This is rather old. The paper didn't call me, rather it sent an e-mail. I let my box jam up.
The recent teaching of Pope Francis has been called "radical," even "Marxist." In truth, it is quite conservative, affirming Catholic moral teachings going back more than a century.
Catholicism has never taught that greed is good. Almost no Christian denomination has, and certainly that position is condemned in the scriptural, "The love of money is the root of all evil."
— Frank Palmer, Chicago
It was published in the
Chicago Tribune
You have to read down the column to get to my letter.
It was a somewhat shortened form of this diary of mine.