(Melchizedek Communique, MC030310) "Why don't politicians do God any more?" asks Allan Massie in today's Telegraph newspaper. In Britain, the voters are disconsolate. A lame Catholic Church suggests they should "choose the common good." [1]

Who can disagree with that? It is like the National Public Radio sponsors saying agreeable things like, "...and brought to you by the Kindly Jones Foundation, seeking to better understand our world."

Massie, in his Telegraph article, mentions Pope Leo XIII's 1893 Encyclical De Rerum Novarum. Notice the use of Latin. That was before the Vatican became so "cosmopolitan" it abandoned its native tongue, in the 1960s. Then followed "the Church which branched off into banking." Is it now a Church, or is it a bank? "Hey, you can't run the Church on Hail Marys," Archbishop Paul "The Gorilla" Marcinkus tried to explain. (Background: "Vatican Bank Update", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/mc030110.html)

It was actually in 1891 that Pope Leo XIII (image shown) issued De Rerum Novarum (On Things New). Pope Leo (Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, 1810-1903) demolished socialist pretensions that the abolition of private property would bring about a workers' paradise. He showed this to be a pipe dream and a waste of energy. On the other hand, Pope Leo defended the dignity of workers, urged fair treatment and a just wage, and was fearless in his denunciation of greedy capitalists.

In 1891, as today, the situation was one of "enormous fortunes of some few individuals, and the utter poverty of the masses..." where "working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition." The "hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself."

Labor is divinely ordained and in the realm of natural law. "Man's labor is necessary; for without the result of labor a man cannot live, and self-preservation is a law of nature, which it is wrong to disobey." This means that a job is a human right, based upon natural law.

But then came the 1960s and abandonment of the native tongue. (It would be as if the United States decided it is so "cosmopolitan" that English was abandoned.) The Vatican discovered the miracle of usury and now issues lame statements.

The miracle of usury is also present lately in the United States. "Fifteen years ago, the combined assets of our six biggest banks totaled 17 percent of our GDP. By 2006, that number was 55 percent. Right now, it stands at 63 percent." [2]

The Dow-Jones average has actually become a contrary indicator: The more it rises, the worse things get. Dow-Jones climbs now signify a further growth of usury, a parasite on the real economy.

So, are you feeling disconsolate? In the days when people cultivated Latin, they knew "disconsolate" signified "without the sun." To be "consoled" signified to be "with the sun" (con + sol). "Leo", in Latin, means "lion", also associated with the sun, in astrology.

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[1] "Why don't politicians do God any more?", by Allan Massie. Telegraph (UK), March 3, 2010
[2] "15 Years Ago, the Combined Assets of the 6 Biggest Banks Totaled 17% of GDP… By 2006, 55% … Now, 63%", Washington’s Blog, March 2, 2010
http://www.prisonplanet.com/15-years-ago-the-combined-assets-of-the-6-biggest-banks-totaled-17-of-gdp-by-2006-55-now-63.html