Faith in the New Millennium: The Future of Religion and American Politics
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John Vianney, St. Vincent de Paul, and our own Fr. McGivney, who saw practical non political methods of mixing social justice with our faith. Randal, on one level you are correct, but what Jesus did was far more subversive than getting into political squabbles. His teachings ultimately upended a powerful empire. It may not be helpful to frame the issue as "Should U. Almost all political issues intersect with questions of ethics.
If the Church seeks to speak with a semblance of moral authority, it must "bite the bullet" of coherence in its public communications. It all makes for a lot of pious hot air to talk about the rights of unborn humans without speaking clearly about the rights of the humans already on the planet. I agree with you.
Bishops have to bite the bullet. For most people, both Catholics and non-Catholics, Catholic teachings relating to human sexuality are the most distinctive: gay marriage, contraception, abortion. Catholic social teaching takes a back seat. The bishop who said "I tell them [Catholics] to make sure that the candidate they choose conforms to Catholic teaching. Within the church the focus on the rights of unborn humans has stolen the focus from the rights and needs of born humans, which is what Jesus and the apostles stressed over and over.
Jesus did not focus on civil law changes. He focused on his followers change of heart, urging them to pool their resources so that the needs of the poor and vulnerable were met before his followers' wants were met. He even called for the selling of ones home to meet the needs of the less fortunate. I don't see him today picketing clinics and pressing for law change.
Law change is impersonal.
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His way was and is personal. Cutting food programs starves the unborn. And it does seem that many Catholics on the right are for cutting such programs because the are government programs. Yet they are for the government to change a law. Do not despise prophetic utterances. Test everything; retain what is good. Refrain from every kind of evil. Some bishops have not been role models with their sweeping so much evil under the carpet. Others may highlight one aspect leaving a distorted impression as if evil and sin are identical. Pope Francis seems to strive for a great balance with his understanding of our humanity with all of our rough edges.
The bishops ought to speak to the morality of public policy choices and actions of our government, and yet when they do, they tend to get it all so wrong. More often than not, I wish they stayed out of politics because their influence has more often than not been detrimental to good governance and moral policy-making. They have failed so completely in this mission that it is very hard to want them to continue.
The war in Iraq; torture of prisoners; Muslim ban; tax cuts for the rich and budget cuts for the poor; the gutting of ACA; cuts to refugee resettlement; resurgent white nationalism, nativism, misogyny, racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism; and the success of extremist rhetoric, fearmongering, and conspiracy theories among Catholics in the heartland of this country -- all of this has occurred while the bishops have given tacit approval to the candidates of the political party that sponsors and has sponsored all of this ugliness and evil. Compared with their complicity in the sexual abuse of children, their failure in the political aspects of their preaching will have a longer-lasting and broader impact on the lives of Americans of all faiths and none.
The bishops have failed; maybe they should shut up till they figure it out. And maybe men, us guys, should shut up about restricting women's choice when it comes to giving birth, especially in cases of problem or unwanted or crisis pregnancies. Because, of course, we are responsible for these pregnancies, leaving the woman on her own, with insufficient support or love on our part.
And in too many cases, we have been among those who forced or coerced or persuaded women to terminate the pregnancy, And, of course, the bishops are all men; this doesn't help them see matters from a woman's perspective. I can sympathize with a homilist trying to decide how to fulfill the obligation of communicating the good news and shedding light on the relevance of that news.
Its relevance is the only reason for communicating it. But to explain relevance leads inevitably to a discussion of behavior, that is, which act to choose under expected circumstances, when to act, and how to act. Before any of these choices are made, the end or objective of the act must firmly be grasped intellectually. This is the subject matter of the moral virtue of Prudence. It turns out that St. Hence that which is the chief act of reason in regard to action must needs be the chief act of prudence. Now there are three such acts.
The first is to take counsel, which belongs to discovery, for counsel is an act of inquiry, as stated above I-II, Q. The second act is to judge of what one has discovered, and this is an act of the speculative reason. But the practical reason, which is directed to action, goes further, and its third act is to command, which act consists in applying to action the things counseled and judged.
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And since this act approaches nearer to the end of the practical reason, it follows that it is the chief act of the practical reason, and consequently of prudence Now just as every moral virtue that is directed to the common good is called "legal" justice, so the prudence that is directed to the common good is called "political" prudence, for the latter stands in the same relation to legal justice, as prudence simply so called to moral virtue He that seeks the good of the many, seeks in consequence his own good, for two reasons.
First, because the individual good is impossible without the common good of the family, state, or kingdom. For the good disposition of parts depends on their relation to the whole; thus Augustine says Confess. My takeaway is that we, both homilist and congregation, have a difficult challenge to make this interchange work.
Stay out of Politics! They are splitting their Congregation by taking sides. For 2 years I did not contribute a dime to the Bishops Annual Appeal fund and instead sent my donation to the charities of those Nuns. I saw a very close friendship within our parish break up because a person found out her close friend voted for Obama. Our Parish now has a large number of Latino Parishioners, and Politics have carried over into the church as us and them. Are you able to quote any bishop that has advised his flock how to vote?
I know a few priests have done this or come as close as you can get without being explicit about who to vote for but they've been silenced by their bishops. So—I have an open mind—tell us specifically which bishops have advised what you charge? A number of Roman Catholic bishops are making forceful last-minute appeals to their flock to vote on Election Day, and their exhortations are increasingly sounding like calls to support Republican challenger Mitt Romney over President Obama.
I premise what I write on the fact that I live in a nation that has no religious preferences at all and my firm belief that there should and must be a strict separation of Church and state. I might be persuaded otherwise by some cogent replies but this is how I feel now. I know what I want to know and what I want to hear from Bishops when I think it's appropriate and timely.
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The following two examples provide some of my personal logic. If same-sex marriage is the political question of the day, I want to hear the Catholic moral teaching and perspective on it from my Bishop. I am even willing to accept hearing an outright condemnation of the practice.
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I do not want to hear him tell me that I must support legislation prohibiting it and that I may not support a politician - Catholic or otherwise - politically for endorsing and voting on a position contrary to Catholic teaching. If the separation of children from mothers is the issue of the day, I want to hear the Catholic moral teaching and perspective on it from my Bishop. What I want any Bishop to do is teach, instruct, help form my conscience. And then I want him to say that I am responsible before God and man for the decisions that I make in light of the teaching of the church and my conscience.
Is there ever an exception to what I have written? Obviously and absolutely. If the Catholic Bishops agree that a government of the USA is compelling its citizens into abiding and condoning absolutely immoral behaviors that the government performs, then I would expect them to provide an outright condemnation of the government, its leaders and the citizens who promote those behaviors. They have done such on abortion.
While they have the right and obligation to present their moral viewpoints to our legislators, I do object to their public politicking with marches and lobbying. Their citizen congregants in the body politic have that responsibility.
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I find the quality and extent of moral teaching on current behaviors provided by Bishops and clergy in the USA to be either weak or non-existent. They are good at accusing and condemning. They are not so good at encouraging and supporting the sinners among us.
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They are monarchs not servants. Their problem in a nutshell. They love honor, power an glory over crucifixion. Moral authority doesn't come from a fancy ring, vestments or a title.
Faith in the New Millennium and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Matthew Avery Sutton is the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University. Darren Dochuk is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. The United States is at a crossroads in its history. Three decades of political campaigns that at times looked remarkably more like religious revivals than political.
The bishops' referring to critical media coverage of the Church as "a problem" is very revealing of their attitude that the coverage is the problem, rather than the corruption that has been revealed. The sad fact is that the hierarchy of the Church has squandered its moral authority by not living up to its own teachings. Many years ago, my father and mother both committed Catholics warned me against putting too much faith in human institutions including the Church , as humans are inherently fallible, and so by definition are their institutions.
They also said the more closed an institution is, the more vulnerable it is to a perversion of its mission, as its leadership becomes increasingly focused on maintaining and expanding its authority than in pursuing its ostensible institutional purpose. As in most of what they taught me, they could not have been more right.
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