Might be of interest for your lists
I didn't stick around for the punchline. Cheesy devices like this usually lead to a disappointing conclusion.
It's like the 5th grade feminist indoctrination we used to get. The rhetoric is just a vehicle to deliver it.
Oh horsefeathers, there is nothing wrong in any of that. Traitors walk among us openly advocating outright robbery, appeasing mortal enemies, running down our defenses and slandering heroic men, real tyrants abroad openly murder people and seek horrific means to destroy countless more lives and are allowed to get away with it, and ninnies like the writer of this piece try to pretend the problem is how impersonal an office building in Cincinnati seems. Give me a freaking break. Free men freely made all of it because it functions well and serves their needs, and they do not require your approval for a particle of it. There are real problems in the world, this is not one of them.
At first it didn’t read like a “Catholic” article, then I noticed it was written by Armstrong Williams, and I found this part both good, and not so good:
“..By returning to the lessons of the past. Decent and God-fearing souls must help rebuild American community by reclaiming the traditional values that built it — faith, thrift, work, social justice, personal accountability, and enlightened compassion. Taken together, these elements make up the fertile soil out of which a vibrant community may grow....”
Social Justice should be replaced with Education, and “enlightened compassion” should have desire to own one’s own property free from the tyranny of the majority or minority.
For me, I liked it.
It doesn't come from Big Government socialist programs from the federal government in Washington.
When, exactly, was America NOT socially stratified? Maybe I’m missing something. The author does make a few good points. There is a definite loss of community, accountability. Materialism has replaced a lot—and it is a poor substitute.
Kinda snuck in that one in the middle?
How about "justice", plain and simple, and leave the "social" nonsense out?
Trying to 'right' historical "wrongs" by wronging people today who had nothing to do with it does no one any justice.