The Pope is only saying what all of his predecessors have always said about capitalism, which is the economic aspect of liberalism.
This would have been uncontroversial among Catholics until the 1970s, and everywhere outside the United States or certain extremely Americanised circles elsewhere, it still is. Over 40 years, you have been captured. You have had no influence on the Reagan Coalition, but it has turned you into it.
Roe v. Wade remains entrenched, but millions of American Catholics bizarrely believe that liberal capitalism is Catholic. At all. In the least. They are as schismatic as James Martin. Who also believes that. Or, at the very least, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi do. Doesn't that tell you something?
Those US Catholics are right. The Pope is not infallible on economic matters only on matters of faith and morals, such as abortion. That’s why the Democrats who subscribe to anti capitalist nonsense but support abortion and gay marriage are rightly called “cafeteria Catholics.”
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ReplyDelete1883 Socialization also presents dangers. Excessive intervention by the state can threaten personal freedom and initiative. The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which "a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co- ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good." ...
1885 The principle of subsidiarity is opposed to all forms of collectivism. It sets limits for state intervention. It aims at harmonizing the relationships between individuals and societies. It tends toward the establishment of true international order.
Hopelessly out of your depth. But no one these days is really listening to the two schismatic bodies in America, the liberal one and the conservative one. Their fundamental heresy is the same in both cases, and no one can still be bothered to refrain from saying so. The Pope is no longer a European academic who does not quite realise when he is mincing his words.
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