The Catholic Church, Roman Rite, has a history of presuming good will in all parties, and teaches and acts accordingly. Their technique is to embrace the powers that be, join them, and then attempt to redirect their efforts to good. Who knows, overall it may work. But often enough, no. We obedient Catholics who have to work in the real world find ourselves often perplexed.
The Vatican has put out a document addressing the current economic crisis. The document calls for,
The Vatican called for the establishment of "a supranational authority" with worldwide scope and "universal jurisdiction" to guide economic policies and decisions.
OK, there is the first round, presume good in others and then embrace some odious proposal (no wonder Newt Gingrich, Tony Blair and Jeb Bush converted to Catholicism) and then redirect...
The world needed a "minimum shared body of rules to manage the global financial market" and "some form of global monetary management".
Aha, and who would manage this... who becomes an angel once they are given more power? Let's hear from a Cardinal:
Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican's Justice and Peace department, said:
"The people on Wall Street need to sit down and go through a process of discernment and see whether their role managing the finances of the world is actually serving the interests of humanity and the common good."
"We are calling for all these bodies and organisations to sit down and do a little bit of re-thinking."O dear, the Vatican is inadvertently hilarious. Asking Wall street to reflect on their methods is like asking Jeffery Dahmer to reflect on his menu choices.
This is ludicrously delusional. But the Vatican has seen all this before, and knows well of what it speaks, (see Luther):
"If no solutions are found to the various forms of injustice, the negative effects that will follow on the social, political and economic level will be destined to create a climate of growing hostility and even violence, and ultimately undermine the very foundations of democratic institutions, even the ones considered most solid," it said.
They are talking to you, Occupy Wall Street! (OWS) Since the OWS is a CIA gig, there is nothing the CIA would like more than approval from the Vatican Peace and Justice Committee, no doubt whose meetings are redolent with Ganja, to contribute to their bona fides. But onward through the looking glass... call to action!
The world needed a "minimum shared body of rules to manage the global financial market" and "some form of global monetary management".
Too late, we've had it evolving since Phoenician times, it is called the Law Merchant, and it is alive and working well. Only when power is concentrated in few hands (USA imperialism) does the system break down. So the Vatican is advocating making things far worse.
The Vatican, or correctly, the Pope, is infallible only in matters of faith and morals, not architecture or economics or anything else. This offering is ridiculous, and deserves scorn. And guess what, the Vatican has removed it from their website.
Never mind.
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