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Our Twitter Pope, Pope Francis, tweeted a message a week or so ago that seems to summarize so much about his papacy:\u00a0\u201cInequality,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0he taught his tens of thousands of followers,\u00a0\u201cis the root of social evil.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
And this was merely the opening act.\u00a0He followed this message up with an urgent call for the \u201clegitimate redistribution\u201d of wealth to benefit the world\u2019s destitute.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
These teachings are in accord with the lesson Pope Francis has been delivering since that day in March, 2013, when he chose the name Francis. \u201cDon\u2019t forget the poor.\u201d On the day of his election, Pope Francis recalled, his good friend the Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes spoke to him in those very words. And it is clear that Pope Francis has taken those words very much to heart.<\/span><\/div>\n
The Pope\u2019s call for economic justice happily coincides with the publication of a new report, authored by E.J. Dionne, William Galston and others. Published by the Brookings Institution, the report\u00a0(\u201cFaith in Equality: Economic Justice and the Future of Religious Progressivism\u201d<\/a>) recognizes that historically there has been a close relationship between progressive thought and the Church. Before the Civil War, in the early nineteenth century, it was progressive Protestants \u2014 especially Quakers and Unitarians \u2014 who raised high the banner of the anti-slavery movement.<\/span><\/div>\n
For most of the twentieth century, from the early 1900s to the 1980s at least, American Catholics provided steady guidance and support for progressive causes. That pantheon of heroes included Msgr. John A. Ryan (1869-1945). He was a \u201cRight Reverend New Dealer\u201d according to his biographer. Msgr. Ryan popularized if he did not actually invent the term\u00a0\u201cliving wage.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0He argued relentlessly over decades for the adoption of the minimum wage.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Our Twitter Pope, Pope Francis, tweeted a message a week or so ago that seems to summarize so much about his papacy:\u00a0\u201cInequality,\u201d\u00a0he taught his tens of thousands of followers,\u00a0\u201cis the root of social evil.\u201d And this was merely the opening act.\u00a0He followed this message up with an urgent call for the \u201clegitimate redistribution\u201d of wealth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nCatholics and Religious Progressivism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our Twitter Pope, Pope Francis, tweeted a message a week or so ago that seems to summarize so much about his papacy: "Inequality," he taught his\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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