Comments for On Politics at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:24:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13926 Grump has an interesting point - why do we only have two choices in politics when we our social order not provides choices in so many other realms. I think it is our nature to concentrate and collect power - we - I mean Americans - were given a political system that was supposed to protect us from this. We used to have states (nominally fifty in number) but now we really only have one. - leonard Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:44:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13914 @Graham Combs, St. Paul's admonitions were to people who took their brothers in Christ to court for everything. And he's right to do so; common law really is common, and the vast majority of disputes need not ever reach courts of law, which is why most of them are settled. The ones that do reach a verdict tend to be very strange fringe cases. But that doesn't apply to the HHS mandate, in which the guns of government are aimed at every Catholic who does not purchase for others gravely evil contraceptive and abortionist services. In what reality may we regard the HHS as our brothers in Christ's body, the Church? Does not the first amendment to the constitution effectively forbid them from so being? - Arkanabar Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:42:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13911 The Debate: Romney was steller and honest! Jack - Jack,CT Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:20:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13910 Fr. Schall cites the Gospel's silence on politics. But St. Paul was certainly not silent on the faithful who "go to law" to resolve every problem and dispute. And that is exactly what the Church in America is doing in response to the HHS mandate. And sadly this is not an episcopal precedent. Politics and law can no longer be relied upon in America. Half a million mostly Catholic Mexicans will flood the streets of LA for immigration reform, but where are they on Obamacare, and a far far more important issue, same-sex marriage. The latter's victory will mean a government intrusion into the heart of privacy and intimacy in American life. The power will be enormous and all encompassing. As was marital and familial intrusion in slavery and under National Socialism and Communism. It wasn't so long ago that women and children were being enslaved and bought and sold in South Sudan. And General "Chinese" Gordon had already outlawed slavery there once before. The only recourse left is civil disobedience which I believe St. Thomas Aquinas recognized as legitimate. In his insightful talk on the diabolical (and the devil), Blessed Fulton J. Sheen warned of the politicization of theology and the trials the Church would face in the next 100 years. He was speaking in the 1960s. Peace and Justice? We are fighting for our very survival as Catholics. - Graham Combs Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:19:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13903 Google "mitt romney signing romneycare video fanueil hall" to see Mitt preening right along with Teddy Kennedy about his socialized medicine lockdown in Massachusetts. Ask the parents in "Mass Resistance" what a Marxist dictocrat police state Mass. became when Romney ordered gay marriage to be implemented. Inquire about the 50 dollar copay abortions. In fact, google "prolife profiles mitt romney" to get a huge whiff of the real Romney. Google "Mitt Romney holds fundraiser with manufacturer of the Morning After Pill". But hey, at least he's not Obama. At least our Catholic conscience is clear. - Sue Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:19:08 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13902 @Other Joe. Only things I wish for are truth, peace and justice. What are you referring to? - Grump Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:23:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13901 Dear Grump, be careful what you wish for. - Other Joe Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:27:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13900 Unfortunately, father, we are in a double bind, or Morton's Fork. We have only two "choices" and neither is desirable. Why is it in America, which touts "democracy," that we have only two major political parties when we have myriad choices when it comes to virtually any other product? I wonder what de Tocqueville would say about "democracy" in America now? - Grump Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:36:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13899 The glorification of the State and the exceeding importance of sports -- the arena -- in our times surely remind us of the late Roman Empire. One wishes the clergy were more actively preaching that we rely first of all upon God and then upon family for the provision of our temporal needs and wants, rather than look to the State as the guarantor not of peace but of a modicum of material well-being. The glorification of the President to almost demi-god status, as though he were a Savior from whatever mess the previous Savior created, points to the deterioration of religion properly understood -- and, may I say, the suborning of the faithful to the political order. "Put not your trust in rulers..." - Da Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:08:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/on-politics.html#comment-13897 Dear father, Thanks for a beatiful reminder.. Jack - Jack,CT Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:09:27 +0100