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.
“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.
There's such a horse already bolted thing to this. I remember avoiding self service checkouts because they were taking away dignity of work. That was a long time ago. Anybody who has been in a staff room lately knows how much people value money. The only thing we can change is ourselves. I find very little guidance from the church on ground level living. It's obscene how much money Elon Musk has and a lot of people. At least Nepal are nauseated by it. In the West generally we revere our footballers, actors etc. though we should be very cautious about the materialism. Let's stop applying catholic social teaching to Elon Musk and start discussing and living it in parishes and at the coal face.
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.
“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.
But if society values the human person and the dignity of work
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There's such a horse already bolted thing to this. I remember avoiding self service checkouts because they were taking away dignity of work. That was a long time ago. Anybody who has been in a staff room lately knows how much people value money. The only thing we can change is ourselves. I find very little guidance from the church on ground level living. It's obscene how much money Elon Musk has and a lot of people. At least Nepal are nauseated by it. In the West generally we revere our footballers, actors etc. though we should be very cautious about the materialism. Let's stop applying catholic social teaching to Elon Musk and start discussing and living it in parishes and at the coal face.
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.