[newberger]

The overall issue is that the Church should stop meddling in purely secular affairs. The Church's primary concern is the SPIRITUAL welfare of the world, not the MATERIAL

Uh oh! -- Better not read the prophets!

Your neat categories will be upset.

The ***Bible*** regularly rants against those who opress the poor.

And, NO, I am not a liberal democrat.

[jrny]

I did say the Church's PRIMARY Concern was the Spiritual Welfare.

The responsibility to perform Corporal Works of mercy falls upon the individuals and communities who are closest to those in need. Subsidiarity in other words.

Government bureaucracies create more injustice than the injustices they purport to heal.