Anonymous #1 15h

It’s about communal ownership vs private ownership that you generate wealth from. And a vow to focus on spiritual freedom from the distractions of consumerism and material attachment

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Anonymous #1 15h

It’s predominant in the Jesuit order, which is where I went to school and was what my parish was

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Anonymous OP 15h

Oh that’s fascinating! Do you think that has anything to do with the popes relative sanity compared to American evangelicals?

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Anonymous #1 14h

Actually yes and this is also the reason why we have differences in holy orders as well. Many evangelicals take the Bible quite literally, as the first Protestant Martin Luther urged Christians to overlook the teachings of the Church (at the time very sinful and materialistic), and subsequent denominations since then have followed suit. However, Catholics, while being well read typically, also take instruction from the Roman Church and theologians.

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Anonymous #3 14h

This could be considered a “deeper” understanding of the Word. Some things in Scripture, like the vow of poverty or vow of celibacy for priests are not particularly evident in Scripture literally, but upon further inspection you see how the Book can have multiple meanings. Evangelicals oftentimes disregard that kind of thinking hence why their pastors are married and don’t have to go to seminarian school and ofc megachurches tend to be very corrupt and materialistic.

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Anonymous #3 14h

Funnily enough when Protestants first came about and split from the Papal Order, they (and subsequently every other denomination that came after them including evangelicals) took their vows of poverty very seriously while the Pope was materialistic. It’s quite a shame how such valid critique on the Holy See has become perverted over centuries. Martin Luther was a visionary

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Anonymous #4 13h

Yes but the jesuits very much instilled the importance of that value into me

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