Pope Francis insists he is 'no communist' and just following Catholic teachings after defending poor

Caring about the poor doesn’t make me a Communist, the pope has insisted.
Francis said that he had been labelled a Marxist simply for following church teachings on defending the rights of the less well off.‘It is strange, but if I talk like this, there are those who say that the Pope is a communist,’ he added.

Church doctrine commands Catholics to fight ‘for the dignity of the rural family, for water, for life and for all to benefit from the fruits of the earth,’ he said.
He said it was right ‘to combat the structural causes of poverty, inequality, unemployment and [loss of] land, housing, social and labour rights’
Christians must also confront the destructive effects of the ‘Empire Of Money’ – namely forcible displacements and migrations, human and drug trafficking, war, violence,’ he said.

Francis has been labelled a communist by some hard right elements in the US after denouncing the ‘tyranny of capitalism’, calling the wealth made from financial speculation as intolerable and saying speculation on commodities was a scandal that compromised the poor’s access to food.

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