“Fellow bishops I want to encourage you to welcome your immigrants to join your ranks,” Pope Benedict XVI reminded his fellow bishops that doing so would be heeding the call of the Gospel. But if American bishops aren’t speaking out on this matter and other gospel-related, political issues, how is the laity supposed to?
Sure, we know that the “American Magisterium” spurns abortion and same-sex marriage, but what about simple living? How simple is the Gospel’s simple, how poor in spirit is the Gospel’s poor in spirit? How forgiving are we supposed to be, what is that figure again?
In a lukewarm Catholic world, whose job is it to be radical? Is that a “smart” move for the Church? But wasn’t Christ radical
Immigration is only one of the questions many pastors, bishops, and priests leave for us to decide for ourselves. With language like, “This Vatican Council likewise professes its belief that it is upon the human conscience that these obligations fall and exert their binding force. The truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth, as it makes its entrance into the mind at once quietly and with power” in one of its most political declarations yet, Dignitatis Humanae, the Magisterium disappoints with vagueness and self-reliance.
America- founded by individualism-preaches the success of a self-made man. Catholicism preaches the importance of developed conscience, but where are the tools to develop such a conscience? Is the ballot the concretization of our conscience?
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