Posted on 03/24/2010 9:36:01 AM PDT by parkerj
Social justice is best pursued through fidelity to the Constitution of the United States, which was written by brilliant men who designed it as a restraint on government and a guarantee of individual liberty and responsibility.
The Catholic Church doesn't have a monopoly on virtue, and before it again pursues 'social justice' and 'change' at the expense of our institutions and traditions, it would be wise for it to remember that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefinancialskinny.com ...
Why can’t Catholics get it that “social justice” is a mixture of envy. jealousy, covetousness, theft and bitterness. SIN. It is materialism. It sees problems in terms of money. If only people had enough money their lives would work. Utter nonsense.
You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
The Catholic Church has two kinds of people in it. True believers in Christ who have repented and strive to live righteous holy lives. Then there are the apostate/unregenerate typee who follow liberation theology and have dead faith. Many of them are just bodies in church.
I suspect that most catholics understand, just not the ones in the church heirarchy. If you read the American Conference of Catholic Bishops' web site on "social justice" it reads like Marx, Hegel and the Democratic party platform. Clergy, never having striven for a living in the competitive workplace just don't get it. They're like 0bama. They think of all the good they can do if they just get enough of someone's money.
The Conference was created for that purpose.
For what it’s worth, the current pope is thinking about abolishing it.
The writer of that article sure has a grudge against the Church that Jesus founded. The writer conveniently forgets that there is no possible way to quantify how many Catholics actually voted for oBama (maybe 3 that I personally know of), nor how oBama was actually elected by powerfully dramatic assistance by the liberal press, ACORN and misguided independents.
The Church has never "bargained with the Devil. Any thought of that is simply ludicrous. However, the writer of that piece certainly has, in my opinion. And lost.
Anti-Catholic bigotry alert. The Catholic Church is threatened from within and without precisely because she is the Church of Christ. Her teachings and teaching authority fight apostasy based on the faith of St. Peter whose body along with St. Paul’s is buried in Rome as a sign of the apostolic witness. Mr. B, abandon the bigotry.
Why was this posted? The Church opposed this health-care bill and as far as I know does not claim a monopoly on social justice. Are there false brethren in the Church and those who have departed from her discipline and doctrine? To be sure. That’s part of the crisis in that they are allowed to continue their infidelity without consequences.
Are you saying that it does NOT reflect the philosophy of the Catholic heirarchy in the USA today?
Abandon the apostasy.
duh?
The Roman "church" was founded by the pagan Constantine at Nicea. Yah'shua (Jesus) did not incorporate any corporation.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
It’s a news article about the matter. If you think the news article says something wrong, critique it. FR is not going to cater to offended Catholics.
The question I have is: are you massively ignorant of the Church's position (supported everything except abortion and was critical of the rest because it didn't "go far enough") or are you just a liar. On second thought, you needn't bother replying - I don't care. In either case I don't want to waste my time arguing with you.
First of all, we admire the Catholic Church and have no anti-Catholic bias.
Second, the Church has pushed strongly for universal healthcare run by government and is now aggressively pushing amnesty for illegals.
The point of the article is that although the Church objected to federal funding for abortion, it tried to implement healthcare “reform” through a fatally flawed President, and the result is federally-funded abortion.
either you implied or I inferred that you were pinning the socialism that infests the church bureaucracy on the Conf of bishops rather than the whole rotten socialistic bureaucracy. I may have misunderstood.
Thou shalt not be greedy. -- Not one of the Ten.
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