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...almost goes without saying that as a young, progressive-minded American Catholic, I'm at odds with many of the church's rules and with much of its politics. You might thus infer that my generation instinctively rejects the age-old traditions of the church. That would be wrong. In a world unmoored by violence and uncertainty, there is something deeply soothing about participating in ancient rituals practiced by so many. Whatever our issues with the tenets of Catholicism the religion, we still cling to what unites us in Catholicism the faith: our devotion to the celebration of the Eucharist...
...bold type, Kristol declares that "it may well be that no other people in human history have ever had it quite so good." He is probably correct, if he is referring to the upper class. But he is wrong if he believes that the 47 million people without health insurance and the working class in general have no reason to feel pessimistic. As Kristol stated, unemployment is low. But the rise in low-paying and insecure "McJobs" is not a sign that all boats are being lifted. As long as the income gap between rich and poor continues to soar...
...country is not as bad off as we seem to think. But it's equally true that we shouldn't sit down and shut up. As Americans, we are vested by the Constitution with the duty and right to speak out against wrong and possibly criminal behavior by our government. As long as we're Americans, we will raise our voices in discontent when we recognize tomfoolery and deceit. Larry Gibson, PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA...
...Nonetheless, Elshtain, an Augustine expert, is willing to project Biblical morality into circumstances when denying entry to groups of immigrants is flat wrong, such as Franklin Roosevelt's unwillingness to admit a boatload of Jewish refugees from the Third Reich, resulting in their almost certain doom. But this, she writes, "is completely different from uncontrolled border crossing by people whose motivations are not life and death in the sense I am describing it but, rather economic...
...Leviticus 19:33: "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong... [he] shall be as native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Progressive Evangelical leader Jim Wallis refers to this as "the Levitical immigration policy." It reaches deep into Judaism's Exodus saga for its justification. The Israelites were (legal) immigrants in Egypt, but the Egyptians persecuted them when their numbers seemed too threatening; God brought down the plagues. Thus the verse is a warning to Jews never to turn into...