....On July 7 of this year, Pope Benedict XVI issued his third encyclical entitled Caritas in Veritate -- “On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth.” In it, he continually re-emphasized one of the foundational principles of Catholic social teaching -- the common good. To achieve a good and just society, the Pope emphasizes that charity is authentic only when it is seen through the lens of truth revealed in faith and reason. The political process therefore must be so guided in order to achieve this end.
Ping for later
If health care was a “right”, then God would have been wrong to inflict illness onto the world. And it certainly makes a mockery of “the WAGES of sin is death” which indicates God would be unjust to give us anything less than our wages unless He gave us grace.
No, good health as well as good health care is God’s blessing. Everything else is what we deserve.
I do find a certain irony in the fact that the Catholic bishops so bent on their social communistic ideology are now supporting killing off old people and abortion. This just goes to show you we all have our priorities.
BTW-I get tired of people saying this health care proposal should be for “everyone”. If people would stop and think for one minute, not allowing access to health care for the elderly is NOT equal access. They are only changing who can access the system.