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What the Catholic legal tradition has to offer the United States
Catholic News Agency ^ | Oct 2020 | Mary Farrow

Posted on 10/27/2020 11:45:25 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Thanks! A little light reading that I’ll get to eventually.


21 posted on 10/27/2020 12:21:42 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: RKV

The Catholic tradition encompasses the origins. But some major philosophers also redefined the game.

38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

- Jesus


22 posted on 10/27/2020 12:26:15 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“It was Catholic conscience confronting the evils of New World colonialism that led vicariously to the development of the modern system of international law”

Oh Right. The American Bill of Rights, based on the English Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, English Common law and Dissenter precepts, is just a sidelight to...one guy no one ever heard?

I know, I know. I haven’t heard of him because I’m...gasp...a WASP!

I’m sure that all those silly Protestant Colonials had nothing to do with civilization in America, it was actually a secret program of El Papa!

Yup, time to let the Brown Eyes of Calabria take their rightful place over us. The Real Americans!

Jefferson and Madison were just pogues. Got it.


23 posted on 10/27/2020 12:28:02 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: forgotten man

I hear ya. It also irritates the heck out of me to hear prominent folks (e.g., Barry Obama) repeatedly use the subjective first-person pronoun (I) when the objective (me) is necessary. “It has been a great blessing to Michelle and I to live in the White House,” “When you elected Joe Biden and I in 2008...” etc.


24 posted on 10/27/2020 12:29:26 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: BuffaloJack

“Too bad they have a commie Pope.”

Actually, we have no pope. Frankie has excommunicated himself latae sententiae, and is therefore ineligible for the office.


25 posted on 10/27/2020 12:33:08 PM PDT by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: Regulator

Yep, you’re right - there is no room for WASPs in important roles like the Supreme Court. It is well established that WASPs have lower intelligence and lower moral standards than those whose DNA comes from Calabria and Sicily. That’s why the Mafia is such a well run organization.


26 posted on 10/27/2020 12:41:19 PM PDT by oldbill
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“It is well established that WASPs have lower intelligence and lower moral standards than those whose DNA comes from Calabria and Sicily”

Yup. We’uns is just the ‘po peeple of peapatch Arkansas, gotta have Mustache Petes like the Cuomo familia tell us what to do, they know how to make a group do what they’re told. Real Organization Men!


27 posted on 10/27/2020 12:51:23 PM PDT by Regulator
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