It is time for Pope Francis to resign from the Papacy immediately and pursue his true calling…secular politics.
Pope: Equal pay for equal work (AP)
Pope Francis has added his voice to the feminist anthem of equal pay for equal work, saying it’s “scandalous” that women earn less than men for doing the same job.
Pope Veritaspac XXIV
Once again it is a broad politically charged brush the Pope paints with on matters of economics. Which country’s laws or practices is he talking about? Western/ Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, North America – where a great percentage of women have jobs outside the home, a true disparity arguably doesn’t exist, with some analysis, all factors being equal, of favoritism toward women. How about in Asia – perhaps China – the worker’s paradise? India? How about Africa, the Middle East where jobs are plentiful (not) and traditions are hardly to hang onto the Pope’s comments? Maybe he means South America, but he just can’t bring himself to say so, it being easier to paint with a broad brush.
There is no discernment in the Pope’s comments though the remarks were prepared for his Wednesday general audience. Are there any cultural, religious or economic reasons that might explain disparities perhaps even as transitory? Is there any economic system to be acknowledged where the injustice is less likely, where the incomes of all are higher, where skills are exalted with little or no sexual reference, perish the thought, market based economies perhaps? Is there any appreciation in his thought process for comparison of apples to apples as regards the issue of equal pay for equal work, something that has been debated a long time in this country and any alleged disparities refuted authoritatively by real economists.
Instead the Pope is inclined to socialize the blame for matters he objects to which serves to empower malcontents and condemn people and institutions that do not deserve such treatment. And, by the way, when will the Pope’s dictum about obsessing with matters come into play? Or was the approbation about “obsessing” only with regards to subjects he thinks have been dealt with enough as if pronouncements about the poor have been wanting in Catholic churches?
The Pope’s Joe Biden moments (from the AP article)
While speaking out about the need for a greater role for women in the church, the 78-year-old Argentine Jesuit has raised eyebrows with some seemingly tone-deaf comments: He has said Europe in many places resembles an “infertile” grandmother. He has urged nuns not to be “old maids.” And he once welcomed new female members of the church’s most prestigious theological commissions as “strawberries on the cake.”
On Wednesday, he came to women’s defense. He took the biblical Adam to task for having blamed Eve for having given him the forbidden apple. “It’s always the women’s fault,” Francis said sarcastically. “Poor woman! We must defend women!”
Is a two party system needed in the Catholic Church?
Will Catholics now be required to confess “climate change denial” as a mortal sin? Where else on political questions will this Pope feel compelled to weigh in? Shall we just read from the Democrat platform?
As Pope Francis chooses to take on a political mantle, should the Church consider “term limits”? Papal elections every 4 years? A two party worship system? Fair is fair.
UN chief praises pope for framing climate change as moral imperative,
The U.N. chief has praised Pope Francis for framing climate change as an urgent moral imperative, saying his upcoming encyclical combined with a new round of U.N. climate talks in Paris provide an “unprecedented opportunity” to create a more sustainable future for the planet.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a Vatican conference on the environment Tuesday that is a key part of the Holy See’s rollout of Francis’ eagerly awaited encyclical, which is expected in June.
We have and will be posting more commentaries regarding the morality of fossil fuels and the Pope’s obsession with allegations of substantial human caused climate change.
Where has the infatuation with the Marxist economic understanding lead?
Perhaps Pope Francis should devote a bit more attention to the actual plight of his home country of Argentina rather than expending his energies fretting and lecturing on phony or irrelevant “climate change” scares. The Pope loves to wail about capitalism but there’s not a whole lot of “capitalism” going on there and in other Latin American countries where socialism “addresses” that “income inequality”.
Latin America’s Socialist Countries Rival World’s Worst in Institutional Quality
Zimbabwe, Libya Outrank Venezuela in Dismal Scoresheet for Bolivarian Republics
Belén Marty April 27, 2015:
Latin-American countries with governments that claim to be pursuing a “socialist” agenda come out the worst in the latest Institutional Quality Index published by Argentina’s Freedom and Progress Foundation, with several regional nations ranking alongside countries such as South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, and Gabon.
Argentina, governed between 2003 and 2007 by the late former President Néstor Kirchner, and by his spouse President Cristina Kirchner since 2007, has fallen the most in the rankings over the last 10 years, dropping 50 places to occupy position 137 out of 193 surveyed nations. In 2014 alone, Argentina fell several places to be rated worse than China, Uganda, and Lebanon.
The report, authored by academic Martín Krause, takes an average of eight indicators used by recognized international organizations. Among them are the Index of Economic Freedom (Compiled by the Fraser Institute and the Heritage Foundation), Doing Business, the Rule of Law (the World Bank), and Corruption Perceptions (Transparency International). . . .
“These results indicate the consequences of the Bolivarian-socialist style reforms that have been implemented, to a greater or lesser extent, from the beginning of this century in several of the countries showing worse performance,” argues Krause, professor in economics at the University of Buenos Aires. . . .
In its analysis section, the report highlights the importance of institutions in reversing the decline. For Krause, the road to regional progress requires respecting individual rights, and the greater availability of better economic opportunities for these countries’ inhabitants.
“In sum, those countries that have a good institutional quality or those that have improved, in particular in relation to market institutions — and those that protect investment and entrepreneurial activity — show a greater economic performance, and with it, offer more opportunities for progress to their inhabitants,” the index concludes.
AKA free market capitalism.
DLH and R Mall
better twistin’ than Chubby Checker > the Pope is simply saying that in 2 many spots in the USA, STARTING SALARIES differ from men and women (doing the same work), JOB TITLES differ when the same work is done, for men and women. “merit raises”, another quesfion.
Possibly something is lost in the translation.
“an infertile grandmother”??? nuns, don’t be “old maids”!? “strawberries on the cake”? And, that Adam. What a chauvinist!
If Pope Francis wishes to pursue his other apparent avocation, standup comedy, his shtick needs a little work. What should Europe “resemble”? A “fertile grandmother”, or maybe even a “fertile great grandmother”? How “fertile” should grandmothers be? And nuns? I won’t even go there. The liberal media has seemed to literally swoon over the Holy Father’s ‘fresh approach’, his “hipness”…he has “captured the spotlight”! Or has the spotlight captured him? Soon the Pope will be “coming to America”. Here he will add a “moral dimension” to the climate change issue…will he “cast out” deniers? It can be expected that the Pope will also promote the redistributionist agenda, reflect on the “inequality” issue, and maybe bash capitalism again. Whether he will note any shortcomings of socialism or the plight that a “non-capitalist” ideology has imposed on the people of his home country will be interesting to see. But, as he helps to promote the ideology of the left of American politics and of the UN, we can be sure he will be properly hailed as a breath of fresh air from the ‘unenlightened’ and “obsessives” of the Catholic Church. Whether he will make an appearance at the Improv, we’ll have to wait and see.