namely subsidiarity
God Bless him, I hope it becomes part of the campaign. Up to Romney of course.
Commonweal has not been a *Catholic* publication for a LONG time.
Catholics and Mormons might not be real Christians, but that’s still 10x better than voting for a Muslim
why hasn’t Biden been excommicated by now? Republicans have 2 good men and Democrats have mafia man and a thug.
Thanks, this reads much like Distributism.
I think the difference is that Ryan is a real Catholic, unlike the CINOs, who imagine themselves the mythical “social Catholics”, for whom Catholicism is anything but a religion or a faith. It is just a social club organized by the big city machine to distribute favors.
I remember visiting a foreign big city, and being told that most of the prostitutes of the city were practicing Catholics. I found this puzzling, until it was explained that they do believe in God, and they go to church and pray, and they hope for redemption. They pray for the strength to reform and improve themselves so they can stop living in sin, and that the rest of their lives will be virtuous. Their lives are very hard.
My guide said to compare that to many Catholics in America, who go to church to socialize, who are ignorant of, or indifferent to church doctrines. Who dabble in other religions and superstitions, and hold luck in higher esteem than God, even if they actually believe in God, which many do not.
Some are powerful people of wealth, yet in truth their spirits are impoverished, and their thoughts are only of their own welfare. They do not seek forgiveness nor redemption, because they feel no need for it.
Look at such people, he concluded, for all their wealth and power they are more miserable than least of these poor prostitutes.