Can I Help?
Charlie Pierce and Digby, among others, are put out with the whinging of Ken Langone about the things Pope Francis says about rich people. He doesn’t see how he can convince other rich Catholics to donate to his $180 million fund to rehabilitate St. Patrick’s Cathedral, if the Pope continues to be unkind.
Cardinal Dolan of NYC says that it is really a misunderstanding, and the Pope isn’t really talking about American rich people who are so generous, but the bad rich people in other places.
Okay, first off I would suggest Langone and Dolan find and open a New Testament to Mark 10:25, which says: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” It seems to be all inclusive on ‘rich men’.
Then, Cardinal Dolan should sit down with Mr. Langone, and other rich donors to the the rehabilitation fund and watch the nice little Christmas movie, The Bishop’s Wife, which puts the money spent on cathedrals in its proper place.
