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TexCatholic4JMJ
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We can discern that their actions don’t appear to be in line with church teaching. What
the Lord does with it is something else.
Some people are like my friend, who think they are doing the right thing.
A friend of mine had been a staunch democrat, comes from a very politically involved Democrat family and had never voted for a republican. She and I met before the 2000
election at a school reunion. As we walked to our cars, she shared that she was going
to vote for GW Bush and it would be the first time she did so.* I asked her why and she
told me that since she had started watching EWTN and begun to strengthen her faith
(Catholic) she realized how far off the mark the Democrat party was, not only on the
pro-life issues but on others as well. In her family she said that among them they knew
that the uncle, who had been mayor of a city, was the last one whose values were in
line with the church. All the others since, spoke of how they had to follow the party
line or they would be ostracized, since none had the sway the uncle had had in the
party. It was very difficult for her because she was no longer attending democrat
functions and the family had turned against her even in private life. But she said that
she had never had such peace. She had always thought that her politics and her
faith had not collided until then. She had thought that what she believed was true until
the EWTN experience. It took her over two years of researching, etc.
*She did not vote for him when he was running for governor.
I’m willing to bet that people like Madoff and Rajaratnam were near, if not at, the tops of their respective classes.
It’s called progressive taxation.
