The problem with this approach is that you are back in scare one when the current crop of young men who enter Catholic Seminaries become Cardinals and simply adopt their youth understanding of economics in their new positions.

The Catholic Church is not isolated from the rest of society attitudes, so a health society will create a healthy clergy, otherwise you will just get catholic priests who dismiss the Church official positions are old fashioned dogmas.

I wonder how long until the US gets its full on Bunga Bunga Berlusconi kind of politician, not only because the Liberals would cover him for being liberal but the rising Libertarian tide would dismiss criticism of him as Puritan shrieking.

The Pope doesn't abide to Liberation Theology, He just happen to speak in the language of it out of habit, just like Rinos in the USA speak like Democrats out of habit even if they are from the other side of the fence.

Taking the context that South America is a pretty left-leaning place puts the Popes remarks in perspective, because Left-leaning opinions and ideas is what the Pope has been hearing even since He has been a young man. He can't live in a bubble of his own and the has simply absorbed the culture around him.

The Catholic Church in South America has been struggling against a homegrown heretical brand of Communist Catholicism know as "Teologia da Libertação", that combined with the total domination of left-wing politics means that Pope Francis views on the economy will always be veered well to the left, even if He is personally against said theories.

At the exception of Colombia, Chile and some central American countries, every South American countries have been under total left-wing dominance for some time now, so why are we surprised that the someone from there selected to be Pope is so left-leaning.

The 4.5mm gun hidden inside of a lipstick is sure to make your date interesting.

I just feel that piling this on Clinton is cheap and partisan, the French were more involved in the region and it took them months to react in order to set up safe-zones for refugees in then Zaire. That was used as Kagame first excuse to invade Congo, but the intention of protecting civilians was good even if the implementation was botched.

The ICTR transcripts were written the premise that Tutsi on Hutu violence was a "justified response" to the Genocide. As many Hutus and Tutsis died in the genocide, but some victims are more equal than others. I would recommend Bernard Lugan "Rwanda. Contre-enquête sur le génocide, éd. Privat"

Paul Kagame is behind the troubles in Congo, He is the one who orchestrates and train these militias so as to maintain the flow of minerals through Rwanda and keep alive a dream of "Rwandan Kivu".

Paul Kagame is the face of evil, He is responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and for every single Congolese that died after the Second Congo War.

If  Clinton bear moral condemnation for not responding to the situation, then George H. Bush is even more so for being part of creating it.

I am not familiar with the funding mechanisms of the catholic church, but their schools and hospitals provide the best means to positively impact the lives of people for the better. In Angola and Congo the Church has been consistently helping people in despite the fluctuation of the political situations over the years.

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Don't misconstrue my previous comment as a "Blame America first" attitude, but since it was presented as a case of intolerable American inaction I just want to show that the previous American actions made it so, I just feel that people have to remember that others will have to leave with the consequence of their foreign policy policies.

Or one could point to the stain of the George H. Bush Administration and the UN for causing the genocide, by forcing Rwanda to transition to a Democracy regime that gave the Hutus the means to commit genocide, forced the French forces that were present in the country to leave, as they were seen as a Tutsi Trump card, and replaced them with a "Peacekeeping" mission.

Without the French to provide them confidence the Hutu military commanders couldn't stem the popular fury unleashed when current President Kagame killed the elected Hutu President Habyarimana.

This is not just ancient history for me, I had to leave Congo when the spill over of the Rwandan genocide destroyed that country, and while there we had a Hutu survivor of the Genocide living with us.

Someone somewhere had the idea of bringing Democracy to Rwanda, and because of that 3 millions souls and 2 countries were destroyed

Those interfering in other countries should exercise caution, because they are not likely to bear the price of failure, people in those countries do. Caution.

It is the responsible thing to do for the child, and there is something in life about the most responsible thing to do not always being easy or savory, but people have to live up to the consequence of their actions.

Nobody said it was going to be a easy.

You should we spent hours talking and even met Mrs James of England. ;)
Apparently all is back to normal now, thanks for tech support for figuring it out.

If Ricochet was a choppa, we would be all running away from it.

Is heavy drinking and Partying really required for the quality of the education itself ? or just extracurricular activity ?

I watched all of it ... I wonder how it is possible that they shot and aired this piece on this dumb bag of air and takes this seriously. How am I the one insane person in this planet ?

"Level of incredible imagination" ... "great imposing figure" ... "Whales went to the sea and maybe they could have gone the sky" ... I think I will start to support pot legalization too if only to stone myself out of the misery of contemporary stupidity.

For that price you could have had a fighting Kangaroo bronze statue from China or North Korea.

My mother says that babies are sensible to those "something feels wrong" feelings and crying is the way they express it. One of my siblings was deathly scarred of the chants of feral cats when He was a baby, so when it happened at night we all had to chase the animals away or He wouldn't stop crying for the night.

I know many people here on Ricochet have cats and love them, but there was something creepy and unnerving about the panic attacks it caused the baby, so we tried everything from slingshots and poisoning them. It seemed like the right course of action.

The reason why it made us nervous was that when I was younger I once spent a whole day crying for no apparent reason and when we went to sleep I had a pretty near encounter with death, although I don't feel comfortable disclosing details here. Maybe I was just being a jackass that day, or maybe I felt that something was wrong, maybe it was a coincidence.

Not very upbeat, but there you go.

There is a whole political machine and agenda behind the gay copycat of Marriage, you seem to be blaming the victim here.

Because do you think that when the Libertarian "get government out of marriage" plan is enacted that all the pressure groups pushing copycat marriage are going to take a break or shift to take the fight to the school to present it as an "acceptable choice to the children".