This Pope is very

moat — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 03:17:31 +0000

In reply to APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS...

This Pope is very interesting.

The following goes way beyond my unbelief in the Catholic world history program:

54. In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.

Saying "Almost without being aware of it" cuts a lot of different ways.

The guy wears a funny hat but speaks the truth.

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This Pope is very