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  • Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. the goods we possess are not ours, but theirs.

    • St John Chrysostom

    The demands of justice must be satisfied first of all; that which is already due in justice is not to be offered as a gift of charity.

    • Second Council of the Vatican

    When we attend to the needs of those in want, we give them what is theirs, not ours. More than performing works of mercy, we are paying a debt of justice.

    • Pope St Gregory

    Three quotes referenced in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and just one example of the dissonance between many “Christians” in the U.S. and the faith they purport to follow.

    If that doesn’t get them, the fact that the concept of social justice, as in the actual coining of the term as well as the movement against capitalist exploitation brought on by the Industrial Revolution was by the Catholics does lol

    The meaning behind it all is very simple, we’re all in this together, and the gifts given to us by God/nature belong to all of us. They’re not for us to hoard, or to exploit others for.









  • They are not. There are of course things in Christianity that the left in the U.S. does not align with either, most of which have to do with human sexuality. But I am a devout Catholic and my wife an atheist and we align on 95% of our values.

    On the other hand a vast majority of the church’s fundamental core beliefs are utterly incompatible with the values of the modern conservative. In only one example the political right rails against entitlements for the poorest of us and demands that no help be given to anyone who doesn’t work hard enough for it or be otherwise deemed morally worthy, meanwhile St John Chrysostom preached until exile and death that for those who have wealth, to not share it with the poorest among us is to steal from them. That sharing our wealth with the poor should not even be considered an act of grace or charity, but of justice.

    The right misunderstands yet wears the cross in the exact same fashion that they do the American flag, and there’s a reason the current sitting president has had active beef with both the current pope and the preceding one.