Pope Francis is calling for a universal basic income (UBI) — a proposal denounced by a top Catholic economist as "a radical innovation in Catholic teaching without any obvious roots."
In an extended interview barely mentioning persecuted Uighurs, Rohingya and Yazidi peoples, the pontiff attacks populist leaders and coronavirus lockdown demonstrators while voicing his support for George Floyd Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests.
Francis' controversial reflections, published in a new book Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future, records exchanges between the pope and his hagiographer Austen Ivereigh....
The book's title should rather be called ' a nightmare becomes us, path to tyranny' Grievous to say, the system and organizations that make up the new world order listen to/herald him as he pushes devilish global communist agendas under the guise of 'social justice', saving the environment' etc. This world is becoming exceedingly dangerous as Governments of the world are becoming more Jesuit controlled especially now with Biden. Christians need to pray against this man as CH Spurgeon once quoted... "It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name"
Neil wrote: Summa Theologica, Secunda Secundæ Partis, Q 66, Art. 7: "...if the need be so manifest and urgent, that it is evident that the present need must be remedied by whatever means be at hand..., then it is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another's property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery." With 13th-Century casuistry like this, little wonder the pope can so readily endorse universal income. Besides, clerical benefices are almost the same thing.
I wonder if there’s a exception clause in there forbidding robbery of the Vatican?
Summa Theologica, Secunda Secundæ Partis, Q 66, Art. 7:
"...if the need be so manifest and urgent, that it is evident that the present need must be remedied by whatever means be at hand..., then it is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another's property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery."
With 13th-Century casuistry like this, little wonder the pope can so readily endorse universal income. Besides, clerical benefices are almost the same thing.
As we have seen with many of the politicians who make rules for everyone else that they don't abide by, this no doubt doesn't apply to him and the wealth of the Vatican. He gets to keep all of his!
“...which could be paid for through the tax system.”
Yes, governments love to make gifts back to the people of some of the money they took from them, and pretend it’s a benefit. Then again, governments could let the people keep their money, and let them benefit from not having an expensive redistribution program run by overpaid 2 legged leeches.
A reverse tax system that bankrupted the Soviet Union economy is now touted by an old communist leading the Catholic Church. If ever a reason to shut the Catholic church door , staring with Vatican, it’s now.
"Francis' controversial reflections, published in a new book Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future, ..."
He's a dreamer. Not all dreams are bad, some are given by God. But if this dreamer imagines the future will be better, he ought think again and start living in reality. Oh, and get converted, of course. He has a lot to repent of, leading over a billion people astray with false doctrine.
2 Corinthians 7:10 KJV (10)Â For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Maybe the Pope has something? Nixon was toying with the idea
David Beake wrote: A basic income ... came close to fruition in the US in 1969 through the unlikely offices of President Nixon, who wanted every American family of four to have, from the state, at least $1,600 dollars a year – that’s $10,000 today. Until, that is, Nixon was reminded of events in Speenhamland, Berkshire, in 1795; there every citizen had a basic income against rising food prices and, by most accounts, it all worked well but a royal commission falsely claimed that all manner of social evils befell the town. Nixon’s advisers, including one Milton Friedman, recalled this and the idea was swiftly dropped....
excerpt from, "How Nixon was dissuaded from introducing a universal basic income"
Dr. Alan Cairns | 8/3/2009
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