“Catholic leaders stand with governor, mayor to call for minimum wage hike”
Yank their tax-exempt status if they want to play politics.
The church and government joining to burden others goes back centuries.
Where are the church vs state people now?
I wonder why so many of our priests and bishops are such stupid, arrogant assholes.
Charity comes from the individual, not forced from the collective. I am so tired of this argument. As a Catholic, I am so sick and tired of this phony baloney social justice crap.
I am beginning to understand why I barely heard a peep out of my Church about the Birth Control mandate before the 2012 election.
Well good. Next thing you know the new pope will say that all atheists will go to heaven. That they will get there by their “good works!” Oh, wait, he has already said that. (Note to pope: IT IS NOT A WORKS FAITH!!!!)
As a loyal and faithful Catholic who attends Mass every week, I can categorically state without any hesitation, that the leadership of the Church is completely clueless on economics.
What a surprise. Except for reproductive issues the Catholic hierarchy is solidly in the liberal democrat camp.
Here’s another iteration of their Leftist views. Okay, now where is the “unity” all of the RCs bark about??? No text...no unity.
“Social justice” strikes again - hurting the very people they claim to be helping and revealing - again- that if you want to help people economically - then study economics and history.
How sad that Catholic “leaders” have sided with forces that hate freedom and liberty. Someday the government will come for the Catholic church’s wealth and assets.... what will these leaders say on that day?
The question of the minimum wage is one of prudential judgment, not doctrine. The good bishop should keep quite and let the laity operate in this field.
It doesn’t matter that the hikes may poll well. We need to take the moral high-ground position that it’s flat-out wrong for voters to vote themselves into the pocketbooks of people who have stolen nothing from them. The economic arguments against the minimum wage are valid, but they are not enough.
Interesting how the church is anxious to jump in bed with those who hate and ridicule anything religious and who seek to drive them into extinction.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
IMO...this is an old “utopia” idea. The fact is, the gap will never be solved by raising the minimum wage.
Raise minimum wage; prices go up. The gap between what you make and what things will cost you will be “basically” the same.
I do agree that workers should get raises based on keeping up with rate of inflation.