Posted by
Maudie in Mandeville on Monday, May 24, 2010 3:11:26 PM
(While no one was listening),
Pope Benedict XVI addressed the role of the faithful in politics during an audience with members of the Pontifical Council for Laity on Friday. Not only are true Christian politicians needed for true societal and political change, he said, but a greater need exists for the laity to exercise their influence in the social and political realms.
The audience with the Pope was focused on "Witnesses of Christ in the Political Community."
The Holy Father said that it's in the hands of the faithful to provide a concrete witness to the faith in the social, cultural and political spheres. They must witness to the fact "that the faith enables them to read reality in a new and profound way, and to transform it," he said.
The lay faithful participating in political life must act "in a manner coherent with the teaching of the Church," said the Holy Father, as they bring solid reasoning and "great ideals" into the democratic debate....
Father Phleger, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Rosa DeLauro, and Teddy Kennedy (posthumously) all agreed. Wake me, also, when the Pope's social pablum isn't used as defense of both sides of every debate. His Holiness could have been an attendee at Rosa's 2006 forum with liberals'explaining how religious faith and the church's social teachings influence them as legislators. (It was also) a public effort by Catholic Democrats to redefine themselves as being about more than just the issue of abortion. They assert their commitment to the core principles at the heart of the Catholic doctrine: helping the poor and underprivileged; opportunity for all and advancing the church's rich tradition of public service and social justice.' Blah, blah, blah.
But!! Right in line with what the Pope seemingly was advocating, maybe..., or not? Never can tell. Blah, blah, blah.
Pope or DeLauro?: "make clear that while some of us differ on the issue of abortion, each and every one of us is committed to the basic principles that are at the heart of Catholic doctrine: helping the poor, the underprivileged; opportunity for all, protecting the most vulnerable among us (tee-hee, at least those most vulnerable outside the womb and Obama's soiled linen closet)...access to education for all, to looking at real health care reform, to taking seriously the decision to go to war, to reducing poverty" blah, blah, blah.
I wonder if it ever occurs to people like DeLauro that no where in the Bible does it demand citizens give money to government bureaucrats in order for them to "help the poor"? Rather it demands of the individual to give to the Church and help the poor where possible, making no exception for the bottom 50% who vote the Socialist Welfare Party.
DeLauro going for the throat of a baby after botched abortion (tee hee, but "in line with Catholic teaching."