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To: Mr. Jeeves
Catholicism tends to view material success as evil, and poverty as noble and Godly.

Do you have a source for this accusation?

I think you are confusing being "poor of spirit" with actually being monetarily poor. Big difference.

37 posted on 07/21/2005 8:08:10 AM PDT by frogjerk
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To: frogjerk; Mr. Jeeves
Do you have a source for this accusation?

Gee, froggie, 'accusation' seems a bit harsh to me. I didn't see a response from Mr. J, so...

I saw your later post of a paragraph from the CCC. A look at that entire page is worthwhile:

2401 -2463

And, of course, the footnotes lead to the source documents if anything seems particularly interesting.

Actually, Mr. J, I think that whole 'liberation theology' movement is a dead dog. You'll still find isolated adherents but the Church has rather forcefully shown it to be a false ideology contrary to her historic teachings about human nature and society.

As for living in material poverty in imitation of Christ I think the Church tells us that is a charism, a gift from God. And not every member of the body of Christ has the same gifts, just as the Apostle tells us.

74 posted on 07/22/2005 10:33:09 AM PDT by siunevada
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