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2017-12-04 Home Front: Politix
Vatican Adviser Claims Republicans ‘Will Face Consequences Later' For Passing Tax Reform
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-04 02:44|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#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||   2017-12-04 05:21|| Front Page Top

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

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

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

#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||   2017-12-04 07:53|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2017-12-04 08:04|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2017-12-04 09:13|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2017-12-04 09:48|| Front Page Top

#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||   2017-12-04 11:25|| Front Page Top

#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||   2017-12-04 12:59|| Front Page Top

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

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

#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||   2017-12-04 15:32|| Front Page Top

#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||   2017-12-04 16:13|| Front Page Top

#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||   2017-12-04 17:04|| Front Page Top

#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||   2017-12-04 18:02|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2017-12-04 23:25|| Front Page Top

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