{"id":3548,"date":"2015-06-23T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2015-06-23T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T21:09:06","slug":"nothing-catholic-about-cardinal-wuerls-union-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Catholic About Cardinal Wuerl’s Union Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pro-Solidarity<\/a>

Pro-Solidarity Paragons of Catholic Social Teaching<\/p><\/div>\n

Why is it somehow that, preserved for all time in that great Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching, we are supposed to pay homage to the thuggish, lazy, and illicit power-grabbing of unions?<\/a>\u00a0 Aren’t they just the political enemies of the Church?<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Donald Wuerl has told a gathering of religious and labour leaders that solidarity cannot be taken for granted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is sometimes avoided or even denied because it brings with itself obligations,\u201d the Archbishop of Washington DC said, noting that by the same token there are those who harbour \u201cneglect of and occasional hostility toward solidarity in our social and cultural context\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cardinal Wuerl is in full swing for the Leftist FrancisState.\u00a0 Usually he can just stand back and work his magic.\u00a0 Why the sudden urgency to become a blatant Democrat operative?<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Wuerl said: \u201cSolidarity is expressed in works of generosity, forgiveness and reconciliation. Catholic teaching explicitly recognises organised labour as instruments of solidarity and justice. But we cannot take solidarity for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cardinal made his remarks at a conference on \u201cErroneous Autonomy: A Conversation on Solidarity & Faith\u201d, co-sponsored by The Catholic University of America\u2019s Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies and the AFL-CIO, which hosted the event at its headquarters building in Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat brings fresh urgency to our new evangelisation mission is just how widespread and profound are forces which neglect basic understandings of right and wrong, the common good, the dignity of the human person and our obligations to one another of genuine solidarity,\u201d Cardinal Wuerl said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople in this room can point out how these factors have also contributed to a dramatic decrease in union membership in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So somehow the enemies of the Faith have caused a drop in union membership?\u00a0 I thought it was the fact that the state laws stopped enabling them to force workers to pay their protection?<\/p>\n

If we’ve learned anything from this latest Faith-crushing manifesto, it’s that encyclicals can be full of lies and worldly policy.\u00a0 Despite that enormous compendium, isn’t most of so-called Catholic ‘social teaching’ just people twisting, spinning and capitalizing off a handful of relatively recent and somewhat dubious encyclicals?<\/p>\n

Labor, yes. Associations, yes. Owners, yes. Managers, yes.<\/p>\n

Enormous, coercive, immoral, and anti-Catholic trade unions?\u00a0 Take the long Catholic view.\u00a0 Don’t buy the Cardinal’s unholy politicking.<\/p>\n

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Why is it somehow that, preserved for all time in that great Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching, we are supposed to pay homage to the thuggish, lazy, and illicit power-grabbing of unions?\u00a0 Aren’t they just the political enemies of the Church? Cardinal Donald Wuerl has told a gathering of religious and labour leaders that solidarity …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[501,177,26,503,502],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afl-cio","tag-cardinal-wuerl","tag-catholic","tag-social-teaching","tag-unions"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}