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To: Mrs. Don-o
Here's one where the US Bishops call healthcare a basic right:

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/god-and-country/2009/08/17/us-bishops-demand-universal-healthcare-without-abortion

The link for the Pope's position where he describes healthcare as an "inalienable right" is given in Post #1.

34 posted on 09/04/2012 6:56:37 PM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up

Calling something a “right” doesn’t equate to it being 100% paid by the federal government, though. You have the right to worship freely, but it doesn’t follow that the government is obligated to build a church for you to exercise that right.


35 posted on 09/04/2012 8:25:20 PM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: what's up
Thank you, and that exactly what I thought. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2926565/posts?page=29#29

It's the mistake of thinking that when the Church says "right," she means "State obligation." A basic mis-reading.

Just an example: It's like when the Church speaks of a "right to marry" and the gays dive in and say "Us too." Wrong-o. You have to define "marry" as the Church does (Sacramental union, man-woman, eligible to marry, e.g. not already married to somebody else, etc.) and "right" to mean "a natural good to which, in a good society, you have access."

If "right" in this context properly meant "the state must supply it," the State would have to supply spouses to all citizens, I suppose!

Catholics of a generation ago would see medical missions, Catholic hospitals, and fraternal insurance (e.g. Knights of Columbus) --- in other words, voluntary, mutual, and charitable inititives --- as responses to the right to health care as the Church uses the term.

38 posted on 09/05/2012 3:04:10 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops." - St. John Chrysostom, Bishop)
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