The tone is way out of line. I do believe the Pope knows more about the condition of the poor and state of humanity than "US News" could ever hope to know, yet understand.
Hernando de Soto? Really? That might better explain the global economic collapse if Wall Street is holding centuries old theory in their hearts.
Mr. de Soto lived over a half millenium ago. More than 500 years. He never made it very far into South America. He discovered the Mississippi River. Not only that, but, he was European. Does US News know what Europe did to South America?
Small pox, turned the native South Americans into slaves to mine silver and all the silver was taken to Europe without any benefits to the people of South America.
Now, if that is the kind of economics Wall Street endears as their own, it explains why we are suffering under dense measures of carbon dioxide and why Americans have an entire class of people called, "The Working Poor."
Does US News want to know what they can do with their criticism of Pope Francis, a man only a breath away from being a saint? Let's just say, the devil is well served by Wall Street.
May 27, 2015
By Mark W. Davis
Pope Francis (click here) revealed several days ago that he has not watched television since 1990. Listen to him and look at those big glasses, and you know that this is a guy with a pile of books on his nightstand. There is one book, however, that I doubt the pope has read – the same book the pope must read if he is to avoid harming the world's poor in his well-meaning but sometimes naive declarations about poverty.
That book is by one of the pope's great South American contemporaries, an economist named Hernando de Soto who wrote "The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World." While he's at it, the pope would do well to get to know some of de Soto's more recent writings and the work of his Lima-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy.
No fair observer would deny that the pope's relentless focus on poverty is central to his Christian identity. After all, what are gospels if not the story of a man who lived among the poor, preached principally to the poor, and possessed nothing but a pair of sandals and a robe at the time of his crucifixion?
Hernando de Soto? Really? That might better explain the global economic collapse if Wall Street is holding centuries old theory in their hearts.
Mr. de Soto lived over a half millenium ago. More than 500 years. He never made it very far into South America. He discovered the Mississippi River. Not only that, but, he was European. Does US News know what Europe did to South America?
Small pox, turned the native South Americans into slaves to mine silver and all the silver was taken to Europe without any benefits to the people of South America.
Now, if that is the kind of economics Wall Street endears as their own, it explains why we are suffering under dense measures of carbon dioxide and why Americans have an entire class of people called, "The Working Poor."
Does US News want to know what they can do with their criticism of Pope Francis, a man only a breath away from being a saint? Let's just say, the devil is well served by Wall Street.
May 27, 2015
By Mark W. Davis
Pope Francis (click here) revealed several days ago that he has not watched television since 1990. Listen to him and look at those big glasses, and you know that this is a guy with a pile of books on his nightstand. There is one book, however, that I doubt the pope has read – the same book the pope must read if he is to avoid harming the world's poor in his well-meaning but sometimes naive declarations about poverty.
That book is by one of the pope's great South American contemporaries, an economist named Hernando de Soto who wrote "The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World." While he's at it, the pope would do well to get to know some of de Soto's more recent writings and the work of his Lima-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy.
No fair observer would deny that the pope's relentless focus on poverty is central to his Christian identity. After all, what are gospels if not the story of a man who lived among the poor, preached principally to the poor, and possessed nothing but a pair of sandals and a robe at the time of his crucifixion?
