re: #34 Boondock St. Bender

y’know,i would love to click the link,but comsidering that it’s gb,i fear i’ll get stupider by just watching it…lol

It’s to a HuffPo article, and I just did a little digging on the author— the piece was originally posted at ‘america magiazine’, and I’m not familiar with it or the author, but the author is a Jesuit and this is the end of the piece:

The attack on social justice is the tack of those who wish to ignore the concerns the poor and ignore the social structures that foster poverty. It’s not hard to see why people are tempted to do so. How much easier it would be if we didn’t have to worry about the poor!

But ignoring the poor, and ignoring what keeps them poor, is, quite simply, unchristian. For the poor are the church in many ways. When St. Lawrence, in the fourth century, was ordered by the prefect of Rome to turn over the wealth of the church, he presented to him the poor.

Glenn Beck’s desire to detach social justice from the Gospel is a move to detach care for the poor from the Gospel. But a church without the poor, and a church without a desire for a just social world for all, is not the church.

At least not the church of Jesus Christ. Who was, by the way, poor.

The Rev. James Martin, SJ is the author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything. A longer version of this post can be found at America magazine’s blog “In All Things.”

It looks like a catholic-informed respectable attack on gb’s notions, which primarily argues that gb doesn’t understand christianity or catholics— I think the catholics and christians here as well as others would agree.