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JayCL
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My apologies if my sentiments were misunderstood. I’m not saying lay Catholics don’t feed the poor. My point was mainly that both things are important and we really shouldn’t “only focus” on one or the other.
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JayCL
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I didn’t mean to put words in your mouth, and I apologize if it seemed that I was doing that. My inference was that you were saying that fighting abortion is more important than following the direct commands of Christ. Please forgive me if I insulted you or mistook your zeal for the anti-abortion cause the wrong way. It was not my intention.
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lwest
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Maybe you could call EWTN and ask them why they don’t address feeding the poor. I’ve called them in the past and they have always seemed helpful. I know you know opposing abortion and feeding the poor aren’t mutually exclusive beliefs…so I won’t point that out. 
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TMC
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EWTN has a viewpoint, that is for sure. But not only are they not the only voice in the Church, they are not an authoritative voice.
I will second the recommendation to read the Vatican’s Compendium and the USCCB document, which were linked by @Genesis315 in the second post of this thread.
I will second the recommendation to read the Vatican’s Compendium and the USCCB document, which were linked by @Genesis315 in the second post of this thread.
Tis_Bearself
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Trent Horn did a CAF Patrons webinar the other week about voting and why abortion is so important to voting. Trent said, as did someone else on this thread, that abortion is the issue most paramount for society at this moment. As someone who lived through the 60s and early 70s, I can tell you that civil rights, antiwar, and helping the poor were paramount issues for the Catholic Church in US at that time. There were a huge number of legislative and policy initiatives trying to bring about racial equality and to lift a lot of people out of really severe poverty, the kind where you had moms and kids living in slums or shacks in poor condition with rats and no food to eat, not the kind we often see today where a person on welfare is upset because they aren’t allowed to buy certain foods with their government benefits card. Roe v. Wade also hadn’t been decided then. As for antiwar, the US was in a controversial war then, there was a draft and all kinds of young men and foreign civilians (in a country with a large Catholic population) were dying.
Our society has changed so now abortion and immigration are paramount issues. It doesn’t mean we don’t still struggle a bit with racial justice or helping the poor, but we have a lot of laws and policies in place now to protect them that didn’t exist back in the 1960s. As for war, we’re currently not in one and we don’t have a draft.
Our society has changed so now abortion and immigration are paramount issues. It doesn’t mean we don’t still struggle a bit with racial justice or helping the poor, but we have a lot of laws and policies in place now to protect them that didn’t exist back in the 1960s. As for war, we’re currently not in one and we don’t have a draft.
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