Walter E. Williams has a question (which he will keep rephrasing):

There's a more fundamental question that I'd put to the pope: Should the Roman Catholic Church support the welfare state? Or, put more plainly, should the Church support the use of the coercive powers of government to enable one person to live at the expense of another? Put even more plainly, should the Church support the government's taking the property of one person and giving it to another to whom it doesn't belong? When such an act is done privately, we call it theft.

And when such an act is done by a church, in this case the Catholic Church, it's called "tithing". In many countries, the government does this collecting for them, coercively. I'm pretty sure the Pope, sitting fat and happy in his fancy palace, like all other Popes before him, is way in favor of it.

(via - who apparently won't post my erudite and pithy comments any more. so sad.)