tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post5100529944199982090..comments2024-03-29T00:40:55.729+11:00Comments on Cardinal Pole's Blog on Church and State: Notes: Thursday, September 2, 2010Cardinal Polehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606972767215157799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-68516451934903068352010-09-07T01:41:26.011+10:002010-09-07T01:41:26.011+10:00Interesting quotation from The Weekend Australian ...Interesting quotation from <i>The Weekend Australian</i> last Saturday:<br /><br />"Kevin Rudd's great nemesis, liberal economist Friedrich Hayek, once wrote: "I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can tender to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term 'social justice'.""<br />[<a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/failed-party-in-search-of-a-purpose/story-e6frg6zo-1225914025908" rel="nofollow">http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/failed-party-in-search-of-a-purpose/story-e6frg6zo-1225914025908</a>]Cardinal Polehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15606972767215157799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-32796600680210736792010-09-04T12:29:50.086+10:002010-09-04T12:29:50.086+10:00To be fair to Bill .he does write about his admira...To be fair to Bill .he does write about his admiration for catholic social ethics ,and makes comments about differences in theology,but when it comes to fighting evil i think he and the Catholic church would see eye to eye. My only complaint ,as that as he is American he is seeking toimpose an american view on justice-social or otherwise,that is foreign to the Australian context.For example why is it the the UK outlawed slavery after a long campaign by Wilberforce and others ,whilst the US had a Civil war over it ,amongst other issues. <br />why do we Australians accept medicare as a form of unoviersal health care going back nearly 40 years whilst the US has had to battle? It is because of differwent views on social justice ,and I would hazard a guess as a proddy and say that the Catholic church in Australia was one of the influecnes behind such things. Chifley's 'LIGHT ON THE HILL' could be an exmaple.Sadly the ALP is no longer working class oriented but chattering class ,as the cardinal has so rightly included on this blogMatthiasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-19730444608381771662010-09-02T14:31:01.122+10:002010-09-02T14:31:01.122+10:00I think that Matthias's comments about Bill Mu...I think that Matthias's comments about Bill Muehlenberg are accurate. Mr Muehlenberg, happily, avoids every trace - in his writings and other public pronouncements, and for all I know, in private as well - of that visceral and deranged anti-Catholicism which has been America's default mode ever since the late 18th century. Alas, as is the case with C. S. Lewis and with all other Protestants of good will, he is utterly parasitic upon Catholic teaching whenever he says anything sensible. He is further handicapped by allegiance to Americanism, a notion that Leo XIII condemned more than a hundred years ago.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-75561222970523995202010-09-02T08:18:50.329+10:002010-09-02T08:18:50.329+10:00Tony Abbott makes the comment that Bob Brown has i...Tony Abbott makes the comment that Bob Brown has integrity and questions why he should join with Labor. I agree but then the Greens only have integrity for themselves and damn the rest.<br /> As for Mr Muehelenberg's article,i think we need to remember that he is from America,a product of that episentre of evangelicalism-Wheaton college ,and i think tries to bring an Americanised view of things to the Australian contextMatthiasnoreply@blogger.com