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To: Retired Chemist
"The Catholic Church is always pushing for more government aid for poor people"

Huh? I suppose there have been left-wing style social justice advocates, nominally of the church, who've advocated such a thing, but the true Catholic position -- and this is the actual meaning of social justice -- is to obtain critical i.e. food and housing aid to the poor from the most local level first and then move up if absolutely necessary. For example: family, church, employer if any, charity...and if all those fail then government might be the next step but only for essentials, not frills.

Why should I pay to support kids who resulted from their ban on contraception?

Well, in truly needy cases -- and where the local effort has failed -- I believe in helping out children regardless of what their parents did or did not do. This would seem to be consistent with tenets of Christianity.

59 posted on 03/18/2013 5:21:29 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: steve86

http://www.usccb.org/news/2012/12-063.cfm


61 posted on 03/18/2013 5:48:24 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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