From Accuracy in Media:
A Washington Post story about Catholic professors challenging Rep. John Boehner’s Catholic faith with an open letter to the House Speaker ignores the role of one of the key signers in a George Soros-funded group.
The letter to Boehner says, “Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.” Ignoring the Catholic tradition of subsidiarity, or decentralized government, and voluntarism, the letter claims Boehner’s votes against expansion of the federal welfare state are anti-Catholic.
Letter signer Stephen F. Schneck of the Catholic University of America (CUA) is a board member of the Soros-funded Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG)…
It seems, at times, that you can’t scratch a liberal group without revealing the Soros link. Soros really does seem determined – and, poor man, he seems to think that if he backs what others have told him are good causes it will some how perfume the way he gained his wealth. This is a pretty typical outcome – and what, I think, Chesterton had in mind when he wrote:
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
But it can work out well for you – after all, you get to be a very rich man living in the lap of luxury and merely by writing a few checks to the correct groups, you are awarded the title of a moral man. That such a title from such groups isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit doesn’t matter to people like Soros – he’s lauded for his good works, day in and day out; and will be as long as he keeps the checks coming. The day Soros actually gives himself away is the day he comes to real morality…and it will also be the day when all the liberals who laud him for his goodness will suddenly round on him as an evil capitalist.
But, meanwhile, here they go – people who wouldn’t know Catholic social justice if it fell on them using it to attack a faithful (though certainly flawed) son of the Church. Just amazing. Or, more accurately, it would be amazing if this wasn’t the zillionth time they’ve pulled this sort of stunt. It is such a common tactic – and while our liberals will be horrified at it, all they are doing is being small-time heretics. What is a heresy, after all? It is the taking out of a part of Christian truth and holding it up as the only part that is true. They are abusing Catholicism – using what parts they like as a handy club or crow bar to attempt to advance distinctly un-Christian things. In this case, the Christian duty to succor the poor – taken entirely out of context – is being used to advance the cause of Big Government..the same Big Government which has a vested interest in keeping as many people poor as possible, lest the reason for having Big Government disappear right along with poverty.
I’ll start to take such statements from Soros-backed groups seriously the same day a Soros-backed group comes out with a demand for a ban on abortion. That is part of Catholicism, too – and, indeed, it is arguably far more important than the parts about helping the poor. Life comes first of all – because without life, there is nothing to be done. Don’t try to pass off to me a criticism of Boehner – or any other conservative Catholic/Christian – unless you are prepared to adhere to the whole run of Christian theology…and I mean all of it. If you aren’t prepared to do that, then pitch your criticism on some other level, but don’t deny the cross and then condemn a Christian for not properly taking up the cross.
As for those of us on the right, wariness is required. Especially as 2012 heats up and every liberal from Soros on down works to re-elect Obama, more and more such groups and events will crop up. There will be a full court press to try and divide and confuse Christians – and they will use our own against us. But don’t fall for it – the first time someone says, “Republicans must do such and such because Christianity demands it”, ask them how they view abortion and gay marriage…if they stray from Christian truth in such areas you can rely on it that their claims to be moving a Christian view are false.
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