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To: markomalley

Whatever. For every quote you find I can find an opposing quote. Your popes and your church has been pushing socialism for decades. Perhaps you believe what you want to believe.

By the way, Richard Benett was an Irish priest for decades, a Dominican I believe. His family remains Catholic. He isn’t anti-Catholic at all. He ministers to Catholics. When somene finds the Truth they want to share it with the people they love most.


18 posted on 01/15/2014 5:37:53 AM PST by .45 Long Colt
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To: .45 Long Colt

In being what they view as fulfilling the church role as “pillar and foundation of truth” they actually elbow God aside, figuring that once they have what looks like a pillar and foundation, it actually is.

I assert that earthly churches do this imperfectly. The Roman Catholic stance is that the Roman Catholic church does it perfectly and ought to be listened to as the head authority by any Christian anywhere.

Ceding imperfection ironically allows for a better approach to perfection. You got to admit you have a problem before you can fix it!


20 posted on 01/15/2014 5:42:52 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: .45 Long Colt
For every quote you find I can find an opposing quote.

For every quote I find I, too, can find an opposing quote. Particularly from the USCCB.

But the fact of the matter is that the papal magisterium (the official teaching of the Church) does not, in any way, support socialism. Period. I would run through a whole list of quotes from every pope from Leo XII through Benedict XVI (the current pope has not yet made any Magisterial statements as of yet)

One of my favorites, by the way, is from John XXIII:

Pope Pius XI further emphasized the fundamental opposition between Communism and Christianity, and made it clear that no Catholic could subscribe even to moderate Socialism. The reason is that Socialism is founded on a doctrine of human society which is bounded by time and takes no account of any objective other than that of material well-being. Since, therefore, it proposes a form of social organization which aims solely at production, it places too severe a restraint on human liberty, at the same time flouting the true notion of social authority.

Encyclical Mater et Magistra (34), 1961

One other thing, on the topic of He isn’t anti-Catholic at all. His ministrations are designed to encourage Catholics to defect from the Faith. In my book, that is "anti-Catholic." Anti = opposed to.

21 posted on 01/15/2014 5:51:11 AM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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