INowRegretThesePosts's Journal: The Catholic Church is not right-wing

The Catholic Church is often libeled as a right-wing organization, which is preposterous.
In economic matters, the Catholic Church is quite leftist. In immigration and environmentalism too. Regarding "affirmative action" it seems to be neutral, because I have never seen a priest or bishop touch this subject. It opposes the death penalty. In foreign policy, it seems to be non-interventionist (Pope John Paul II opposed the Iraq War, many bishops oppose the Cuban Embargo, etc.).

The Catholic Church is only conservative regarding life and family values. It is not a right-wing organization by any sane measure. This includes Opus Dei, which is a faithful Christian organization.

The Left libels the Church as being "right-wing", and Opus Dei as being "far-right", because the Left only accepts opposition in economic matters. Their view of a healthy political environment is one where the Left supports economic socialism and cultural Marxism (gender ideology, abortion, homosexualism, affirmative action, etc.) and the Right supports economic liberalism but agrees with cultural Marxism.

That someone dares to think outside that box, and oppose cultural Marxism (as the Church does) is seen as preposterous. The Left will even censor it (via "hate speech" laws) wherever it can.

In short: the Church transcends politics, and no political party represents the Church.

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and the Right supports economic liberalism but agrees with cultural Marxism.

I meant

and the Right supports economic liberalism but *tolerates* cultural Marxism.

This is the world the Left wants; that the Church opposes that world is seen as preposterous.

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[JackieBrown]

I started following up on your posts after reading this
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042199&cid=40957843 [slashdot.org]

Thank you for the information. I didn't realize (or want to believe) for extreme that Europe has become when it comes to religion.

I was a lapsed Catholic (after being a strong Catholic.) A few years ago, I realized desctructive the how lack of absolute values and were on my child. We always taught her that God existed by never made it a part of her life. I started going back to chu

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I was a lapsed Catholic (after being a strong Catholic.) A few years ago, I realized desctructive the how lack of absolute values and were on my child. We always taught her that God existed by never made it a part of her life. I started going back to church and my wife ended up converting and becoming a baptized Catholic. My daughter is on her way as well and the difference in her is remarkable. It scares me when I see the cross and other visible symbols of religion being removed from our culture.

Those are

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I forgot to mention: here in Brazil, the censoring of politically incorrect books has _already_ started.

Mons. Jonas Abib, the founder of Canção Nova (an influential Charismatic Catholic community that owns a TV channel) published a book called "Sim sim, não não" ("Yes yes, no no"). This book, among other things, criticized certain occultist polytheistic religions* that are influential in Brazil. The book was forbidden and censored for "promoting religious prejudice". And remember, the pr

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In economic matters, the Catholic Church is quite leftist

I am not sure the Catholic social teaching can be described as "leftist". The Church does oppose wild capitalism, but She also opposes authoritarian collectivism (as preached by the Left).
The Church wants to empower the workers, instead of letting them be economically dependent on their Capitalist bosses, or be horribly oppressed by an authoritarian state.