# 5 of 5 - A Critical Analysis of Just/Faith

#5 of 5 – A Critical Analysis of Just/Faith
The relentless pursuit of the truth – website - cinops be gone – Friday, December 30, 2011

We continue and finish the classic article by William A. Borst in the Mindszenty Report – V. LIII – No. II.

“The Tender Road to Death: cont’d – When married to social justice, notions of equality tilt the playing field in favor of the poor and dissident. Charity quickly becomes the business of politics and not religion. ONE NEED ONLY REFER TO LYNDON JOHNSON’S 1964 WAR ON POVERTY, WHICH VIRTUALLY DESTROYED THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILY. SINCE 1973 ONE THIRD OF THE NATION’S 50 MILLION ABORTIONS WERE PERFORMED ON BLACK WOMEN.

“Church leaders have cast aside any notions of private property by trumping them with modernist ideas of equality, fairness, and diversity: Social justice has become a government policy that has redistributed resources confiscated from the wealthy who earned them and given to those who did nothing to deserve them in exchange for votes. The Church made no mention of these wholesale violations of the 7th Commandment.

“A Product of the Sixties: A simple knowledge of Church history requires that any Christian articulation of social justice that seeks to hand the poor over to government for dependency and control in antithetical to the concept of justice and the common good. In Quadragesimo Anno, Pius XI related social justice to the necessary set of conditions where each person makes free, non-government-coerced contributions to the common good.

“Social justice according to Pius XI referenced the necessity of private property against the tenets of socialistic thinking because the right of private ownership not only enabled individuals to provide for themselves and their families but also that the goods which the Creator destined for the entire family of mankind…

It mentioned the importance of wealth creation in providing a basis for charity. It warned against arbitrary wage demands, which a business cannot stand without its ruin and consequent calamity to the workers. Pius XI’s definition of social justice included the importance of subsidiary and a return to the moral formation so that people would not confuse freedom to accomplish with passions that have been disordered because of original sin.

“These ideas have apparently been revised. According to Frank Morriss of the Wanderer, the Catholic Church is fast becoming a product of the sixties. He laments the fact that The Catholic Church does not exist to solve your problems. And neither does the government. It is already clear that the U.S. is not going to be able to meet the obligations that it has assumed well into the future.

“There is going to be a great crisis of social democracy in the next 10 years in this country. The proverbial sword of Damocles hangs by an even more frayed thread in Europe. One does not have to be a weatherman to notice that the winds of social change that has been blowing through the Catholic Church’s open windows this past half century have been arguably pushing the Church off its divinely-oriented course.” Contact William A. Borst, Ph.D. at BBPROF@sbcglobal.net

George H. Kubeck