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To: Hieronymus
He isn’t saying that the solution is to up the amount of welfare,...

That is exactly what he's saying =>

We need to be convinced that charity “is the principle not only of micro-relationships (with friends, with family members or within small groups) but also of macro-relationships (social, economic and political ones)".

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html

145 posted on 11/27/2013 9:01:31 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: Ken H

In Catholic Theological circles, Charity primarily denotes the love of God—how God would order things. In English, the idea of almsgiving has been so closely attached to the word that the primary theological meaning is often lost.

What the Holy Father is saying might be thus translated: the Love of God (the Divine ordering of things) ought to guide all our actions, not just those that immediately impact people that we are directly in contact with. Political means more than re-distribution—it would include things like abortion.


171 posted on 11/27/2013 9:19:53 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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