tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post3789870094875542823..comments2024-03-28T11:36:20.629-04:00Comments on southern orders: SHEPARD SMITH OF FOX, IS HE CATHOLIC? HE OUGHT TO BE!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-82407704560734298402015-09-25T23:03:09.749-04:002015-09-25T23:03:09.749-04:00Jusad got that right. Why not just steal it and do...Jusad got that right. Why not just steal it and donate? rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-48111662591175922052015-09-25T16:28:22.272-04:002015-09-25T16:28:22.272-04:00I'm not opposed to taxes. Nor am I opposed to ...I'm not opposed to taxes. Nor am I opposed to tithing. But I am opposed to people voting for OTHER people to be taxed and counting that as their own moral virtue.<br /><br />Where did Jesus preach that we must increase our taxes to Caesar so that Caesar would then feed the poor, house the homeless, teach the children, honor the elderly, and provide free bread and circuses to the underclass? I must have missed that Gospel, perhaps you can enlighten me?<br /><br />Jesus paid the Temple Tax. But he didn't agitate for one single massive centralized government as the choice means by which to make the Kingdom come. <br /><br />Silly me, I thought the Kingdom would come via the Church and last time I checked the Church wasn't a massive centralized government. But those who believe in Government as their ancestors believed in the Church sure seem to consistently hold anyone who works for the government to be both impeccable and infallible and their programs insuperable, something we couldn't possibly live without.<br /><br />But the USA existed for 150 years before the Federal government grew to its current size and scope. We had open borders and doubled in population every 25 years without a massive "war on poverty" welfare state. How ever did we avoid mass starvation without HUD and HHS, the EPA and other alphabet agencies? Easy, by subsidiarity and solidarity. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Jusadbellumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-74830242901877078412015-09-25T12:00:03.808-04:002015-09-25T12:00:03.808-04:00Yeah, the church had things pretty sweet during th...Yeah, the church had things pretty sweet during the Dark Ages when they could force serfs to work for them as virtual slaves. Tell us again why you're opposed to taxes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-91894238157683040652015-09-25T09:40:34.554-04:002015-09-25T09:40:34.554-04:00It seems to me the Gospel of Life is being proclai...It seems to me the Gospel of Life is being proclaimed and advocated in both Pope Francis' speech to Congress yesterday and Fr. McDonald's commentary. These messages offer hope and direction for building a culture of life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-27518337972447638462015-09-25T09:24:23.969-04:002015-09-25T09:24:23.969-04:00People, anytime anyone asks Congress to do somethi...People, anytime anyone asks Congress to do something that involves spending tax payer money, the request is "political".<br /><br />If the Pope was calling on all private individuals and private enterprise to mobilize so as to welcome in the foreigner was only asking the Federal government to increase the INS quotas and streamline the H1B visa system - that might be different. But he's making blanket calls TO CONGRESS to "do something" which, to avoid tokenism must cost in the billions.<br /><br />And he says this in a vacuum - as though the US (and EU and CHINA and Russia etc.) are not all living beyond our means. Every country above has more debt than their GDP. <br /><br />So asking more government expenditures on welfare - which is what he's doing - without even broaching the topic for how this is all going to be paid for is a problem. There are structural changes that can occur so as to afford this (like genuine healthcare reform which would actually reduce the cost of all health care to the point where we wouldn't need insurance to cover basic care). But precious few Bishops seem to even have a clue. It's always the call for "universal healthcare" with not much specifics on who pays and how they are expected to sustain the payments?<br /><br />Once upon a time the Church owned 30% of all lands in France and thanks to serfs paying rent on those lands, was able to finance the Cathedrals, hospitals, schools, orphanages, etc. So for centuries the Church was self-financed via rents. People paid their tithe and tax but knew where the money was going as it was largely raised and spent locally.<br /><br />After the Protestant and French Revolutions overthrew this system, the Church was destitute and had to make due with pocket change. But the temptation to find some faceless bureaucratic method to finance our ministry has remained in force. But who pays the piper calls the tune. So by asking Congress to pay for welfare, healthcare, education, etc. the Pope is tacitly asking centralized States to take over the lion's share of what was once the Church's ministry.<br /><br />It feels good...but its a long term disaster. It would be far cheaper for NATO to invade Syria, carve out a protectorate from Damascus to Iraq, and re-patriate all the "Syrian refugees" under the protective umbrella of 100,000 NATO troops.<br /><br />Ditto with North Africa - it would be far more humane to invade all the North African countries and stabilize them rather than force millions to risk life and limb boating to Europe in search of welfare and safety.<br /><br />But it won't be done for various ideological reasons - not the least of which is that Europe has chosen abortion, sterilization, and contraception and so has no children who will be needed to prop up their socialist welfare and retirement communities. <br /><br />So the atheists will get their atheistic utopia for about the next 30 years and then the whole continent will become Islamic and Rome will face the same fate of Jerusalem and Constantinople. <br /><br />And we - if we're still a nation - will be blamed for the catastrophe and called "stingy" because we didn't "share" when the solution was never about mere redistribution but preventing war and chaos in the first place. Jusadbellumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-74152923262371827062015-09-25T08:25:54.975-04:002015-09-25T08:25:54.975-04:00How Fox News covered the Pope's statement: Sea...How Fox News covered the Pope's statement: Sean Hannity had the Baptist minister running for president (Huckabee) back in Thursday night to speculate further on whether Obama is a Christian and recounting what the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said in 2003.<br /><br />In other words, so much for Pope Francis and all that talk about peace and healing and reconciliation.Davenoreply@blogger.com