Posted on 06/25/2012 5:19:17 AM PDT by Lakeshark
For the first time in history of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has declared a Fortnight for Freedom in direct response to the attack on the Catholic Church and religious freedom by the Obama administration. The US bishops are asking the faithful to pray, say the Rosary, fast, sacrifice, take action and attend rallies in support of religious freedom. The Fortnight began on the Feast of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More–July 22–and will continue through July 4th.
Most Reverend William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, fired the opening shots on Sunday. This homily was posted by the Baltimore Archbishop on the US Bishop’s website.
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Obama declared war. He never expected this.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
While I don’t have time to read all of those, glancing through the titles indicate that most of the articles are about contraception and abortion; therefore, I stand by my original statement. Again, our bishop was all for obamacare until they passed the bill and we got to read what was in it. Now all of the sudden it’s bad.
An urban legend perpetuated by the ignorant.
I suppose you'd opine that the fact that the 24th of June, every year not just 2012, is the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist had nothing to do with it.
I’m quoting from the Compendium of the Social Doctrine for The Church, written by the Pontifican Council for Justice and Peace:
“177. Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute and untouchable: “On the contrary, it has always understood this right within the broader context of the right common to all to use the goods of the whole of creation: the right to private property is subordinated to the right to common use, to the fact that goods are meant for everyone”[372]. The principle of the universal destination of goods is an affirmation both of God’s full and perennial lordship over every reality and of the requirement that the goods of creation remain ever destined to the development of the whole person and of all humanity[373]. This principle is not opposed to the right to private property[374] but indicates the need to regulate it. Private property, in fact, regardless of the concrete forms of the regulations and juridical norms relative to it, is in its essence only an instrument for respecting the principle of the universal destination of goods; in the final analysis, therefore, it is not an end but a means[375].
178. The Church’s social teaching moreover calls for recognition of the social function of any form of private ownership [376] that clearly refers to its necessary relation to the common good[377]. Man “should regard the external things that he legitimately possesses not only as his own but also as common in the sense that they should be able to benefit not only him but also others”[378]. The universal destination of goods entails obligations on how goods are to be used by their legitimate owners. Individual persons may not use their resources without considering the effects that this use will have, rather they must act in a way that benefits not only themselves and their family but also the common good. From this there arises the duty on the part of owners not to let the goods in their possession go idle and to channel them to productive activity, even entrusting them to others who are desirous and capable of putting them to use in production.”
Soo.... where am I wrong here?
Please see Post 44.
My take is that the Kenyan Commie mooselimb and the apparatus could give a rats ass what the Catholics do.
The Church's lawsuit has been suppressed by the marxist propagandist.
Excommunication of degenerate demons incarnate like Pelosi is above the pay grade of anybody but the Pope, and he's useless too.
Novena for Religious Freedom for the United States of America (Prayer)
Pretty consistent with Anglo-American Law, isn’t it? Property is a relative, not an absolute right. It can be taken for cause or for the public good. Nothing like the maxim of Proudhon that “ Property is theft.”
Because I look at the facts
To bad you don’t see them
Bob, sorry to disappoint you, but the facts are in those links. 100 percent of the Bishops came out AGAINST the HHS mandate. That’s a fact.
And in the US Constitution, no property may be taken for public use without just compensation. That’s the rub.
Once we start down this road of “some of your property must serve the ‘greater good’, the road to hell becomes paved with very good intentions.
Real property owners in the west see this better than most right now. The Kelo Supreme Court case is another example of outright theft of property for public use. Both examples run contra the US Constitution and originalist intent of the Fifth Amendment.
But for all of that, those thefts of property aren’t cloaked in moral preening, and that’s where I get crossthreaded with the religious left in a fast hurry - telling me that I have a moral or ethical obligation (which they invented from whole cloth) to make some portion (which they determine) of my property accessible for the ‘greater good of man’ or whatever phrasing they wish to use.
Kelo was a strange case of taking from one private party and giving it to another private person. because the state thought that the latter could make better use of it. This is obviosuly arbitrary, but since courts are controlled by the powerful, at least as a class, they often make arbitrary decisions supported by spedcious arguement.
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