Neither healthcare nor social justice (nor economic policy nor general aesthetics) qualifies as faith or morals. If the theology’s strong, that already weights the scale. Healthcare has no weight at all (which may be why so many American bishops & cardinals) weigh in on it!
I disagree. “Social Justice” and “healthcare” has everything to do with Catholic Theology and the idea of subsidiarity and Natural Law and the necessity of Virtue/religion in culture.
There is no “right” from government to treat such intimate issues like “welfare” and “healthcare” through “government” agencies, when it just adds to the cost and ends in corruption always. Few regulations are all that might be needed. Charity can be done by churches only.
Government is always force and is never “charity” and it ends up punishing Virtue and rewarding Vice, which destroys a culture. As a Soviet author stated, “Even a little bit of Socialism rots the soul”
Maybe we do need a safety net-—put in by government-—but that edge should be given to support religious institutions so they flourish in the State.
Without Virtue, there is no Free Republic (Socrates). We need a religious people. If people were angels, as the Founders stated, we would need no government.