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The Pope's liberal Christian values

Social justice, wealth redistribution, a new morality for Wall Street -- the pontiff throws down on capitalism

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009 02:59 PM

    Something tells me

    we won't be seeing a lot of ad time dedicated to Papal use of the word "redistribution" coming from the RNC. At least they've still got abortion clips to run!

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