US Catholic Bishops on Government Shutdown: The Poor, Needy Should Come First

The Christian Post ^ | October 2, 2013 | Stoyan Zaimov

[BlatherNaut]

I'm wondering what those jackasses are interpreting as that

This, perhaps?

2406 Political authority has the right and duty to regulate the legitimate exercise of the right to ownership for the sake of the common good.

Although they have apparently neglected to factor the following section in, as demonstrated by their incessant, strident calls for socialist-style intervention by Big Brother:

2425 The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with "communism" or "socialism." She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of "capitalism," individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor.[206] Regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds; regulating it solely by the law of the marketplace fails social justice, for "there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market."[207] Reasonable regulation of the marketplace and economic initiatives, in keeping with a just hierarchy of values and a view to the common good, is to be commended.