I know I know the Catholic Church is shit and still not fixing anything (They would probably murder Francis if he tried any major reforms). But it’s just nice to see the Pope out here calling out shit.
Private property is second to people’s well being!
Free market is immoral because it exploits others!
Nations have the right to their own resources!
Liberation theology gang what’s up!
...Unless you're talking about Latin America again, where the Jesuits preached so much Enlightenment that the Spanish crown banished them all from the Americas, despite most of them being born there, which led them to write critiques of the crown (including opposition to slavery and the oppression of the natives) that later became the ideological basis for the wars of liberation in the Spanish colonies. And without Simon Bolivar there'd be no Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.
also on brazil jesuits while doing evangelization WHICH NOT COOL did defend natives from slave hunters to their death in some cases like catholism in latin america is kinda of a weird unique situation
Also did you know that the pope once retconed capybaras to be fish so they could be eaten during lent because there were a lot of them on the amazon? WILD
Here's an example of a Portuguese jesuit priest that lived in Brazil and is taught about in school.
The Portuguese wikipedia page is better but I figure most people here don't understand Portuguese.