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POPSPope reiterates church teachings in context of economic reality
What have charity and gratuitousness to say to the realities and mechanisms of economic life? What has a papal encyclical, which is primarily a religious document, to say about the mechanics of economic and social development? The encyclical does not as such present fixed recipes for development. It draws inspiration from an understanding of a God who is love and who shares his life with us. What might be the place of the idea of sharing in today’s competitive, market and profit-driven economy? The encyclical recognises the irreplaceable role of the market but notes that “without an internal form of solidarity and mutual trust the market cannot fulfil its proper economic function”. The economy serves the common good but economic growth on its own will never respond to all the needs of social development. Development needs both economic growth and solidarity. But the originality of the encyclical is in how it explores ways of illustrating that economic growth and solidarity
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POPSCaritas in Veritate, p. 27 ...What is missing, in other words, is a network of economic institutions capable of guaranteeing regular access to sufficient food and water for nutritional needs, and also capable of addressing the primary needs and necessities ensuing from genuine food crises, whether due to natural causes or political irresponsibility, nationally and internationally.
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POPSCaritas in Veritate, p. 7 ..."The more we strive to secure a common good corresponding to the real needs of our neighbours, the more effectively we love them. Every Christian is called to practise this charity"
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POPSRatsinger Opens His Mouth Again Ratsy again shows his true colors and unleashes a diatribe against those who don't believe in his dogma. He mentions the tired argument about communism and Marxism as though these ideologies came about through the idea of atheism rather than an as attempt to set up a dictatorial and fascist form of government. I suspect his diatribe has more to do with the recent criticism of his dogma and falling church membership in Europe. Of course, he doesn't address the fact that the most violent and oppressive governments are also the most religious. He fails to recognize that the most successful European governments are the most secular.
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POPSIn virus we trust i believe that birth control ban has and is used as a weapon by religious institutes (all alike). ignorance, refraining from responsibility are other examples of viruses that bans as such are preventing us from treating.
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POPSBenedict XVI and the US Model for Religious Liberty Background information: DICI is the press agency of the Mother House of the Priestly Society Saint Pius X (SSPX). The SSPX, a society of Traditionalist (Vaticanum-II-critical) Roman Catholics, was founded in 1970 by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (excommunicated in 1988). Scripts by and about Pius X: PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS X ON THE DOCTRINES OF THE MODERNISTS LAMENTABILI SANE (in the spirit of THE SYLLABUS OF ERRORS CONDEMNED BY PIUS IX ) Pius X's antimodernism (in German language) Vaticanum II: DECLARATION ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
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POPSDeus Caritas Est, paragraph 25 The teaching of the Letter to the Galatians is emphatic: “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, and especially to those who are of the household of faith” (6:10).
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POPSDeus Caritas Est, paragraph 10 continued: Here Christians can see a dim prefigurement of the mystery of the Cross: so great is God's love for man that by becoming man he follows him even into death, and so reconciles justice and love.
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POPSSpe Salvi Long awaited 2nd encyclical of the Holy Father. Complete here: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html
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