{"id":523,"date":"2009-08-28T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2009-08-28T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:59:00","slug":"the-popes-social-encyclical-part-2-national-catholic-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"The pope&#8217;s social encyclical &#8212; Part 2 | National Catholic Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/essays-theology\/popes-social-encyclical-part-2\">The pope&#8217;s social encyclical &#8212; Part 2 National Catholic Reporter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pope Benedict also chastises those who think that a &#8216;market economy has an inbuilt need for a quota of poverty and underdevelopment in order to function at its best.&#8217; On the contrary, the market is not merely &#8216;an engine for wealth creation.&#8217; It must also function &#8216;as a means of pursuing justice through redistribution&#8217; (n. 35).<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent presidential campaign in the United States, the concept of redistribution was hung around the neck of one of the major-party candidates as if he were a Socialist. If so, that term of opprobrium would apply to Pope Benedict XVI as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>If it weren&#8217;t for the sex stuff, the Pope and Catholic tradition would be out there with Michael Moore and ralph Nader&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pope&#8217;s social encyclical &#8212; Part 2 National Catholic Reporter: Pope Benedict also chastises those who think that a &#8216;market economy has an inbuilt need for a quota of poverty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The pope&#8217;s social encyclical &#8212; Part 2 | National Catholic Reporter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contrarian-economics","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}