Posted on 09/21/2011 5:54:34 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
WASHINGTON (EWTN News/CNA)—Bishops and other Catholic clergy should speak about unemployment and poverty in their homilies, U.S. bishops’ conference president Archbishop Timothy Dolan said Sept. 19.
“Widespread unemployment, underemployment and pervasive poverty are diminishing human lives, undermining human dignity, and hurting children and families,” Archbishop Dolan said. “I hope we can use our opportunities as pastors, teachers and leaders to focus public attention and priority on the scandal of so much poverty and so many without work in our society.”
The archbishop of New York said that 46 million people, 15% of the population, now live in poverty in the U.S. Recent unemployment figures are also “dismal.” Sixteen million children, almost one in four, are growing up in poverty. African-Americans and Hispanics face unemployment and poverty at “far higher rates.”
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Economic turmoil takes a “terrible toll” on families and communities, and Catholic dioceses are struggling to meet needs.
Rather than issuing another statement, Archbishop Dolan said, the administrative committee of the bishops’ conference wanted him to ask all the bishops to “lift up the human, moral and spiritual dimensions of the ongoing economic crisis.”
“The best way out of poverty is to work at a living wage,” the archbishop said. Rather than place blame, everyone should accept their personal and institutional responsibility to help create jobs and overcome poverty.
“Individuals and families, faith-based and community groups, businesses and labor, government at every level—all must work together and find effective ways to promote the common good in national and economic life.”
Archbishop Dolan pledged the Church’s solidarity with those who are poor and jobless and help for leaders who assist the poor and jobless by promoting economic growth and fiscal responsibility.
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Archbishop Dolan noted some helpful materials already exist on the U.S. bishops’ conference website at http://www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development/unemployement-and-poverty.cfm.
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“Individuals and families, faith-based and community groups, businesses and labor, government at every level—all must work together and find effective ways to promote the common good in national and economic life.”
So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
but in every nation anyone who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.
-- Acts 10:34-35
I agree churches should be speaking out about poverty and unemployment but they should not be pushing socialism to solve the problems.
I sympathise with Dolan’s concern for poverty, but I also recognize that he fails to grasp the new normal of the ever widening poverty and near-poverty conditions for most all Americans. The first step in dealing with a set of conditions is to recognize and acknowledge that they exist and will continue to exist for the forseeable future.
Remember your true mission, Archbishop Dolan. Save souls not a central socialist government that has doomed this once great nation to a position of unarmed sniveling in an evil world.
There are jobs (like flipping burgers and greeting shoppers) and then there a are jobs (like the ones transported out of America.)
Don’t confuse this Archbishop Dolan with the Traditional bishop from West Chester, Ohio Bishop Daniel L. Dolan.
If a religious organization believes they are bringing about the Kingdom of God on Earth so that Christ can return, of COURSE they are going to get involved in the political systems and governments. “Social justice” and all that socialistic jargon, you know.
yep- And O’bummer is going to HELP old bishop Dufus-
By....Raising the Taxes on people who give to the church to help the poor!!
I cannot make this up! these social looooosers are
in bed with pure Evil. hey Bishop Dufus you are
pretty old- I have a surprise for you when die
and are shown the book of life.
They need to speak out about OPENLY GAY people in the military!! It’s a MORAL failing that this has happened because we have IMMORAL people leading this country.
As individuals we are responsible for learning charity. Government cannot provide charity, only an enticement to slavery.
You make a good point! I think it was Rush Limbaugh who coined the phrase "trickle-down immorality", and it certainly applies today!
"promoting economic growth and fiscal responsibility."
I bet the lefties tried hard to make him take out this part.
“The best way out of poverty is to work at a living wage,”
The key word there is WORK - not sit back and “take”. Having had Archbishop Dolan in Milwaukee for several years to clean up the mess here, he did an excellent job. He has now been put in charge of the Catholic Bishops, which IMHO need a good housecleaning, and he’s the guy to do it. Watch him carefully, he is an excellent man - have some faith here folks. He is from the St. Louis area, his brother Bob Dolan was on radio here for years and is a staunch conservative as I am confident that Archbishop Timothy Dolan is as well. Yeeee of little faith.
This is a good man with good ideas. IMHO again, he is NOT pushing socialism the way some perceive it to appear. God helps those who help themselves, too.
Be aware of the repetitive uses by the Left of variations on the word "common".....as in community, communal, communes, communards (French Revolution), community organizer, communism.... all marxist code words when employed in the context of LeftSpeak.
This archbishop's statement contains much of the usual code phrases and thinly-veiled propaganda regularly employed by the socialist and communist Left since Karl Marx published "Das Kapital" in the 1860's.
"Das Kapital" attacks the capitalist system and predicts its defeat. Many of today's clergy are also subtly attacking our economic system by blaming it for poverty and inequality. They employ the holiest and cleverest of words and phrases for cover.
Try re-reading Fr. Dolan's words above and analyzing for yourself the turns of phrases and use of guilt-games when urging the communal society to "promote the common good".
His earnest-exhortation lines all sound compassionate....it's what's between the lines that must be understood by the reader in the context of historical socialist and communist liturgy.
I analyze Obama's high-sounding but anti-capitalist exhortations and blame-games in his speeches in the same manner.
Capitalism, despite its corrupters, is the creator of the highest standards of living on earth.
An enlightened clergy should prayerfully train its sights not on our capitalist system but on the tenets of communism/socialism, the greatest destroyers of prosperous societies on earth.
Leni
Bishop Dolan obviously doesn’t see the connection between “social justice” like Obama’s spreading the wealth around and unemployment. Making everyone equally poor and dependent on the government for their very existence robs people of human dignity and their liberty. Helping the poor with government health care will soon mean free abortions and denying medical care to the very young and old ...so much for human dignity and the sanctity of life.
Archbishop Dolan wants to be a Cardinal so he can wear RED everyday. He is the last gasp of Vatican II doctrine.
“The best way out of poverty is to work at a living wage,”
The key word there is WORK - not sit back and “take”. Having had Archbishop Dolan in Milwaukee for several years to clean up the mess here, he did an excellent job. He has now been put in charge of the Catholic Bishops, which IMHO need a good housecleaning,
What many are not aware of is that some of these reports about catholic clergy come from dubious sources however TNCR (The National Catholic Register) is not one of them .
He might be dropping his left shoe down first only to follow it with his right shoe making these utterances because there could be a followup with a denial of communion (excommuication) to a key figure because of abortion rather soon.
Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. |
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Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you. |
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Reference Matthew 5:3-12.
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