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A portion of a new interview with Pope Francis will air tonight on the “CBS Evening News” at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, according to a release from the CBS News Communications office.
A Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, by Father Terrance Klein
The reflections of Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., convinced me that Pope Francis' reframing of the scope and meaning of synods will have staying power, because it opens up a new model for the church.
During his general audience, Pope Francis reminded his listeners of the importance of the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. Engaging the crowd by having them recite the virtues aloud, Francis said that theological virtues animate our everyday actions toward the good.
Democratic capitalism is an experiment that has resulted in the greatest wealth for the greatest number. Railing against Wall St or other big entities in the economy is to beg for poverty back. Remember poverty? Outhouses, but no refrigerators?
It might help if our citizens, including churchmen, learned about democratic capitalism and how it works, do you think? How many of our ‘educated’ fellow citizens don’t know who Adam Smith is, don’t know a stock from a bond or how to value either, and have no savings. When the huckster cons the rube, whose fault is it?
The name you need to remember in the current malaise is Barney Frank. Barney and his friends, with the help of their liberal fellow-travelers, put a shotgun to the face of the mortgage industry and forced it to make unsound loans at the very heart of the system—the secured home loan. Then Barney offered to buy the loans with your money. You see, Barney knows how to help. He’s smart.
Government has a role to play by enforcing the rules. But when it enters the arena and becomes a player, we no longer have democratic capitalism. Call it socialism. Call it central planning. Call it anything. But it’s not democratic capitalism any more and it won’t work.