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I am in the Ontario Catholic school system and it is getting more and more pro LGBT. In one board, they hung the pride flag in Catholic schools.
Omensa, United hispaniola, and Sundiata
Like most politicians, I think it's fair to call Biden corrupt to the extent that his donors do seem to influence his policy outlook. However, unlike Donald Trump, he doesn't explicitly break the law.
The Republican Party hardly abides by Catholic Social Teaching with respect to wages, the dignity of workers, let alone the dignity of work itself. A minimum wage set by the state is a perfectly rational policy in a nation with decreased union membership amongst its working people. With respect to this topic, the Democrats win and do not veer away from the church.
Democrats win with respect to the death penalty, as they explicitly tend to oppose it.
Where the Republican Party wins is its Pro-life messaging. However, it's position on gay marriage is hardly etched in stone as we're largely dealing with Protestant errancy.
With respect to healthcare, the Republican Party hardly acknowledges the subsidiary responsibility of the state to deliver healthcare to all of its citizens. The Democrats win with respect to this issue.
With respect to immigrants, Republican messaging tends to be hostile to immigrants. Often highlighting its illegal form to the detriment of currently legal and future legal immigrants, the Democrats win there.
Frankly, the major issues that Republicans tend to get right surround the LGBT movement and abortion, beyond that they're severely lacking with respect to policy prescriptions and often veer far away from Catholic Social Teaching.
Don't be fooled by support on issues like abortion and (albeit less today) LGBT concerns, when there is great failure with respect to many others on the Republican side of the aisle.
Theokratiss and Thomas More
That's true during my last year, the LGBT students mostly Protestant tried to start a gay club. Let's just say not everyone was on board with it. Most of the animosity however, came from the Muslim students not the "Catholic" ones.
Christian Democrats, United hispaniola, Sundiata, Qwertyl, and 1 otherThe Pilgrims in the Desert
Ultimately, if we're going to gain tangible ground on the issues of abortion and sacramental marriage it will have to be accomplished through bipartisanship.
I don't like the position we're in as much as the next guy, it's unfortunate that we're having to work within a largely Protestant framework, but the die has been cast.
A market-set minimum wage is absolutely attainable. In my current area working with assembly, 5 plants in a 5 mile area are all competing for the same workforce. Starting minimum for first shift basic assembly is around $15 an hour with full benefits, well above minimum wage. If you aren't satisfied with the pay you get for the work you do, then you find the company down the street that pays more. Scarcity of workforce is definitely an effective driver of adequate payment. No union is necessary in a free market, where you find a safer/better paying/different job whenever you want to and the businesses are forced to adapt to a free workforce. None of that goes against CST.
Ironic that you say the Republican party doesn't respect the dignity of work or the worker, considering that a ridiculously huge percentage of the party is self-employed farmers. Just take a peek at the 2016 election map by district. Almost all rural areas are red.
You're right about the death penalty, the Dems recently changed their platform on it. Reps are heading that way too though.
For the protection of life on both sides of the border, Republicans still win. Hostile language means nothing, policies do. Rerum Novarum and its peripheral documents outline three points: 1. people have a right to migrate. 2. A country has the right to regulate immigration and control its borders. 3. Regulation must be just and merciful. The Reps hits on 2 and 3, and the Dems skip 2 in favor of 3. Proper channels do exist, and if immigrants follow the prescribed process, they are welcomed.
Funny how the one thing that you tell me not to be "fooled by" is the one thing that constitutes an automatic excommunication. I'll happily stay as a full member of the Church and not enable baby killing. I've said my part, I hate politics, don't vote democrat and save some innocents. That's the hill I will die on.
United hispaniola, Sundiata, and The Pilgrims in the Desert
I went to a public high school (I went for the academics but I'll say it's very left leaning and I'm an outlier in beliefs) but I did go to a Catholic grade school. The public school has LGBT posters in the halls and puts up the gay flag all summer. It's the same for the public grade schools.
There were many good Catholic teachers at my grade school as well as ladies who taught us the Rosary, a Priest from my Church who would be very involved in the community, and the other teachers who were influenced by Protestantism (I think they believed praying to the Saints and Mary was ok but they always wanted to change different words of a prayer to Mary that my school prayed, they technically believed Catholic teaching from what I remember but they seemed kinda Protestant to me).
Overall I'd say ironically I learned the most about the Catholic church after some Protestant family members asked me a bunch of questions to try to get me to start thinking about religion more (this at a time where I had doubts about God and wondered if He even exists). Then I looked into many faiths and and studied what they believed and after studying what the Catholic church believes I can say that I was, am, and forever shall be a Catholic.
My family, even if some are a different faith, always supported me thankfully and the Protestants in my family never were upset that I was Catholic. They ask me questions because they wanted me to think about God and develop my faith (and probably become Protestant). I've always had a sense even as a child that I should pray for my Protestant family members but I also appreciate how they always make me strive to study more in general, academics, history, math, science, geography, what different Christians believe, and what the Catholic church believes. They encouraged me to strive to know more. It's strange in a way, the Catholics in my family helped me start my faith, but it was the Protestants who challenged my faith who made me seek to know more about the Catholic Church and God. God works in strange ways. I've always been sad for my Protestant family members who are not able to receive our Blessed Lord at the Mass and I pray for those in my family who have passed away, especially those who have died and are not part of the Church.
Of course I also have Eastern Orthodox family members and Protestants on one side of the family and Catholics on the other side. It's not like it's a single type of Protestantism either, nope! Anglicanism, baptists, and people who have no clue what exactly they were except that they were baptized (they just say they're some sort of Anabaptist because they honestly don't know what they are).
All this nonsense going on in the world I blame on the Pachamama shenanigans that occurred at the Vatican.
Fredgast, Thomas More, Sundiata, Medi Terra, and 3 othersEcclesia Catholico Romanum, Cristero, and The Pilgrims in the Desert
It baffles me that such a thing even occurred. Compare this with the Spanish missionaries, in Mexico, who had idols burned and shrines destroyed when they were converting the indigenous people.
I know. I get trying to communicate with indigenous folk but idolatry is not the way. Months later and I'm still dumbfounded.
Christian Democrats and Cristero
What baffles me even more is that abortion is legal in Spain, a Catholic majority country.
Christian Democrats, Omensa, Fredgast, Qwertyl, and 3 othersEcclesia Catholico Romanum, Cristero, and The Pilgrims in the Desert
A lot of Catholic nation's have abortion legal. A tragedy.
Christian Democrats, Fredgast, Sundiata, Qwertyl, and 1 otherThe Pilgrims in the Desert
The gross reality of abortion, in my opinion, often prevents meaningful discourse with respect to national governance because it's so glaring an issue.
Franco would have passed eventually, he died in old age. After the restoration of the monarchy, the king rejected absolute power and turned Spain into a constitutional monarchy, essentially a functional democracy.
There are those who believe it is connected.
Nietzsche would certainly have something to say about it...
It's good to get out of your country's history, it really expands your context. Speaking as an American, our focus and understanding of world events is often myopic. I blame our superpower status for that.
The Sovereign Realist State, Cristero, and The Pilgrims in the Desert
Post self-deleted by The Pilgrims in the Desert.
To be fair, people from outside the US aren't particularly well versed in international history, or even their own. I think it's more to do with an overall poor education around the globe than any US-centered issue.
As for being "a Catholic nation", I'm not sure such exists anymore. For example, the Health Ministry of Italy published an ad about reopening places of worship and it had three pictures of people praying in their respective religious garb and ritual: a Muslim, a Jew, and... a Buddhist. Apparently, the Buddhist population in Italy is far greater than the Christian population, which doesn't even merit presence in the ad. The population in general regards the Papacy as the irrelevant, perhaps somewhat demented old uncle that you have to be patient with but don't need to take seriously. In Latin America, the religious confusion is so great people claim to be both Catholic and "Spiritist" or into "African religions". I honestly don't know if there is such a thing as a Catholic nation anymore, or even a city. Maybe the Easterners are faring better in this regard.
Christian Democrats, United hispaniola, Qwertyl, Cristero, and 1 otherThe Pilgrims in the Desert
The problem is that there has been no políticas parties defending catholic ideas. PP is a sweetened version of PSOE
Christian Democrats, Fredgast, Sundiata, and The Pilgrims in the Desert
Did you perhaps get your nation name from Frustrated Franciscans?
Next we’ll have Agitated Augustinians, Bellyaching Benedictines, and Jovial Jesuits (because heresy is a nightmare for the others but welcome to them).
But most Catholics in Spain disagree with the Church on a number of teachings and don’t go to Mass regularly. There isn’t a single country in Western Europe that is still truly Catholic.
In Eastern Europe, Poland, and perhaps Croatia and Hungary come close.
Actually, very small states in Western Europe tend to be Catholic. Malta is quite Catholic, as are Liechtenstein, San Marino, and perhaps others.
Indeed! I hadn't heard of NationStates (living under a rock a bit) until a friend of mine showed me the flag of Frustrated Franciscans. The name is so hilarious I started playing for the sole purpose of having this name. Now I must bear the consequences - namely dooming a poor, innocent virtual people to live under the rule of an economically-tactless and politically-challenged Leader. Alas. At least we can die under a catchy nation name and cool flag - that is already dying better off than most.
Christian Democrats, Theokratiss, and The Sovereign Realist State
to be frank, all we learned in school in canada is international history...very little about our own culture and history.
Omensa, Qwertyl, and The Pilgrims in the Desert
Yet another fire in a centuries old Cathedral, what a coincidence...
Statues of Christ beheaded, statues of saints toppled, Hagia Sofia converted into a mosque, statues of the virgin Mary toppled.
Nothing wrong here brothers ans sisters let's keep sleeping comfortably!
Omensa, Thomas More, Qwertyl, and Nueva celtiberia
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