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In an interview on CNBC on Monday, Home Depot founder and devout Catholic Ken Langone said that the Popes statements about capitalism have left many potential capitalist benefactors wary of donating to the Church or its fundraising projects.
According to Langone, an anonymous, potential seven-figure donor for the Churchs restoration of St. Patricks Cathedral is concerned that the Popes criticism of capitalism are exclusionary, especially his statements about the culture of prosperity leading to the wealthy being incapable of feeling compassion for the poor.
Langone said hes raised this issue with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who yesterday praised Pope Francis for shattering the caricature of the Church.
Ive told the Cardinal, Langone said, Your Eminence, this is one more hurdle I hope we dont have to deal with. You want to be careful about generalities. Rich people in one country dont act the same as rich people in another country.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101302230
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/30/home-depot-founder-worries-pope-francis-neither-loves-or-understands-rich-americans/
the founder should be worried more about his customers shooting their asses off than what the Pope says.
http://www.freep.com/article/20131227/NEWS06/312270051/Man-shoots-self-in-buttocks-at-Home-Depot
CurtEastPoint
(18,647 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)than yourself!
Larkspur
(12,804 posts)who asked Jesus how to attain eternal life and after Jesus told him to sell all he owned, he turned his back on Jesus.
Oh, yeah, and there was the parable called "God called a Man [wealthy man] a Fool" in which the protagonist hoarded his wealth instead of sharing and investing it in his community and then God decided to kill him in his prime.
Now Jesus did not hate rich people. Lazarus was a wealthy man and Jesus loved visiting him and his sisters, but unlike the previous rich man and the rich guy upset at Pope Francis, Lazarus afforded Jesus all the hospitality he could.
spanone
(135,843 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)Under any of a great number of popes, that sort of talk - including complaints to a cardinal - would be regarded as apostasy, culminating with excommunication. BTW, does the RC average Joe or Jane have such ready access to a cardinal? By shamelessly name-dropping, he reveals that the rich can buy influence, which everyone already knows anyway.
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)with an extra-large eye.
Chrom
(191 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)There's more to life than Opus Dei's agenda.
otohara
(24,135 posts)what ever that fucking means.