Short answer: no. But why?
As with Reductio ad Hitlerum, there's also its Reductio ad Stalinum variant.
Whether Pope Leo is a Marxist or not is not the issue. The question is, is he a socialist? If so, like his predecessor he's no friend of the poor.
His church is basically conservative. It has a long history of adapting itself to whatever regime is in power.
So Pope Francis adapted himself to power?
How much difference did he make?
A huge difference I think, in that the conservative influence that is the Vatican gained the praise of the secular media. And from what I hear generation X is listening.
It goes back to at least the 2nd Vatican Council of the 1960s.
As with Reductio ad Hitlerum, there's also its Reductio ad Stalinum variant.
Whether Pope Leo is a Marxist or not is not the issue. The question is, is he a socialist? If so, like his predecessor he's no friend of the poor.
His church is basically conservative. It has a long history of adapting itself to whatever regime is in power.
So Pope Francis adapted himself to power?
How much difference did he make?
A huge difference I think, in that the conservative influence that is the Vatican gained the praise of the secular media. And from what I hear generation X is listening.
It goes back to at least the 2nd Vatican Council of the 1960s.