The following comes from an Aug. 21 email sent by the Catholic Legislative Network, an arm of the California Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Urgent – Act Now to Increase College Access & Affordability for 177,000+ Students
The clearest path to the American Dream is a college degree. However a majority of students are spending too much time working one or more jobs to pay for books and living expenses, impacting their learning experience and delaying graduation. Allowing them to focus more on their studies instead will help them stay enrolled and graduate. Those who don’t drop out due to costs are graduating with crippling debt. To help our neediest students get into, be successful in, and complete college we need to be creative.
SB 174 and SB 798 would increase the opportunity for low-income students to better attain a higher education by helping them pay for textbooks, transportation, rent, food, health care and other living expenses. These bills will increase the Cal Grant B Access Award amount for California’s lowest income students, through $500 million in available tax credits in the College Access Tax Credit Fund and leveraging federal tax deductions for charitable contributions.
Combined SB 174/SB 798 will help make learning in all sectors of higher education affordable for financially deserving, academically qualified California students — those who attend public institutions as well as independent nonprofit colleges. This bill provides a innovative and fundamentally necessary approach aimed at increasing access and affordability for students who are pursuing a higher education.
As the U.S. Bishops affirmed in Political Responsibility: Proclaiming the Gospel of Life, Protecting the Least Among Us, and Pursuing the Common Good: “All persons of whatever race, sex, condition, or age, by virtue of their dignity as human beings, have an inalienable right to a quality education.” This principle extends from early childhood development, through a students’ elementary and high school learning, and into opportunities for a college education.
Please join us in asking the Governor to sign SB 174 and SB 798 which together will create incentives that more than double Cal Grant B Access Awards for over 177,000 low-income students at no cost to the state.
Really? This is an issue that the Catholic bishops find the need to get into?
A couple points. First off, the more government gets into college funding, the more the cost of college goes through the roof. Second, is it fair to take the tax money of someone who works and give it who does not (or if he does, pays little taxes) so he can pursue a college degree? And third, getting back to my initial comment, the Catholic bishops should exclusively involve themselves in the salvation of souls and issues that directly relate to that. These civil affairs should be left to the voters and government.
There is far too much deviant, liberal, hippie immorality, passed off as “education” in American colleges of today! Such garbage misleads young people down a horrible pathway to immorality and evil— and destroys young souls! Our Catholic bishops need to get busy with Catholicism, and start re-building their own Catholic school system, from kindergarten through graduate school– into leading Catholic educational institutions, dedicated to Christ!
Also if they want to involve themselves in Colleges why don’t they focus on Catholic Colleges and make sure they operate as if they were Catholic.
Because
1) They are too lazy;
or
2) They refuse to be responsible for their own jobs.
Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities –
https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_15081990_ex-corde-ecclesiae_en.html
Each Bishop is responsible for everything “Catholic” within his own Diocese.
Our socialist bishops. This they put at the top of the list along with abolishing the death penalty. You are seriously out of sync if you are opposed to illegal immigration which, according to Archbishop Gomez, is the most important issue of our day. Abortion? The strongest stand they have taken is to say that politicians who promote and support it should not be denied Communion. Subsidiarity is not in their vocabulary. And, by pushing this legislation, they are, probably unintentionally (because I don’t think they seriously think through their positions) have nothing to say about the shoddy K-12 education in this state while they denigrate other just as noble ways of earning a living. Welders and machinists in this state make incredible salaries and don’t go into serious debt to get the certification. (grumble, grumble, grumble. . .) And try to find one of these bishops to talk to? They NEVER come out of their ivory castles to be among the flock. Not one of them has the smell of the sheep on them. Seriously, these guys need a reality check.
Sue in soCal, you are correct.
This is why every Catholic should own and read the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” (aka CCC) – so that we all will know fact from FICTION regarding Church teaching that we are obligated to adhere to.
It is impossible to con people by twisting the truth (to their own political beliefs) when we have the CCC available to check things out.
Most Bishops and most parish Priests do not even tell the Laity that the CCC (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition) even exists – let alone teach from it.
For those who want more info on the CCC go to – “What Catholics REALLY Believe SOURCE”
https://whatcatholicsreallybelieve.com/
“Really? This is an issue that the Catholic bishops find the need to get into?”
Why, yes. Having so successfully catechized Catholics these past 50 years, it’s time for the bishops to move on.
“The clearest path to the American Dream is a college degree.”
Say hey, USCCB, what’s the clearest path to heaven?
Great question !
Mr. Juergensen, I really like your post and I think it is a very appropriate question. Hit the nail on the head, you did. I will do what I can to make sure that the bishops hear your question.
The “Catholic Legislative Network” – Huh?
Where were they (and the rest of the Church leadership) when efforts to stop and then overturn with a voter initiative Senator Mark “Kiddie Porn King” Leno’s SB #48 was going on?
For those who forgot (conveniently or otherwise) or simply rely on the Heavily Censored bought and paid for ‘free press’ to inform them – SB 48 Forbids Any Information in the Schools that “Reflects Adversely” on the Gaystapo Thought Police Pogroms that have replaced ‘education’ in the age of Abomination.
‘We’ have created a coven of Tenured Radicals who are the most repressive Thought Police since Ernst Rohm’s Homo-Nazi ‘SA’ (storm troopers) beat Germany in to submissive tolerance to their cult of buggery – and the main difference is to now call them Professor rather ‘fuhrer’.
Whatever it once was – ‘higher education’ has become a tax trough for the terminally incompetent politically correct to wallow at, and only fits the ‘American Dream’ of Alinskyite Misandrists – who find very lucrative employment as enforcers for said Gaystapo.
SSADly – so too with much of allegedly ‘Catholic’ Education, like disgraces such as Santa Clara or Loyolla U have become under the Mau Mau Pogroms of the Twysted Systerhood and their ‘happy’ allies and self loathing male stooges.
SEE
STATE FORCES CATHOLIC COLLEGES TO PAY FOR ABORTION
https://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/08/22/State-Forces-Catholic-Colleges-to-Pay-for-Abortion
State reverses position on health insurance abortion coverage
https://www.contracostatimes.com/bay-area-news/ci_26387230/state-reverses-position-health-insurance-abortion-coverage
Spurred by faculty and staff outrage over the refusal by two Catholic universities to pay for elective abortions, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration on Friday announced that health insurance companies in the state can no longer deny coverage for these procedures…
“The faculty (at Catholic universities) has done a great job advocating for themselves and ensuring that their health insurance is comprehensive,” Singh said.
But the letter was immediately denounced by The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the country’s largest Catholic civil rights group, whose leaders issued a statement Friday saying that Catholic universities “have a right and a duty to uphold the tenets of their faith in everything they do.
“Paying for abortions is in direct conflict with the teachings of the Catholic Church,” president Bill Donohue said in the statement…
…uproar among staff and faculty at each institution, prompting some members to reach out to non-profits like Planned Parenthood for assistance. Those abortion rights advocates in turn contacted the Legislature’s Women’s Caucus, which sent a letter to Gov. Brown this month asking him to direct the department to change its position about what constitutes a covered abortion.
On Friday, several Santa Clara University faculty members who have vehemently objected…
“I’m very grateful to the Department of Managed Health Care for reaffirming a women’s right to choose,” said Nancy Unger, a professor of American History, who has consistently protested Engh’s decision.
“… it includes a woman’s right to have an abortion without any qualifiers,” said Unger, who is Catholic
And where are our Bishops regarding legislation, etc., regarding the Intrinsic Evils of – – – Abortion, Euthanasia, Same sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, Contraception, etc. ?
These have all been adopted in the CA State Democratic Party Platform for 2014, along with taxpayers paying for sex change operations and a lifetime of hormones.
What say you – our Bishops ?
And where are our Bishops regarding teaching, correcting, and disciplining of Catholic politicians as appropriate according to Canons 915 and 1399 ?
And in accord with the CCC on the mortal sins of Scandal, and Sacrilege?
Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, (Cuomo of NY, Joe Biden, John Kerry), etc. etc. etc. – all heretics and schismatics.
(CCC 2089 for Church definition of heresy and schism.)
Dear Dave,
love what you said! now let us think over this point, that is, Jesus picked only 12 as His apostles from the entire Judea. One betrayed Him an other denied Him, but repented with a most truthful heart. Jesus wants Quality, not Quantity. May we all be worthy of Him by our deeds as Peter did! May all those Fallon Bishops repent and correct their ways before they get throw out from the Fold!
Unger is no longer Catholic, she has automatically excommunicated herself even if her presumably cowardly “bishop” doesn’t say so. It is called “Latae Sententiae”!
One does not need to wonder what kind of twisted U.S. History this feminist teaches.
Santa Clara is no longer Catholic and should be denied the right to even call itself such!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
It is sad, but I cannot give my organizational title on this Catholic Website, but I can do so on Conservative secular sites!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
Newman Society, Legal Groups Warn California Violating Federal Law with Mandatory Abortion Coverage
https://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/3487/Newman-Society-Legal-Groups-Warn-California-Violating-Federal-Law-with-Mandatory-Abortion-Coverage.aspx
On August 22, The Cardinal Newman Society joined with two legal groups in a letter notifying the California Department of Managed Health Care that the state may lose federal funds due to its recent move to force two Catholic universities to include coverage for elective abortion in their insurance plans.
The Department of Managed Health Care notified Loyola Marymount University and Santa Clara University on Friday of the change which includes elective abortion as a “medically necessary” procedure.
The Department told the universities that excluding elective abortion is a violation of a 1975 state law. The decision will impact any California organization that is not self-insured and force it to provide elective abortion as part of its health plans.
In response, Life Legal Defense Foundation legal director Catherine Short and Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Matt Bowman, writing on behalf of Newman Society president Patrick J. Reilly, sent a letter to Department director Shelly Rouillard informing her that federal law prohibits California from mandating abortion coverage in health insurance plans.
The letter cites the Weldon Amendment, which stipulates,“None of the funds made available in this Act may be made available to… a State… if such… government subjects any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer abortions.”
When are the CA Bishops going to stop trying to spend other people’s money ?
Spend, spend, spend just like their Democratic buddies.
You’d think the $63 MILLION in Federal Grants annually that the USCCB’s CCHD, Catholic Charities, and CRS would be enough to keep them satisfied.
Students from middle income families have to take out loans, and work full or part time, or serve in the Military for an education.
So why not the poor ?
The State of CA is currently $423.4 BILLION dollars in debt.
(The Federal Government is currently $17.6 BILLION dollars in debt.)
When are the Bishops going to concentrate on the paying of debts as required in the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” (CCC #2411 – Commutative Justice) ?
Bishops please do your own jobs, of teaching the Faith in entirety according to the CCC. Most of you have been doing a lousy job.
Leave politics to the Laity (CCC # 898); this is our job.
Many Bishops do not care to accurately teach the Faith.
By their own acts of omission and commission they have proven that they are not interested in doing their own jobs.
If they were in private industry they would be fired.
They can be equated to the Pharisees and Scribes in the New Testament. Try reading Mt, Mk, Lk, and Jn in the New Testament, and mentally insert the word “Bishops” and “Priests” rather than Pharisees and Scribes.
(There are a minority of Bishops to whom this does not apply.)
Many Bishops have heretics and schismatics working in their Diocese offices and Diocese charities including Nuns whose Orders belong to the LCWR.
Many Bishops don’t care about the mortal Sins of SCANDAL or SACRILEGE either.
Read the Bible and the CCC folks – for the TRUTH. Unfortunately we can not rely on Bishops and Priests in many Diocese for the TRUTH of our Faith.
” Political Responsibility: Proclaiming the Gospel of Life, Protecting the Least Among Us, and Pursuing the Common Good ” was written in 1996 by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) before they became the USCCB.
It is there own document, written and approved by them.
No wonder they love to quote it.
All children in the USA are entitled to a free education through grade 12 (even ILLEGALs who put a burden upon society).
There are 36 paragraphs in the Catechism (CCC) regarding education. Not one of these states that anyone should get a free or almost free University education.
Who do these CA Bishops think they are kidding ?
“As the U.S. Bishops affirmed in Political Responsibility: Proclaiming the Gospel of Life, Protecting the Least Among Us, and Pursuing the Common Good: “All persons of whatever race, sex, condition, or age, by virtue of their dignity as human beings, have an inalienable right to a quality education.” This principle extends from early childhood development, through a students’ elementary and high school learning, and into opportunities for a college education.”
Want to bet they’re happy that the mandatory kindergarten bill passed and is sitting on Brown’s desk waiting for him to sign it and worse, that they’re lobbying for him to sign it playing right into the hands of the progressives (some of whom are bishops) who will eventually make preschool mandatory for all CA children thereby propagandizing the children as early as possible? (And we thought Communism was dead.)
Want to send a message to the CA bishops and pastors? Withhold funds. Stop supporting the Catholic progressives with your money. Give it to orthodox pastors and Catholic organizations in or out of CA and DON’T feel guilty that you aren’t supporting your neighborhood parish! If it’s not orthodox, it’s not Catholic.
Joan,
You make too much sense for most of our “bishops” to listen!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
“He who is not with me is against me. He who does not gathers with me scatters.” Matt 12:30. As a bishop inside Our Holy Mother The Church who is being feed, housed and clothed by Her children under Her roof as a leader. anyone of those leader who do not follow and gather with Jesus who is the Head of the Church, should be dismissed as a Leader (Bishop), return them to be simple faithfuls to get their jobs else where and earn their living. They do not accept the teaching of the Magisterium, they have no right to stay in the Leadership position as Bishops! Jesus didn’t compromise anything before He carried His Cross for our sins and died, as the Foundation of our Holy Faith. He is the Root and Food for our Eternal Life to be with Him, the Father and the Holy Spirit. ‘He who is not with me is against. He who does not gathers with me scatters.m” Matt 12:30. we all must prove our worthiness to Receive HIM, Examples must be made from top to bottom for the sake of the YOUNG through out Our Holy Mother, no exceptions! “Father, it is not my will , but thy will be done!” We must all do that if we say we are HIS! follow His Path! “Carry your cross and follow me!”
Joan, I would like to agree with you. But, could you clarify a couple of things: 1) what is wrong with sending kids to kindergarten so that they are ready to learn in first grade, 2) what could be worse, 3) how are the kids propagandized, 4) how is early childhood education communistic, 5) what is a Catholic progressive, 6) what is an orthodox pastor, 7) why I should not support my parish, 8) what is an orthodox parish?
Joan,
Bob One does not really want an answer, at least not one he should under pain of Sin accept; but please give him one.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
Bob One since you can’t answer those questions perhaps you need a remedial Catechism class
, 5) what is a Catholic progressive= LCWR, Catholics United, National Catholic Report (aka fishwrap) the Jesuits, St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Manhattan
8) what is an orthodox parish?= one without rainbow flags, with out gay reach out, TLM every Sunday, not infected with “social justice”
Canisius, you say “social justice” like it was a bad thing. Here is what the church says about it:
Catholic social teaching is a central and essential element of our faith. Its roots are in the Hebrew prophets who announced God’s special love for the poor and called God’s people to a covenant of love and justice. It is a teaching founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ, who came “to bring glad tidings to the poor . . . liberty to captives . . . recovery of sight to the blind”(Lk 4:18-19), and who identified himself with “the least of these,” the hungry and the stranger (cf. Mt 25:45). Catholic social teaching is built on a commitment to the poor. This commitment arises from our experiences of Christ in the eucharist.
As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains, “To receive in truth the Body and Blood of Christ given up for us, we must recognize Christ in the poorest, his brethren” (no. 1397).
Catholic social teaching emerges from the truth of what God has revealed to us about himself. We believe in the triune God whose very nature is communal and social. God the Father sends his only Son Jesus Christ and shares the Holy Spirit as his gift of love. God reveals himself to us as one who is not alone, but rather as one who is relational, one who is Trinity. Therefore, we who are made in God’s image share this communal, social nature. We are called to reach out and to build relationships of love and justice.
Catholic social teaching is based on and inseparable from our understanding of human life and human dignity. Every human being is created in the image of God and redeemed by Jesus Christ, and therefore is invaluable and worthy of respect as a member of the human family. Every person, from the moment of conception to natural death, has inherent dignity and a right to life consistent with that dignity. Human dignity comes from God, not from any human quality or accomplishment.
Our commitment to the Catholic social mission must be rooted in and strengthened by our spiritual lives. In our relationship with God we experience the conversion of heart that is necessary to truly love one another as God has loved us.
By the way, the Pope is a Jesuit. At a recent anniversary Mass with the Jesuits in Rome he alluded to the fact that he was a Jesuit, was trained as a Jesuit and thought like a Jesuit. To use the duck analogy, I think he is a Jesuit. You can’t be a Catholic and not have social justice be a big part of your faith.
Bob One social justice has been used by many people like you on the Left to confiscate property and to kill those who were thought to have “unjustly” acquired their money. I dont trust those who scream for social justice while raising my taxes to the point where I have to get a 2nd job, while the welfare roles swell. I am sick of the Left and its social justice, I pray for the day where people are finally forced to actually get a job and start living responsible lives instead of coming to me to pay their bills….
Bob One you like many in the Church condemn poverty but in the very same breath you will condemn those who wish not be poor and have managed to avoid it by either creating wealth for themselves or by accident of birth…
wow you read a lot into Bob One’s comment that wasn’t there Cansisius.
Advocating that the government use the threat of force to take money or goods from one person to give to another is advocating theft. Have the Modernists eliminated the Seventh Commandment?
I’m over 40 and attend Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation –
I don’t remember any homilies, or messages from my Diocese Bishop on:
the TEN COMMANDMENTS , including “Thou Shall not Steal” nor “Thou Shall not covet thy Neighbor’s Goods”. – (Ex 20 & Deut 5)
I don’t remember any homilies, or messages from my Diocese Bishop on:
SUBSIDIARITY – CCC 1883, 1885, 1894, and 2209.
I don’t remember any homilies, or messages from my Diocese Bishop on:
COMMUTATIVE JUSTICE (“without which no other form of justice is possible”) – CCC 2411, 2412, 2454.
I don’t remember any homilies, or messages from my Diocese Bishop on:
“opposition to all forms of ” COLLECTIVISM – CCC 1885.
I don’t remember any homilies, or messages from my Diocese Bishop on:
the 7 Capital Sins which include: Envy, Sloth or Acedia (laziness) – CCC 1866.
In fact, I have never heard anything from my Parish Priests or Diocese Bishop encouraging anyone to read the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition”.
(If you keep people ignorant, they will believe almost anything.)
No, John, but I guess a lot of them remember the Bible passage where Jesus tell us to sell everything we have and give it to the poor. We don’t do very well with that one either. What are Modernists? New term to me.
Bob One. modernist are pathetic Bishops who elevate social justice over the salvation of souls…you want one well Rembert Weakland comes to mind the little perverted man who had gay lover for years and then was black mailed by him. But he is champion of the “progressive” Catholic. Look up St.Pope Pius X, he will explain what modernism is, I am not surprised you could not recognize what modernist is, by their fruits you will know them… I love when liberals like you quote Christ why don’t you sell all your possessions, I will sell mine when the Archbishops pays my mortgage and the rest of my bills
The passage you reference is for those who enter religious life, Bob One. It is often used to guilt folks unjustly as taking care of one’s family is a primary duty, not to be negated by ‘giving everything away’ everything in the pursuit of perfection.
The Bishops are teaching from the Bible !
Where is the Bible does Jesus say, have your government take your tax money and give it to the poor.
I will donate to St.Vincent de Paul, Church in Need, and Caritas International, but not to the Bishop’s charities.
Yes Bob One, Our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ told us to give to the poor. He did not tell us to ask the government to give to the poor! Which of these do you do?
The majority of bishops are socialists. Instead of improving Catholic education, which the Church previously did a wonderful job at maintaining, she now wants the government to take over. As I wrote yesterday, look at pre-1960 Quebec. The Catholic Church ran all social programs. In pre-Reformation England, taxes were very low because the Catholic Church took care of most of the temporal needs of the people. Nature abhors a vacuum. The space and area where the Church once excelled has been taken over by big brother government. Not all change is positive growth. The cancerous claws of the government is slowly tightening its hold over society and the family, and the tragic thing about this, is that the Catholic Church is supporting this horrible transformation. Saint Pope Pius X, who died 100 years ago this month, said ‘One cannot be a socialist and a Catholic at the same time’. These are true words and they will haunt us, since we have not heeded his saintly and sophistic advice.
Fr. Karl, you paint a disappointing picture of our modern church. I had no idea that it was that bad. The good Pope may have been right, you cannot be a socialist and Catholic at the same time, but neither can you be an ultra conservative and be Catholic at the same time. I think that we must consider the differences in countries and cultures. In Quebec, there was little if any separation of church and state. Catholic schools were paid for with tax money. Social programs were contracted out to the church. As with so many other denominations, the 60s were when people decided that they wouldn’t go to hell if they didn’t go to church on Sunday. Every denomination was the same. When Sunday attendance went down, the money stopped coming in. For much of Quebec, and large parts of the U.S. television became available, even in rural areas Ideas could be spread quickly and various ways of thinking could spread quickly. The Church, very often, lost the battle. The church, by the way, did a lousy job of teaching about stewardship. I have many devout Protestant friends and I can tell you that they give the “first fruits”, ie. 10% to the church. With what is left they make the mortgage payment, car payment, buy food, etc. Us Catholics don’t do that. Without money the churches found it hard to survive on its own. I don’t like it any more than you do, but the government is filling a void that the population in general does not want to fill. They are willing to let the government contract out services with tax money. The only way you will reverse the trend is to elect new people to Congress and state legislatures. In the next election, how many of the are vulnerable? We get what we vote for.
Bob One –
“ The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I approved … and the publication of which I today order by virtue of my Apostolic Authority, is a statement of the Church’s faith and of catholic doctrine, attested to or illumined by Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic Tradition and the Church’s Magisterium.” – Pope John Paul II, (CCC pg 5)
https://whatcatholicsreallybelieve.com/
All Faithful Catholics must adhere to the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” in entirety.
Picking and choosing is done by Catholic heretics and schismatics. (CCC 2089).
The Bishops have no business asking the taxpayers to pay for a College education for anyone. In many cases they are absent regarding the FREE education K-12 which needs improvement.
The Bishops have no business being involved in temporal politics. That is the job of the Laity – CCC 898.
(Also see the Aug 24 post of Pat above.)
It is deceitful for any Bishops to twist the Faith to further their own politics, and silly to quote themselves as a source (their own document).
Twisting teachings is what the Pharisees and Scribes did.
By supporting SB 174 and SB798, Californian Bishops and their California Legislative Network must believe that money grows on trees.
In reality, it’s much worse than that, because this is the CA Bishops’ active support for an unjust income redistribution plan via the ‘government gun’ on middle class income earners. Don’t middle class income earners, who have worked over the years, have ‘every right’ if they so choose, to send their children to college/Catholic college? By their actions and support here, the CA Bishops show just how out of touch they are with their own Catholic laity in the pews of their parishes.
Furthermore, this unjust legislation, in particular, acutely negatively impacts those of us with larger families (surprise! some of us have actually faithfully following the magisterial teachings as Catholics, perhaps, sadly, you CA Bishops have forgotten we exist).
We now find ourselves, through the efforts of our very own Catholic Bishops, being shut out (sold out?) of any of the benefits from our own hard earned dollars through the imposition of even more taxes to the state and federal government funding of other’s college educations.
Figure this: We get no government money for our children’s college education, since we don’t fall into the ‘right’ income bracket for aid, yet at the same time we are unable to afford to send our children to any Catholic college or even state college because of high tuition costs and the high taxes we pay. So now we are forced to give up more of the money we would use for our own children’s college education.
(continued from above post)
Figure this: We get no government money for our children’s college education, since we don’t fall into the ‘right’ income bracket for aid, yet at the same time we are unable to afford to send our children to any Catholic college or even state college because of high tuition costs and the high taxes we pay. So now we are forced to give up more of the money we would use for our own children’s college education.
CA Bishops’ support for this legislation basically sends the message that they could not care less about those of us in the middle income bracket and/ or that they are completely out of touch with middle class CATHOLIC families. CA Bishops’ actions speak louder than words.
Message to the CA Bishops–Stop and desist your support for coercive government income redistribution plans and programs which steal from your own hard working Catholic families. It is shameful injustice for you to support SB 174 and SB 798.
So when are all CA Bishops going to do their own jobs – and be responsible to ensure that ALL Colleges and Universities that identify themselves as “Catholic” adhere to the Apostolic Constitution – Ex Corde Ecclesiae – On Catholic Universities ? https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_15081990_ex-corde-ecclesiae_en.html
and
the Code of Canon Law.
By Democratic / Liberal Bishops interjecting themselves into the temporal politics (job) of the Laity, rather than doing their own jobs – they discredit themselves, and discredit the Church by extension/affiliation.
Then when it is time to teach about the INTRINSIC EVILS their credibility has already been damaged by their previous inappropriate political actions. (But then again, many Bishops don’t teach about all of the INSTRINSIC EVILS.
It is deceitful for anyone (especially Bishops, or Priests and Nuns) to imply that something is Church teaching when it is not.
I have not heard about MORTAL SIN, and the 4 Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell) from my parish Priests or in communications from my Diocese Bishop in the last 40 years.
Isn’t California’s DEBT of $424.4 BILLION high enough for Catholic Bishops?
Do CA Bishops think money grows on trees, or do they not think before making a public statement?
They seem to have no sense of reality.
If the Bishops want to do something useful in politics, they need to tell us all where they would CUT the CA Budget to lower our government debts (commutative justice per the CCC # 2411).
The Bishops treat the action of “work” as if it were a dirty word. What is wrong with working to obtain a goal? What is wrong with loans? What is wrong with serving in the military for later educational benefits?
My children did this.
Now Bishops want us to help pay for the College education for poor children when the middle class can not even afford to pay for their own children’s college educations? Middle income children who must work, take loans, and/or join the military to get the same education.
Write to your State elected officials and ask them to deny SB 174 and SB 798, and instead put extra money toward paying the State debt.
Since CA is already in debt for hundreds of BILLIONS of Dollars, it is sinful for Bishops to encourage additional indebtedness.
If you look at the lives of the saints, you will see that they were traditional and Catholic. They were NOT cafeteria catholics who fell for every novelty that comes around. The saying I quoted was from a sainted pope. To make up a ridiculous statement YOU CANNOT BE TRADITIONAL AND BE A CATHOLIC AT THE SAME TIME just shows how little faith this John Donkey has. God NEVER changes, and the traditional doctrines and morals of the Catholic Church do NOT change either. If they were to change, this change would not be by Godly means, but by a demonic one. The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ, true God and true man,, and not by some nut who was mad about something,, or who wanted as many wives as there are days in a week. If ignorance is bliss, then there must be many happy morons around, who know nothing about the Catholic faith and her beliefs.