***No support in this lecture for the recent heresy spread by some American Roman Catholic bishops that their imagined dogma of being anti-abortion supersedes all other dogmas of The Church.***
The general air of being anti abortion is a recent discovery of the USCCB.
***And one wonders how much support the Papal call to international social activism will find among the those who have bought into that peculiar American heresy because it furthers their anti-Obama political agenda.***
The misapplication of international social activism has gotten us into much of the mess that we find ourselves in.
***For Christians who regularly ask God to “give us this day our daily bread”, it is a shameful tragedy that one-fifth of humanity still goes hungry. Assuring an adequate food supply, like the protection of vital resources such as water and energy, requires all international leaders to collaborate in showing a readiness to work in good faith, respecting the natural law and promoting solidarity and subsidiarity with the weakest regions and peoples of the planet as the most effective strategy for eliminating social inequalities between countries and societies and for increasing global security.”***
The world overproduces food. The problem in the last two centuries have all been either directly manmade such as the mass starvation in Ukraine, or enhanced by the authorities such as the mass starvation in Biafra. The mistakes made in the past century have often centered on revolutionary theology where the clergy took on the role of Che Guevara. Either that, or we have gone in with guns to overthrow the current dictator and replace him with a worse one.
BXVI is right; we have the entire doctrine of the Church to obey, and not just the current headlines.
“BXVI is right; we have the entire doctrine of the Church to obey, and not just the current headlines.”
Exactly!