Posted on 02/05/2017 9:57:09 AM PST by markomalley
For the first eight years of my school life, I attended parochial schools, then a private girls' high school - all Catholic. The first five years of my religious education were unscathed by the so-called "spirit of Vatican II". That all changed when I reached the sixth grade in fall of 1967. I sensed the seismic shift as solid doctrine was exchanged for, well, I'm not sure what. One of my more memorable "lessons" was when we were "learning" (?) about "freedom"; it started by us listening to a recording of Andy Williams singing "Born Free". In lessons teaching about being "salt of the earth" we were "taught" that "Martin Luther King is salt of the earth". At the time, Dr King was alive yet he was being de facto "canonized" by my classroom teachers.
We were also introduced to a term called "social sin". Hitherto, we never heard of it, but we were hearing of it non-stop, to the exclusion of the doctrines of the Faith. "Social sins" included the usual progressive bugaboos: racism, poverty and war. The latter was quite politically charged, as the Vietnamese conflict was in full swing. At any rate, "social sin" was the topic du jour, and being a faithful Catholic was equated to "working for social justice".
However, as anyone with working eyes and ears knows, "social justice" had really nothing to do with the individual Catholic donating any of his time or resources to combat problems. No! The main thrust of "Catholic social justice" was meant to lobby government to redistribute wealth to people deemed disadvantaged. We were in fact demanding that the government act as our surrogates in terms of administering charity. What we failed - or refused - to acknowledge is that in doing so, our charity ceased to be true charity, as the government taxed its citizenry to fund these efforts while mutating into an onerous behemoth
Pope St John Paul II, in his encyclical Solicitudo Rei Socialis, said that "social sin" proceeds from the accumulation of personal sins. In other words, our violations of the Ten Commandments, Precepts of the Church, etc are at the root of social ills of the world.
Ironically, in its reckless haste to take up the "social justice" mantra while neglecting its true God-given mission to save souls, the Church hierarchy in this country unleashed a number of serious problems that themselves would accurately be termed "social sin", for they institutionalize a number of violations of God's commands and even elevate them to the level of "civic virtue".
There’s nothing “modern” about liberal socialism. It’s 12th century barbarism, hiding behind its skewed version of the first amendment.
Taking their lead from Islamic terrorist, they see force as the accepted way to persuade people to accept, and follow, their ideology.
Terrorist say infidels must die, liberals say conservatives must die.
Where are the throngs of people who attended Trumps rallies? Where are those who wildly cheered and chanted for him to “drain the swamp”?
Have they slithered back into their “safe spaces” when the rioting and burning starts, leaving Trump to face it all a,one?
They could at least flood Washington with an avalanche of letters, emails, and phone calls, in support for Trump.
They could, at least, assemble in front of judge Robards courtroom, to protest his ruling. Or flood the seditious RINOs and party leaders to grow a spine and stand up to the dems.
But, no...”da lay lo’”. Thinking we could just get Trump in office, and simply go back to their humdrum daily lives.
It’s saying, “Donald, you jump the shark first, we’ll be right behind you...not!”
Seems a lot of rally supporters subscribe to the same tactics as McConnell and Ryan...friends when the cameras are running, indifference and obstruction when they’re not.
If you don’t continue to stand behind him, you may as well have voted for Hillary. After all, his own party members are in defacto support of after the fact Hillary.
Yeah, in case you don’t know, a lot of us Trump voters are working for a living. And the bikers did go to DC to support the Donald.
One can alwasy spot a liberal their backs are yellow.
sin is sin.
trying to give it categories is a sin because it’s a form of trying to lessen it, trying to diminish the fact a person is going against God and His word.
Well Paul listed sins in categories via Romans Chapter 1.
He did. We can do it.
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