{"id":3037,"date":"2015-06-09T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2015-06-09T15:14:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T19:14:37","slug":"church-up-to-no-good-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"Church Up To No Good at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3049\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tomasi10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"wp-image-3049 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tomasi10.jpg?resize=534%2C401\" alt=\"Firmly placed inside a den of thieves\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firmly placed within a den of thieves<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That Vatican envoy to the UN, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi has repeated a mantra which has become so common in the Church today that you never read a whiff of criticism about it, despite the fact that it&#8217;s a hysterical Marxist rant.<\/p>\n<p>The Google translation <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kerknet.be%2Factua%2Fnieuws_detail.php%3FnieuwsID%3D132335&amp;edit-text=\" target=\"_blank\">reveals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"notranslate\">Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican&#8217;s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, insisted during the annual International Labour Conference to better protect workers.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> At the same time he praised SMEs.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> &#8220;In 2014 was 1% of the world 48% of the wealth in the world,&#8221; said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, who believes that it has become practically impossible to unemployment worldwide still below the level before the financial crisis of 2008 back penetrate.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> According to Tomasi we can <strong>no longer put our trust in the laws of the market to solve problems.<\/strong><\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"><strong> &#8220;Combating global poverty requires a special effort and forces of governments, workers, labor organizations, civil society and all the private partners.&#8221;<\/strong> That should contribute according to Archbishop Tomasi to better protection of workers against unemployment and illness.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> Tomasi still urged for support to SMEs because they &#8220;are crucial to the economic recovery.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is the &#8216;law of the market&#8217; anyway?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it just one man paying his own dollar to someone offering a dollar&#8217;s worth of something in return?\u00a0 If that&#8217;s a &#8216;law&#8217; then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/ccc_css\/archive\/catechism\/command.htm\" target=\"_blank\">whose law is it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among that group of wonderful contributors to this new non-market solution I&#8217;ve noticed only one actually pays anything.\u00a0 Those are the &#8216;private partners.&#8217;\u00a0 These are the business leaders who hope to be first in line to back-stab their competitors in the hopes they&#8217;ll receive some sort of government reward or relief.\u00a0 Every other party to the good archbishop&#8217;s poverty saving effort is a payee, as is the Church, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of new prescription glasses costs hundreds of dollars after you pay the monthly insurance premiums.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 They&#8217;re not iPhones.\u00a0 It&#8217;s because the process is so tied up with medical, insurance, and workplace regulatory schemes that we have no choice but to pay that.<\/p>\n<p>Prescription glasses are actually worth about thirty dollars, and there are plenty of people who would be happy and willing to provide them at that price, but they aren&#8217;t permitted.\u00a0 There are just so many do-gooders that target you evil market people and\u00a0 your dollars for love of the poor, that we must pay, pay, and pay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read plenty of Jesus&#8217; parables about kings, and farmers, and tax collectors; about fishermen, and shepherds.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never read anything against property or in praise of scams.<\/p>\n<p>What did Archbishop Tomasi do for lunch today?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Vatican envoy to the UN, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi has repeated a mantra which has become so common in the Church today that you never read a whiff of criticism about it, despite the fact that it&#8217;s a hysterical Marxist rant. The Google translation reveals: Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican&#8217;s permanent representative to the UN <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=3037\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[437,132,436,435,434],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-market","tag-catholic-church","tag-marxism","tag-silvano-tomasi","tag-united-national"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}