Tag: Pope Francis
#ThrowbackThursday – Paul Ryan’s updated “Despicable Me”
Shortly after Rep. Paul Ryan was chosen as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate in 2012, I shared a compilation over at Blogging Blue of some of the really really stupid things Paul Ryan has said and done throughout his career as a politician. In keeping with the theme of…
E.J. Dionne Jr.: Francis’ anti-imperial papacy
This is excellent. Religion makes a lot of mistakes. Faith traditions can be so harsh that they drive away everyone but the self-righteous scolds. Or they can so indulge in therapeutic comfort and manufactured joy that they come to seem like a charlatan’s game. They can be so otherworldly that…
Wealthy founder of Home Depot concerned Pope Francis’s criticisms of capitalism are “exclusionary”
This reads to me like a rich guy trying to blackmail the Catholic Church. In an interview on CNBC on Monday, Home Depot founder and devout Catholic Ken Langone said that the Pope’s statements about capitalism have left many potential “capitalist benefactors” wary of donating to the Church or its…
Paul Ryan lectures the Pope about capitalism
Republican Rep. Paul Ryan has some nerve… It’s true that while knuckle-draggers like Rush Limbaugh attack the pope as a Marxist, Ryan has praised him, which I guess takes a tiny bit of courage since normally Republicans don’t like to buck the leader of their party. “What I love about…
Pope Francis’ ideas on social & economic justice rattle “compassionate” conservatives
Over at Politico, Katie Glueck has a great article on how Pope Francis’ desire for greater economic equality and less of a focus on wealth has rattled some within the Republican Party. For years, Catholic leaders’ staunch and very public opposition to abortion, gay marriage and the contraception-related provisions of…
Pope Francis: unfettered capitalism is “a new tyranny”
In 84-page apostolic exhortation, Pope Francis described unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny” while attacking the “idolatry of money” and beseeching politicians to guarantee all citizens “dignified work, education and healthcare”. A meditation on how to revitalise a church suffering from encroaching secularisation in western countries, the exhortation echoed the…
Pope Francis criticizes global “cult of money”
I sometimes find myself at odds with my church, but Pope Francis is exactly right when it comes to poverty and the “cult of money.” Pope Francis said life had become worse for people in both rich and poor countries, the BBC’s David Willey in Rome reports. In a biblical…
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