Which social issue speaks to you the most?

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“may mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.” Jude 1:2

Which social issue(or issues) speaks out? And if any which ones are you most actively involved in?

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The injustice of our present monetary system, because I think it breeds every evil under the sun.

I’ve been trying to get people together who would like to begin using a “complimentary” currency, that is just, usury free, and entirely voluntary. The benefits are many.

But there is so much distrust in society today - all caused by our money, in my opinion - that people just don’t trust the idea. I spend time thinking about how to encourage people to trust one another, and even came up with an idea for a club that would, (a) help charities promote themselves, and (b) provide manpower to help with their good works, all paid for with mutual credit generated from within the local community.
 
RCIAGraduate said:
“may mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.” Jude 1:2

Which social issue(or issues) speaks out? And if any which ones are you most actively involved in?

Peace and Love through Him
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Immigration, hands down. I think that we have millions of disenfranchised people who are mistreated, ignored and discriminated against all on the grounds of where they happened to be born. I volunteer to work with immigrants and refugees with Catholic Charities and vote my conscience.
 
Abortion.If respect for life doesn’t begin with the nascent life in the womb,it follows,as we are now witnessing,human life at any stage has little to no value for many.😦
 
RCIAGraduate said:
Which social issue(or issues) speaks out? And if any which ones are you most actively involved in?
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This is a wonderful question.

Sometimes when someone opposes the issue you advocate the most, they attack by suggesting that you should be involved with X, Y, and Z if you are really devoted to helping others.

Within the issue that you advocate the most, the attacker will suggest you should take care of all of the elements within the movement.

We truly are like many parts of one Body of Christ. We each have a different way to serve God by serving others.

Abortion is the issue I am most involved.

Abortion kills the beautiful child and breaks the heart of the mother. Many post-abortive fathers suffer as well. Siblings of aborted siblings are affected, as are grandparents. Anyone who assisted, encouraged, or “supported the mother’s decision” can suffer after the abortion when they realize what truly took place.

Many mothers have no idea the poor choices they make actually stem from having aborted their baby. They may not properly connect with their other children because of the “hidden” problems they have in killing their other baby.

Those who work in the abortion industry are affected by this great injustice to babies and mothers.

Many people think abortion is a private matter. It effects goes much further than the horrible death of the baby and the heart ache of the mother.

Our Lady of Guadalupe ~ Patroness of the Unborn ~ Pray for us.
 
Homelessness & when people cannot afford to buy food. In wealthy countries why do some people sleep on the street?
 
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Homelessness & when people cannot afford to buy food. In wealthy countries why do some people sleep on the street?
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Same here. Even as an atheist I volunteered with Food Not Bombs for a while. I’m not sure why because I’ve never been homeless or hungry. It feels so hopeless but I still feel compelled to offer the little that I have.

I think the reasons are that we are lazy, greedy, and prideful. Reading Dorothy Day is helping me to get over some of my own laziness.

Pray for the poor, lost, and forgotten.
 
Contraception. Because contraception has led directly to the delinking of marriage from procreation and children. It has led to the deconstruction of the family, which had been the bedrock of our civilization. The crumbling of that bedrock leads to abortion, fatherless children, gay marriage, social chaos, and moral bankruptcy among many groups, the effect of which will tend to lead us back into barbarism.
 
JimG said:
Contraception. Because contraception has led directly to the delinking of marriage from procreation and children. It has led to the deconstruction of the family, which had been the bedrock of our civilization. The crumbling of that bedrock leads to abortion, fatherless children, gay marriage, social chaos, and moral bankruptcy among many groups, the effect of which will tend to lead us back into barbarism.
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This is true!
 
Ignorance and lack of formation in the things that matter. That the parents in a society like ours cannot give to their children what they themselves do not have.
 
Hmmm. Good question. I would say contraception. I always knew that contraception divorced the idea of sex and children, and that once that became a known idea people would really care less about having kids and become more self centered, hedonistic and Type A. Contraception is probably the biggest pet peeve of mine when I deal with my generation.
 
JimG said:
Contraception. Because contraception has led directly to the delinking of marriage from procreation and children. It has led to the deconstruction of the family, which had been the bedrock of our civilization. The crumbling of that bedrock leads to abortion, fatherless children, gay marriage, social chaos, and moral bankruptcy among many groups, the effect of which will tend to lead us back into barbarism.
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I completely disagree with you that contraception leads to barbarism, but you’re certainly free to believe that if you wish. Society isn’t going to change on this issue. If anything, it will become more accepted, more affordable, more efficient, and easier to access.

For me, the answer to the OP is extreme poverty. The countries that experience the most extreme poverty, by the way, are most in need of affordable family planning.
 
Mulligan2 said:
I completely disagree with you that contraception leads to barbarism, but you’re certainly free to believe that if you wish. Society isn’t going to change on this issue. If anything, it will become more accepted, more affordable, more efficient, and easier to access.

For me, the answer to the OP is extreme poverty. The countries that experience the most extreme poverty, by the way, are most in need of affordable family planning.
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I recommend a reading of Mary Eberstadt’s book “Adam and Eve After the Pill,” which documents the actual social results of the widespread use of contraception. Divorcing sex from procreation. Divorcing procreation from marriage. Enabling of the sexual revolution, whose effects have been uniformly negative. Enabling promiscuity. Enabling cohabitation. The decline of marriage. Fatherless families. Single and poor mothers. An increase in poverty. Widespread abortion. Children who are deprived of parents.

Indeed, children are the real losers in the acceptance of contraception; they are turned into commodities instead of persons.

The domestic family becomes a mere memory of better times. It is a decline of the family, the ultimate result of procreation, the leads us back into barbarism. Remember that all of Christendom–Protestants as well as Catholics–held to the exact same doctrine on contraception until 1930. It is family that is the bedrock of civilization.

Startlingly, Carle Zimmerman predicted the decline of family in our current time way back in the 1940’s with his book “Family and Civilization,” a historical survey of the effect that family decline has on civilization.

Mary Eberstadt’s book documents the results of the current experiment so far.
 
Probably abortion, but it’s all tied up in a massive web of assault on the family. So many issues are interconnected with it- poverty, porn use, casual sex, contraception, gay marriage, gender inequality, rape, abusive homes- it’s hard to know where to start! But for me the starting point is realizing that all humans have the right to live. After that we can talk about the proper context of sex and the purpose of the family. 🙂

That said, I actually do spend a fair amount of time talking about and trying to help with all that other stuff, especially by talking about chastity in general among teenagers. It’s just kind of where I fit in right now. 🤷
 
Mulligan2 said:
I completely disagree with you that contraception leads to barbarism, but you’re certainly free to believe that if you wish. Society isn’t going to change on this issue. If anything, it will become more accepted, more affordable, more efficient, and easier to access.

For me, the answer to the OP is extreme poverty. The countries that experience the most extreme poverty, by the way, are most in need of affordable family planning.
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:thumbsup:Ditto to the tenth power.
 
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