When I used to go to church
I wasn’t who I was
…
Neither was God
…
So we both left
…
Sad
Disappointed
For my church-going friends
I mean no harm
This is poetry
Expressing the experience of many
Not doctrine
Saying how it should be
Grace and peace to you…
dw
Now we know who won
what is left to do
but love God
love our neighbor
keep praying
and persevere
with more compassion than ever
through the trials and tribulations
of an evil, evil time.
Grace and peace to us…
dw
Verbally assented to all the right things
Loved all the wrong things
Believed they were better than everyone else
Trusted in their entitlement
Were blind to it all
Lord, have mercy on us.
dw
If it were the end of days,
I’d say:
Let’s do this,
See what God begins next.
Let’s do it together,
See how God loves
from the very next beginning
To the never-ending end.
dw
There exist also sinful inequalities that affect millions of men and women. These are in open contradiction of the Gospel:
Vaticana, Libreria Editrice. Catechism of the Catholic Church . United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Kindle Edition. Paragraph 1938
Their equal dignity as persons demands that we strive for fairer and more humane conditions. Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.
In case anyone was wondering, this is the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.
Conservative Catholics, what do you think? How does this affect your politics?
Protestants and Evangelicals, though not a matter of doctrine for you, what do you think?
People not part of the Christian tradition, is this teaching a surprise to you?
Grace and peace to us all…
dw
p.s. This is the 12th in a series of recent posts on what the Catholic Catechism has to say about social justice.
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