How appropriate given yesterday's Gospel: Luke11:46 --
"He said, “Woe to you teachers of the Law also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens."
Not since the days of Msgr. George Higgins do we hear much about the duty of employers to provide paid …
How appropriate given yesterday's Gospel: Luke11:46 --
"He said, “Woe to you teachers of the Law also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens."
Not since the days of Msgr. George Higgins do we hear much about the duty of employers to provide paid holidays, leave time and stable work schedules to their employees so that they may carry out various duties and obligations of theirs, including holyday observances.
Maybe if the bishops were not quite so mute on this and less fearful of offending Big Business, they would not look as bad when they direct the lay faithful on weekday Mass attendance.
Non-Catholic employers have zero reason or obligation to listen to Bishops. It’s our job as lay people to advocate for our rights in that matter. This is why bishops and the church have been quite consistent supporters of unions.
If your bishop is your boss… that’s a different matter.
I guess you could also say that non-Catholic politicians have zero reason or obligation to listen to Bishops, so public policy positions should be the work of the laity with no need for commentary from the USCCB.
The Bishops are also citizens and have an obligation to inform their non-Catholic or otherwise political representatives on their moral views that is also informed by Catholic moral teaching like laity.
They are entitled to express that publically too. Heck, they’re even able to work together as a class a with with laity in directly advocating for particular policy positions as citizens of a democracy. How lucky we are!
WOW, the bishops can speak to politicians, cultural leaders, regular people, etc. but just need to keep their mouths shut when it comes to the all holy, high honorable barons of Big Business. Got it. God is above all expect Big Money.
Not what I said at all. Bishops give big businesses plenty of
grief, but labour organising by lay people are far more powerful than a bishop going up to Jeff Bezos et al, beretta in hand begging for human working conditions. I forget that Americans don’t have quite the same labour union movement and Catholic clerical activism that Australians do. Catholics founded the Labour Party in Australia with full and vocal support from the bishops. Up until the 60s and 70s that was unofficially the political wing of the Catholic Church until the bloody communists ruined it all and split the party. It’s been a messy decoupling and Labour Party these days do everything but advocate for labour rights that workers actually want.
Our Bishops still advocate and encourage unionism and labour organising, despite the face that most unions these days are utterly captured by lefty progressivism.
Glad things are different in Australia. In the USA, the conservative bishops are full toadies of Big Business and the money class. They even sell out pro-life for them.
How appropriate given yesterday's Gospel: Luke11:46 --
"He said, “Woe to you teachers of the Law also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens."
Not since the days of Msgr. George Higgins do we hear much about the duty of employers to provide paid holidays, leave time and stable work schedules to their employees so that they may carry out various duties and obligations of theirs, including holyday observances.
Maybe if the bishops were not quite so mute on this and less fearful of offending Big Business, they would not look as bad when they direct the lay faithful on weekday Mass attendance.
Non-Catholic employers have zero reason or obligation to listen to Bishops. It’s our job as lay people to advocate for our rights in that matter. This is why bishops and the church have been quite consistent supporters of unions.
If your bishop is your boss… that’s a different matter.
I guess you could also say that non-Catholic politicians have zero reason or obligation to listen to Bishops, so public policy positions should be the work of the laity with no need for commentary from the USCCB.
The Bishops are also citizens and have an obligation to inform their non-Catholic or otherwise political representatives on their moral views that is also informed by Catholic moral teaching like laity.
They are entitled to express that publically too. Heck, they’re even able to work together as a class a with with laity in directly advocating for particular policy positions as citizens of a democracy. How lucky we are!
WOW, the bishops can speak to politicians, cultural leaders, regular people, etc. but just need to keep their mouths shut when it comes to the all holy, high honorable barons of Big Business. Got it. God is above all expect Big Money.
Not what I said at all. Bishops give big businesses plenty of
grief, but labour organising by lay people are far more powerful than a bishop going up to Jeff Bezos et al, beretta in hand begging for human working conditions. I forget that Americans don’t have quite the same labour union movement and Catholic clerical activism that Australians do. Catholics founded the Labour Party in Australia with full and vocal support from the bishops. Up until the 60s and 70s that was unofficially the political wing of the Catholic Church until the bloody communists ruined it all and split the party. It’s been a messy decoupling and Labour Party these days do everything but advocate for labour rights that workers actually want.
Our Bishops still advocate and encourage unionism and labour organising, despite the face that most unions these days are utterly captured by lefty progressivism.
Glad things are different in Australia. In the USA, the conservative bishops are full toadies of Big Business and the money class. They even sell out pro-life for them.
Well, technically every soul in a diocese owes obedience to the bishop. Most of them just flout the responsibility.
We always add Masses for Holy Days of Obligation, and even for non-obligatory Solemnities if they are important to our parish.