Please defend Pope Francis! Mr. Limbaugh is at pains to point out that he is not Catholic but that he admires it and has often wanted to learn more about it. He should. If he did, he would understand that the pope’s words about the economy are not political, and they are consistent with the Church’s social doctrine on the modern economy, dating at least as far back as Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum. If Mr. Limbaugh had read Evangelii Gaudium itself, rather than a single Washington Post article about it, he would also know that Pope Francis went out of his way to say that he was not recommending a particular economic system to countries. Rather, he was describing obstacles to evangelization, as well as the ethical principles to which all economic systems are bound.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:42:20 +0000
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