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To: Alex Murphy
The Catholic social justice position has caused the US reams of trouble over the years. So many Catholics have been useful idiots of the communists and socialists.

One of Saul Alinsky's main targets in Chicago was Catholics who were easily swayed by the class warfare message.

I would love to see Ryan's vision win over that of the Pope's and the US Bishops'. Interesting times.

9 posted on 09/04/2012 1:02:51 PM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up
"I would love to see Ryan's vision win over that of the Pope's ..."

Most of us are not as conversant as we ought to be with the Popes' teachings about subsidiarity, the moral obligation to invest responsibility in the lowest, most local, and most voluntary level that can adequately handle the necessary tasks. For instance Pope Benedict's strong passage about subsidiarity in his encyclical, Caritas in Veritate:

Subsidiarity is first and foremost a form of assistance to the human person via the autonomy of intermediate bodies. Such assistance is offered when individuals or groups are unable to accomplish something on their own, and it is always designed to achieve their emancipation, because it fosters freedom and participation through assumption of responsibility. Subsidiarity respects personal dignity by recognizing in the person a subject who is always capable of giving something to others. By considering reciprocity as the heart of what it is to be a human being, subsidiarity is the most effective antidote against any form of all-encompassing welfare state.

Let the people say "Amen."

30 posted on 09/04/2012 5:49:52 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("The Holy Catholic Church: the more Catholic it is, the more Holy it is.")
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Your ignorance of the actual teaching of the Church; which you confuse with prudential statements made by some within the Church, is causing you reams of problems.


39 posted on 09/05/2012 9:18:38 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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