Pope sticks it to capitalism...?

DJPoopypants · May 14, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/world/americas/14pope.html

APARECIDA, Brazil, May 13 — In a major speech on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI condemned capitalism and Marxism as “systems that marginalize God”

“What is real?” he mused in the speech, hours before heading back to Rome after five days in Brazil, the world’s most populous Catholic country. “Are only material goods, social and economic and political problems ‘reality’?”

Capitalism, he said, has failed to bridge the “distance between rich and poor” and is “giving rise to a worrying degradation of personal dignity through drugs, alcohol and deceptive illusions of happiness.”
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Very interesting. I wonder what our resident uber-conservative capitalist & catholic scholar would say about that?

Everybody knew he was gonna stick the knife into leftist south american catholic priests. Who knew he was gonna stick it to the rich too?

Norsk Troll · May 16, 2007

Pope said:

“Are only material goods, social and economic and political problems ‘reality’?”

Capitalism, he said, has failed to bridge the “distance between rich and poor” and is “giving rise to a worrying degradation of personal dignity through drugs, alcohol and deceptive illusions of happiness.”
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Did he at least take off his red Prada loafers and Gucci sunglasses before he said that?