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Pope Denounces ‘Unregulated Capitalism’ in New Year’s Message

Jan. 1, 2013 5:00pm Erica Ritz

Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithfull at the end of the solemnity of Mary the Mother of God mass and the celebration of the 46th World Day of Peace on January 1, 2013 at the Vatican Basilica. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

A message for 2013 from the Vatican has left many scratching their heads. According to Reuters, Pope Benedict XVI spent part of his New Year’s address talking politics– even comparing “unregulated capitalism” to “various forms of terrorism and criminality.”

Reuters writes:

Earlier in his homily, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics decried “hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing instances of inequality between rich and poor“.

He also denounced “the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression [in] unregulated capitalism, various forms of terrorism and criminality“.

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In his full message for the peace day, the pope called for a new economic model and ethical regulations for markets, saying the global financial crisis was proof that capitalism does not protect society’s weakest members.

He also warned that food insecurity was a threat to peace in some parts of the world and strongly reaffirmed the Church’s opposition to gay marriage. [Emphasis added]

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Despite it all, though, the pope expressed optimism that peace will prevail in 2013.

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john654
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:52pm
People will understand what the Pope is talking about when you actually have to feed your neighbor. When you can no longer send him or her down to the next government program. Then you will understand that socialism and UNREGULATED capitalism don’t work. The Pope ALWAYS talks over the heads of protestants and secular Americans, the ‘Glen Becks” of the world. Sound bite idiots!

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:58pm
  Yeah cause he is just so high and mighty over everybody else. Everyone else are just little people who aren’t smart enough to get it right?
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:01pm
  For starters, just last week the left and libs were decrying Christianity but now follow what the Pope is saying? Actually, they cherry picked ‘unregulated financial capitalism’… The topic was terror and those that prosper…
  
  From the Vatican’s website: http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-on-new-years-day-find-inner-peace-in-god
  
  Here is what he said; “Although the world is sadly marked by “hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing instances of inequality between rich and poor, by the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression in an unregulated financial capitalism,” as well as by various forms of terrorism and crime, I am convinced that “the many different efforts at peacemaking which abound in our world testify to mankind’s innate vocation to peace. In every person the desire for peace is an essential aspiration which coincides in a certain way with the desire for a full, happy and successful human life. In other words, the desire for peace corresponds to a fundamental moral principle, namely, the duty and right to an integral social and communitarian development, which is part of God’s plan for mankind.
  
  Do your homework folks before throwing stones and that goes also to some that have posted here today.
  
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- TRILO
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:18pm
  What are you talking about. Capitalist systems feed more people than any socialist or communist system throughout history. It is called charity. There is no economic system on this earth that practices unregulated capitalism. Since man has been in existence and agreed to form a governing body to be ruled by, capital and the capitalist system has had a government foundation to work within.
  
  The Pope talks of income inequality, tell me what communist or socialist government has income equality. I guess he just wants all the masses to be poor and have the corporate and political elites like himself living in palaces with servants and all the finer things in life.
  
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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:42pm
  Social Justice. Justice modified with anything is not justice. Re-distribution of wealth – how about the Catholic church start with the priceless antiques its got in the Vatican.
  I digress. Knowledge is Power.
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  If America goes down, the free world will go down with it and it will be finished for a very, very long time…
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:56pm
  John, you provide no evidence of anything, but you are long on ad hominem.
  
  If the pope thinks unregulated capitalism exists now or even 100 years ago, that makes him out to be a fool of the first order. He can keep his state economy from his youth, thank you.
  
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- Brentley
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:03pm
  No you don’t understand. POPE should read bible. Very clearly states that the POOR will ALWAYS be among us. Why? Because some of the poor make bad choices, like drugs and alcohol over work. Some born into poverty because of too much government. IE Russia, Cuba, and most of the communist socialist nations.
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:07pm
  He should denounce Private Central Banks like the FEDERAL RESERVE issuing and controlling nations currencies.
  
  Thats how these Banksters orchestrate Depressions, and then seize these nations when they become Bankrupt.
  
  That is what they did in the U.S.A.
  
  Ron Paul’s Brother tells you that YOU were pledged to a PRIVATE BANK for the Debt of another man. What he doesn’t tell you, is that we also had to surrender our Gov’t Branches and Public Land.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCs7u1ihws
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:09pm
  The obama admin. has put almost 6k more regu. Just since Nov. 6th. on us. That don’t count the thousand since he took office. Almost 100k regu. on the book’s. So we are a Regulatedcaptialist country so the pope sure wasn’t talking about us right? Dumba$$es all…..
  
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- DDD
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:23pm
  The Pope should spread the church’s wealth first! I’m Roman Catholic, by the way, but hearing what the Vatican is sitting on as far as wealth is concerned – well I’ve always felt that the church talks out of both sides of their mouths.
  
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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:35pm
  Idiot. It IS the neighbors who are feeding their neighbors. Do you actually think it is liverals in Washington doing it? Offering a penny from their own pocket.
  Washington IS the problem. These things as well as everything else the lefty loons (Obama) talks about are LOCALLY funded services. Whatever goes to and comes back from Washington is greatly diminished, incompetently operated, Largely pilfered and highly politicized.
  Obama supporters can’t grasp this basic reality.
  
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- Concernd4USA
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:06am
  Amazing that he can take donations from the mafia and drug cartels and then lecture us on which form of economics to run. I would guess that the amount of money that the pope gets from America and western Europe out weighs all other contributions combined. Especially if you factor in the amount of immigrants that funnel money to Mexico, and South America.
  
  In his defense there should be regulations on trade, we want sensible protection. And only the uber rich seem to be against that.
  
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- Gr8ful1jim
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:45am
  @DDD…As a Catholic, you SHOULD know how much the Church spends on taking care of the poor. As a Catholic, you should also know that the treasures of the Vatican are NOT the Vatican’s to sell. They are in care of the Vatican and belong to the people of the world. In 2011, the Vatican actually operated at a deficit. The Catholic Church feeds, cloths, houses, educates, and supplies medical care to millions of poor.
  
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- chucksue351
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:55am
  the man is pure evil
- chucksue351
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 6:05am
  catholism is a cult, the pope is their god on earth and he can do no wrong in their sight, to admit that he can would bring the whole organization down
- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:59am
  Hmmm, I read that New Testament a number of times, and never found a Pope. Did find a place where Paul told us not to call religious leaders “father”
  
  Never found confession to a priest
  
  Never found purgatory
  
  Never found burning candles for the dead
  
  Never found a prayer to Mary
  
  Never found Nuns
  
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- sta
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:07am
  Dadrocked- No one can hear your truth through their Anti-Catholic bigotry.
  Thank you for the actual quote.
  I said before, I do not believe any quote from Reuters, especially if it is about the Pope, a conservative or Glenn Beck. Cherry picking quotes is their hobby.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:17am
  We don’t have unregulated capitalism and haven’t had it for the better part of the last hundred years.
  But as for the pedaphile protector in funny hat goes he can keep his a55 in broke a55 Italy were it belongs. Over regulated capitalism dies from suffucation and leeches.Maybe he should look at the track record of religious controled government….it only slaughtered a couple million people it deemed unworthy. How many people has capitalism slaughtered ….is zero a number . Fact is capitalism has fed more,clothed more, and housed more people than all religions have since their inception. Capitalism has given citizens independence from government and the ability to survive without charity….It’s easy to understand the popes need to keep poverty and desperation alive as it is their breeding ground for gathering the majorityn of their followers.
  
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- jimjims
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:46am
  How about unregulated religion…anyone remember the dark ages? Sounds like the Church will use my tithe to lobby my government. That’s great! I feel like I should get a union card.
  
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- suttonea76
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:56am
  There is no such thing as unregulated capitalism, BUT there is such a thing as unregulated SPENDING, BORROWING, TAXING and LEGISLATION. Capitalism by nature offers everyone the opportunity to CAPITALIZE on an idea, thought and demand in the marketplace. It should be almost void of regulation so people can expand their ideas. The Pope has just given in like the HOUSE did since it was popular as most should remember the Pope is a flawed human like the rest of us. I wish someone would show us how some people out there are not capable of succeeding and why that is. I tend to those that fail have poor work ethic and talk instead of walk. Socialism will temporarily give the poor and lazy more income until those that produce either quit or move somewhere else. I wonder why no one references Germany in the 30′s when they proposed so many programs that our President is doing right now. Coincidence???
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:12am
  Where I live it is a Protestant that does most of the feeding of the poor & working with drunks & addicts (providing food & shelter).
  
  But it is done on a voluntary basis.
  
  What progressives have suggested in the past in trial balloons is quartering the poor in the people’s houses. Forced Quartering of British troops helped lead to the American Revolution. Yet progressive are suggesting this very thing. Instead of quartering soldiers you would be forced to quarter the poor.
  
  In Germany they have started down this slippery slope already. Of course they are more socialist & therefore more advanced than us. It is why liberals love them.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:28pm
  John654
  
  Get a grip on reality. At least make a feeble attempt.
  
  200 families claiming housing benefit have 10 or more children as taxpayers face £150 million bill for ‘benefit broods’
  -At least 40,000 families with five or more children are getting extra payouts
  -The total handouts to these parents come to £350million a year
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255203/200-families-claiming-housing-benefit-10-children-taxpayers-face-150million-benefit-broods.html
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:45pm
  “The ‘spare bedroom tax’ is mean, oppressive, and a politically daft gift to the Left”
  
  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/allanmassie/100067590/the-spare-bedroom-tax-is-mean-oppressive-and-a-politically-daft-gift-to-the-left/
  
  I found this while trying to look up a progressive trial balloon of forcing homeowners to house people on welfare in their spare bedroom in the U.S. that someone the left suggested.
  
  Of course the left also suggested that only people of different races could get married. It was by a lawyer in Chicago & I have that link.
  
  The left is always think up sh/t.
  
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- John655
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:48pm
  @ rangerskippy
  
  If you’d like to debate one of the topics I’d be happy to. But only one. I’ve discovered that people with honest questions are happy to discuss one subject at a time, but those with an agenda just throw out unrelated subjects to muddy the water without ever responding to the matter at hand.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:11pm
  rangerskippy
  
  Hmmm, I read that New Testament a number of times, and never found a Pope. Did find a place where Paul told us not to call religious leaders “father”
  
  Never found confession to a priest
  
  Never found purgatory
  
  Never found burning candles for the dead
  
  Never found a prayer to Mary
  
  Never found Nuns
  ***
  The current Pope did get rid of limbo when he was a theological lawyer. It goes against the concept of infallibility, but I’ll go with it. The concept of purgatory does not concern me overmuch
  
  Confession does not necessarily hurt. It could be good for the soul. If the person unloads & then gets incrementally better. They are still going to be a sinner but maybe not so much. Saying that you have to have a confessor who is human that you confess to. That is a bit much. That said I do not fear the catholic church.
  
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- AmericanEagle1392
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 6:41pm
  Social justice is a non sequitur – it sounds good but means nothing in a country like the US built on individual justice. Who gets to decide what “social justice” means? EVERYONE should receive equal justice of opportunity based on a person’s individual character, attitude and achievements, and those individuals who can provide evidence of discrimination should receive justice in a court of law. However, a civilized society should support those who cannot support themselves through no fault of their own.
  
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- snooop1e
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:11pm
  @rangerskippy – Tell me about it, never found that silly teaching on the Holy Trinity or Sunday worship either, come to think of it, never even found any mention of a “New Testament” in scripture either, what’s up with those crazy Catholics?
  
  PAX CHRISTI
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:47pm
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And nothing about touching little boys……..

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- john654
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:53pm
  I think your the one touching little boys!
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:26pm
  When you can’t argue on the facts just pull an alinsky. You’ve learned well grasshopper john654.
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:30pm
  CivilWarCometh – Keep the good fight fellow patriot…
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:41pm
  I would rather be fighting these people the disease that’s killing this country.http://twitchy.com/2013/01/01/eric-cantor-opposes-senates-fiscal-cliff-bill-liberals-reply-fk-you/
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:46pm
  CivilWarCometh – Sing it LOUD…
  Eric Cantor is from here in VA, Frank Wolf (my district’s Congressman) is fighting the fight as well…
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:31pm
  John654
  
  John654 wants others to clean up his messes. He gets the fun, you get the bill.
  
  “At least 40,000 families with five or more children are getting extra payouts”
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255203/200-families-claiming-housing-benefit-10-children-taxpayers-face-150million-benefit-broods.html
  
  John 654 resembles Ian Sharp no doubt. Look at the picture in the article.
  
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- snooop1e
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 1:46pm
  To all of the Protestant Catholic haters in the room. Lets be honest here, the problem with Protest-antism is you can’t even agree with eachother about anything (other than hating the Catholic church). If there was ONE united Protestant church I would say you have a strong argument but all that you have managed since Martin Luther is division and disagreement with eachother (over 30,000 different “Bible Based” churches with differing doctrines and beliefs from reading the same Bible) You accept the New Testament (which isn’t mentioned anywhere in scripture) that the Catholic church canonized but reject the authority of the Church that canonized it (it’s like holding and eggg and denying that chickens exist) If you can find me even ONE of these man made doctrines mentioned in scripture I’ll listen to you. You can’t it’s not there.
  
  1. Sola Fide (saved by faith alone) see (James 2:24) and (Eph 5:5) and (Rom 2:7)
  2. Sola Scriptura (scripture alone has authority) see (1 Tim 3:15) and (Matt 28:18)
  3. Once Saved Always Saved (aka Eternal Security) see (Heb 10:26) and (Rom 11:22) and (2 Pet 2:20)
  4. Saying the “Sinners Prayer” as a means of being saved?
  5. Making an “Altar Call” as a means of being saved?
  6. “Accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior” ?
  7. Reading scripture as a means of salvation (see John 5:39)
  
  Attacking someones faith is easy, try defeding your own, you can’t, it’s not “Biblical” so you resort to att
  
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Remember_Benghazi
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:42pm
That’s an easy thing to say when you sit on a golden throne atop of a mountain of stolen wealth and priceless artifacts you continue to horde from your days of conquest. Organized religion is a racket. They prey on the poorest and most destitute people on the planet, promising eternal reward in the next life while seeking power in this one. All of this goes on while the clergy allows their African followers to die of starvation and AIDS, both of which could be greatly remedied by selling off even a fraction of said wealth. Instead churches keep passing around the collection baskets, week after week. Non-faith groups such as Doctors Without Borders are left to clean up the horrendous mess created by the Church with their policy against condom use. AIDS is bad, just not as bad as condoms apparently.

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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:33pm
  For starters, just last week the left and libs were decrying Christianity but now follow what the Pope is saying? Actually, they cherry picked ‘unregulated financial capitalism’…
  
  The topic was terror and those that prosper…
  
  His homily contained 1,464 words and the cherry pick was three words…
  Read the whole homily from the Vatican’s website…
  
  From the Vatican’s website: http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-on-new-years-day-find-inner-peace-in-god
  
  Do your homework folks before throwing stones and that goes also to some that have posted here today.
  
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:42pm
Like to ask this high and mighty church and others….how do you get 3 days and 3 nights from Good Friday to Easter Sunday? Not possible. Einstein couldn’t do it.

Like to ask why they put a statue of Jupiter in St. Peter’s Catherdral and say it is of St. Peter and allow millions to kiss it’s foot?

The building fund to Build St. Peter’s Cathedral with all the pure gold on the ceiling and arches…how was that funded way back then? Did you have a building fund? Did you sell people “indulgences” which the Catholic Church said would absolve them of future sins? $2.47 =forgiven for raping a virgin. Double that amount and you were automatically forgiven for murder.

We have inherited abominations. The Western Religions were adopted from Constantine – a pagan sun god worshiper until the day he died. He just made up some symbols took the Bible and made a new religion and killed all the Jews and their Feasts were forbidden. (fyi,,i was raised roman catholic)

http://www.religiousleftexposed.com/home/2012/12/author-carol-byrne-warns-of-socialism-in-the-roman-catholic-church.html

I have posted on this subject here before and there is a long history of the Popes and Marxists and it’s not that hard to find. There a books written on the subject too.

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- tradcatholicgirl
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:23pm
  Pigswillneverfly,
  
  Your ignorance on the Catholic church, and history in general, never ceases to amaze me.
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:36pm
  If you do this much ‘research’ on a church that you do not believe in…
  Than maybe you should do a little research on a subject before you spew…
  Do your homework folks before throwing stones
  
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- Elomay
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:26am
  Ok lets go through this very sad list of yours. First its on the third day he rose from the dead not the third night Friday, Saturday, Sunday. that’s three days. Next everyone know that Einstein was horrible at math, it’s a well known fact. And that statue is one of Peter not Jupiter, made by Michelangelo. You know the same guy that painted the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Also the Statue is cordoned off, they try to keep people from it, not encourage them to kiss it. Under the Church is the final resting place of Saint Peter the Apostle not a vast hall of Statues. Pure gold? Try bronze removed from the Pantheon, another building in Rome given to the church be the emperor, not stolen. And indulgences were a thing of the past by the time Saint Peter’s construction. FYI you never were Catholic that is obvious.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 2:29am
  @PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  LOL. You make a good point. The Friday version is tradition, just like Christmas. From sunset to sunset according to Jewish custom, it would be Wed. – Sat. three days and three nights (some argue it was Thurs. – Sun., but that view also has its problems.) Friday is definitely not biblical.
  Here’s a timeline: http://www.gotquestions.org/three-days.html
  
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- Concernd4USA
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:27am
  @trad catholic girl He is actually pretty accurate on at least most of what he says. As a former Catholic I went to catholic school growing up. Because I actually read history and the Bible I got the heck out. That is a statue of Jupiter now called Peter. The days of the week are named after Roman Gods and set in place by the church.
  
  I got in trouble for asking about things like where the immaculate conception of Mary is in the Bible and it is not there.
  
  I asked why do they have Gargoyles (demons) in churches and church steeples. They said to scare away demons, isn’t that God’s job?
  
  Why do I say my confessions to a priest? their answers What if God is busy and what if my sorrow is not perfect? If my sorrow is not perfect you cannot be sorry for me.
  
  Why pray to mary? I quoted 1st Timothy 2.5 there is one mediator between man and God the man Christ Jesus. Not Peter, Paul, Joseph, Mary, or the whole list of dead people they want you to pray to.
  
  The kicker Revelation 17 the woman that rides the beast. It is explained in the Bible that it is the church of the city on 7 hills that rules nations. There are 2 cities on 7 hills Rio and Rome only one rules nations The Catholic Church.
  
  Revelation 18 goes on to say come out of her (the Catholic Church) my people lest you be a partaker in her judgments. There are good Catholics including priests but the system is not of God.
  
  The 3 day thing is easy Friday, Saturday and Sunday is 3 days on a calender.
  
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- Concernd4USA
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:32am
  @trad catholic girl He is actually pretty accurate on at least most of what he says. As a former Catholic I went to catholic school growing up. Because I actually read history and the Bible I got the heck out. That is a statue of Jupiter now called Peter. The days of the week are named after Roman Gods and set in place by the church.
  
  I got in trouble for asking about things like where the immaculate conception of Mary is in the Bible and it is not there.
  
  I asked why do they have Gargoyles (demons) in churches and church steeples. They said to scare away demons, isn’t that God’s job?
  
  Why do I say my confessions to a priest? their answers What if God is busy and what if my sorrow is not perfect? If my sorrow is not perfect you cannot be sorry for me.
  
  Why pray to mary? I quoted 1st Timothy 2.5 there is one mediator between man and God the man Christ Jesus. Not Peter, Paul, Joseph, Mary, or the whole list of dead people they want you to pray to.
  
  The kicker Revelation 17 the woman that rides the beast. It is explained in the Bible that it is the church of the city on 7 hills that rules nations. There are 2 cities on 7 hills Rio and Rome only one rules nations The Catholic Church.
  
  Revelation 18 goes on to say come out of her (the Catholic Church) my people lest you be a partaker in her judgments. There are good Catholics including priests but the system is not of God.
  
  The 3 day thing is easy Friday, Saturday and Sunday is 3 days. On the
- joboww
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:06pm
  @CONCERND4USA
  
  - Great another former Catholic that went to ‘catholic’ school, in other words like the rest of us that did so you received no catechisis
  - That’s a poor question cause it presumes that everything we believe is in the bible when the bible does not teach that in the first place. Second: http://www.catholicbible101.com/immaculateconception.htm ; but im sure that you actually did your own home work on this right? Right?…
  - http://cathapol.blogspot.com/2010/08/gargoyles-on-churches.html; next…just because someone says something doesn’t mean its actual church teaching
  - First no priest who is properly formed would make a dumb statement like ‘what if God is busy’ considering hes omnipresent. Second http://www.catholicfaithandreason.org/confession-of-sins—how-biblical-is-it.html; next
  - If you are praying for anyone right now stop because you are acting as a mediator, how much more effective is the prayer of a righteous man who is in heaven then? Come on you are better than this, do your home work
  - First kicker is that Vatican Hill is not on of the 7 hills, second http://www.catholic.com/tracts/hunting-the-whore-of-babylon; next
  - Im sure the “(the Catholic Church)” was actually right there in scripture, or are you adding to it? I wonder what St. John would say to your new inclusion? There are good protestants but many of them would rather not ask relevant questions like why they accept the 27 books of the new testament in the first
  
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- Rock_Paper_Bullets
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:09pm
  Oh goody…there go the “Protestant Parrots” chirpping the Party Line again…
  
  Can someone please explain why it is that Catholics worship the Savior on the Cross while Protestants just worship their Bibles?
  
  Ah, ah, ah…now before you Protestants bust a vein trying to be the first one to scream “Idolary!!”, consider the following quote from Gian Domenici Mansi during the Second Coucil of Nicaea: “For honour paid to an image passes on to its prototype; he who worships (ho proskynon) an image worships the reality of him who is painted in it.”
  
  Please feel free to continue with the judgemental, intolerant, anti-Catholic drivel…
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 6:59pm
  CONCERNED4USA
  Friday, Saturday and Sunday is actually less than two days on the Jewish calendar. Friday sunset when he was allegedly buried to Sat sunset = 1 day. Sat. 6pm till before dawn on Sunday (while it was still dark) is less than twelve hours. Jesus explicitly said three days and three nights:
  
  “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matt. 12:40)
  
  Besides, Jesus WAS our Passover. He was/is the fulfillment of ALL the Jewish Feasts. The feasts were really typologies pointing to Messiah. The Passover is celebrated on 14 Nisan and Jesus was buried just before sundown that day (Jn. 19:42) and on the 15th of Nisan (Wed. sundown to Thurs. sundown) the high Sabbath began, i.e., the Day of Unleavened Bread, when Christ the manna from heaven who had no sin (leaven) was wrapped in linen and buried (hidden) then resurrected (recovered and unwrapped). http://hadavar.org/drupal/book/export/html/217
  
  One more point to consider: Three is the number of God, who is perfect, complete. If you use half days, then that wholeness is lost. Mind you, it is not just a symbolic number or time span. It is the very nature of the triune God. Jesus took our sins on the cross for three full hours as well — not one second more or one second less. God is awesome. :)
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:44am
  @JOBOWW
  If you are praying for anyone right now stop because you are acting as a mediator, how much more effective is the prayer of a righteous man who is in heaven then?
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  No. ALL our prayers are in JESUS’ NAME, meaning He and He alone is the mediator. We are mere vessels, made righteous by the blood of Jesus. Read Hebrews 7-10. You can’t be a mediator between God and man without blood. Did Mary shed her blood for you? Even if she had, it would never make you righteous because she was a sinner, like every other descendant of Adam.
  
  There is only one Mediator in the New Covenant, and He is seated at the right hand of God. You can rationalize in your own puny head why people should pray to the dead, but it is an abomination and an affront to God, and He calls the shots not you.
  
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barber2
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:38pm
Well, he did also condemn ” various forms of terrorism and criminality.” Think the Pope should have spoken out much more forcefully regarding those two topics which are far more prevalent and dangerous today than ” unregulated capitalism.” Very odd word choice and focus on his part. He sounds like he is channeling Father Michael Pfleger, the social justice Chicago priest who periodically gets chastised, but like Pelosi and the other Far Left Democrats never get the boot / excommunication.

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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:11pm
  Aspiring capitalists want to know where they can FIND any “unregulated capitalism”? Would the Somali pirates count?
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:40pm
  Chuck Stein – I am sure that your writing was sarcastic in nature but you are, as one example, correct… Gun running/supplies/financial/manpower for uprisings, so the Somali pirates would fall into the Pope’s comment.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:03am
  DADROCKED
  Gun running/supplies/financial/manpower for uprisings, so the Somali pirates would fall into the Pope’s comment.
  —
  Absolutely not. Do not confuse anarchy — which is what you see in much of Africa — with what socialists and communists call “unregulated capitalism.” They hate capitalism per se, so all capitalism is unregulated in their view. The qualifier is simply used for propaganda purposes to give capitalism a negative connotation.
  
  BTW, the Vatican is not an example of unregulated capitalism. There is no capitalism in that tiny state; just monarchical corruption.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:15am
  Yes, the Pope thinks that the “profits before people” mentality of unfettered capitalism is bad. Let’s attack him.
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:59pm
  So, Vance, sounds like you know where there is “unfettered capitalism”. Where? Certainly not in the United States — Americans are very regulated. Europe even more so. What legal enterprise can you identify (and in what jurisdiction) constitutes “unfettered capitalism.”
  Point I’m making isn’t that the Pope is wrong — just that he is tilting at a windmill. Or, perhaps a better way to say it is that the Pope is setting up a straw man. Capitalism is so highly regulated in the U.S. for example, that what is decried as a failure of “capitalism” is actually an example of socialism’s having infected and sickened capitalism. Good example: the housing market and “Fanny” and “Freddy” creating a bubble.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:33pm
For the Catholics – how does this make you feel?

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- Red Meat
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:13pm
  As a former Roman Catholic, great.
  
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- Concernd4USA
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:37am
  I agree with red meat.
  
  As an ex catholic, fantastic.
  
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- italy2007
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:12am
  This is how this Cathoilc feels. I work my butt off for the salary my employer pays me and I am happy to do it. That being said I attend Mass weekly and give my 10% to the weekly offering. I also support various charities (Salvation Army, the local Rescue Mission, Humane Shelter, etc) each paycheck and amy not only happy to do it but enjoy helping others. Not ONCE have I ever heard a sermon from my Priest(s) asking the congregation to give his/her 10%. Maybe that is the problem. Even in this economy if you cannot give 10% you could at least give a dollar or so. No one wants to deny him/herself that Starbuck’s, movie, eating out, etc. That is the problem. It is NOT Capitalism. Capitalism is what has Fed MILLIONS, Capitalism has Clothed Millions, etc. I would say to the Pope “Capitalism has kept the Cathlic Church in the Business of feeding and clothing the children of God. Perhaps if the Pope did his job and urged human beings to use their OWN MONEY and not the Government’s when it comes to Charity the world would be better off
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:13am
  I am a Catholic. I read the Pope’s homily in it’s entirety. Below is the paragraph in which he mentions capitalism:
  
  “Although the world is sadly marked by “hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing instances of inequality between rich and poor, by the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression in an unregulated financial capitalism,” as well as by various forms of terrorism and crime, I am convinced that “the many different efforts at peacemaking which abound in our world testify to mankind’s innate vocation to peace. In every person the desire for peace is an essential aspiration which coincides in a certain way with the desire for a full, happy and successful human life.”
  
  I live in a regulated capitalist system with a progressive income tax designed to redistribute wealth.
  
  The unregulated capitalistic systems to me are 3rd world countries and countries like China where child labor and, in some cases, slave labor are common. The people who run these businesses are flat out greedy capitalists.
  
  Now I don’t know if the Pope is pointing a finger at the USA. If he is, he is wrong. The USA is still the bread basket of the world. Our society is marked by individual acts of charity. That is why some of us disagree with mandated government charity.
  
  Disagreeing with the Pope doesn’t make me a bad Catholic. I am free to disagree. The Pope’s homily is neither dogma or doctrine and does not carry papal
  
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- sta
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:34am
  As a Catholic, it makes me feel sad for the readers here, who like the Blaze staff, took the word of Reuters over reading the actual words of the Pope in context.
  In the past, the MSM has taken the words of Beck and threw them against the wall to see what would stick. The Blaze readers didn’t fall for it.
  It’s sad to see the sheeple here.
  
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- Rock_Paper_Bullets
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:03pm
  As a Catholic, it makes me wonder that, since the Pope did not specifically address WHO he was speaking about, that perhaps those that take umbrage/offense/anger with his comment may be feeling a bit guilty themselves.
  
  Have you talked to your Priest today?
  
  Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
  
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:32pm
The Pope is only concerned with seeing the world with the eyes of Jesus. He cannot be faulted for this. He cares about the downtrodden. This will always be the case. Nothing new here, move along.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:42pm
  BS, he equated economic freedom with the murder of women and children. His whole organization can hang for all I care.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:54pm
  You are a progressive aren’t you? Did you or did you not read this article? You know those people who say obama could kill a baby on live T.V. and then say that wasn’t me and they would believe him? Well guess what?
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:59pm
  This sounds like Obama’s Religion Czar Jim Wallis who thinks that Jesus would be a communist. Sad to see that the Pope is even falling in with the social justice crowd. People give charity to help others, not the government. Oh well, if you believe that a priest can absolve you of your sins, then what did Jesus die on the cross for? That is why a lot in the mafia were/are Catholic. They can do bad all they want and as long as a priest gives the last rights before the croak, their slate is wiped clean. That is why I left the Catholic church 16 years ago, I could not resolve that a human has the power to erase sins that Jesus does. Anyway, sad to see the Pope turning towards social justice & away from true freedom.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:04pm
  @CAVALLO
  
  Take a shot of Jack Daniels please and come back and talk to me.
  
  @Civil
  
  Didn’t you ask me to leave you alone? You cruising for a bruising boy…..
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:05pm
  Then he ought to stick with God’s and not Ceasar’s business.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:10pm
  1776 Bring it!
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:16pm
  @WOLFGANG
  
  We all have been disappointed by the works of man. Gods seeks your input and works Brother. Don’t let trivialities end your reward. We are men of God, We fight for what is right. You strength is needed in this fight! Double edged Axe is required.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:28pm
  @Civil War Cometh
  
  What is you first plan of attack?
  Resupply on ammo?
  How about medical aid for the wounded?
  You Sir( and I use the term loosely) are an amtauer..
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:30pm
  @Civil
  
  Don’t worry little brother, there is more…
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:49pm
  Still can’t get over the name huh? My name only implys that a civil war IS comeing wether (I )want it to are not. When you can see past the name let me know. I would much rather NOT fight a civil war but it is what i see comeing. Deal with it…
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:59pm
  @Civil
  
  The NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS all know who you are. They can remove you, when and how they want.
  
  You are living in a dream…
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:15pm
  They will only remove a dead body because unlike you i’m not scared to die over my freedom you COWARD!!!! You might want to read Agenda 21 by Harriet Parke. Enjoy your energy board…..
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:17pm
  1776…………….
  Civil war is possible and can be won. The government cannot be everywhere at once thought they think they can. Civil war will be fought in the dark this time. It will be fought by hit and run tactics. It will be fought with fire and with disruptions. Let us hope it will not happen…..
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:23pm
  @Nutso a.k.a. Civilwar
  
  Enjoy your demise, dude I tried to help you. Good luck.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:38pm
  Look 1776 i don’t really want to argue or fight with you but if you don’t think that the government doesn’t know who we ALL are your fooling yourself. Just for the simple reason you post on this sight they have looked you over and are still monitering you. They want you to be scared. Guess what? You are they have beat you already. you are a fool’s fool if you think you are not alreay on their radar…. Peace be with you…
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:20am
  1776
  
  You are right. Anyone who doesn’t consider the logistical train is engaging in magical thinking.
  
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possom
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:25pm
Who left the icebox door open? The pope got into the coolaid!

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Beachmastermax
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:25pm
Of course he does!! How in the hell do you think he is going to get his cut without it?

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Cavallo
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:23pm
This must explain why the Catholics voted for Obama. They prize fascism over freedom. Slavery over liberty. The State over their old god. I’ve defended my last Catholic. They deserve the hell they have advocated and created. When their new god demands they break the covenants of their old one, I’ll laugh as they bend knee and murder their children.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:57pm
  Something Ive always found odd with Catholicism.
  You can meet someone who comes from a catholic family, catholic upbringing went to catholic school,
  yet knows ABSOLUTELY ZERO about what it means and has never attended service or had anything to do with religion their entire lives.
  
  Yet say one thing about Catholicism and they go berserk.
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:40am
  Okay…I had read the article, the full quote, and the comments but this just takes the cake…as usual, Cavallo is ignorant and a fool.
  
  Catholics voted LESS for Obama in 2012 than they did in 2008, know the facts or keep your mouth SHUT!
  54% -46% voted for Obama in 2008
  51%-49% voted for Obama in 2012
  That means Catholics moved 3% towards the Right…with the 40 million Catholics in the USA, that means 1.2 million more of them voted based on the teachings, the TRUE teachings of the Church, which means the “social justice” wing of the Catholic Church is losing the argument. Given that the largest group of Catholics in the USA are Hispanics, and they voted 71% for Obama, a 4% gain from 2008, that means 7% of the Catholic USA Church moved towards the Right as a whole.
  Now, seeing as MORE of this country is Protestant/Non-denominational than Catholic, I think you should turn your attention to the 43% of them that voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, NO change. How about the 30 million Evangelical/Protestant voting age citizens that either didn’t vote, in 2008 or 2012, or more importantly the 14 million of that 30 million that ARE registered and still didn’t vote in either election.
  Obama only won in 2008 by 6 million votes, 5 million in 2012. Simple math will tell you, non voting Evangelicals cost McCain and Romney 2 million votes each NET. Not to mention the other 50 million non registered, non voting public.
  
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stopprintn
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:20pm
Well, look for a new Ann Barnhardt video soon.

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freeberty
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:18pm
decried “hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing instances of inequality between rich and poor“.

Says, the nearly dead old man wearing his gold hat, and his gold cane.

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RaydocX
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:18pm
So the new Catholic paradigm is appeasement?!
Next he will endorse contraception… And abortion cannot be far behind.
Seriously, spanking capitalism in any manner seems… Ill advised, when the obvious push toward socialism includes the tearing down of religion.

Last I checked, unions were more powerful than the employers, and with government’s help. So maybe His Emminence should also warn against needlessly over regulated capitalism, no?

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scrapadapolis
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:18pm
What a hypocrap,amassing in gold and adorning in lavish goes against the bible.Let me ask does the vadican give 10% to anyone?O fcourse not.They are buying arms for the the knights templar,Waiting ih hiding.

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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:48pm
  Crusaders !
  Good stuff!
  
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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:19pm
  Scrap,
  One has to be a Free Mason before he can become a Knights Templar. The Catholic Church banned the FM’s long ago.
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:51am
  @Scrap
  
  You are right..wait…you are right…the Catholic Church does not give 10% to anyone…neither does any other church..but that is besides the point. The Catholic Church gives 100% to God, well actually MORE than 100% seeing as they have been operating at a deficit for some years.
  
  Now if you want to be technical, which I know some of you legalistic Pharisees are, then the truth is that the Catholic Church gives 100% of the NET away every year to Catholic orphanages, shelters, abuse programs, family counseling, etc. Once they pay all their utility bills, property taxes, salaries to lay people that work for the Church worldwide, the meager stipends to the clergy (unlike the Evangelical pastors that make 6 or 7 figures – not that I begrudge them their salaries), and the interest on their debts…Once ALL of that is done…the Catholic Church STILL gives away EVERY LAST DIME and then some.
  
  Now before we get the same IDIOTIC comments about the “whore of Babylon” or the “pedophiles”, why don’t you pull the plank from your own eye. The rate of pedophiles in the Catholic church is no higher that the same in any society, denomination, or sect, in fact it is lower. Same with any type of “sexual” misconduct. Next, why don’t you check the background of your sources before quoting them blindly, I believe following your “false prophets” is not what God commanded.
  
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brigott
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:16pm
The Dragon, Beast, False Prophet, and others of the Book of Revelation may be revealed soon.

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- nesmond
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:37pm
  Interesting video for those interested in end-times prophecy. Not saying this is how it will go down, but thought-provoking nevertheless.
  
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:16pm
And yet the catholics will still give them their money and go to their churches. I’m sure him being part of the nazi youth movement has nothing to do with it. Most catholics are just as blinded by their faith as much as anyone who would dare practice islam… I do not like the catholic church at ALL!

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- Hotconchick
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:53pm
  Me either- glad I left it.
  
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TADTAD
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:15pm
Yeah, and I denounce unregulated, homosexual, perverted, child molesting Priests…….

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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:19pm
  I love the golden necklaces and the golden staff they carry.
  
  Apparently taking a vow of poverty means wearing tons of bling.
  
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- Gr8ful1jim
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 6:01am
  Glad the two of you left…I can see you knew nothing of the faith. Most who decry the Church have done little to strengthen their own knowledge of the faith and it shows. The Church will do just fine without you and those of us who actually live the faith will carry out God’s will. Remember the Church has one goal…To get all souls to Heaven.
  
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lisalake
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:13pm
Who the he**l has “unregulated” capitalism??? Ditto @3MONKEYSMOMMA!

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- sndrman
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:25pm
  unregulated Capitalism from they way i see it is maybe the drug gangs,mafia’s illegal gains…money brought or earned by wrong ways……….maybe i misunderstood
  
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- MFHorn3
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:39pm
  If we had unregulated capitalism, we might have more power companies to choose from, more cable companies to choose from, more car companies to choose from…etc
  
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moon8
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:13pm
Note Reuters is interpreting the comments and not posting Pope Benedict’s speech. Find his speech. Pope Benedict has denounced socialism as has many previous Popes. Pope Benedict supports an ethical dimension to capitalism but that does not mean he is embracing socialism. Church solidarity

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barber2
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:12pm
Apparently the Pope never studied economics. He should be speaking out about the growing ” unregulated secularism” which is a major threat to individual freedoms. His focus is sadly off base. He sounds like one of those ” Jesus came to put a chicken in every pot” preachers. Materialism versus spirituality. Feeding the soul seems to be a lost concern.

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13th Imam
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:10pm
Is Barry now THE POPE? Has he won the Heisman yet? Or an Oscar? Is he king of Emmy’s? Or is he Kim Un Oblamma? Or Che Barri?

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cemerius
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:10pm
LMAO even the papacy does NOT understand Economics 101 or is it he is the “spiritual leader” of the NWO now? There are MILLIONS of Catholics that have no spiritual leader do to the lack of “leadership or guidance” from the Vatican!!!! For an example WHY has Nanci Pelosi and here fanatical support of abortions NOT been excommunicated from the Catholic church?? Dingy read counter to Mormon doctrine still can walk around and “proudly” say he is a Mormon……..Churches to me feel the bite more in their pocket books then their spiritual souls……

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- barber2
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:15pm
  You have stated what many of us feel today. What ever happened to the concern for man’s spirituality ? The Pope sounds like Karl Marx.
  
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3monkeysmomma
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:09pm
(sigh) Crap like this is why my husband and I have serious regular conversations about leaving the RCC.

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- JFPickel
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:38pm
  If you will do a little research, you should find a Anglican Church near you. Not an Episcopal, but an Anglican. We are very much like the original church from the 1500s in our views. Check it out, you will be pleasantly surprised. Also check out Michael Youssef’s TV services, Leading the Way.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:59pm
  organized religion is overrated. If you can find a group of bible believing christians and study the word with love – you are good to go
  
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jonarata
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:08pm
All this does is validate my decision to leave the catholic church 2-weeks prior to Christmas. Sheesh, @RichJimMurph had this spot-on – where the heck is all this “unregulated capitalism” happening?

Here’s a hint, it was central planning and fascism that failed, utterly, to protect ‘the poor’ during the 2008 collapse. What the pope is prescribing is more poison for the patient. No thanks.

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- tradcatholicgirl
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:24pm
  Did you read the whole quote from the Pope?
  
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Gregory_Adams
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:06pm
@ Glenn, I thought the Pope was onboard with the message of Capitalism. Seems either he slid off the team or one of his Marxist assistants is writing his speeches.

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- sta
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:34pm
  I never believe quotes from Reuters about ANY religious leader, conservative or Glenn Beck.
  
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