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 advoc…
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.
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.