What’s exactly the matter here? Is all the other political commentary from the USCCB drowning out the religious freedom issue and making it look peripheral?
Maybe there should be a subcommittee of the USCCB dedicated to the religious freedom issue, so the rest of it can then opine on everything else from A to Z.
What a great article! The USCCB fails utterly to respect the dangers of socialism, Marxism, creeping communism, Islam, and plain bad math, while ignoring American sovereignty and the basic American spirit lit by her work ethic. Instead, the Bishops’ collective statements are meloncholy, sentimental and demanding.
The term “social justice” has been hijacked entirely from the Church, by socialists, both in and out of the Church, and the USCCB is silent, eschewing any effort to extract the term from the clutches of the nefarious Left. Why? Could it be that the Bishops themselves are socialists largely and have no real objection to the use of the term by other socialists, who are applying the aims of social justice EXACTLY as the Bishops would have it applied, but to even broader affect than the USCCB could ever have hoped?
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We are ALL children of the Church. We should learn from the teachings of the Church for a full understanding of our Catholic obligations.
All the Bishops through both >time & >geography have avoided paying taxes to secular-governments whenever legally possible.
Conclusion: We should all work to avoid taxes whenever legally possible. We need to follow in the footsteps of Holy Mother our Church.
Jesus Christ when he set up the Nation of Israel had a 10% flat tax. It was a Theocracy = God centered government. As far as I know, no one has a better idea than Jesus Christ. 10% flat tax & no more; it’s time to starve the beast of government.
Immigration: The Vatican has a wall all the way around it with guarded gates. Does the Vatican allow people to enter the Vatican as illegal immigrants & receive citizenship rights?
The family is God’s smallest church. This was repeatedly said by Pope John Paul II. We do NOT want to >break apart families.
When families are formed in the USA with illegal immigrants & USA citizens, we as good Catholics should NOT advocate breaking apart families. BUT also, we as good Catholics should not advocate a program that encourages families to break apart by allowing illegal immigrants to enter the USA & leave their families behind.
Immigration: as a policy has destroyed the unions & lowered the ‘living’ wage of workers in the USA. Supply & Demand is a basic economic concept. There are so many unemployed people in the USA that the number of potential employees exceeds the number of jobs.
Immigration: The USA Ruling-Class is bringing skilled workers here to the USA & depriving their home countries of human resources. An example: All the medical workers that come to the USA. The other countries in the world do NOT have the medical care of citizens here in the USA. There are many other examples.
God will straighten all this out on Judgment Day.
This link was posted earlier on freerepublic. The budget of the USA can NOT be balanced. There will be a collapse. The USA & the economy is in for a big change. It’s time to prepare for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5IdwltaAc&feature=youtu.be
The YouTube video explains the accounting numbers in the USA budget. It’s only 5&1/2 minutes long.