Reid – I understand that the Holy See has recently been cracking down hard on the way that nominally Catholic organisations have simply come to mirror bien-pensant left secular advocacy groups.
However, this rot is somewhat inevitable – it’s good to bear in mind O’Sullivan’s Law that any organization that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.
Do you think anyone at Caritas has ever heard of, let alone read, JP2′s encyclical Centesimus Annus? Do you think they would even comprehend its lucid critique of the modern welfare state? No – and for that reason they do not act in accordance with social justice which, after all, is a Catholic idea.