Well I haven’t had any juicy religious items to blog about in quite some time but I did run into something that caught my eye; two Catholics in disagreement.
One is Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, a Catholic writer for the Washington Post and the other is our own Rev. Robert A. Sirico who often writes for the Detroit News on faith and religion issues.
Arroyo, ostensibly speaking for the Catholic Church I guess, wrote about Obama and the redistribution of wealth. He invokes the Catholic teaching on social justice where business and government are morally obligated to work for the common good even if it reduces profits; people before profits.
Arroyo goes on to say that Catholic social justice demands a redistribution of wealth through different means including private charity, collective bargaining by worker’s unions and government taxation policy; soak the bloody rich!
All in all Arroyo is obviously a Catholic ultra socialist from the old school which I thought died out with the South American poverty theology nonsense of the 1960s.
Father Sirico challenges Arroyo as following logic that has been repudiated by the Church. He places Arroyo with those Catholics of the “religious left” that denounce the profit motive and demand money from the rich be given to the poor through taxation policies like Obama seems to promote.
Sirico cites examples of history as proof that redistribution of wealth does not work and is not just. He says that the Church should demand just systems of trade that enable the poor to be agents of their own betterment instead of pitting the haves against the have-nots.
He points to the booming economies of China and India China
Arroyo is obviously deluded but how great is it for another Catholic to show him exactly how deluded he is…loving it!
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