While the Catholic church has always leaned left on economic issues, this statement from the Vatican today calling for economic equality and stricter financial regulation was a welcome reminder--especially with social issue only Catholics like John Boehner and Paul Ryan leading the republican party these days. Still...
You have to wonder just how much more effective the church's stance would be if it (and its members) hadn't spent so much time (and political capital) kowtowing to the right over the years for their stances on a woman's womb and who individuals choose to sleep with. Sometimes when you make a deal with the devil it comes back to bite you in the ass, and the growing poverty rate and the widening income equality worldwide are pretty powerful nips in the fanny.
I just don't think "...give us this day our daily bread..." means the same to greed is good republicans as it does to the rest of us.
Peace,
emaycee
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