Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Led Astray
I recently sent a link to the national Catholic social justice network website to a friend whose son is presently attending a right-wing Catholic law school. (The parents, also Catholic, are appalled by the policies of our federal government, and are belatedly asking what went wrong.)
Better late than never, I guess, but their former identification with Republicans (for reasons I haven't determined), as well as their indoctrination of their son in a Catholic education (at a time that the Catholic Church had turned solidly against liberation theology), has apparently had unintended consequences.
Their son's comments on the liberation Catholics:
"Interesting group. It seems like they look to achieve good ends (from their perspective which may or may not be totally compromised by a misapplied pity). However, I think there views are a little bit scewed. Pity and other feelings, as noble as they may be in nature, can be misapplied or unfocused to the point that they are actually a detriment to what is good.
Funny how this group seems to lack any mentioning of promoting a culture of life outside their opposition to Iraq [War], which I might add is invariably helping the culture of life as Hussein is no longer killing Iraqis by the tens of thousands and changing the dynamics in the Middle East in such a way as to bring more understanding between our two cultures.
They also seem to be pretty heavy into the government taking over the role of the church in providing for people. Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker and a known socialist Catholic was even opposed to that type of role by the government as it would take away from the common man's free will to help his fellow man. On that topic, I find that conservatives are more likely to assist their fellow man than elitist liberals, just an observation.
As for the comment on our Supreme Court, from a legal, political and Catholic perspective, those Catholics on the Supreme Court with the possible exception of Kennedy should be commended for their well founded philosophy on law and for taking difficult and just stances on important social issues. I've personally witnessed a fascist. Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito appear to be nowhere near a political affiliation of this nature and any accusations of this type are completely unfounded. Bam! I just talked down this group using my enhanced logic, reason and foresight. :)
I wouldn't say that being a Catholic should make someone an ardent Republican or even Democrat for that matter, so long as they look to do what is right. I'd say that this group works for what is right in their minds, but they seem to work with the wrong people for it [i.e.Quakers] and this leads them astray. In closing, the Church holds that the means cannot be compromised in achieving the right ends."
Better late than never, I guess, but their former identification with Republicans (for reasons I haven't determined), as well as their indoctrination of their son in a Catholic education (at a time that the Catholic Church had turned solidly against liberation theology), has apparently had unintended consequences.
Their son's comments on the liberation Catholics:
"Interesting group. It seems like they look to achieve good ends (from their perspective which may or may not be totally compromised by a misapplied pity). However, I think there views are a little bit scewed. Pity and other feelings, as noble as they may be in nature, can be misapplied or unfocused to the point that they are actually a detriment to what is good.
Funny how this group seems to lack any mentioning of promoting a culture of life outside their opposition to Iraq [War], which I might add is invariably helping the culture of life as Hussein is no longer killing Iraqis by the tens of thousands and changing the dynamics in the Middle East in such a way as to bring more understanding between our two cultures.
They also seem to be pretty heavy into the government taking over the role of the church in providing for people. Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker and a known socialist Catholic was even opposed to that type of role by the government as it would take away from the common man's free will to help his fellow man. On that topic, I find that conservatives are more likely to assist their fellow man than elitist liberals, just an observation.
As for the comment on our Supreme Court, from a legal, political and Catholic perspective, those Catholics on the Supreme Court with the possible exception of Kennedy should be commended for their well founded philosophy on law and for taking difficult and just stances on important social issues. I've personally witnessed a fascist. Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito appear to be nowhere near a political affiliation of this nature and any accusations of this type are completely unfounded. Bam! I just talked down this group using my enhanced logic, reason and foresight. :)
I wouldn't say that being a Catholic should make someone an ardent Republican or even Democrat for that matter, so long as they look to do what is right. I'd say that this group works for what is right in their minds, but they seem to work with the wrong people for it [i.e.Quakers] and this leads them astray. In closing, the Church holds that the means cannot be compromised in achieving the right ends."
