The Catholic University of America has announced that Speaker of the House John Boehner will receive an honorary doctoral degree in law and deliver the commencement address when the pontifical university awards 1,500 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees on May 14.In response, leftist faculty members from CUA and other prominent Catholic universities have published an open letter challenging the Speaker for a voting record in opposition to big government, socialist programs and his leadership on the 2012 budget. The signatories claim that the budget "guts long-established protections for the most vulnerable members of society." The text of their letter is here.
The amount of welfare-state spending in the fiscal year 2012 budget is a prudential matter on which Catholics may freely disagree. Indeed, whether there are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs is a matter on which Catholic laymen, guided by well-formed consciences, have a right to debate and decide. There is nothing sacred about the questionably effective programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, and Jesus never urged Caesar to ensure social justice by increasing entitlement spending. However, Church teaching on the sanctity of human life, from conception to natural death, and the sanctity of sacramental marriage between one man and one woman are fundamental, absolute, and non-negotiable. Did any of these so called "Catholic educators" raise their collective voice when a "Catholic" of another sort, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was (and is) advancing a culture of death by promoting government funding for abortion and the legalization of same-sex marriage?
One of the greatest acts of injustice against the poor in the United States today is our public education system. In most inner-cities more than half the students entering high school drop out and fewer than half of those who remain are able to pass state-mandated tests required for graduation. In some schools students are more likely to receive a prison term than a high school diploma. I've been involved in the school choice movement for over 25 years and don't recognize a single name, among those protesting Speaker Boehner's honorary degree, as being active in that movement for civil rights and social justice.
Like the teacher unions that benefit from a wasteful, over-funded, corrupt and ineffective educational system, the poverty pimps protesting Speaker Boehner's presence at The Catholic University of America, are the chief beneficiaries of government programs that serve providers and doom the intended recipients to the bondage of dependency.
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1. No where in the world are the 'poor' better treated than here in the U.S.
ReplyDelete2. And here is another fact that the Catholic leftists don't want to hear. The generous amount money that has been showered on the poor for the past fifty years is possible only when the middle class is health and prosperous. That is becasue the middle class produce. The poor do not; they merely consume. If the middle class is hurting, logic dictates that the pain get transfered down the line to the dependency class.
And who knows, many an economic pinch is just what many government dependents need to get off the government dole.
Signed .... Catholic Pete
The Catholic Church has gone too far left for me. I am a 60 yr old conservative who for the first time, is going to start exploring Protestant Churches. The Social Justice advocates do not realize that the fruition of their efforts will cause the demise of America, therefore creating much further harm.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of those "catholic Professors were at Mass that morning with the SPEAKER I would wager none of them ever attended Mass before a CLASS .,MUCH LESS EVER CAST A PRO LIFE VOTE THE speaker gave a wonderful address for those who had an open mind AT LEAST WE HEARD A reference t our BLESSED MOTHER some thing you never hear at NOTRE DAME
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