Of course they’re the same. What does it matter which principles of one’s faith or conscience are violated, so long as they are violated for “the greater good™”
Employees provide a service to employers by filling jobs. But what I meant is what I said.
Rence, I thank you, a faithful practicing Catholic, for your answer and for answering for the both of us.
God bless you and peace. A blessed Advent and Christmas season to you.I think that when CMatt25 uses the word “charity”, he means it in the way that it is used by the Forum Moderators:
Hey, see above — New Motu Proprio about Charitable Activities in the Catholic Church.
I love that this has gone to the top so to speak. Unfortunately, we’ll still have Catholics/catholic organizations ignoring it.
What is specifically just politics? I honestly think it is hard to separate the two (religion and politics) wrt this topic. The reason why this is even an issue is because of a political decision on the part of the president.So now we’re back to politics yet again.
Which is some peoples’ real religion.
This thread is titled “Gonzaga University will cover contraception but promises to clearly communicate Church teaching.”
What makes their use lack charity? Promoting contraception and illicit sexual activity is evil. No one has claimed to judge any person’s soul, but actions and words certainly must be judged.
I know. That’s the enormous problem with American Catholics. For them, politics = religion and religion = politics. But they’re WRONG.
This is precisely what they would have to do in order to qualify for an exemption from the HHS mandate as a religious organization. The HHS, which has taken it upon itself to decide what constitutes religion, says they must serve only Catholics in order to be exempt from the mandate. But serving only Catholics would be a violation of Catholic moral principles!Employees provide a service to employers by filling jobs. But what I meant is what I said.
- Should Catholics only employee Catholics? 2) Should Catholic colleges only educate Catholics? 3) Should Catholics only serve Catholics? I’m not sure what your confusion was.
I"m still trying to figure out why serving only Catholics would be a violation of moral principles.
To pracitice their religon, Catholic institutions are bound to practice the spiritual and corporal works of mercy; feed the poor, shelter the homeless, help the sick. They simply won’t turn away people because they aren’t Catholic. A food kitchen only for Catholics would have to turn away a lot of hungry people.
Then the food kitchen will have limited options:
When the whole of Europe was Catholic, of course they served mostly Catholics, there weren’t a lot of other religions around. I don’t think they turned anyone away, regardless of religion. The Church has always been in the business of providing for the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. It’s part of Catholicism.
Food banks and soup kitchens are recent inventions and there is no requirement that we have them. We need to shut all this stuff down and find other ways of fulfilling this.
I don’t think that they are recent inventions. Monasteries in the middles ages served the poor; that’s the equivalent of a food kitchen.