Every time I hear my own senator, Tom "dung heap" Harkin refereed to as Catholic I want to puke. I think I'll attempt to head off any similar problems in the Dubuque and Davenport dioceses with a letter to each respective Bishop. Catholics with similar potential situations should do the same.
You see, the Pope and Bishops allows it. There is now law excommunicating Catholics who vote or think pro-choice. It may be a sin but no grounds for the excommunication. I guess they would lose too much money when the collection basket comes around if they make it so. There won't be too many more Catholics at Mass. Just look in CT & MA, the Kennedy Lieberman States..where most voters are Catholic!! The knights of columbus supreme hq is in CN.
Our educational system provides private schools for the rich, public babysitting for the poor. Social justice demands that the poor have the same choice the rich enjoy.
Clearly, upward mobility and economic justice for the masses has occurred only in an atmosphere of economic freedom. By definition the people in power (the government) are the powerful. These elitists pretend that their central planning is for the benefit of the poor. But it has proven to be a lie. Central planning, zoning, urban renewal, highway location, historical preservation and environmental planning has proven to consistently benefit the governing/elitist class and to keep the poor in a sub-servient class.
The ante-bellum South debated "bad masters" vs "good masters". The point was that slaves are valuable. They are most beneficial when well treated. Thus the elitists in government argue that their benevolent treatment of the dependent classes is the best that can be expected of people for whom we have low expectations.
The CHURCH should salt an honest debate in a political campaign. The CHURCH should encourage that the truth be told. The CHURCH should not be an enabler of the "good masters"
Bob Schmidt, parishioner, Church of the Holy Spirit (Roman Catholic)