The United States Congress seems to think passing a bill is the answer to all our problems. Too much college debt? Draft a bill. Unemployment? Draft a bill. Corrupt businesses and banks? Draft a bill. And so on.
While certainly government regulation is needed in many of these instances, many Americans are getting the feeling the President and Congress think these bills will solve everything.
Pope Benedict XVI has a message they should hear:
What man needs most cannot be guaranteed to him by law.
Couldn’t be more relevant. Neither could this.
“Material goods are certainly useful and required – indeed Jesus Himself was concerned to heal the sick, feed the crowds that followed Him and surely condemns the indifference that even today forces hundreds of millions into death through lack of food, water and medicine – yet ‘distributive’ justice does not render to the human being the totality of his ‘due,’” Pope Benedict added.
“Just as man needs bread, so does man have even more need of God.”
It’s called natural law. Yes, as humans we naturally have physical needs to be met but natural law actually points to that deeper yearn in our hearts, that desire for truth and beauty.
Thanks to Christ’s action, we may enter into the “greatest” justice, which is that of love (cf. Rm 13, 8-10), the justice that recognises itself in every case more a debtor than a creditor, because it has received more than could ever have been expected. Strengthened by this very experience, the Christian is moved to contribute to creating just societies, where all receive what is necessary to live according to the dignity proper to the human person and where justice is enlivened by love. (Emphasis added)
Some members of Congress could use a copy of this message. Anyone care to deliver it?
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