Comments for The Adventure of Catholic Social Doctrine at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 15:33:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/the-adventure-of-catholic-social-doctrine.html#comment-10144 If my fellow one-time resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, is correct in his history, and I accept that he is, then what is a Constitution-loving Catholic to do? I'll start by recalling Dwight Eisenhower's observation that "at the bottom of every stack of government paperwork lies a gun." Catholic bishops in the United States seem to have delegated to the federal government -- which is thoroughly secular, aspiring to Godlessness -- the Church's duty of performing acts of Christian charity. The bishops have sought this from the same legal system that in 1973 peered into the shadows of the U.S. Constitution and discerned in the dim light a God-given right -- the only kind recognized by the Constitution -- for a woman to kill the human life that began growing inside her womb when she voluntarily participated in the one and only act designed exclusively for the purpose of creating human life in her womb. In this, have the bishops not brought the Holy Roman Catholic Church into the service of politicians and government administrators who cheered that Supreme Court decision in 1973? Have the bishops not brought the Church into the service of politicians and administrators who, according to authoritative Constitutional scholars, have violated the Founders' intentions and unleashed the federal government from the confines of the Constitution's enumerated powers in order to feed the hungry, house the homeless, and pay doctor bills for the sick and injured at public expense. Now the bishops squeal and fume because Leviathan, the Godless administrative state that they persuaded to enact the 2,700-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the 10,000 pages of administrative regulations expected to follow, reaches to the bottom of that stack of paperwork and orders the Catholic Church and Catholic agencies to dutifully take their place among all the other employers who must obey this law and these incoming waves of regulations. We laymen who want to abide by both the U.S. Constitution and Catechism of the Catholic Church want to get Leviathan back in its impoundment and the Catholic Church out of that bed. - Earl Bohn Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:09:19 +0100