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....from personal experience – being a papist myself – I can attest that the Catholic Church is a nest of Lefties. On economic and welfare issues, as well as various other subjects like immigration, aid and defence, the Vatican is well to the left of the main three parties. And ever since the financial crisis began, various churchmen have been quick to speak out about the failures of capitalism, even when (I suspect) many of them know less about how wealth is generated than your average hedge fund manager knows about Catholic liturgy.
1 posted on 10/13/2009 8:17:38 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy

I’m a Jesus worshipping, pork eating, communion taking, Trininty believing Muslim.


2 posted on 10/13/2009 8:19:35 AM PDT by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: Alex Murphy

Forced taxation by government to establish a dole is not Christian. Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar. It still doesn’t wipe away your own need for charitable giving.

How much money does Mr. Moore donate to charity every year? 10%? 5%? 1%? Which charities? Salvation Army or the ACLU?


3 posted on 10/13/2009 8:19:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Celebrities and lefties garbed in the facade or religion is equal to one simply going through the motions. Nothing more than a gimmick of smoke and mirrors.


4 posted on 10/13/2009 8:21:28 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Alex Murphy

I am a born and baptized and raised Catholic and my mother is a Eucharistic Minister to the sick and gives communion at church on Sunday’s...is as Catholic as they come. She can’t wrap her head around why I absolutely can’t stand our church.

I tell her...these are the same people who give communion to people who stand for everything I am not...hypocrisy across the board from the altar to the giving baskets passed around. It has become so liberal it makes me want to puke. How can you attend mass at a Catholic church and then get into your hybrid with an Obama sticker on the back and a Choice sticker?

Makes. No. Sense.


5 posted on 10/13/2009 8:24:58 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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What about the parable in which the master gives his servants pieces of silver before going on a journey, and then when he gets back he rewards the two who turned a profit and is disappointed in the one who buried his silver?

Seems pretty capitalistic to me! And the moral of the story was that God helps those who help themselves.


6 posted on 10/13/2009 8:25:39 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: Alex Murphy

“Catholic in name only.” Just like a lot of Christians.


7 posted on 10/13/2009 8:33:38 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Alex Murphy
capitalism and the free market, by emphasising greed and the self over community, go against the Bible’s basic tenets.

They have no idea what the free market is, which means they have no understanding what freedom is.

Greed is not the basis for capitalism; the drive to build and create is. Greed destroys capitalism like it destroys everything else. Capitalism is rooted in voluntary service to your neighbor, to your mutual benefit. He who more effectively serves his neighbor prospers.

It is a very moral concept.

9 posted on 10/13/2009 8:36:40 AM PDT by marron
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Often the intentional prayers are just barely concealed leftist talking points from the media. Last week we prayed for an end to manmade global warming. I stay silent on these but they make me feel separated from the congregation. We are supposed to be a church, not a loosely knit coalition of well intentioned social workers and community organizers.
10 posted on 10/13/2009 8:38:30 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Hey, O'Riley! I'd rather be a CRACKER than a CASPAR.)
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I'll see Moore's lefty priests and raise him a Pope:

If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist. -- Pope Pius XI, encyclical letter Quadragesimo Anno, 5/31/1931

14 posted on 10/13/2009 8:43:04 AM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: Alex Murphy

Moore doesn’t speak for the Church and he doesn’t speak for me. There are too many out there like him and God will sort them out in the end.


16 posted on 10/13/2009 8:45:40 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier (Just got up from Bedroomshire)
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To: Alex Murphy; Salvation; narses; A.A. Cunningham; NYer
And MILLIONS of Catholics have fought & died for this country for over two hundred years so you and other anti-Catholic bigots like you could freely and often smear Catholics and the Catholic Church.

The next time you post an anti-Catholic thread, you can thank Catholics from not only America but from around the world who helped make the United States of America the great country it is.

Wipe your nose, junior...you just got bloodied.

18 posted on 10/13/2009 8:47:36 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: Alex Murphy

Don’t you have to believe in God to be a Catholic?


24 posted on 10/13/2009 9:21:18 AM PDT by Brilliant
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“Christianity is a very broad religion.”

No it isn’t. Religion is mans way of making himself acceptable to God , Christianity is God’s way of making man acceptable through Christ.
It is the exact opposite of religion. It’s painfully obvious that we are where we are today because to many churches have replaced the “WORD” with social justice.

If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

“Capitalism is evil, immoral and contrary to the teachings of Jesus.”

Everything he hates that he calls “CAPITILISM” is exactly what he promotes “CORPORATISM” just another word for “FASCISM”

Obviously the church he attends/attended is one of those who have replaced the “WORD” with social justice.
It’s a slippery slope by which you can end up justifying anything , like murder(abortion).Religion is a dangerous affront to freedom and Christianity is the anti-religion.


26 posted on 10/13/2009 9:43:43 AM PDT by Lera
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To: Alex Murphy

Michael More is not a REAL Catholic.

He is a CINO.

And he needs lots of prayers.


33 posted on 10/13/2009 4:58:14 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Although capitalism isn’t given any preference as an economic system in Catholic social teaching, all forms of socialism are condemned definitively by the Magisterium as intrinsically evil.

One of the Piuses (I always forget which) said that no Catholic can be a socialist.


35 posted on 10/14/2009 5:56:54 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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