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Home Front: Politix
Vatican Adviser Claims Republicans ‘Will Face Consequences Later' For Passing Tax Reform
2017-12-04
[Daily Caller] An American adviser to the Vatican claimed that Republican legislators "will face consequences later" for passing their tax cut bill, which he claimed "takes money from the poor to give to the rich."

Fr. James Martin, a Jesuit priest recently named consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications, attacked the tax cut legislation, which is projected to benefit most taxpayers.

"The US will soon face the consequences of a #TaxBill that takes money from the poor to give to the rich," he wrote on Twitter.

"Those who voted for it will face consequences later, when they are judged. Do you think Jesus’s words about being judged on how we care for the poor don’t apply? Think again."
Posted by:Besoeker

#21  Regarding today's Pope we should shut down the embassy. But in Reagon's day the axis of Reagon, Britain's Iron Lady, and Poland's Pope John Paul were the cause of the great fall of the Iron Curtain and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218   2017-12-04 23:25  

#20  Reagan made a serious mistake recognizing the Vatican. Close our embassy an leave it.
Posted by: 3dc   2017-12-04 23:00  

#19  "takes money from the poor to give to the rich."

Apparantly the guy doesn't understand how taxes work as having less taken from you is not the same as being given money.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-12-04 18:02  

#18  I call it the church of man.

State Extortion is not freely given.

It's the Vatican Advisor that will face consequences for his pro-slavery views.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-12-04 17:04  

#17  "The Pope is, as it were, his beadle. Should a Pope stand in conflict with the teachings of Our Lord, he is not serving his office. Instead, he is being an idiot, in the strict sense of standing alone."
Posted by: newc   2017-12-04 16:13  

#16  Besides, Setting high taxes on Venezuelan churches is how Maduros government shut them down and seized their properties.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218   2017-12-04 15:32  

#15  A true house of God is not taxable in a just nation. Sorry.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218   2017-12-04 15:28  

#14  Should've slapped a tax on all churches along time ago.
Posted by: Chris   2017-12-04 13:36  

#13  As long as we allow Catholics in the United States to freely practice their faith His Holiness needs to keep his mouth shut about our tax policies. Otherwise we might find that we need to slap a tax on the Church.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-12-04 12:59  

#12  A brand new advisor to the bureaucracy blurts out something to a reporter either as he is rushing down the hall to where he seems to recall there is a bathroom — he is still struggling to master the geography of the place — or over a beer after a very rough first week, and it is touted as if the pope himself spoke infallibly ex cathedra.

But yes, there are a great many progressives in the Vatican, and staff from statist societies who do not understand the proper spheres of government and citizen as Americans do, and I imagine under Pope Francis it has gotten worse.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-04 11:25  

#11  So now that they've completely fixed (honest!) that whole Bank of The Vatican thing they're ready to give out advice on how other people should spend their own money, right?
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-12-04 09:48  

#10  Why would we give one of the pope's holy shits what you think?
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-12-04 09:20  

#9  Fr. James Martin, a Jesuit priest recently named consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications

Kinda of an ordained Marie Harf?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-12-04 09:13  

#8  Clean up your own house before dishing up advice for others across the pond.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-12-04 08:09  

#7  In addition to the snaring of followers, I have observed that big government and big religion oftentimes have much in common.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-12-04 08:04  

#6  Render under Ceasar that which is Ceasar's and all that....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-12-04 08:00  

#5  What part of 'Thou shall not covet' don't you grasp. BTW, have you ever compared the level of those who voluntarily give to charity with those who believe using the coercive power of government as their charity when identifying those voted for and against?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-12-04 07:53  

#4  Fr. James Martin
(pardon his fartin')
Was gassy and rapacious.
Unhappy St. Ignatius!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-12-04 06:59  

#3  What does tax policy have to do with voluntary charity? NOTHING.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-12-04 06:33  

#2  The Vatican is just another liberal infested swamp.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196   2017-12-04 05:39  

#1  Huh .. I thought priest were more interested in shopping, Why I just saw a big group running towards the mall where the sign read " Young Boys Pants - Half Off".

I guess they're all into macro economics also.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2017-12-04 05:21  

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