Americans need the light of St. Thomas Aquinas

Americans need the Light of St. Thomas Aquinas
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, July 12, 2010

Preface: I believe that Progressivism is intellectually and morally bankrupt. Thomas Aquinas can be a light to the CINOPs V.P. Biden, Congresswomen Pelosi and Loretta Sanchez, and Catholic –con-organizations, magazines and individuals who support Catholic-in-name-only Politicians in America.

Progressivism has no foundation in American Constitutional law and in the principles of our Founding Fathers. Errors of thinking repeat themselves in history. Progressivism is to America in some ways what the Albigensians were to France during the time of St. Dominic.

One example was their “War on Poverty” several decades ago. It destroyed the American Black Family. Does anybody care? Well the Progressives had good intentions! Good intentions will lead us to financial bankruptcy and eco-hell.

Source: Ref. http://www.zenit.org/article-29628?I=english – Pontiff Explains Why Society Needs Aquinas – Notes Timeliness of Saint’s Moral Theology – Vatican City, June 16m 2010 (Zenit.org).

“The moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas is timely even today, says Benedict XVI, who pointed to the saint’s emphasis on natural law. … He explained how Thomas managed to show the “independence of philosophy and theology and, at the same time, their reciprocal rationality.”

“The saint’s emphasis on the dignity of human reason correlates to his teaching on nature and grace, the Holy Father illustrated. And he noted how reason, with its power, has the important potential of “discerning the natural moral law.”

“Reason can recognize {this law.} concerning what is good to do and what is good to avoid to obtain that happiness which is in each one’s heart, and which also imposes a responsibility toward others and, hence, the search for the common good,” he said. “In other words, the virtues of man, theological and moral, are rooted in human nature.

“Divine grace supports, sustains and drives the ethical commitment but, on their own, according to St. Thomas, all men, believers and non-believers, are called to recognize the exigencies of human nature expressed in natural law and to be inspired in it in the formulation of positive laws, that is, those issuing from civil and political authorities to regulate human coexistence.”

“BENEDICT XVI EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL LAW AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES IT IMPLIES, SAYING THAT WHEN THESE ARE DENIED, “THE WAY IS OPENED DRAMATICALLY TO ETHICAL RELATIVISM ON THE INDIVIDUAL PLANE AND TO THE TOTALITARIANISM OF THE STATE ON THE POLITICAL PLANE.”

“He cited his predecessor, Venerable John Paul II, who affirmed: “It is therefore urgently necessary, for the future of society and the development of sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate human and moral values which from the very truth of the human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person; values which no individual, no majority and no State can ever create, modify or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect and promote.”…

George H. Kubeck – Yes to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness! No to France’s Liberty, Equality and Fraternity!