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First they came for the free market economists. Much of the Roman Catholic hierarchy was fine with Marxism, so they said nothing. Then they came for the 2nd Amendment people. The Catholic hierarchy liked government control, so they said, “Throw them in jail!” Then they came for the Tea Party activists. The Catholic Hierarchy didn’t really like the Tea Party, so they said nothing. Now they are reaping what they sowed. To the Catholic hierarchy, welcome to the wrong side of the tracks. Better late than never, I guess. You are welcome here as long as you start accepting the idea of personal freedom. If not . . . reap it.

What spew.

Many of the TEA party activists here ARE Catholic. Save your feces for the proper receptacle, you are part of the problem.

I agree that some Roman Catholics have it figured out. However, the hierarchy is stuck in Europe.

I agree that it's spew, but it's not mine. Nothing I have said has not been backed up by official documents from the Vatican. All emphases are mine.

These demands concern above all the commitment to peace, the organization of the State's powers, a sound juridical system, the protection of the environment, and the provision of essential services to all, some of which are at the same time human rights: food, housing, work, education and access to culture, transportation, basic health care, the freedom of communication and expression, and the protection of religious freedom[350]. Nor must one forget the contribution that every nation is required in duty to make towards a true worldwide cooperation for the common good of the whole of humanity and for future generations also[351].

Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Chapter Four, II(b) pp166.

168. The responsibility for attaining the common good, besides falling to individual persons, belongs also to the State, since the common good is the reason that the political authority exists[355].

Chapter Four (II)(c)

The Church's social teaching proposes the goal of “general, balanced and controlled disarmament”.[1067]

Chapter 11 (II)(e) titled "Disarmament"

510. Disarmament must include the banning of weapons that inflict excessively traumatic injury or that strike indiscriminately. This includes anti- personnel landmines, a type of small arm that is inhumanly insidious because it continues to cause harm even long after the cessation of hostilities. States that produce them, sell them and continue to use them are responsible for seriously delaying the total elimination of these death-dealing weapons.[1075]

ibid

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/justpeace/documents/rc_pc_justpeace_doc_20060526_compendio-dott-soc_en.html#The specification of rights

I agree that many individual Roman Catholics. The Roman Catholic hierarchs . . . not so much.