tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post650152900346337255..comments2023-12-18T09:55:42.480-08:00Comments on What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You: Source of Revealed Truth: God Meets Adam Smith or The Best Freaking Pope in History Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-85351357646634002772015-06-27T13:48:09.021-07:002015-06-27T13:48:09.021-07:00Well, I just want to bring the kraziness into the ...Well, I just want to bring the kraziness into the light. Those comments are only the tip of the iceberg. These people recognize that Francis is a serious threat to their way of life--or rather that Francis is pointing out that Jesus is a serious threat to our way of life. Consolaminihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278560268489520757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-23849437414380679862015-06-27T10:15:28.155-07:002015-06-27T10:15:28.155-07:00It was a mortification you did by combing through ...It was a mortification you did by combing through those comments!peteynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-66098981632218104652015-06-22T03:37:51.142-07:002015-06-22T03:37:51.142-07:00As I said in a previous contribution, where were a...As I said in a previous contribution, where were all these Republican twits when previous pontiffs from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI were making the same critique of Western capitalism in their various encyclicals? Is it because the media have given so much attention to Francis and consequently to this teaching? Outlets like the Huffington Post regularly report on just about every utterance he makes. Have Catholics been so accustomed to ignoring papal teaching on the economy simply because no one, beginning with the hierarchy, has really bothered to disseminate it and now the media have done their job for them? (How long has it been since the American bishops have said anything about the economy that generated a significant level of public interest? Oh, right -- 1986 -- just as most of them were becoming Republican tools themselves). In my view, what is really going on here is that, far from reversing the efforts of "Reagan's Pope," Francis has amplified the voice of his predecessor(s) with the help of the very media that normally ignores or despises what the church has to say about most anything. For all his media savvy, John Paul II looks like a circus sideshow compared to Francis' ability to get the world to stand up and notice just what the Catholic Church teaches -- and has taught for well over a century. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com