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I think that some of the changes you suggest regarding the withdrawal of government support to broken families may be coming but I don't think that morality will be the driving force. I think that this...
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Will the force of law, backed by bayonets, be enough to keep the underclass in check? If we want to curtail welfare spending, are we ready for a repetition of les journées de juin 1848, following the...
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Excellent! Radical individualism, narcissism. The only real surprise with Obama's stance on marriage was his earlier pretense that he would have defended it. - Achilles
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Catholics need to consciously organize in America into polities where they are the majority and no longer have to listen to heathen secularists tell them how it's ok to live their lives. Listening to...
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I agree with Michael that we have created a dependency that will take a while to wean people off of without major unrest. However, we can stop some of the perverse incentives, such as rewarding having...
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the Notable today is superb! i hope everyone reads it. i esp love the last line. St. Damien answers the cry within our hearts- Pray for us! As this post aptly attests to, leprosy pales in comparison to...
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As the head of a broken family - broken by my spouse, through infidelity and desertion, without warning and (probably) beyond recall (as long as she continues to live adulterously with her boyfriend) -...
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there are a couple of points than need to be added. First, if you take $20000 in taxes from me and do something good with it, it does me no moral good; in fact it has no moral good associated with it....
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Well done, Patrick...thought provoking article. I would rephrase your first question to, "Is it just that there be a massive transfer of payments from a minority of intact majority families to a...
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In response to those who want Patrick Fagan to be more charitable, all his "uncharitable" proposals are *questions.* You think it is more charitable to keep doing what we're doing without asking any...
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Mr. Fagan, I have a problem with the very first assertion in your article, namely, that [emphasis added] "Redistribution was quite defensible as a charitable and a just use of surplus wealth."...
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This is an excellent, thought-provoking article. It is charitable as well. If the suggested reforms are made, countless millions in the future will lead better, fuller lives in the company of those...
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"41 percent of our children are born out of wedlock." It would be a much greater evil if any of them were aborted. Preventing abortion must have first priority here. "When many millions of single...
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To suggest, as Familycapproabortion does, that “any penalties whatsoever for pregnancy, childbirth, or single motherhood are pro-abortion,” is of a piece with the argument (which I have also seen...
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Because all of the critiques above have very good points within them, I wish I were Solomon and could give great answers. I am not, and cannot. Hence the main point of the article is an appeal for...
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The Popes have moved from the re-distributist theory to acknowledging that all need to understand how to produce wealth through free enterprise as the West had learned. As Fr James A Schall explains:...
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Patrick, your questions are excellent and the comments illustrate some of the complex considerations required in seeking answers. As for an encyclical, I would welcome something less than...
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I agree with Donna Bethel completely and I suspect the Pope would too were he ever to undertake writing such an encyclical: Guiding principles but not developed answers. Underneath Donna’s suggestion...
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Question: Where in the Bible does Jesus say the poor were pretty and convenient? Question: How did it happen that I live in a country which 1. engages in war crimes that cause needless suffering and...
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