Posted on 09/27/2010 2:13:37 AM PDT by markomalley
We believe that social security legislation, now balled as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for Christianity. It is an acceptance of the Idea of force and compulsion. It is an acceptance of Cain's statement, on the part of the employer. "Am I my brother's keeper?" Since the employer can never be trusted to give a family wage, nor take care of the worker as he takes care of his machine when it is idle, the state must enter in and compel help on his part. Of course, economists say that business cannot afford to act on Christian principles. It Is impractical, uneconomic. But it is generally coming to be accepted that such a degree of centralization as ours is impractical, and that there must be decentralization. In other words, business has made a mess of things, and the state has had to enter in to rescue the worker from starvation.
Of course, Pope Pius XI said that, when such a crisis came about, in unemployment, fire, flood, earthquake, etc., the state had to enter in and help.
But we in our generation have more and more come to consider the state as bountiful Uncle Sam. "Uncle Sam will take care of it all. The race question, the labor question, the unemployment question." We will all be registered and tabulated and employed or put on a dole, and shunted from clinic to birth control clinic. "What right have people who have no work to have a baby?" How many poor Catholic mothers heard that during those grim years before the war!
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicworker.org ...
Can you please remove the semi-vanity tag from the title. Originally I had some editorializing in the body of the article, which would make it a “semi vanity”...but in order to get the thing below 300 words (so I could use the “extract” button), I deleted my words...but forgot to change the title.
Thanks.
I do not know one socialist that feels Doris Day is an icon.
Momentum Builds for the Canonization of Dorothy Day of New York (Justice and Peace Dot Org)
Don't Call Me a Saint! (Sojourners Magazine)
Plenty of other sources among the socialist social justice movement types...Perhaps you should ask...
Que sera sera.
That’s a different Doris Day.
DOROTHY, Laz. DOROTHY, not Doris.
;-D
I thought it was funny.
I’m putting that on my homepage! Excellent!
ping
“As Catholics we have no right to force the poor into the dependency on Holy Mother the State.” — Dorothy Day
Omit the word “the” from quote. My fingers are on automatic.
Omit the word “the” from quote. My fingers are on automatic.
The chasm between what the Church teaches and what “some folks” think it teaches is enormous.
Excellent line! Tom is working on speeches for a debate tournament this Saturday - maybe he can use this quote against a “social justice” proposal.
yA THINK????
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