Pope Francis CIA and ‘Death Squads’

than Head Start and Medicaid.
How Dare You, Paul Ryan!
How dare you invoke “Catholic social teaching” to bolster that warped and brutal
vision! Had you presented that budget as an assignment in my theology class at
Marquette University I would have had to give you an F and a note would go to
your parents saying, “this student is wasting your tuition money.”
So, listen up, Paul, and I’ll show you why the “Nuns on the Bus” and Catholic
university faculties are storming against your Catholic pretensions. It is no
major undertaking to correct you. That’s why your ignorance must be classified
as crass.
Just last year, in October 2011, Pope Benedict’s Pontifical Council on Justice
and Peace gave all the help you need. The council summed up centuries of
“Catholic social teaching” in a single document and applied it to today’s
tottering global economy.
When asked about the document, you equivocated about whether you had read it.
Clearly, from your recent utterances you either did not read it or you read it
and trashed it. Small wonder. It would give Ayn Rand a stroke. Jesuit Thomas
Reese said the document is “closer to the view of Occupy Wall Street that anyone
in the U.S. Congress.”
Catholic Social Teaching 101
Here it is in gist: The Vatican document supports fair taxation, greedcontrolling
regulation and bailouts “with public funds” when necessary. Now,
brace yourself, Paul, it excoriates “neoliberals,” the greed-is-good creed of
your right wing.
The document calls for an international solidarity that would end poverty and
obsessive reliance on military violence for security. It calls for more active
citizenship, not voter suppression. Internationally it calls for “a new model of
a more cohesive, polyarchic international society that respects every people’s
identity within the multifaceted riches of a single humanity.”
It calls for a “public, supranational authority with universal jurisdiction, a
“true world political authority” and a “world bank” to preside over a “global,
universal common good.” Nations need to “transfer a part of each nation’s powers
to a world authority and to regional authorities.”
It does not call for a tyrannical despotic world authority. The traditional
Catholic tradition of “subsidiarity” means that nothing should be done by a