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#1 "The atheist Left has successfully indoctrinated a large part of the public to believe the state’s claim to a monopoly not only on force, but also on virtue and benevolence." An antidote to this...
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Spot on Mr. Warren. Think about the total culture war being waged against the Church - the leftist machine is doing an "Alinsky" operation on Mother Teresa. Stage one was the left having their...
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Watch out! This morning I noticed an article: "Defense Department classifies Catholics, evangelicals as extremists." See Washington Times. - Howard Kainz
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Question for Deacon Ed...are you really saying the Left in America is atheist??? - william manley
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Well done, Mr Warren, as always. In re the comment of william manley, I cannot speak for Deacon Ed, or for Mr Warren. But it is clear that someone who supports the modern state as described in this...
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Pope Benedict: (Without Roots) "In many respects, democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine." Yet another TCT author disagrees and substitutes conservative political ideology...
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A little antidote for what ails diaperman: “The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very...
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diaperman - The article says rather clearly that it is "close to" Catholicism. It appropriated Catholicism. "Close to" is not the same thing as "is" or even "compatible with." Like most heresies, it's...
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Well, D-man, you've recycled that quotation again, but I've now found my copy of "Without Roots." Ratzinger indeed writes those words. But before that, he describes a bit more about what he means: "In...
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"In many respects, democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine." And therein lies its greatest danger. Socialism can appear to provide a well-intentioned solution to life's...
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At the Kennedy School of Govt in Cambridge, MA, luminaries like Gloria Steinem have been invited to speak on behalf of the building campaign that the government should prohibit free exression of...
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And I assume that all of us who have commented here, on both sides of the political fence, have already heard the refrain from the vanguard of the left, first heard about 2-3 years ago: "The Catholic...
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Boy where to start with this one. Tell you what Mr. Warren. I'll trade you. You can give up the blanket of Canadian single payer health-care and come down to Alabama where I'm from, and then go...
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A provocative piece Mr. Warren. My "prebuttal" ran almost exactly 1 year ago in these very pages called "Limits of Subsidiarity." Shorter version: health insurance today is a practical...
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Thanks for the response Joe. My short answer is that as a German, Ratzinger (like pretty much all Europeans, even of the center-right) takes for granted the existence of a welfare state. Does this make...
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Mr. warren writes: We have forgotten today the arguments made against the spread of “welfare” in earlier decades, when just this result was foreseen. The argument from moral jeopardy was prominent –...
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All a slam dunk, except the implication that neo-cons like small government or are in any way benign. Far from it - from the tippy tip tops of their Trotskyite beginnings to the tippy top toes of their...
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This coming Sunday in the Archdiocese of Detroit tables will be set up in parishes to collect signatures for "increased revenues" to "end hunger" in America. My heart fell as I read it. The Church has...
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@Howard Kainz Thank you for the heads up. The briefing and the briefing notes can be found on the Internet. I encourage laity and clergy to write the Army Chief of Staff and the Chief of the Army...
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