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American Catholicism’s Pact with the Devil.
Paul A. Rahe · Feb. 10 at 5:21pm
In the 1930s, the majority of the bishops, priests, and nuns sold their souls to the devil, and they did so with the best of intentions. In their concern for the suffering of those out of work and destitute, they wholeheartedly embraced the New Deal. They gloried in the fact that Franklin Delano Roosevelt made Frances Perkins – a devout Anglo-Catholic laywoman who belonged to the Episcopalian Church but retreated on occasion to a Catholic convent – Secretary of Labor and the first member of her sex to be awarded a cabinet post. And they welcomed Social Security – which was her handiwork. They did not stop to ponder whether public provision in this regard would subvert the moral principle that children are responsible for the well-being of their parents. They did not stop to consider whether this measure would reduce the incentives for procreation and nourish the temptation to think of sexual intercourse as an indoor sport. They did not stop to think.
There is more before and after this paragraph. It is stunning in its indictment of the leaders of our Church. They forgot the teachings of the Church that charity is local and not governmental. That is why so many Catholics vote Democrat even though Democrats are vehemently pro-abortion. The social programs have overtaken the teachings of the Church. This article is many pages long and I have not yet read it all but it is quite the history lesson.
I found it at newadvent.org/
American Catholicism’s Pact with the Devil.
Paul A. Rahe · Feb. 10 at 5:21pm
In the 1930s, the majority of the bishops, priests, and nuns sold their souls to the devil, and they did so with the best of intentions. In their concern for the suffering of those out of work and destitute, they wholeheartedly embraced the New Deal. They gloried in the fact that Franklin Delano Roosevelt made Frances Perkins – a devout Anglo-Catholic laywoman who belonged to the Episcopalian Church but retreated on occasion to a Catholic convent – Secretary of Labor and the first member of her sex to be awarded a cabinet post. And they welcomed Social Security – which was her handiwork. They did not stop to ponder whether public provision in this regard would subvert the moral principle that children are responsible for the well-being of their parents. They did not stop to consider whether this measure would reduce the incentives for procreation and nourish the temptation to think of sexual intercourse as an indoor sport. They did not stop to think.
There is more before and after this paragraph. It is stunning in its indictment of the leaders of our Church. They forgot the teachings of the Church that charity is local and not governmental. That is why so many Catholics vote Democrat even though Democrats are vehemently pro-abortion. The social programs have overtaken the teachings of the Church. This article is many pages long and I have not yet read it all but it is quite the history lesson.
I found it at newadvent.org/
