I was told my beliefs were immoral? - help?

[Bubba_Switzler]

From the brief conversation/grilling, it seemed he meant anything that wasn’t written by Chesterton or a distributist… I also recall being called a modernist at least three times in the course of the “discussion.”

Your reference to Chesterton and distributism here answer most of the original question. If you do some research on this you’ll find that these are people who think they are more Catholic than the Pope.

If you want to prepare yourself against such views in the future I recommend the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty:

acton.org/

 

[Abu]

The importance of sound economics is highlighted here:
visandvals.org/Stop_the_Fiscal_Insanity.php
New Year’s Resolution: Stop the Fiscal Insanity
By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
January 03, 2011

The art of politics requires much more than party affiliation or bluster. It involves sound morals, facing reality on religion, and sound economic training as well.

Let us recall that Pope John Paul II warned:
“By intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility, the Social Assistance State leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients, and which are accompanied by an enormous increase in spending.”
(Centesimus Annus, 48, John Paul II, 1991).