“Many of the Catholic Left use statements on the meaning of human dignity to push for a Welfare State.”
Got a problem with Catholics? A leftard is a leftist first and foremost, before anything else, and that goes for Catholic priests as well. However, anyone pushing for a welfare state is working against Catholic teachings.
“The dignity of the individual and the demands of justice require, particularly today, that economic choices do not cause disparities in wealth to increase in an excessive and morally unacceptable manner.”
What’s wrong with that? Implementing the toxic policies of John Maynard Keynes, as leftards advocate, causes disparities in wealth to increase. Higher taxes cause disparities in wealth to increase, even if—perhaps especially if—those tax monies are supposed to be used to “help the poor.” So, yes: “The dignity of the individual and the demands of justice require” that we return to classical economics as advocated by Ronald Reagan, with lower taxes, less regulation, more liberty, and a healthy economy that provides jobs for all who want them. That’s what Catholic teaching requires.
“There exist also sinful inequalities that affect millions of men and women. These are in open contradiction of the Gospel: Their equal dignity as persons demands that we strive for fairer and more humane conditions. Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.”
What’s wrong with that? “Their equal dignity as persons demands that we strive for fairer and more humane conditions,” such as a society in which men and women get married, stay married, and bring up children to be good citizens; a society in which Satan’s little energizer bunnies do not succeed in making sodomite play-pretend marriage the law of the land; a society in which men work outside the home, and women do the much more important work of making a home for husband and children.
Did I say “more important?” Hell, yes. As we have seen, even Forrest Gump’s dumber brother can be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but only a wife and mother can perform the indispensable work appertaining thereto. No wives, no mothers, no nation. It’s as simple as that.
And I’m not talking about the sort of women who expend 98% of their strength on careers, and call the 2% left over for husbands and children “having it all.”
If you want to hate on Catholics, don’t pretend you’re doing anything more noble than that.
I do. Present company excepted, the majority of Catholics are hypocrites who supposedly oppose abortion and gay marriage yet they can be counted upon to consistently vote Democrat in election after election.
When that condition changes then so will my opinion.