Russell Shaw has a piece for Our Sunday Visitor that asks "Does Bush make grade with Catholics?", and concludes that "on stem-cell research and same-sex marriage he's been good, but he does not fare as well on war, health care and his Katrina response".Labels: Bush, Catholic Social Teaching, Economics, Health Care, Iraq, Pro-Life, Voting Your Values
posted by Pro Ecclesia 1:39 PM
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A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).
Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.
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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges
Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.
Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.
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"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."
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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"
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"The things that we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labour for."
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2 Comments:
If American Catholics understood our faith and the teaching of Christ, and the Magisterium, they would realize that Katrina was not a Bush failure, but a failure of the community leadership in Louisiana. However, what they should fault Bush over is the increased power of the Executive Branch that resulted from Katrina. But they are more concerned with “what can government do for me,” rather than what should the community at large be doing to help one another. It kind of scary, one view is socialism and is Christianity.
Concerning health care American Catholics shouldn’t be angered over Bush and his unwillingness to increase national health care, which undoubtedly will lead us to socialism, they should be concerned over the individual States and federal regulatory agencies that are forcing Catholic hospitals to dispense birth control and may one day force abortions in our hospitals. We should be concerned that our secular governments are causing our hospitals to close. But this demonstrates to me that they are accepting of tentacles of national government being in our lives, and willing to accept birth control and abortion.
The idea that government-provided healthcare is incompatible with Catholicism is one that would find little-to-no support among the hierarchy.
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