“So Catholic leaders have often challenged Democrats to be more pro-life and Republicans to be more concerned about immigrants and the poor.”
Gentlemen do not discuss the unspeakable in public, and thus I ignore the above sentence content dealing with Democrats.
However, the part about “Catholic leaders” challenging Republicans to “be more concerned with immigrants and the poor” deserves a critical review.
“Catholic leaders” are assumed to live as examples of, and act in light of what G*d is said to have given Man as recorded in the Old & New Testaments. Therein is the line about ‘having the poor with you always’.
And, Jesus was supposed to have said that those who would not work would not eat. But, what did He know.
Unwilling to accept Divine perspectives on poverty and sloth, the activists/commies/queers in the Catholic Church decided that they were wiser than the alleged source cited in the Old/New Testaments and struck off boldly where not only did angels fear to tread, as even the angels were forbidden to tread that path.
Once upon a time, long, long ago, theft was theft. Likewise, that Man had to work after expulsion from the Garden of Eden was once accepted as the will of G*d. But, what did He know? Interpretation of the Scriptures led to exactly where was predicted.
“You shall teach these laws diligently unto your children” was considered to mean what it says, and people and theologians alike knew the difference between “teach” and “interpret”
Liberation Theology was, in essence, socialism. Socialism violates a certain Commandment regarding the Divine prohibition against stealing. Try as I have, I could find no phrase in that Commandment which can in any way be taken a justification or authorization to use government to steal for either oneself or another.
Along with rampant homosexual takeover of seminaries, the Catholic Church embraced “Liberation Theology” which was merely small ‘c’ communism with a flavor of theology.
Public rejection of the Church (but not the Scriptures) has become widespread, and another Reformation is occurring as we watch. Interestingly, the Soviets repressed the Church for nearly a century, and in the end, the Church is growing and the Soviet Union is gone (more or less).
The Russian Orthodox is growing as the State church, and as in history past, consistent (Gal. 4:29) with the overall institutionalized unregenerate nature it is using the arm of the flesh to persecute the "competition."
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