Part of that is because Catholic Theology is not cut and dry in today’s world. There are not easy answers or applications, as life is not always easy to apply things to. It is complicated material for a complicated world and does not fit in cleanly with any political doctrines.
It has nothing to do with theology – there isn’t so much as a comma of theology in the following passage:
How will we address the tragic fact that more than 30,000 children die every day as a result of hunger, international debt, and lack of development around the world, as well as the fact that the younger you are, the more likely you are to be poor here in the richest nation on Earth?
Wait a minute here – I know children die from hunger, but how do they die of “international debt and lack of development?”
Almost everyone on these forums is in debt – home mortgages, car loans, credit card bills. How come debt doesn’t kill
us?
The answer is simple, international debt and lack of development are
not the killers here – they are the consequences of people living under brutal, corrupt dictators who steal the money advanced as loans (which should have been used for economic development). They use some of the money to rivet tighter the chains on their people.
This paragraph points us in the wrong direction (in the sense that it points us in any direction at all) – it blaims abstractions (international debt and “lack of development”) for the problems. If we can’t
define the problems, how can we ever solve them?
And how is all that related to poverty
in the United States? Poverty in the United States is of a different character, entirely – and is mostly related to lack of education, drugs and out-of-wedlock births.
