Post by joeg on Nov 20, 2021 5:00:20 GMT
So much of the Christian life requires a balance of virtues and principles. Imbalance results in a mess.
It is admirable to be courageous and zealous. However if not balanced by patience and prudence, the person will be a bull in a china shop.
During the pandemic there has been an emphasis on solidarity--essentially concern for the common good--over individual human rights and subsidiarity.
Pope John Paul II wrote, "[the Church's] moral vision in this area 'rests on the threefold cornerstone of human dignity, solidarity and subsidiarity'. #55
www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_22011999_ecclesia-in-america.html
I came across an article featuring some quotes from Pope Benedict about a balance of those important principles in the Church's social teachings. The article was written a decade ago but the principles apply to the mess we face during the pandemic.
www.catholicculture.org/commentary/subsidiarity-and-solidarity-are-inseparable/?repos=6&subrepos=0&searchid=2134285
If you are unfamiliar with the principle of subsidiarity, the article's author, Dr. J. Mirus wrote, "The meaning of subsidiarity is that things should be done on the lowest level possible, and that if assistance is needed from higher levels of organization, the higher levels should, whenever possible, assist the lower levels rather than replace them. Subsidiarity is essential to human dignity because it ensures that people are directly involved in the solutions to their problems,..."
Mirus points out a flaw in policy that we've seen during the pandemic.
"Over the past generation or so, there has been a serious flaw in the implementation of Catholic social thought in the United States. Most bishops and other Catholic leaders have promoted big government solutions to social problems with little thought to the negative consequences of subordinating every aspect of the social order to the power of the State."
Mirus quotes Pope Benedict about the need for balance.
“Solidarity is first and foremost a sense of responsibility on the part of everyone with regard to everyone, and it cannot therefore be merely delegated to the State....Unfortunately, too much confidence was placed in those institutions, as if they were able to deliver the desired objective automatically. In reality, institutions by themselves are not enough, because integral human development is primarily a vocation, and therefore it involves a free assumption of responsibility in solidarity on the part of everyone."
The Pennsylvania bishops conference some years ago addressed an issue in the state by pointing out the need for a balance between solidarity and subsidiarity.
www.pacatholic.org/subsidiarity-solidarity-the-state/
"Subsidiarity is an expression of human freedom. It means what individuals can accomplish by their own initiative and efforts should not be taken away from them by a higher authority"
"Solidarity embraces the ideal that everyone should be given the opportunity to access material, intellectual, and spiritual goods"
I don't get it that people are fine with medical leadership exerting historical amounts of control over the health system when everyone is still learning about this new virus. It does not make sense from a practical sense and certainly does not make sense from a Catholic understanding of a balance between human rights--freedom, etc--solidarity and subsidiarity.
We've seen countless deceptive studies:
The Mehra, et el study of hydroxycloroquine that had to be retracted by the Lancet stands out among the worst. It claimed that hundreds of people around the world were dying from the medication, but it was based on a fake data set that the Lancet editors failed to flag.
zenodo.org/record/3862789#.XtL50jpKjIW letter to editor cosigned by 100+ scientists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUD_wvkNhnk&t=1657s Dr Chris Martenson explains
Critics point out many questionable aspects of Pfizer's various safety studies for their genetic vaccine.
youtu.be/NRP-_2v8mSQ?t=913 Dr Martenson on the lack of diabetics in the study.
media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2021/November/PDF/pfizer-whistleblower-scientific-fraud-pdf.pdf
childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-six-month-data-update-covid-vaccine-clinical-trials/
Fauci's NIH is due to receive a pile of $ from Moderna after the vaccine manufacturer used technology patented by the US NIH.
Politicians receive campaign $ from Pharma.
Yet people think it is a good idea for people with conflicts of interest to issue mandates about vaccines that have not even finished their clinical trials. They restrict access to medications that are well known to be safe and where there are studies suggesting some benefit.
People should be free to choose to use a safe medication or nutraceutical that has some support in science when they have consulted with a doctor, yet hospitals are denying treatment to people who had been on the medication prior to hospitalization.
Over 12,000 doctors and scientists have cosigned a letter complaining about medical leadership.
doctorsandscientistsdeclaration.org/original/
WHEREAS, physicians are increasingly being discouraged from engaging in open professional discourse and the exchange of ideas about new and emerging diseases...
WHEREAS, thousands of physicians are being prevented from providing treatment to their patients, as a result of barriers put up by pharmacies, hospitals, and public health agencies, rendering the vast majority of healthcare providers helpless to protect their patients in the face of disease. Physicians are now advising their patients to simply go home (allowing the virus to replicate) and return when their disease worsens, resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary patient deaths, due to failure-to-treat;
WHEREAS, this is not medicine. This is not care. These policies may actually constitute crimes against humanity.
Church leadership has been negligent in sharing the ethical and moral principles that should be guiding pandemic policies.
It is admirable to be courageous and zealous. However if not balanced by patience and prudence, the person will be a bull in a china shop.
During the pandemic there has been an emphasis on solidarity--essentially concern for the common good--over individual human rights and subsidiarity.
Pope John Paul II wrote, "[the Church's] moral vision in this area 'rests on the threefold cornerstone of human dignity, solidarity and subsidiarity'. #55
www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_22011999_ecclesia-in-america.html
I came across an article featuring some quotes from Pope Benedict about a balance of those important principles in the Church's social teachings. The article was written a decade ago but the principles apply to the mess we face during the pandemic.
www.catholicculture.org/commentary/subsidiarity-and-solidarity-are-inseparable/?repos=6&subrepos=0&searchid=2134285
If you are unfamiliar with the principle of subsidiarity, the article's author, Dr. J. Mirus wrote, "The meaning of subsidiarity is that things should be done on the lowest level possible, and that if assistance is needed from higher levels of organization, the higher levels should, whenever possible, assist the lower levels rather than replace them. Subsidiarity is essential to human dignity because it ensures that people are directly involved in the solutions to their problems,..."
Mirus points out a flaw in policy that we've seen during the pandemic.
"Over the past generation or so, there has been a serious flaw in the implementation of Catholic social thought in the United States. Most bishops and other Catholic leaders have promoted big government solutions to social problems with little thought to the negative consequences of subordinating every aspect of the social order to the power of the State."
Mirus quotes Pope Benedict about the need for balance.
“Solidarity is first and foremost a sense of responsibility on the part of everyone with regard to everyone, and it cannot therefore be merely delegated to the State....Unfortunately, too much confidence was placed in those institutions, as if they were able to deliver the desired objective automatically. In reality, institutions by themselves are not enough, because integral human development is primarily a vocation, and therefore it involves a free assumption of responsibility in solidarity on the part of everyone."
The Pennsylvania bishops conference some years ago addressed an issue in the state by pointing out the need for a balance between solidarity and subsidiarity.
www.pacatholic.org/subsidiarity-solidarity-the-state/
"Subsidiarity is an expression of human freedom. It means what individuals can accomplish by their own initiative and efforts should not be taken away from them by a higher authority"
"Solidarity embraces the ideal that everyone should be given the opportunity to access material, intellectual, and spiritual goods"
I don't get it that people are fine with medical leadership exerting historical amounts of control over the health system when everyone is still learning about this new virus. It does not make sense from a practical sense and certainly does not make sense from a Catholic understanding of a balance between human rights--freedom, etc--solidarity and subsidiarity.
We've seen countless deceptive studies:
The Mehra, et el study of hydroxycloroquine that had to be retracted by the Lancet stands out among the worst. It claimed that hundreds of people around the world were dying from the medication, but it was based on a fake data set that the Lancet editors failed to flag.
zenodo.org/record/3862789#.XtL50jpKjIW letter to editor cosigned by 100+ scientists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUD_wvkNhnk&t=1657s Dr Chris Martenson explains
Critics point out many questionable aspects of Pfizer's various safety studies for their genetic vaccine.
youtu.be/NRP-_2v8mSQ?t=913 Dr Martenson on the lack of diabetics in the study.
media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2021/November/PDF/pfizer-whistleblower-scientific-fraud-pdf.pdf
childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-six-month-data-update-covid-vaccine-clinical-trials/
Fauci's NIH is due to receive a pile of $ from Moderna after the vaccine manufacturer used technology patented by the US NIH.
Politicians receive campaign $ from Pharma.
Yet people think it is a good idea for people with conflicts of interest to issue mandates about vaccines that have not even finished their clinical trials. They restrict access to medications that are well known to be safe and where there are studies suggesting some benefit.
People should be free to choose to use a safe medication or nutraceutical that has some support in science when they have consulted with a doctor, yet hospitals are denying treatment to people who had been on the medication prior to hospitalization.
Over 12,000 doctors and scientists have cosigned a letter complaining about medical leadership.
doctorsandscientistsdeclaration.org/original/
WHEREAS, physicians are increasingly being discouraged from engaging in open professional discourse and the exchange of ideas about new and emerging diseases...
WHEREAS, thousands of physicians are being prevented from providing treatment to their patients, as a result of barriers put up by pharmacies, hospitals, and public health agencies, rendering the vast majority of healthcare providers helpless to protect their patients in the face of disease. Physicians are now advising their patients to simply go home (allowing the virus to replicate) and return when their disease worsens, resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary patient deaths, due to failure-to-treat;
WHEREAS, this is not medicine. This is not care. These policies may actually constitute crimes against humanity.
Church leadership has been negligent in sharing the ethical and moral principles that should be guiding pandemic policies.