Posted on 05/26/2015 7:47:55 AM PDT by Salvation
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Full title:
Beware the Strangest Idol of All – A Reflection on How Even Works of Charity Cannot Eclipse Obedience to Christ
Government money = the villain.
**Money and resources to serve the poor are essential, but they are still money and it remains stunningly true that we cannot serve both God and money. In the end, even serving the poor can become a kind of idol to which God has to yield. It is the strangest idol of all, for it comes in very soft sheep’s clothing, the finest wool! But if God and His Revealed truth must yield to it, it is an idol—the strangest idol of all.**
A lot of good comments at the site.
So the church doesn’t like competition?
He gets it right.....do you make a deal with the devil ?...what good is it for a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul
Works of charity or any one virtue over others leads to imbalance I know women who do so much for the poor and less fortunate. Their husbands wander and the kids act out their neglect
Some of these women are proud of all they do and don’t hesitate to judge others, form charity holier than thou cliques.
Very powerful article. This guy on the council includes himself as “gay.” Did you catch that?
Not from the government!
Government money eventually leads to government dictates. Catholic Charities should drop all the federal or state grants they receive.
Exactly.
“If you right hand causes you to sin, cut it off.” “If your eye causes you to sin, cut it out.”
Jesus had some strong words about such things.
Yep, I think that is why is objection was so strong. He needs to get removed from that advisory council.
It is not just government money that is the problem.
I am aware of an offer to fund and teach a course on ethics and morality at a major Catholic University that was turned down.
The reason it was turned down was that it would offend large corporate donors to the school.
Money does influence situations that are contrary to God’s laws. It starts with small matters and continues into larger ones.
Temporary gains are attractive, but we need to see the bigger picture that God’s gifts are more beneficial.
The Church’s chief purpose is to bring people to God and salvation by spreading the Good News.
Helping the poor and the misguided is just one way to bring people to want to please God.
It depends on how the corporations thought it would affect them.
Were they worried because there’d be serious Catholic teaching on moral issues? Or were they worried because they thought it might be the usual “anti-capitalist,” anti-corporate and anti-American diatribe so beloved of the Catholic left...which now holds the dominant hand at universities.
Agreed. I’ve seen the same and, you’re right, it’s difficult not to judge... A person has to be true to their state in life; if that’s a wife and mother, then that’s where the first obligation lies.
He came right out and said how he “personally” felt offended. That should not be a factor. Nor should Mr. O’s salary; Mr. O is also one of the taxpayers who is getting his rights as a Catholic potentially compromised by this man.
It would have exposed the unethical and immoral practices of some corporate executives and would have a negative impact on contributions to the university.
Money was more important than teaching right and wrong. The Catholic University turned down the opportunity, not the corporations. The University was not willing to teach according to Catholic morals. It was not a attack on capitalism.
Another thing that is happening is that Planned Parenthood has the money to pay teachers to teach sex ed in our high schools.
Keep your children out of all sex education classes!
The reference to the “Social Gospel” reminds me of the statement Wm F Buckley Jr made, that “social” is a prefix meaning “not,” as in “social justice” and “social science” and “social work.”
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