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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
Andrew Leonard

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009 03:14 PM

    Catholic stances

    These stances are consistent with the Church's historic stances (Jesuits and Dorothy Day, anybody?). There are odious things about Catholicism (I'm a practicing R.C. and don't like the "hate the sin, love the sinner" approach to homosexuality or the anti-abortion emphasis), but there are lots of wonderful things about it, too. For whatever reason, life has been in the spotlight to the exclusion of these social justice initiatives for about 25 years now.

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