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She sounds like she is in the "There must be a pony in there" club. I think Benedict isn't the Answer Man for the Social Justice crowd--he's more into the old "Do as I say, or else" club. You can't tackle poverty or sexually transmitted disease until you address contraception, for starters. And you can't talk about human dignity unless you recognize dignity in all humans, regardless of orientation. And you can't pretend you know it all if you deny over half the population--women--the opportunity to have a leadership role in your little club--a club that's getting SMALLER by the day as a consequence of the leadership's own actions:
...Any day now the current pope, Benedict XVI, is due to issue an encyclical on social issues, in particular reflecting on the recent global turmoil. He has the chance to offer something of the church's teaching and tradition, which could speak to the pain and sorrow of our time, especially the need and poverty of so many in the face of the greed and yet emptiness of others.
In these times, as we face a loss of confidence in economic institutions and the political class, we need to hear a different analysis. There is a thirst for a voice of reason and realistic alternatives. Social teaching could provide some answers. It talks about systems where people can be fully human, where global solidarity is put into practice and where the resources of the Earth are used for the benefit of the common good, not the few.
Catholic social teaching is a very practical application of faith principles to life's great questions. It goes much further than the usual pro-life issues and illuminates dark corners of our world. Perhaps this next contribution to social teaching might just be the perspective so many of us are yearning to hear.
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