This is an excerpt from a very important talk regarding those in the Catholic community who twist the teachings of the Church for ends inimical to it.
A longer article about the Religious Left’s influence on business can be found at "City Journal".
Rise of Religious Left
Rev. Sirico, president of the Acton Institute, began by pointing to a “series of signs” that often characterize the Religious Left today:
1) A tendency to believe that the Kingdom of God is not something essentially eschatological; it is a state of being that can and should be achieved on earth through human effort.
2) A loathing of the economically successful rooted in the assumption that wealth is generally unjustly acquired even and especially if it has been accumulated through market means.
3) A conviction that the cause of material inequality is due to injustice that must be rectified, usually by a forced redistribution of the wealth.
4) A reliable bias against commerce and the merchant classes, their products, their marketing, and their cultural presence.
5) A fixation on government programs that purport to do good for others and a pronounced preference for public policy (that is political) solutions instead of voluntary individual or communal efforts.
6) A judgment that unless physical states of social well being are realized, issues such as faith and morals are somehow invalidated.
7) An attachment to the idea that the natural environment represents a source of moral light in the world that is darkened by the activities of human beings.
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.