US bishops to Congress: Consider moral aspects of financial crisis
September 30, 2008
Emphasizing that ‘I do not bring technical expertise to these complicated matters,’ Bishop William Murphy, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, urged US Treasury Secretary Paulson and the House and Senate majority and minority leaders to consider moral principles in addressing the crisis. Referring to Pope John Paul II’s 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, Bishop Murphy said that ‘our Catholic tradition calls for a society of work, enterprise and participation, which is not directed against the market, but demands that the market be appropriately controlled by the forces of society and by the state to assure that the basic needs of the whole society are satisfied.’
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Posted by: fenton1015153 -
Jan. 24, 2010 7:01 PM ET USA
Legal versus Illegal immigration. What is the role of government? To enforce the laws. Thus illegal immigration should have been stopped by the government. Social welfare programs undermine subsidiarity. But government wants to control rather than empower the citizens. That is why social welfare is used to control. Many people gladly sell their subsidiarity for 30 pieces of silver. In the end, when they find that they have made a bargain with the devil, they cannot give the silver back.
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Posted by: fisherman129 -
Jan. 23, 2010 7:59 PM ET USA
This is an interesting position. One problem with it is the brain drain from backward countries that could use their educated people in their own country to help it develop... We attract these educated people who then can't help their own country... Might this be an unintended consequence. The other problem is that we do not educate our own Americans to fill in the jobs - our own kids need discipline and encouragement to get the education needed to help us, instead of importing the educated
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Jan. 22, 2010 5:59 PM ET USA
Very true, but for many years our policy has been based upon "family reunification." That means that one person comes here illegally...but then manages to get legal status through marriage, amnesty, occupational shortage, etc. Then, there is this terrible division of the family! And that must be cured by bringing the rest of the family here as well we are told.
