I think your take is quite good, Mark. There has been plenty of commentary on this interview’s supposed continuity with pope Francis, including in John Allen’s analysis of his new wife’s reporting (!). But there was one more obvious sense it which it was discontinuous. It was the first papal interview I’ve read in over a decade that didn’t make me grind my teeth! Nothing he says here strikes me as uncatholic or uncharitable. Contrary to headlines, he doesn’t bash or blast Musk, or even really criticize him, but he does question what such wealth inequality even means and how we need to turn to the Church to make sense of it.
I hope you don't mind me saying, but the interviewers were really attacking the hypocrisy of the (perceived) wealth of the Catholic Church, which does not use it's stored hoards to help the poor. Whether or not the Church is rich or not is irrelevant. Even if the Catholic Church was worth 80 Billion makes no difference. The correct answer was that the Catholic Church is not a charitable organisation, but a evangelical organisation whose aim is to spread the Gospel message and the sacraments. The scriptures are clear that it is for the laity to help the poor, and it is the Church's role to get them into a situation to do so. This is how the interviewers would have been shut down and appeased into backing down. It is their poor understanding of reality which made them make their comments.
I would suggest looking at videos of Dominik Tarczyński who has a zero tolerance approach to interviewers. Nouvelle Theologie has polluted general Theology and catechesis (Systematic Theology in seminaries is also corrupted Theology) and Catholics are left believing that they have to be 'nice' when getting their point across. St. Francis de Sales, despite writing treatise on Union with God defended true Gospel values, but took no prisoners when he had to defend the Church against the state and local authorities. We are left with these confusions of how to operate in the world because we have ditched the Summa Theologica, which has most of the answers to how the Church should operate. I am not talking about manualism, but the Summa Theologica itself.
Beware if you go on again, the male interviewer is argumentative against Christians from what I have seen. The woman will listen to reason. I do appreciate that going on national TV is not easy however, and you did a great job.
Thank you, excellent points. I was briefed before I went on that I would be asked a different set of questions so it did feel that they deliberately wrong footed me! Oh well, I feel like I did get the point across a bit for those who were listening!
The problem is all this amounts to is a continuation of globalist rhetoric which has already been seen in his comments on immigration. Ignoring the Catechism when it clearly states that God defines the boundaries of nations (making mass migration inherently disordered). Is there anything Leo says here that is really different to what your average Labour MP thinks? It is reheated Fabianism and doesn’t really offer a solution to actual problems the poor actually have. It is tea and hand-wringing sympathy.
Certainly it seems absurd that anyone could become a trillionaire. However, I wish that Pope Leo wouldn't have mentioned Elon Musk. It leads to many people automatically associating Musk with something negative, while in fact very few have any knowledge about Musk having donated millions of dollars to assist people in need. He is a very vocal and strong opponent to the dangerous and evil transgender agenda. He is against abortion. While, sadly, many Bishops seem far more engaged in supporting mass immigration and climate issues. He was very vocal about the horrific murder of Zarutska; the young Ukrainian woman on a train in New York. Without his X the US might very well have ended up with Kamala Harris as president.
“But if society values the human person and the dignity of work…” Abortion and euthanasia are the society’s most eloquent commentary on it’s value of the human person. What difference does it make to me, in living out the call to follow Christ, if Musk has a quadrillion dollars? “Gold and silver have I none, but what I have I give to you.”
I think your take is quite good, Mark. There has been plenty of commentary on this interview’s supposed continuity with pope Francis, including in John Allen’s analysis of his new wife’s reporting (!). But there was one more obvious sense it which it was discontinuous. It was the first papal interview I’ve read in over a decade that didn’t make me grind my teeth! Nothing he says here strikes me as uncatholic or uncharitable. Contrary to headlines, he doesn’t bash or blast Musk, or even really criticize him, but he does question what such wealth inequality even means and how we need to turn to the Church to make sense of it.
Thanks Charles.
Thanks Mark. 1% of the worlds population owns 50% of the wealth....GBNews needs to do a program on this and ask: Why?
I hope you don't mind me saying, but the interviewers were really attacking the hypocrisy of the (perceived) wealth of the Catholic Church, which does not use it's stored hoards to help the poor. Whether or not the Church is rich or not is irrelevant. Even if the Catholic Church was worth 80 Billion makes no difference. The correct answer was that the Catholic Church is not a charitable organisation, but a evangelical organisation whose aim is to spread the Gospel message and the sacraments. The scriptures are clear that it is for the laity to help the poor, and it is the Church's role to get them into a situation to do so. This is how the interviewers would have been shut down and appeased into backing down. It is their poor understanding of reality which made them make their comments.
I would suggest looking at videos of Dominik Tarczyński who has a zero tolerance approach to interviewers. Nouvelle Theologie has polluted general Theology and catechesis (Systematic Theology in seminaries is also corrupted Theology) and Catholics are left believing that they have to be 'nice' when getting their point across. St. Francis de Sales, despite writing treatise on Union with God defended true Gospel values, but took no prisoners when he had to defend the Church against the state and local authorities. We are left with these confusions of how to operate in the world because we have ditched the Summa Theologica, which has most of the answers to how the Church should operate. I am not talking about manualism, but the Summa Theologica itself.
Beware if you go on again, the male interviewer is argumentative against Christians from what I have seen. The woman will listen to reason. I do appreciate that going on national TV is not easy however, and you did a great job.
Thank you, excellent points. I was briefed before I went on that I would be asked a different set of questions so it did feel that they deliberately wrong footed me! Oh well, I feel like I did get the point across a bit for those who were listening!
The problem is all this amounts to is a continuation of globalist rhetoric which has already been seen in his comments on immigration. Ignoring the Catechism when it clearly states that God defines the boundaries of nations (making mass migration inherently disordered). Is there anything Leo says here that is really different to what your average Labour MP thinks? It is reheated Fabianism and doesn’t really offer a solution to actual problems the poor actually have. It is tea and hand-wringing sympathy.
I need the faith of a child. I don’t need an intellectual mind or an analysis paralysis hamster wheel to understand God. I simply believe.
Certainly it seems absurd that anyone could become a trillionaire. However, I wish that Pope Leo wouldn't have mentioned Elon Musk. It leads to many people automatically associating Musk with something negative, while in fact very few have any knowledge about Musk having donated millions of dollars to assist people in need. He is a very vocal and strong opponent to the dangerous and evil transgender agenda. He is against abortion. While, sadly, many Bishops seem far more engaged in supporting mass immigration and climate issues. He was very vocal about the horrific murder of Zarutska; the young Ukrainian woman on a train in New York. Without his X the US might very well have ended up with Kamala Harris as president.
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“But if society values the human person and the dignity of work…” Abortion and euthanasia are the society’s most eloquent commentary on it’s value of the human person. What difference does it make to me, in living out the call to follow Christ, if Musk has a quadrillion dollars? “Gold and silver have I none, but what I have I give to you.”
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