The False God of Poverty
Capitalizing on the Pope’s emphasis on the poor, auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy of San Francisco, in an October 21st article in America Magazine, suggested that poverty was an equivalent moral issue …More
Capitalizing on the Pope’s emphasis on the poor, auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy of San Francisco, in an October 21st article in America Magazine, suggested that poverty was an equivalent moral issue to abortion. He stated:
If the Catholic Church is truly to be a “church for the poor” in the United States, it must elevate the issue of poverty to the very top of its political agenda, establishing poverty alongside abortion as the pre-eminent moral issues the Catholic community pursues at this moment in our nation’s history.[2]
In addition, Bishop McElroy also implied that opposition to certain progressive government welfare programs and tax policies is a sin:
…choices by citizens or public officials that systematically, and therefore unjustly, decrease governmental financial support for the poor clearly reject core Catholic teachings on poverty and economic justice. Policy decisions that reduce development assistance to the poorest countries reject core Catholic teachings. Tax policies …More
If the Catholic Church is truly to be a “church for the poor” in the United States, it must elevate the issue of poverty to the very top of its political agenda, establishing poverty alongside abortion as the pre-eminent moral issues the Catholic community pursues at this moment in our nation’s history.[2]
In addition, Bishop McElroy also implied that opposition to certain progressive government welfare programs and tax policies is a sin:
…choices by citizens or public officials that systematically, and therefore unjustly, decrease governmental financial support for the poor clearly reject core Catholic teachings on poverty and economic justice. Policy decisions that reduce development assistance to the poorest countries reject core Catholic teachings. Tax policies …More
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The church needs to do both: fight poverty and abortion. In some ways the fight for either one, can result in helping the fight for the other one.
Many abortions in the world are poverty-related, and fighting poverty would also likely bring more respect to the Catholic voice in the world, and maybe help us to do a better job at persuading people to accept the Catholic Church's teaching on other …More
The church needs to do both: fight poverty and abortion. In some ways the fight for either one, can result in helping the fight for the other one.
Many abortions in the world are poverty-related, and fighting poverty would also likely bring more respect to the Catholic voice in the world, and maybe help us to do a better job at persuading people to accept the Catholic Church's teaching on other issues as well. So fighting poverty will help to fight abortion.
Similarly, fighting abortion can also help to fight poverty, because in western nations the low birthrate is contributing to population dips in the working population and bulges in the retirees, thus leading the state to spend more money on welfare through taxes on those who work, overall harming the economy and contributing to the economic crisis that is leading some people into destitution and also making it harder for richer economies to help poorer parts of the world.
Many abortions in the world are poverty-related, and fighting poverty would also likely bring more respect to the Catholic voice in the world, and maybe help us to do a better job at persuading people to accept the Catholic Church's teaching on other issues as well. So fighting poverty will help to fight abortion.
Similarly, fighting abortion can also help to fight poverty, because in western nations the low birthrate is contributing to population dips in the working population and bulges in the retirees, thus leading the state to spend more money on welfare through taxes on those who work, overall harming the economy and contributing to the economic crisis that is leading some people into destitution and also making it harder for richer economies to help poorer parts of the world.
