Network - A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

[5_MP]

Last night I was researching a topic on the internet and came across a Catholic website called, Network a lobbying group for social justice. I spent a couple hours on the site reading their objectives and solutions to a wide range of social issues. This group is just another front pushing the agenda of the Far Left Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party.
Except for the groups Right To Life stance, they are in lock step with the far left.
I cannot believe the solution for helping the minority of poor in this country is for the majority of us to turn over our wealth, power, and freedoms to the State.

Here is their website: www.networklobby.org/

Do you think this groups solutions to obtain social justice, is representative of a majority of US Catholics today?

I am a Convert, and entered full communion with the Church last Easter.

Michael

 

[dixieagle]

Last night I was researching a topic on the internet and came across a Catholic website called, Network a lobbying group for social justice. I spent a couple hours on the site reading their objectives and solutions to a wide range of social issues. This group is just another front pushing the agenda of the Far Left Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party.
Except for the groups Right To Life stance, they are in lock step with the far left.
I cannot believe the solution for helping the minority of poor in this country is for the majority of us to turn over our wealth, power, and freedoms to the State.

Here is their website: www.networklobby.org/

Do you think this groups solutions to obtain social justice, is representative of a majority of US Catholics today?

I am a Convert, and entered full communion with the Church last Easter.

Michael

I think it comes to a surprise to many Catholics that Catholic Social Teaching - apart from the abortion issue - is hardly in step with the Republican party.

I am not really familiar with this group, and I would need to know more about the specifics of what they lobby for. I also wish that they would take a more visible pro-life stand. Though they do allude to the right to life on the website, it is not listed at all in the list of specific issues for which they lobby.

It’s high time that Catholic social justice groups speak as loudly about abortion - an egregious denial of basic human rights - as they do about other, socially acceptable issues.

 

[SpaceNeedle]

I think it comes to a surprise to many Catholics that Catholic Social Teaching - apart from the abortion issue - is hardly in step with the Republican party.

True fact.

 

[DOShea]

True fact.

Evidence?

 

[ljubim]

I think it comes to a surprise to many Catholics that Catholic Social Teaching - apart from the abortion issue - is hardly in step with the Republican party.

You’re so correct!! It makes me so sad… all of my family switched from Democrat to Republican around the 60s. I recently had to explain this in my government class. They were talking about religions and political party. I had to explain it because there were a lot of Catholic friends in that class who didn’t know any better and might be swayed by this stuff. Because were it not for the really out of line Democrat issues such as gay marriage and abortion, I would register as a Democrat this December! But I don’t want to be a Republican either what a dilemma.

 

[dixieagle]

Evidence?

usccb.org/sdwp/projects/socialteaching/excerpt.shtml

I think that a careful reading will demonstrate that Catholic social teaching transcends political parties - as it should.

 

[dixieagle]

You’re so correct!! It makes me so sad… all of my family switched from Democrat to Republican around the 60s. I recently had to explain this in my government class. They were talking about religions and political party. I had to explain it because there were a lot of Catholic friends in that class who didn’t know any better and might be swayed by this stuff. Because were it not for the really out of line Democrat issues such as gay marriage and abortion, I would register as a Democrat this December! But I don’t want to be a Republican either what a dilemma.

It is so sad to see that the Democratic party - long the champion of the working man (and my Irish Catholic ancestors) - has gone off the rails so completely with regard to issues such as abortion, embryonic stem cell research, etc. The culturally Catholic politicians who have led the charge in this regard are particularly disappointing.