Ryan and the rest to turn tail and run, although the Pope may in theory let them get away with all that they are doing. Just under the church and family theme.
He has condemned cuts to social safety nets and support for the poor and disabled of all kinds, and has gone after the rich who refuse their tax obligations. So much so the owner of Home Depot was greatly offended as well as many other moneybags and Faux, etc.
IMO, this change by Castro is part of the resurgence of orthodoxy and the southern European version of Christianity. Less focus on one than of the whole. It is growing fast around the world, whereas the more individualist minded version of Protestantism of northern Europe is in decline. Some of the complaints about government in the long run, will enable theocracy.
Many see trends that frighten them and want powerful religious institutions to shield them as the nation states collapse under the pressure of the oligarches. Those who act as if the oligarchy is a recent phenonema and a failure of liberalism simply have not gone far enough back into world history or removed ideological blinders to see how the world was set up.
They fail to acknowledge that only enthusiastic support of democratic process and institutions, no matter how imperfect, and people willing to work within goverments are the only bulwark against feudalism, mankind's native state, it appears, when one even removes the label.
It is about who controls resources and the means of reproduction, as much as it exists in the animal and the vegetable kingdoms. Physical reality of this type is unaffected by words or politics. Brute force is used if necessary to maintain the more powerful by artificial or natural biological dominance. This can take a long time, centuries, to develop, and almost invisible.
Those who rail against maintaining worthwhile good government, from the left or right, enable the background powers of the world, theocracy, to fill in the void and rule us all. There is no future in which the rights of the individual will be protected, unless one takes on himself the 'every man for himself' mindset of carrying lethal weapons everywhere. And that will also create a hierarchy as not all are psychologically, physically or financially able to do so. Thus it will be strong man rule, and the rights of the unarmed, or the less powerful individuals will be lost.
Religious institutions, the same as oligarches and aristocrats, always have more staying power secular government, and often conspired to destroy them whenever it is to their benefit, or support them in other instances.
It is sad to see the changes taking place and now so much hatred of the Enlightenment, which included religious believers who looked far beyond the brands to the freedom of the human mind and spirit.
JMHO.
Disclaimer:
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Catholic and I don't pretend to understand the thinking of Catholics. But I know quite a number of Catholics who are my allies in various causes. They are firm in their support and willing to sacrifice personally to bring about social justice.
I'm not disrespecting them when I attempt to cudgel my thoughts together on what is going on. I still have hopes the Pope may be able to shame these heartless Randians.
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