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A resource for lay ministers and clergy (and any Catholic who cares about safe and healthy religious spaces) about how to recognize and respond to spiritual abuse and the abuse of conscience.
Paul Joseph
4,189 posts
Paul Joseph
@pjfahey
Lay catholic. Host of the Third Space podcast: CatholicThirdSpace.com Contributor at WherePeterIs.com. "Realities are more important than ideas."
- -Francis throws down the gauntlet- The pope just published a letter to the US Bishops about President Trump’s polices, and Vice President Vance’s rhetoric, about immigration. It’s direct and clear. And feels a little unprecedented to me. 1/5
- Replying to @pjfaheyIt seems like a “bishops, get your house in order” move. And he sets a bar for the kinds of statements/actions expected of bishops during this presidency The pope directly rebukes the “ordo amoris” rhetoric used by Vice President JD Vance to defend an America First ideology 2/5
- Replying to @pjfaheyFrancis also criticizes the belief that an undocumented immigrant has committed a crime by illegally crossing a border. 3/5
- Replying to @pjfaheyFrancis says: “The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.” 4/5
- The pope has drawn a line of demarcation (a line that was already there, but he made more explicit): MAGA immigration rhetoric/policies are contrary the Gospel and cannot be reconciled with Church teaching as Vice President Vance is trying to do.
- Replying to @pjfaheyIt’s a brief letter, only ten paragraphs. I encourage you to read it. vatican.va/content/france…
- Replying to @Joshua_FFaheyI think a part of this is that Vance was misrepresenting the Church's teaching and the pope is correcting him, maybe not as much for his sake as for the rest of the faithful…
- The Church teaches that workers have a right to -unionize -a wage sufficient for families, savings, and leisure -that free agreement does not mean a wage is just -and not paying a just wage is a grave sin People before profit. Humanity before economy. Labor before capital.
- Replying to @pjfahey and @Joshua_FFahey…For instance, a recent article the the National Catholic Register called Vance the "catechist in chief." The pope here is asserting his role as "catechist in chief."
- On the feast of St. Joseph the Worker and May Day, remember that the Church teaches that workers have a right to -unionize -a wage sufficient for families, savings, and leisure -that labor takes priority over capital -and not paying a just wage is a sin that cries to heaven
- On the feast of St. Joseph the Worker and May Day, remember that the Church teaches that workers have a right to -unionize -a wage sufficient for families, savings, and leisure -that labor takes priority over capital -and not paying a just wage is a sin that cries to heaven
- “Helping the poor is a matter of justice before a question of charity.” Pope Leo XIV
