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kwassa

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15. No. It is about Catholic social teaching.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 10:04 PM
Sep 2015
Catholic social teaching is the body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on matters of social justice, involving issues of poverty and wealth, economics, social organization and the role of the state. Its foundations are widely considered to have been laid by Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical letter Rerum novarum, which advocated economic distributism and condemned both capitalism and socialism, although its roots can be traced to the writings of Catholic thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo, and is also derived from concepts present in the Bible and the cultures of the ancient Near East.

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium, explicitly affirmed “the right of states” to intervene in the economy to promote "the common good."[20] He wrote:

While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules.[21]

Pope Francis has warned about the "idolatry of money"[22] and wrote:

[S]ome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.[23]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching

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My brother ran Catholic Charities in Wash DC upaloopa Sep 2015 #1
And doing good does not exempt an organization from criticism for very very bad behavior. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #2
If the Catholic Church suddenly stopped charity work yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #5
You cannot pick and choose who is more important....that's the trouble with ignoring justice for all AuntPatsy Sep 2015 #6
There are religious leaders that are entirely sincere. kwassa Sep 2015 #18
OK, but doing good still does not exempt an organization from criticism for very very bad behavior. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #9
I agree. kwassa Sep 2015 #17
Catholic Charities in many parts of the nation want to discriminate against LGBT people in adoption. Humanist_Activist Sep 2015 #3
Outside of the services they refuse to perform, there are no strings attached. kwassa Sep 2015 #12
Contraception is very important to LuvNewcastle Sep 2015 #4
but fortunately there are other charities that provide contraceptive services. kwassa Sep 2015 #13
How much 'good' does one have to do to excuse hate and ignorance? Bluenorthwest Sep 2015 #7
I don't make any rules. kwassa Sep 2015 #16
And doing good does not immunize against criticism for doing bad. jeff47 Sep 2015 #8
I agree. kwassa Sep 2015 #14
Perhaps they're trying to mitigate the evil they've cast into the world REP Sep 2015 #10
No. It is about Catholic social teaching. kwassa Sep 2015 #15
I worked for several years in the Catholic LiberalElite Sep 2015 #11
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