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Source link: http://archive.mises.org/18797/two-reactions-to-the-vatican-document-on-economics/

Two reactions to the Vatican document on economics

October 25, 2011 by

Thomas Woods writes on this for LewRockwell.com and I have a piece in CrisisMagazine.

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soe October 26, 2011 at 2:26 am

Here’s another interesting commentary, from George Weigel: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/281140/pope-chaplain-ows-rubbish-george-weigel

Quote: “The truth of the matter is that “the Vatican” — whether that phrase is intended to mean the Pope, the Holy See, the Church’s teaching authority, or the Church’s central structures of governance — called for precisely nothing in this document. The document is a “Note” from a rather small office in the Roman Curia. The document’s specific recommendations do not necessarily reflect the settled views of the senior authorities of the Holy See; indeed, Fr. Federico Lombardi, the press spokesman for the Vatican, was noticeably circumspect in his comments on the document and its weight. As indeed he ought to have been. The document doesn’t speak for the Pope, it doesn’t speak for “the Vatican,” and it doesn’t speak for the Catholic Church.”

Sione October 26, 2011 at 2:13 pm

soe

Merely excuses and rationalisations, the moral equivalent of “plausible deniability” and just as dishonest.

Sione

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