My Friend, who was a FAO officials at Rome and retired, settled in Rome send me interesting articles time to time. Today, I got an interesting article which he also quoted from another journal.
I was impressed and upload this article here as it says, Holy Father sees the root causes of the poverty based on "Structural Sin" and need to address them structurally. Our analysis has no difference though it is Marxists or Leninist or what ever it is we need to address them based on this analysis.
What we need to do is to deepen our analysis and see how we address the root causes of the poverty, hunger, marginalization, malnutrition, desertification, climate changes and disasters and the list is not exhausted.
I would like my friends also read the article appeared in a financial magazine as follows;
I QUOTE BELOW.
The respected financial magazine accused the pope of following the founder of Soviet communism in adopting an “ultra radical line” on capitalism.
In a blog entry titled
“Francis, capitalism and war: The pope’s divisions,” the British weekly
questioned aspects of a wide-ranging interview the pontiff recently
gave to the Spanish daily La Vanguardia.
“By positing a link between
capitalism and war, he seems to be taking an ultra-radical line: one
that consciously or unconsciously follows Vladimir Lenin in his
diagnosis of capitalism and imperialism as the main reason why world war
broke out a century ago,” The Economist said.
“He observes what he calls
the ‘idolatry of money’ in some places and hungry children in others …
he concludes that economists must be missing some important point,” the
magazine said.
“Francis may not be offering
all the right answers, or getting the diagnosis exactly right, but he is
asking the right questions,” The Economist said.
The Vatican’s chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, on Wednesday
(June 25) declined to comment on the nature of the blog but said
everyone knew the pope was driven by a strong concern for global
poverty.
“The pope is very interested
in involving himself with the problems of the poor and social justice,”
Lombardi told Religion News Service. “It is part of his nature to speak
out about economic and social issues. That is well-known.”
The article is likely to
provoke renewed debate about the pope’s social doctrine and his concern
that the world’s wealthiest are failing to wipe out poverty and social
inequality.
“It is increasingly
intolerable that financial markets are shaping the destiny of peoples
rather than serving their needs, or that few derive immense wealth from
financial speculation while many are deeply burdened by the
consequences,” Francis told a Vatican conference on ethical investing
last week.
Many times during his papacy, Francis has said he was committed to helping the poor and underprivileged. On Tuesday, the 77-year-old pope tweeted his desire for everyone to have “decent work,” which he said was “essential for human dignity.”
Late last year, Francis
brushed off accusations from U.S. critics that he was a
Marxist. “Marxist ideology is wrong,” the pope said. “But I have met
many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended.”
Limbaugh attacked the pope
for his apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium,” last November, in
which Francis said it would be impossible to overcome global poverty
without first addressing the structural causes of inequality and
financial speculation.
“This is just pure Marxism
coming out of the mouth of the pope. Unfettered capitalism? That doesn’t
exist anywhere,” Limbaugh told his listeners. “Unfettered capitalism is
a liberal socialist phrase to describe the United States. Unfettered,
unregulated.”
Glenn Beck, another
conservative American commentator, rejected Time magazine’s decision to
name Pope Francis “Person of the Year” because of Beck’s concern about
what he described as the pontiff’s “Marxist tendencies.”
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