Catholics United executive director and Portland, Maine resident Chris Korzen issued the following statement today in response to Senator Olympia Snowe's vote in favor of the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform bill:
“We wish to offer our sincere gratitude to Senator Snowe for her courageous vote. By her actions today, Senator Snowe has shown once again that she believes making sure all Americans have access to quality affordable health care is more important than engaging in the politics of obstruction and division.”
“People of faith in general, and Catholics in particular, believe that universal health care ranks among our nation's most urgent moral priorities. Throughout this debate, Senator Snowe has proven a crucial ally in the fight for health care reform – especially in the area of health insurance affordability.”
“We applaud Senator Snowe for her ongoing efforts, and are proud to stand behind her as we move toward passage of this historic legislation.”
There have been many anti
There have been many anti Christ’s throughout the course of human history. 666, as named in scripture, refer to the Roman Emperor Nero.
Is the devil afoot in the catholic US Bishops hierarchy?
Are the US Bishops teaching against church teachings?
Regarding any Catholic website or catholic’s that are supporters’, promoters, and voter's, such persons as Obama, Ted Kennedy, Olympia Snowe, Nancy Pelosi and alike which approve of the 5 Intrinsic Moral Evils, according to church teaching the 5 Intrinsic Moral Evils are not approved of or allowed by God.
Yes, people have many rights that are inherent to the dignity of each and every human being created in God’s image and likeness.
Human rights consist of food, clothing, and shelter, education, work, heath care, medicine, and medical treatment, and the right to immigrate legally.
Unfortunately, the USCCB statement was immoral, and not allowed, to give the impression that the Bishops saying, "Have a specific right to government mandated health care or government run health care." The Bishops should be saying along with church teaching, “that all people have a right to affordable access to health care without necessarily endorsing a government plan, which would violate the Catholic Social justice principle of subsidiarity."
The principle of subsidiarity goes back to Bishop of Mainz, Emmanuel von Ketteler. His work shaped the social teaching of Pope Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum and holds that government should undertake only those initiatives which exceed the capacity of individuals or private groups acting independently.
Functions of righteous government, business, and other secular activities should be as local as possible. If a complex function is carried out at a local level it most likely will be more effective than on the national level.
It is the local level should be the one to carry out the specified function not the national level.
The principle is based upon the autonomy and dignity of the human individual, and holds that all other forms of society, from the family to the state and the international order, should be in the service of the human person.
Subsidiarity assumes that these human persons are by their nature social beings, and emphasizes the importance of small and intermediate-sized communities or institutions, like the family, the church, and voluntary associations, as mediating structures which empower individual action and link the individual to society as a whole.
"Positive subsidiarity", which is the ethical imperative for communal, institutional or righteous governmental action to create the social conditions necessary to the full development of the individual, such as the right to work, decent housing, health care, etc., is another important aspect of the subsidiarity principle.
The principle of subsidiarity was developed in the encyclical Rerum Novarum of 1891 by Pope Leo XIII, as an attempt to articulate a middle course between laissez-faire capitalism on the one hand and the various forms of righteous communism, which subordinate the individual to the state, on the other.
The principle was further developed in Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno of 1931 and Economic Justice for all by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Since it’s founding by Hilaire Belloc and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Distributism, a third way economic philosophy based on Catholic Social teaching, upholds the importance of subsidiarity.
Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.
The Merriam-Webster English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as a principle in social organization: functions which subordinate or local organizations perform effectively belong more properly to them than to a dominant central organization.
God help us all!
God made this world and man
God made this world and man is the care taker. That said God is in control not the many people who are making billions of dollars on fear. Has everyone forgotten that this earth has had several ice ages? that at one time it was a solid piece of earth? that at one time is was desert? God is in charge and it is believe in Him that can make changes in the world not anything else.
Praise the Lord