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Bishops should settle for presenting and expanding expertise on Biblical and spiritual matters. Parishioners are quite capable of making decisions about guns, diet, and books on their own.Are they trying to distract, you think?
We can’t have it both ways. We can’t argue it is good and just for them to speak out against abortion and then argue they should limit their statements to biblical and spiritual matters when they speak out against something we support.Bishops should settle for presenting and expanding expertise on Biblical and spiritual matters. Parishioners are quite capable of making decisions about guns, diet, and books on their own.Are they trying to distract, you think?
I see your point, and it is a good one. Here is why I disagree on the issue of guns. The Commandment is, "Do not murder". Abortion is murder. Owning a gun is not. Gun ownership has become a political issue, and it is not a Church issue. Absolutely, each individual Cardinal, bishop, priest, deacon, and Catholic should freely speak out about their own personal opinions and ownership of guns. The Church as a whole should not be taking a stand on gun ownership. My opinion.We can’t have it both ways. We can’t argue it is good and just for them to speak out against abortion and then argue they should limit their statements to biblical and spiritual matters when they speak out against something we support.
Whether there are differences is irrelevant. These are social issues. They either can or they can’t comment on social issues.I see your point, and it is a good one. Here is why I disagree on the issue of guns. The Commandment is, "Do not murder". Abortion is murder. Owning a gun is not. Gun ownership has become a political issue, and it is not a Church issue. Absolutely, each individual Cardinal, bishop, priest, deacon, and Catholic should freely speak out about their own personal opinions and ownership of guns. The Church as a whole should not be taking a stand on gun ownership. My opinion.We can’t have it both ways. We can’t argue it is good and just for them to speak out against abortion and then argue they should limit their statements to biblical and spiritual matters when they speak out against something we support.
I have never touched a gun, let alone owned one and have no wish to. I have no wish to hunt, no wish to violently defend myself--and those are personal choices. However, you can just bet should anyone threaten my family, I would grab the nearest knife.
Again, the Commandment is, "Thou shalt not murder" not Thou shalt not own guns. For me, that is the difference between abortion and gun ownership.
Again, of course they can. But as individuals, not as Church--not when the issue is purely political.Whether there are differences is irrelevant. These are social issues. They either can or they can’t comment on social issues.
They don’t see it as political. They see it as societal. They aren’t backing a party or a candidate. They are backing an ideal.Again, of course they can. But as individuals, not as Church--not when the issue is purely political.Whether there are differences is irrelevant. These are social issues. They either can or they can’t comment on social issues.
The ideal is that every single person who owns any type of weapon (including fists) does not use them to harm another human being.They don’t see it as political. They see it as societal. They aren’t backing a party or a candidate. They are backing an ideal.
I don’t disagree. I’m not arguing that.The ideal is that every single person who owns any type of weapon (including fists) does not use them to harm another human being.They don’t see it as political. They see it as societal. They aren’t backing a party or a candidate. They are backing an ideal.
Actually, we can. Murder (abortion) is against Church teaching. Owning guns is not. Once again, I wish to emphasize that I am fine with each individual Catholic (even from the pulpit) voicing their own opinion. Unless every single bishop is America is in favor of limiting the types of guns people own, a single organization that happens to have a majority with this opinion should not be giving the impression they are speaking for the Church of that this is in any way Church doctrine or dogma.You can’t arbitrarily decide this one is political and that one isn’t. They are all societal which then makes them political.
Catholics are called to participate in the political process, be informed voters, and to encourage elected officials to act on behalf of the common good. There are limits to official Catholic Church political activity. The Church engages in issue-related activity, not partisan political candidate activities. This restriction does not apply to individuals or group provided they do not represent themselves as acting in an official Church capacity.[5]Actually, we can. Murder (abortion) is against Church teaching. Owning guns is not. Once again, I wish to emphasize that I am fine with each individual Catholic (even from the pulpit) voicing their own opinion. Unless every single bishop is America is in favor of limiting the types of guns people own, a single organization that happens to have a majority with this opinion should not be giving the impression they are speaking for the Church of that this is in any way Church doctrine or dogma.You can’t arbitrarily decide this one is political and that one isn’t. They are all societal which then makes them political.
Further, I think the Church's role in today's environment is to do more to reach young men and to lead them in a direction that is more fulfilling first to these men and second to society. In other words, Jesus would not attend a political rally on gun ownership, he would try to reach out to--and heal these young men should they ask.
Again, my opinion. I am much in favor of individuals speaking out, but I believe it needs to stay with individual opinion, not an organization's opinion. Things like abortion and divorce were Church issues long before US politics usurped them. And that's the difference between those issues and the current one.
- have 'way more to worry about than trying to undermine the US Constitution. Are they trying to distract, you think?
US Catholic Bishops Endorse Gun Control Manifesto - Big League Politics
- have 'way more to worry about than trying to undermine the US Constitution. Are they trying to distract, you think?
US Catholic Bishops Endorse Gun Control Manifesto - Big League Politics
The official Catholic teaching is that self-defense is justified.
- have 'way more to worry about than trying to undermine the US Constitution. Are they trying to distract, you think?
US Catholic Bishops Endorse Gun Control Manifesto - Big League Politics
It's not 1791 - it's 2019. The USA needs meanwile a war weapon control law against mass-murdering war weapons of the own population. 78% of all US-Americans have no weapon at all - or with other wordes: nearly no one needs weapons! It's by the way the duty of the USA to protect all this people. And 7.7 million US-Americans have between 8 and 140 weapons. That's not only crazy - that's mad. Perhaps it's the best to make a roof over the psychiatric hospital USA.
- have 'way more to worry about than trying to undermine the US Constitution. Are they trying to distract, you think?
US Catholic Bishops Endorse Gun Control Manifesto - Big League Politics
It's not 1791 - it's 2019. The USA needs meanwile a war weapon control law against mass-murdering war weapons of the own population. 78% of all US-Americans have no weapon at all - or with other wordes: nearly no one needs weapons! It's by the way the duty of the USA to protect all this people. And 7.7 million US-Americans have between 8 and 140 weapons. That's not only crazy - that's mad. Perhaps it's the best to make a roof over the psychiatric hospital USA.
Why?
It’s statistically insignificant.
