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"Helping the poor now means, not helping them become capable of working for a living, but setting up another state care program." um...actually the biggest expansion in the welfare state in the past 20...
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Two thoughts: For those who believe, religious and lay vocations converge in old age. A "Los Gatos" of the spirit is available to members of the laity. Or, alternately, a lay woman can "construct" a...
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Right. Things were so much better for the poor in the pre New Deal days. Hobos riding the rails...that's the ticket. So romantic. This web site has officially left the boundaries of reality. - william...
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Pope Francis' request that Argentines not travel to Rome for his inauguration was one of his first teaching moments. To focus primarily on the theoretical economic impact misses the point. Francis was...
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Here's a little wisdom, Beddo. It is easy to let the state take care of those problems of which you write. Easy. You don't have to get involved. You don't have to actually talk with those people. You...
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Re: questions raised by "Beddoo": A google search for "catholic teaching on social justice" will bring up many links helpful in explaining the issues raised by Fr. Schall. A link to...
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Even jackasses would not eat straw. Beddoo, you are using far too many straw men to offer any real food for those open to another perspective. If we, the CHURCH, were living according to what we claim...
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Beddoo, what a killjoy you are. You know what he's saying. Rev J Schall, I hope you have many more productive years with only few of those aches and pains - Henry Elden
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Yep you're right KM. If everyone gave to the Church and to charity most of what they now pay in state, federal and local taxes then we would not need big government. And you know also that the farmland...
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Moral: most people would not give to charity anything remotely close to what they pay in taxes. --beddoo So? So you wish to render the poor unto Caesar? So you believe a whip and a gun is a substitute...
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"I wondered just who the poor were who would receive this unspent money. How much would it actually help them without a productive economic system? " The fallacy contained in these lines is well-known...
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Some of the names mentioned in this article remind me of the lyrics from a very poignant song by Woody Guthrie, "Deportee": "The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning,...
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Nice piece by Fr. Schall. And a useful response from the one called beddoo: the cynicism and smugness and arrogance help flesh out the point made by Fr. Schall. Two of my sons attended a Jesuit prep...
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Beddo is just recycling very stale Marxist rhetoric. It is similar to reading critic's verses directed toward Pius X at another age. The same material is regarded as fresh when received by young...
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