Posted on 11/11/2009 6:51:28 PM PST by Alex Murphy
So not much of a surprise, then, that he voted in favor of the bill, considering the passage of the Stupak amendment barring taxpayer funding of abortions. Many of the stories that mention Caos vote take notice of his Catholicism, however obliquely.
Must be one of those Notre Dame Catholics. He is a clown because the lib Dems are going to rip out the abortion ban.
Cao’s a con-man, clown or collectivist. Get out of my life, statist.
Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do. For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social, and never destroy and absorb them.
Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno, 79
By intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility, the Social Assistance State leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients, and which are accompanied by an enormous increase in spending. In fact, it would appear that needs are best understood and satisfied by people who are closest to them and who act as neighbours to those in need. It should be added that certain kinds of demands often call for a response which is not simply material but which is capable of perceiving the deeper human need. One thinks of the condition of refugees, immigrants, the elderly, the sick, and all those in circumstances which call for assistance, such as drug abusers: all these people can be helped effectively only by those who offer them genuine fraternal support, in addition to the necessary care.
John Paul II, Centesimus annus, 48
Apparently former Seminarian Cao didn't learn his social doctrine very well.
But that is more-or-less typical for individuals who self identify as very much adhere(adhering) to the notion of social justice
At least IMHO.
This seems to be a pretty common problem. I know you've mentioned that the priests that are coming out of seminaries now are more conservative, but how much of this "social justice" crap is going to get eliminated?
Any church that takes huge sums from the govt for it's charity work becomes dependent. Will a new cadre of conservative priests change this?
It seems like Cao brought some communism from Vietnam with him.
“For, while the socialists would destroy the “right” of property, alleging it to be a human invention altogether opposed to the inborn equality of man, and, claiming a community of goods, argue that poverty should not be peaceably endured, and that the property and privileges of the rich may be rightly invaded, the Church, with much greater wisdom and good sense, recognizes the inequality among men, who are born with different powers of body and mind, inequality in actual possession, also, and holds that the right of property and of ownership, which springs from nature itself, must not be touched and stands inviolate.
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Moreover, labor hard that the children of the Catholic Church neither join nor favor in any way whatsoever this abominable sect; let them show, on the contrary, by noble deeds and right dealing in all things, how well and happily human society would hold together were each member to shine as an example of right doing and of virtue.”
Leo XIII, Quod Apostolici Muneris “On Socialism”
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/L13APOST.HTM
You know another thing that burns me up about Catholics supporting this garbage?
It is *flagrantly unconstitutional*. I’m NO fan of this kind of intrusion in the private sector, but at least if the individual states did it they would probably be doing so legally—at least where their state constitutions allow.
These...I almost typed something mean....these ignorant Catholics think that some misguided notion of “social justice” gives them the right to *take people’s money,* *force them to buy health insurance* and flagrantly violate the 10th Amendment?
Are you KIDDING me? Do they know nothing of the theological principle of *subsidiarity*?
Foolish Catholics with horrendous formation in the faith. Go back to school Cao...and all my other fellow Catholics who are parroting these same ridiculous arguments. The Church *does not allow you* to violate the U.S. Constitution to give people healthcare.
So are Jesuits liberals or not?
just asking...
Yet he claims to be a Jesuit. He's lying. What else is he lying about? For what other lies are FReepers who don't read complete articles falling?
Yes. You might have to be Catholic to fully appreciate it, though, as change usually comes slowly. Still, I've seen looney-left Parishes take a hard turn in the opposite direction just with the arrival of a newly ordained Associate Pastor.
In Caos district, 3 out of 4 voters chose Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential elections. In 2004, President Bush won only 24 percent of the vote here
Hello, give the man a break
You would think that would have been included in the excerpts in the first post, it seems to clarify the congesscritter’s statement.
Freegards
Cao is on his way to the political “execution chamber”. That trip started the day he was elected in an overwhelmingly D district. He only won because he ran against a D crook. This health care vote was a desperate attempt to gain favor with the electorate. He is figuratively, a “dead man walking”. Fortunately, Rep. Owen(D), from the NY 23rd CD, is also a “dead man walking” provided the Rs can get their act together.
"...and thus I work surreptitiously to push the fascist agenda of those who desire a "global authority" over the entire planet."
Cao speculates in this article his political career might be over.
We can only hope. The 54% of Roman Catholics who voted for Obama obviously would feel right at home with this doofus who tells us he actually believes the democrats when they promise not to fund abortions with tax dollars.
It's coming, thanks to fools like Cao. Prepare for it.
Then Cao should either be a democrat or find himself an honest profession.
The problem is RC's do not want to engage on this topic. It is a liberal church that has a minority of conservatives of varying degree. Once the life issues are "finessed" the vast majority of RC's will vote Rat.
I'm not sure it can be changed. I think this liberal bent is a result of organizational structure and it's prior history as a part of the state.
Catholicism; The Mother Church of the Democratic Party
or is it
The Democrats; Official Party of The Roman Catholics
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