunity to practice what he preaches and return the vast wealth stolen from the ancestors of Evo Morales.

Yeah,and that is scheduled to happen on the 12th of Never.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-11   23:34:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: CZ82 (#10)

Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with ‘communist crucifix’

Can't say I've ever seen one of those before.

Frankly I am surprised we haven't seen them amongst the possessions of some of our "new voters from south of the border."

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-11   23:36:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: sneakypete (#15)

This pope has an opportunity to practice what he preaches and return the vast wealth stolen from the ancestors of Evo Morales.

Yeah,and that is scheduled to happen on the 12th of Never.

Elmer Gantry as Pope.

nativist nationalist  posted on  2015-07-12   1:55:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Willie Green (#0)

Unbridled capitalism is the 'dung of the devil', says Pope Francis

So is unbridled religion, particularly catholicism, says Pope RLK. More corruption stupidity, and recalicitrant psychopathology has been promoted in defense of god than any other element.

rlk  posted on  2015-07-12   2:52:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: rlk, TooConservative, liberator (#18)

Pope RLK

Well if you are going to be your own pope you will need a new wardrobe:)

Here are some thoughts:

Notice well the red shoes with the pink robe. TCs favorite:)

redleghunter  posted on  2015-07-12   3:17:52 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: tomder55 (#6)

I'll reserve comments until I actually see "unbridled " capitalism.

It is in front of you. But you are looking in wrong direction - of industrial capitalism that was replaced in the last few decades by the finance/financial capitalism.

Here is one sample text to start:

Financial Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism

A Pole  posted on  2015-07-12   4:10:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: sneakypete (#13)

I keep telling people that Christ was the original communist,and get nothing but horrified denials.

Not Jesus but his brother James, who led the Jerusalem church. Also, Peter.

The early church's experiments with communal living resulted in society dumping helpless invalids and elderly and sick people on the church faster than the church could recruit more able-bodied followers. Hence, the regular appeals in scripture for other churches to send money for relief of the Jerusalem church. There was also a great famine in Judea around this time as well and it appears that the Jerusalem church was trusted to distribute relief funds raised from Jews and Christians from across the Roman empire.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-07-12   4:53:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: hondo68 (#4)

Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with ‘communist crucifix’

Meh. El Papa doesn't look too pleased, possibly seeing this gift as comparable to foolish JP2 kissing a Koran.

El Papa is anti-capitalist enough but doesn't want to be seen as a Soviet commie.

The crude artwork suggests that Christ died for Soviet socialism, not for remittance of sin.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-07-12   5:00:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: A Pole (#20)

It is in front of you. But you are looking in wrong direction - of industrial capitalism that was replaced in the last few decades by the finance/financial capitalism

So the financial markets are unregulated ? Nah ,if anything they exist as an appendage of the state . What the government has managed to do is squeeze competition out of the market with it's regulations. The ones that operate do so with a wink and a nod approval of the state . Our system is closer to national socialism than capitalism .

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

tomder55  posted on  2015-07-12   6:46:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: tomder55 (#23)

So the financial markets are unregulated ? Nah ,if anything they exist as an appendage of the state . What the government has managed to do is squeeze competition out of the market with it's regulations. The ones that operate do so with a wink and a nod approval of the state .

It seems so on the surface. But if you look more carefully you will see the reverse - the state is an appendage to wealth.

Our system is closer to national socialism than capitalism.

Look at this picture:

A Pole  posted on  2015-07-12   7:14:12 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: sneakypete (#13)

Communism's god is themselves, they don't believe in God. Christ could not deny Himself. That is a big difference. He also said that people had to work for a living, not live off the State.

Don  posted on  2015-07-12   7:47:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: A Pole (#20) (Edited)

I'll reserve comments until I actually see "unbridled " capitalism.

It is in front of you. But you are looking in wrong direction - of industrial capitalism that was replaced in the last few decades by the finance/financial capitalism.

I couldn't agree more.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-12   10:22:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: tomder55 (#23)

So the financial markets are unregulated ? Nah ,if anything they exist as an appendage of the state .

Close. The people who control the markets control the states. They did this worldwide by putting the best (from THEIR POV) politicians in charge of nations that money and blackmail could buy.

Our system is closer to national socialism than capitalism .

Once again,close,but no cigar. You are almost there,though. Think "Global Fascism",the marriage of capitalism for the owners and socialism for the masses, and you will have it.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-12   10:28:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Don (#25)

He also said that people had to work for a living, not live off the State.

So did Marx,Stalin,Hitler,and Mao.

If you couldn't or wouldn't find work,they were more than happy to find it for you.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-12   10:30:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: sneakypete (#28)

So did Marx,Stalin,Hitler,and Mao.

and Sanders.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-12   10:31:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: A K A Stone (#29)

So did Marx,Stalin,Hitler,and Mao.

and Sanders.

And Sanders is STILL more conservative than that asswipe Trump,that lives off the "free money" he gets from the bankruptcy laws after stealing from people stupid enough to invest in his schemes.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-12   11:09:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: sneakypete (#30)

And Sanders is STILL more conservative than that asswipe Trump,that lives off the "free money" he gets from the bankruptcy laws after stealing from people stupid enough to invest in his schemes

You are alone in your delusions.

Not one person would think Sanders is conservative at all.

Which issues is Sanders more conservative then anyone on?

I think in your old age you have confused the modern meaning of the words liberal and conservative.

For example Hillary isn't a conservative like you believe she is.

Also Pat Buchanan isn't a liberal.

Hope that helps you out.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-12   11:13:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: sneakypete (#30)

Trump,that lives off the "free money" he gets from the bankruptcy laws after stealing from people stupid enough to invest in his schemes.

Covetousness is a sin Pete.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-12   11:13:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: A K A Stone, sneakypete (#32)

Covetousness is a sin Pete.

So does that mean that I have to quit my job and just be a bum from now on??

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

CZ82  posted on  2015-07-12   12:10:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: CZ82 (#33)

So does that mean that I have to quit my job and just be a bum from now on??

That would be silly. Then you would covet the handouts of others.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-12   12:13:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: A K A Stone (#34)

Well the definition of the word means you want what others have, so why does it matter how you acquire "what they have"???

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

CZ82  posted on  2015-07-12   12:14:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: CZ82, redleghunter, orthodoxa, don, (#35)

so why does it matter how you acquire "what they have"???

One of these fine gentlemen could probably answer it better then me.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-12   12:24:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: A K A Stone (#36)

Chicken!!!

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

CZ82  posted on  2015-07-12   12:41:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: A K A Stone (#31)

Not one person would think Sanders is conservative at all.

You don't think bringing manufacturing and American jobs back to America is a conservative position?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-12   14:44:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: sneakypete (#28)

Comparing Christ to the three you mentioned? You know that doesn't work.

Don  posted on  2015-07-12   15:12:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Don (#39)

Comparing Christ to the three you mentioned? You know that doesn't work.

It definitely doesn't work if you are listing evil people. Christ would have no business being on such a list.

I was listing proponents of a social system,and he very much rates 1st place in a list of historic socialists/communists.

As a wise man once said,"The devil is in the details". In this case the details of how the head man ran the government organization.

ALL ruled through fear though,and NOBODY comes number 1 on the Fear Hit Parade ahead of Christ. Break his rules and suffer torture for all eternity. At least Stalin,Hitler,etc,etc,etc would give you the release of death.

AND....,they all had the same rule number 1,which was "Obey me in all respects and worship me,and you have nothing to fear."

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-12   16:59:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: A Pole (#24)

Some of this could generously be read to mean moneygrubbing should not supercede human values, perhaps comparable to Alexis De Tocqueville's observation that for capitalism to work, people must be inclined to honor.

But the overall picture was one of condemning private enterprise and extolling the state. Left blameless were the Latin governments, starting with Bolivia, that have been the real drivers of poverty and migration through taxes, bureaucracy, overregulation, contempt for rule of law, bad investment climates, corruption and failed redistribution schemes.

It's worth noting that one Latin American country not on the papal itinerary was Chile, a country that's pulled itself out of poverty and into prosperity by allowing economic freedom based solidly on the rule of law.

Cato economist Michael Tanner estimates that in the last 20 years, capitalism has lifted more than a billion people out of poverty and halved the number of those living in developing countries on less than $1.25 a day.

With such results, failing to see capitalism in its unfettered form as a viable solution to poverty borders on the immoral.

news.investors.com/ibd-ed...pope-does-not-see-devils- dung-can-be-fertilizer.htm#ixzz3fmSmq8Wv

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

tomder55  posted on  2015-07-13   10:14:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: tomder55 (#41)

Cato economist Michael Tanner estimates that in the last 20 years, capitalism has lifted more than a billion people out of poverty and halved the number of those living in developing countries on less than $1.25 a day.

Key part of it was China that is not ruled by rabid Cato free market neocons

A Pole  posted on  2015-07-13   10:49:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: Willie Green (#0)

He is "dung "... and I get to LOL because RC's have an "anti pope" right in their midst...and they still have to kneel before him and kiss his ring...Some justice there

Lakeviewmom  posted on  2015-07-19   15:09:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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