As he says, and as I’ve been saying, it depends what you mean by “social justice.” If you take the words in their proper sense, then it’s a good thing. If you take the words as they are twisted by the Orwellian propagandists of the left, then it’s a bad thing.
In some ways, I think it’s better to quietly suggest the bishops that they need to rethink their propensity to support “social justice” as imposed by government using tax funds. Charity should be voluntary: giving of money and of services. Charity should not be forced.
There are many problems with doing it through the government. First, it is forced. Second, it is highly inefficient. Third, it is easily corrupted by the leftists and their culture of death.
If you cough up $100 in taxes, probably more than 95% of it goes to pay government bureaucrats and building maintenance. And a good part of the rest is used to promote abortion or to break up families and encourage single motherhood.
If you donate $100 to the United Way, probably $90 goes into their pockets and half of the rest is spent on evil purposes.
If you donate $100 to the Salvation Army, most of it will actually be used to help people.
If you give to your church, most of it will be used to help people. If you help out through your church or your local food pantry, all of it will go toward helping people.
Do the bishops really want to build government bigger and bigger, until they take over all the formerly Catholic hospitals because no one has any money left to support them? Then these formerly Catholic hospitals become abortion centers and death clinics?
If Obamacare passes in any form, a ton of money will be taken away from ALL of the private charities and churches, and be given to the government, which will use if for mostly evil purposes.
“If you donate $100 to the Salvation Army, most of it will actually be used to help people.”
True, you’d might not be so excited to help some of these “needing people” if you saw a lot of them. At Christmas, I volunteered at the Salvation Army for their present give away.
The place was filled with rude people talking on their blue tooth phones who drove up in their Cadillac Escalades and women carrying $1000 purses.
Many of these people will claim they have 8 children.
I think I’d rather the $90 to go to a lazy government buerocrat.
Bump!