It has been said that the rich and poor need each other. The poor need the rich to help them, and the rich need the poor for the opportunity to obtain salvation. Jesus told the rich young man that if he wished to reach perfection to shed himself of his wealth to the benefit of the poor (likened to the camel that has all it's goods taken off so it could enter Jerusalem through the gate called the "Eye of the Needle." While we perhaps lose our attachment to worldly goods in the state called purgatory, could we not profitably do this while we are still alive? And do not the poor need the basics of a decent life? One of the severe criticisms of Pope Francis is that he (in agreement with prior Popes and the entire body of Catholic Social Teaching, although with more english the ball called solidarity) has repeated called for more help for the poor from the church, from government and from the rich, and further has sought to limit neo-liberalism to the benefit...
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