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Entry: Be Careful What You Ask For Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/be_careful_what_you_ask_for#18053 Post contents: I'm not embracing or recommending poverty--heaven forfend! Neither does the Church recommend it, except for the tiny segment of mankind called to the evangelical counsels (religious vows). But I AM saying that the embrace of a nanny state which removes even the POSSIBILITY of want is debilitating to family, community, personal virtue, and even a sense of dependency on God. That's quite a different thing from wishing actual poverty on others in the hope of improving their spiritual situation. Indeed, Catholic social teaching, by promoting the widespread ownership of the means of production, hopes to DIMINISH the likelihood of genuine material deprivation, and encourage self-sufficiency, prudence, responsibility, and all those other virtues which are so often and so wantonly labeled "Protestant." Sent at: 2008 05 16