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Catholic Charities is urging Congress to take immediate action to ameliorate what it calls " moral and social wound to the nation, a human-made unnatural disaster that cries out for change": poverty in the US.
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=22654
Money quotes:
Noting that "upper income families have prospered most during the last 25 years," it stated that "it is only fair and just to ask these same families to bear a great share of the responsibility for the costs of fighting poverty. By doing so, they will help to make some of these same freedoms and opportunities available to those who are impoverished."
"Catholic social thought," it states, "says quite explicitly that it is not morally acceptable for a society to allow extreme inequality in the distribution of good as long as there are some in the society who do not have the most basic material good to lead a decent life."
It's worth scrolling down in the article for the list of what they're recommending Congress do. It reads like a liberal Democrat's wish list. Why do Catholics think they have to vote Republican? How many millions of people die from starvation or other social problems? God doesn't differentiate between a life that was terminated at 10 weeks or at 50 years -- both are precious to him and worth fighting for.
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=22654
Money quotes:
Noting that "upper income families have prospered most during the last 25 years," it stated that "it is only fair and just to ask these same families to bear a great share of the responsibility for the costs of fighting poverty. By doing so, they will help to make some of these same freedoms and opportunities available to those who are impoverished."
"Catholic social thought," it states, "says quite explicitly that it is not morally acceptable for a society to allow extreme inequality in the distribution of good as long as there are some in the society who do not have the most basic material good to lead a decent life."
It's worth scrolling down in the article for the list of what they're recommending Congress do. It reads like a liberal Democrat's wish list. Why do Catholics think they have to vote Republican? How many millions of people die from starvation or other social problems? God doesn't differentiate between a life that was terminated at 10 weeks or at 50 years -- both are precious to him and worth fighting for.