Jack - I'm embarrassed to admit that until the health care debate developed I'd never herd of the principle of subsidiarity. Can you tell me where it originated in Catholic teaching? I'm generally familiar with the Gospels (not as much as I ought to be) and I can't place it anywhere in them. I wonder if these bishops forebearers used it to argue against the New Deal, specifically Social Security.
The Bishops ought to, and have an obligation, to oppose provisions that will increase abortions or promote euthanasia. However trying to find any arguments possible to scuttle long needed reform, out of loyalty to their secular, politically conservative ideologies does both the Church and America a disservice.
PS: One of my favorite authors W.E.B. Griffin opens a book on opens in a DC hotel suite on Pennsylvania Avenue. a Conservative Senator and a right-wing captain of industry are having a drink and, in the conversation, one of them motions and refers to "That son of a b***h socialist down the street." They then walk over to the White House to offer their services. It's set in early 1942 and the "socialist" is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The small minority of bishops who want to sink the President, even if abortion and euthanasia are not furthered by whatever plan emerges might learn from this tale. Greg Smith
Jack - I'm embarrassed to admit that until the health care debate developed I'd never herd of the principle of subsidiarity. Can you tell me where it originated in Catholic teaching? I'm generally familiar with the Gospels (not as much as I ought to be) and I can't place it anywhere in them. I wonder if these bishops forebearers used it to argue against the New Deal, specifically Social Security.
ReplyDeleteThe Bishops ought to, and have an obligation, to oppose provisions that will increase abortions or promote euthanasia. However trying to find any arguments possible to scuttle long needed reform, out of loyalty to their secular, politically conservative ideologies does both the Church and America a disservice.
PS: One of my favorite authors W.E.B. Griffin opens a book on opens in a DC hotel suite on Pennsylvania Avenue. a Conservative Senator and a right-wing captain of industry are having a drink and, in the conversation, one of them motions and refers to "That
son of a b***h socialist down the street." They then walk over to the White House to offer their services. It's set in early 1942 and the "socialist" is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The small minority of bishops who want to sink the President, even if abortion and euthanasia are not furthered by whatever plan emerges might learn from this tale.
Greg Smith