WaPo’s Stevens-Arroyo Calls for Catholics to 'Embrace a Redistribution of Wealth'

newsbusters.org ^ | 6/25/10 | Sarah Knoploh

[Saundra Duffy]

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[A_Former_Democrat]

1,000:1 this jackass doesn’t practice “redistribution of wealth” with his own finances

[NoLibZone]

Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, religious author and outgoing director of Brooklyn College’s Center for Study of Religion in Society and Culture, also asked that any Catholics that support AZ immigration laws be denied communion.

[caseinpoint]

What has the moratorium to do with redistribution of wealth? The slush fund, yes. The moratorium? None, except maybe to redistribute wealth from the Gulf residents to Brazil, Venezuela and other oil-pumping nations.

[Gay State Conservative]

1,000:1 this jackass doesn’t practice “redistribution of wealth” with his own finances.

Bingo! That right there sums it all up.

[jessduntno]

WaPo’s Stevens-Arroyo Calls for Catholics to ‘Embrace a Redistribution of Wealth’

Most of em already do, don’t they?

[jrg]

be denied communion< br>
What! no free wafers and wine......boo hoo.

[fatima]

Shut up Arroyo.

[fatima]

What!

[Mobties]

Let’s see the WaPo journalist’s tax returns for the last ten years or so and have a look at all the charitable deductions.

Talk is cheap, pal. I’ll bet you haven’t even donated blood over the last three years.

[sphinx]

This dimbulb has apparently not figured out that ill-designed redistribution is the great enabler of the underclass and is thus reponsible for a disproportionate share of the misery in America today.

IMHO, Christians are obligated to consider the consequences of their actions. Yes, we need a reasonable safety net. But anyone who has not been asleep for the last 45 years must realize by now that the Great Society approach has been a catastrophe.

[Westbrook]

Yes, of course.

We all know that Jesus taught that the government should take money by threat of force from one person to give it to another.
/sarc, in case you didn’t know

Please read your BIBLES!!

[stockpirate]

He is only supporting the position of his Popeness.

[all the best]

Good idea! Every Christian should support envy, covetousness and theft. Then move on to sodomy, adultery and murder.

[truthguy]

There's a real crisis in both the Protestant and Catholic Churches. I know many who no longer attend services due to the politics that have entered the mainline churches. The facts that the pews are nearly empty hasn't deterred those who are using the church to push social policy one bit.

These fools feel as though they know how to distribute wealth but few if any know how to produce wealth.

[Wonder Warthog]

"He never explained where exactly it states Catholics are bound to encourage the government to confiscate legally earned private property to give it to whomever it deems more worthy. Catholics are bound to assist others through charity, not compulsory redistribution."

Mr. "Stevens-Arroyo" (note, never trust anybody with a hyphenated last name) needs to take a mandatory refresher course on the Catechism. And he might spend some additional time on John Paul II's writings about socialism and communism and why the Church is opposed to both.

[griswold3]

Exactly!
I have no qualms with people freely choosing to ‘redistribute’ their own wealth. You can even send a check to the government for any amount over your usual tax obligation and they will cash it and do the job for you (so you think).

[fortunecookie]

As a Catholic, I’m embarassed and saddened to hear his leftist spew. Stevens_Arroyo is a CINO at best. And a communist, Liberation Theology type at best, who loves Che more than the Pope. Maybe those who want redistribution of wealth can lead by example...

[SwedeBoy2]

How about the Catholic Church set the Good Example and have the Vatican melt down all of the Gold they stole from the Native Americans and Repatriat it along with all of the Jewels.