Pope Francis: Capitalism Is ‘Terrorism Against All of Humanity’

“Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person,” the pope told reporters, according to The Wall Street Journal. “This is fundamental terrorism, against all humanity.”

Against The Catholic Grain: Pope Francis Trumpets Socialism Over Capitalism

Pope Francis has made his social and economic tendencies clear since the early days of his pontificate. In his 2013 apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis criticizes the notion that reducing the disproportionately-high income tax burden on high-income earners can stimulate investment and economic growth as a “crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.” For the Holy Father, inequality is the “root of social ills,” though he fails to explain precisely why a society of unequal wealth but a relatively high standard of living would somehow be less reflective of Gospel values than a society that shares equally in poverty.

DYI Comments:  What has the world come to?  The Pope is nothing more than a socialist stooge, regurgitating the same old failed policies, exemplified by the latest failure in Venezuela.  I've never heard of any country that has taxed itself into prosperity.  The list of failed states who have used the socialist model is endless.

DYI