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Very good story on this now Blessed priest and the state of labor unions of the West today. I support the unions but admit that changes are necessary.
*The Solidarity Trade Union of Poland helped to bring down the Berlin Wall
The Solidarity Trade Union of Poland helped to bring down the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the evil tyranny of atheistic Marxist ideology. Now, some of the very tenets of that ideology have actually corrupted the trade union movement in the West. In the West, we need a new Labor Movement, a “Solidarity” for the West, which is built upon an authentic vision of the human person, the family and a truly free society.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (Catholic Online) - Underscoring the significance of the extraordinary event, Pope Benedict XVI, the pilgrim Pope, while on an apostolic visit to Cyprus, took time during the praying of the Angelus to speak to the the faithful in Poland who are gathering over a quarter of a million strong to pray in Pidulski Square.
There, Archbishop Angelo Amato the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints beatified the heroic priest Fr Jerzy Popieluzsko, chaplain to the Solidarity movement. It was his spiritual leadership and pastoral care which kept that wonderful example of an authentic response to Catholic Social Doctrine, focused on the only true humanism, the Catholic Christian faith. This heroic man was tortured, bound, beaten and thrown into a reservoir.
Fr. Jerzy presided at open air liturgies which informed the peaceful protest of the tyranny of atheistic Marxism which afflicted the people of Poland. Next to Lech Walesa, he was the most public face of this freedom movement. Sadly, it seems the very ideology which both of these brave men exposed and opposed is rearing its ugly head again, here in the West, right within our own Trade Union movement! Some Union leaders are actually proposing collectivist ideology, promoting profane and evil notions such as abortion on demand as a proper object of the freedom of “choice” and opposing the Catholic Church, the true advocate of authentic human freedom.
Very good story on this now Blessed priest and the state of labor unions of the West today. I support the unions but admit that changes are necessary.
*The Solidarity Trade Union of Poland helped to bring down the Berlin Wall
The Solidarity Trade Union of Poland helped to bring down the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the evil tyranny of atheistic Marxist ideology. Now, some of the very tenets of that ideology have actually corrupted the trade union movement in the West. In the West, we need a new Labor Movement, a “Solidarity” for the West, which is built upon an authentic vision of the human person, the family and a truly free society.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (Catholic Online) - Underscoring the significance of the extraordinary event, Pope Benedict XVI, the pilgrim Pope, while on an apostolic visit to Cyprus, took time during the praying of the Angelus to speak to the the faithful in Poland who are gathering over a quarter of a million strong to pray in Pidulski Square.
There, Archbishop Angelo Amato the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints beatified the heroic priest Fr Jerzy Popieluzsko, chaplain to the Solidarity movement. It was his spiritual leadership and pastoral care which kept that wonderful example of an authentic response to Catholic Social Doctrine, focused on the only true humanism, the Catholic Christian faith. This heroic man was tortured, bound, beaten and thrown into a reservoir.
Fr. Jerzy presided at open air liturgies which informed the peaceful protest of the tyranny of atheistic Marxism which afflicted the people of Poland. Next to Lech Walesa, he was the most public face of this freedom movement. Sadly, it seems the very ideology which both of these brave men exposed and opposed is rearing its ugly head again, here in the West, right within our own Trade Union movement! Some Union leaders are actually proposing collectivist ideology, promoting profane and evil notions such as abortion on demand as a proper object of the freedom of “choice” and opposing the Catholic Church, the true advocate of authentic human freedom.
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