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BOOK RELEASE: Medieval Goa by Teotonio R. de Souza
Will be re-released after 30 years on August 21, 2009 at 5:15pm
at Goa Chambers of Commerce and Industry Hall,
near Azad Maidan in Panjim, Goa
http://medieval-goa.notlong.com
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:32:23 -0700
From: "isouza" <[email protected]>
> The Church has the competence to criticise any social or economic or
> political systems. The Church does not give economic or political
> solutions, but can guide them. The common good is the key criterion for
> all economic activity. An international authority is needed to protect
> the weak nations.
Mario responds:
The Church has no competence or credibility in economic situations as the
recent encyclical clearly proves and thus no experience or ability to "guide"
these either. The Church depends on the largesse of its members who provide
for the Church from the fruits of their own labor and ingenuity and enterprise.
For the Pope to lecture anyone on economics is about as credible as the Pope
lecturing anyone on how to have better marital relations.
The common good is not served by gratuitous and incompetent advice by people
who make their living not by providing goods and services, but from providing
moral leadership - most of the time - and living off the generosity and the
fruits of the enterprise of others.
The economically weakest nations, like Zimbabwe and many other African nations,
many Latin American nations, and Cuba and N. Korea, are economic basket cases
because of their own corruption, oppression and incompetent internal policies
which assume that a small number of powerful elites know what's good for
everyone else, better than they do.
