If you were building a Catholic Town, what would it look like?

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Penny Plain:

This is a great topic.

I was talking it over with the Huz last night, and he made an interesting point. Many of the things presented here are communal ideas, whether communal day care or things that are designed to bring people in closer contact with each other.

Here’s the Huz’s question: Is there something inherently anti-Catholic about being a loner, assuming one fulfills the Mass obligations?

Yep, this is what bothers me, too- too much communalism. I am not fan of rampant commercialism, but some of these ideas are very clearly socialist in nature.

I do not want my children or grandchildren brought up in a communal center. I do not want to have to attend to my “duties to the state” in a daycare center. I do not want to have it demanded of me that I do thus-and-so, make contributions, etc.

This is something that, IN MY OPINION, when setting up a theocracy, forces charity on the inhabitants. I’ve always thought that it can’t be a change of law, but a change of heart, that makes individuals reach out for their fellow man (woman, human).