Catholic Church Bargains With The Devil And Loses

theFinancialSkinny ^ | March 24, 2010 | theFinancialSkinny

[parkerj]

The Church's pursuit of social justice via the avenue of government compulsion, however, led directly to the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, a pro-abortion Democrat Congress, and the enactment of a law which commands the government to prey upon the least of us.

Over one million American babies are killed in the name of "choice" every year. Obamacare now compels taxpayers for the first time in our history to pay for some of those abortions, and it is an unhappy fact that the Catholic Church will be complicit in the deaths of those children.

[Chode]

whenever good and evil compromise, evil ALWAYS wins...

[parkerj]

That’s an excellent, eight-word summation of the article.

[StarfireIV]

Mixed messages, such as “Health care is a RIGHT! but, er, not if is pays for abortions.” don’t help either.

[MrB]

That’s the nature of God, as well - He can’t abide evil or sin to be in His presence.

Now, just don’t mention anything about Revelation’s apostate church, or you’ll be called a cretin.

[moodyskeptic]

To the extent that the Church believed in Obama, an obvious hateful class warrior and hardcore abortion activist, they are fools. And I’m Catholic! The last Holy holdout religion had better smart up, toot suite! Sheesh.

[C19fan]

100% total agreement and I am Catholic.

[Ann Archy]

I think I will write to Cardinal George.....I live in his parish.....and tell him what I think about this.....oh....and donate 50% LESS to the Church than I do now.

[jjotto]

The Church's pursuit of social justice via the avenue of government compulsion, however, led directly to the election of Barack Obama as President...

What? You mean it's not just the fault of the JOOOZ?

[parkerj]

Thank you.

[Campion]

Obsessive much?

[terycarl]

I am a Catholic, as far right as anyone in the world can get, and I have to agree with this posting....the church is acting like abortion is a minor glitsch in their pursuit of socialism, and I’m getting very tired of it....I plan, in the next week, to confront my bishop, my parish priest, and direct a letter to the Vatican expressing my outrage at the recent tendency of the church to use relativism when making political comments. I don’t give a damn if Obama is the greatest socialist engineer in history, he is an abortionist and no Catholic should heve ever voted for him......not one.

[RobbyS]

As I now see it, the flaw in Catholic social teachings is its origin in European politics. Having to deal with Marxism/Liberalism led the Church to accept German paternalism--the welfare state as conceived by Bismarck as an anti-socialist devise. The American progressives, as part of their pre-Great War fascination with things German, did also. Hence this provided common ground between them and the American Church. Most Catholic Americans were already members of the Democratic Party, and after Wilson there was a kind of identification of American progressivism and Catholic social action, mainly though the labor movement, since so many workers were Catholics.

But part of American progressivism was always an anti-religious element. After 1972, that element began to dominate the Democratic Party, and largely because of the abortion issue, Catholics were sudden faced with the choice of going along with a party that moved further and further to the Left. Many Catholic bishops officially opposed abortion but sought to remain aligned with the Democrats by giving Catholic pols cover with the"seamless garment" doctrine. The USSCB tried to keep aligned with the Democrats on all but the issue of abortion, but so fanatical was the feminist element in the Democratic Party that this became impossible, although it has taken the bishops another twenty-five years to begin to see this. Even now I expect that many bishops will not begin to realize that the Democratic Party is hostile to the deepest beliefs of the Catholic Church. That is because a significant number of bishops have secretly abandoned the moral teachings of the Church.

[parkerj]

We thought about sending this to the Catholic hierarchy but we figured they’d just ignore it.

Good luck in your approach to them.

[parkerj]

It is distressing to hear you say that the bishops have abandoned the moral teachings of the Church. If that’s true, where does it leave the Church and its members?

[sockmonkey]

100% total agreement and I am Catholic

I'm RC, too, and I'm in agreement.

[onyx]

Cardinal George hath spoketh

~sigh~

[Salvation]

I hate to disappoint you. But the present day isn’t not the goal of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church’s goal is the proclamation of the Gospel and leading ALL people to heaven.

Twenty or even ten years ago you would not have seen the words “social justice” in Catholic language. It has been put there by the secularists’ agenda.

Go figure?

[RobbyS]

Some of the bishops. But it has always been true that some bishops were not Christian.

[RobbyS]

Whenever I read what the Economist, for instance, says about Church affairs, I understand that they think of her only in sociological terms. Unfortunately, too many clergy do also. Mother Teresa once said that she never thought of herself as a social worker. Liberal nuns do. I was reading 2nd Timothy tonight, and it was jarring to feel the gap between myself and Paul. It is sad that so many religious are even more secular minded than I am.