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Speaker 1: A, we all, welcome to today's show. We are actually
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going to begin wrapping up the Ten Commandments today. Now
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I say it again because although we will cover the
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ninth and tenth Commandment, there is so much related teaching
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and information that folllowsh Sparago is going to tell us
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so much if it gets left out In modern katechises,
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so much of it is almost exclusive to Catholicism, although
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it should be universal, because a lot of people just
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don't know stuff, and each generation we seem to know
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less than the generation before, which is one reason why
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I like to go back to old books like Polish
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Sparago's Exhaustive Explanation of the Catechism, which is published in
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about eighteen ninety or so. But as usual, we will
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start with a couple questions and answers from the book
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radio replies written by Well as I always tell you,
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I've probably told you this ten times now. The two
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priests in the I Guess nineteen thirties began taking questions
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and answers from non Catholics, usually very anti Catholics, over radio,
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and these books are compilation. They're just wonderful. And for
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the past two episodes, a communist has really been grilling them.
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And he has a big problem with any wealth held
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by the church. And in his first question today, he says,
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can you blame governments for confiscating the property of the
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church and giving it back to the people, And they
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say yes. The government has no claim whatsoever on private
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property unless in extreme necessity it has to confiscate or
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appropriate from all citizens Alike. Our Catholic people voluntarily erect
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permanent buildings for the needs of their religion. Others have
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just as much money, in fact more than Catholics. If
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the government confiscates the useful results of Catholic generosity with
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surplus earnings, then it has the right to confiscate the
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surplus money of everyone else, above all when it is
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not put to good use, as for giving it back
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to the people. There is no church on earth which
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can compare with the Catholic Church for the number of charities,
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number of charitable institutions. She has more hospitals for the sick,
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orphanages for destitute children, homes for the age and dying,
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for the deaf and dumb, and etc. Than all other
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churches put together. And the person says, the workers of
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the world do not admit that large edifices and tracts
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of land are necessary to do the Lord's work. So
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workers of the world at obvious communists. They used to
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call them the wabbles, if I remember correctly the Wow
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They were communist activists who are very big in the
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union movement. They answer, the opinion of the one doing
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the work is more value than of the of the onlooker.
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The Church knows that these temporal things are necessary anyway.
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These properties have been honestly and laboriously acquired by charitable
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minded citizens, and are held in their name and are
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not actually theirs, only because they have freely resigned ownership
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of them to God. They certainly do not belong to
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the clergy, and it is quite unjust for other citizens
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to talk of confiscating them. Remember that, besides beautifying the
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cities of the world, the greater part of the expense
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expenses of these churches, cathedrals institutions has gone in wages
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to the workers. That's right, a lot of unionized workers
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actually build a lot of those cathedrals. And such person says,
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the rich belong to your church is convenient, And they answer,
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the poor who belonged to the Catholic Church far exceed
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the number of the rich. As for convenience, the Catholic
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Church is the most inconvenient of all to live up to,
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although I admitt it is convenient to die in since
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it fits one so well for one's meeting with God.
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Person says, each convert you make means more revenue. But
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where's the advantage to the convert? And they answer, if
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the new convert did contribute to the support of his religion,
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that would already be an advantage to him. If Christ
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rightly committed the poor, commended the poor widow who gave
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her might to the temple. Even if a convert could
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give nothing, he would be nonetheless welcome. The Catholic Church
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never wants anyone for what he will bring her, but
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for what she can give him absolution for his sins.
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Christ is his savior, and the guests of his heart,
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and holy communion relief after his death, and heaven and
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the end. It is all very much to the advantage
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of the convert. And the communist continues, there are thousands
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living on the gullibility of the poor, And they answer,
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there are thousands giving their lives to the service of God,
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and their fellow men, their fellow men making return, but
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not by giving their lives, but by giving a small
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percentage of their temporal goods. One's life is more precious
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and a greater gift than a portion of that life's earnings.
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And the guy says everybody is after riches, including religious teachers.
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And they say that it's not true. The thousands of priests, brothers,
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and nuns who have vowed poverty in the religious orders
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of the Catholic Church never receive a penny personally in wages.
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They were nouce a possession and administration of property, and
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are given me. I'm given merely such shelter, food, and
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clothing as are absolutely necessary. Those priests who do not
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undertake this obligation of poverty are entitled to such a
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revenue as the people provide in the work return in
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return for a life work on their behalf. All right,
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we'll wrap it up on that one for today. The
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Communists will go on for several more questions. Communists really
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hate the Church, Christianity in general, but especially the Catholic Church,
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so we can expect this to be quite contentious. But
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we will go on to the ninth commandment. Now, Father
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Spirago does not spend any time on the ninth Commandment.
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He says, see what is said concerning this or the
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sixth Commandment and respecting the sacrament of matrimony, and also
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the words of our Lord in Matthew five twenty eight
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Saint Paul one Corinthian six. So I refer you back
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to our show on the sixth Commandment, and it was
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all covered very extensively. And now we will get on
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to the tenth Commandment. In the tenth Commandment, God forbids
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us to endeavor to possess ourselves of the property of
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another's of another by unlustful means, So covening leads to theft,
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and theft and covening are both forbidden. So that's what
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we're talking about here. And in discussing this, this commandment,
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the tenth you'll find out exactly why socialist and communists
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hate the Catholic Church so much. They are actually in
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exact opposition to several of the commandments, especially though against
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covetousness and envy and theft. Kind of what they're all
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based on is saying they have a right to someone
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on someone else's property even though they did nothing to
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earn it. In God's sight, the will is equivalent to
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the deed. Evil desires are sinful as well as evil deeds,
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and the act is accomplished in will. Therefore, transgressions of
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this commandment must not be omitted in confession under the
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now under the topic of socialism, which he preaches against
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in this writing about the tenth Commandment, in our own day,
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a large proportion of the so called socialists or social
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democrats aim at depriving their fellow man of their private
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property by unjust means. Social democracy or the rule of
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the people proposes to be to reconstruct human society. It
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is of recent origin, being first started in Germany and
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nineteen I mean in eighteen forty, of course eighteen forty,
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and propagated some ten years later by the notorious Karl
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Marx in eighteen sixty two. LaSalle was very successful in
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spreading socialistic doctrines, so much so that in eighteen seventy
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eight a special law was passed for the suppression of socialism.
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Associations and meetings were prohibited, publications advanced advocating its principles
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were sees, and the leading agitators were banished from several
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In several of the large towns or from several of
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the large towns. From that time forward, the work of
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propagation was carried on covertly in the workshops and club
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meetings being held in the woods and pamphlets circulated privately.
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In eighteen eighty a Socialist at Congress was held in Zurich,
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attended by members from all the countries of Europe, to
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arrange a general program for the universal upheaval of society
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and subversion of the existing order of things. Since the
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system has made steady progress and assumed it has assumed
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a revolutionary character, those who resort to open acts of
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violence in order to accelerate the disintegration of society are
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called anarchists. Switzerland is a hotbed of socialism, and there
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the principal organs of society are printed. Socialism has gained ground,
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chiefly in the continent of Europe. That was of course
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very true in the late eighteen hundreds leading to the
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Bolshevik Revolution and so much more. But now it's at
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least as popular communism, socialism and anarchy, and under the
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guise of anti fascism, which is ridiculous because socialism and
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communism and Nazism and everything is inherently fascist. There is
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no room for the individual whatsoever. All properties must be
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held in common, and everyone must believe and think the
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same thing. Every be punished by the state. That's the
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very definition. And of course they're too dumb to know
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that the fundamental principle of socialism is all property has
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been unjustly acquired. Consequently, in the new Republic, no one
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is to possess any personal property, but it's to be
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provided for out of the public funds. Everyone must work
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and where the proceeds of his labor purchase what he needs.
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In the new Republic of the extreme socialists, there is
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to be neither the ordinance of religion nor the institutions
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of law. These men openly declare themselves to be atheists,
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and they say religion concerns the individual. And they are
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what he caused republicans, which means they worship the republic
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or the state, not the not God, different use of
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the same term in different errors. And the intercourse of
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men and women is to take the place of wedlock.
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And yes, they've been dedicated to destroying marriage all along,
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and just recently they had a Black Lives Matter said
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that you know, they really weren't on the concerned about
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black stuff or racial equality or whatever. They wanted to
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destroy the family as their main goal. It hasn't changed.
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This is Karl Mark's goal, and it's you know now
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Bernie Sanders' goal. And all this transcrap. The children are
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to belong not to their parents but to the state. Again,
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look at all this transcrap. To be educated at the
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public expense, a public kitchen is to supersede the domestic hearth.
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Prisons would not be needed, for there would be no criminals,
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since all crime comes from the possession of private property.
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Notice all these George Soros back das that refuse to
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prosecute criminals. These principles, and of course black lives matter
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and all that. You know, the riots. Nobody got punished for, murders, rapes, thefts,
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burn arsons, nobody got punished. These principles have spread chiefly
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among the irreligious, who care only for the gratification of
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their appetites, and the lower orders the proletariat, who, in
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the division of property, have nothing to lose and nothing
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at all to gain. They are mostly held by certain
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ones of the laboring class who have been thrown by
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peculiar instances into the arms of socialism. Well, those people
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rarely labor anymore. In fact, these socialists and communists in
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our country tend to be the highly educated, what most
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wealthy members of our society. Let's see if I say
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that again, the most highly educated and most wealthy members
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of our society, and those on government assistance, welfare and
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you know, Medicaid and all that food stamps, that's where
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you're going to find them. Those who actually work for
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a living, the laboring classes are not anymore. That's why,
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you know, regardless what the union leaders do and endorsing
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Kamala Harris or something, the union members are going to
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vote for Trump because they know his interests or their interests.
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The origin and development of socialism is chiefly to be
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ascribed in the increasing poverty of the working classes, the
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greed of gain and immoderate craving of enjoyment among the rich,
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and finally, the decrease of religious feeling in all classes
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of society. I think here, father Sparagam is an excellent point.
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Is it is validcom from an economics perspective, remember my
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backgrounds and economics. It is valid in a societal you know,
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sociology way of looking at things is very valid in
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Catholic teaching that industrialization was quite disruptive, and that one
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of the main causes for the fast growth of communism
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was the workers being taken advantage of by factory owners
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and meal owners and coal buying operators and such as that,
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et cetera, et cetera. No doubt about that unbridled greed
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is wrong, whether it's the greed of a meal owner
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making people work long hours in bad conditions for low
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pay so he can make as much money as possible,
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or it's the greed of a socialist or communists that
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gets a government position then tries to take everybody's money
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from them. Both are equally wrong, actually, and they both
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lead to inequality and abuse. And you know, the Catholic
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position is actually the only moral position. As in the
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human body disorders for the most part originating in the stomach,
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so discontent among the people generally arises from material want.
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The prevailing destitution among the lower orders is partly due
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to the employment of machinery. Machines can produce in a
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few days more than one hundred workmen can in a month,
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and goods can be manufactured at a far cheaper rate
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by machinery than when made by hand. Consequently, hundreds are
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thrown out of employment. Through the introduction of machinery, wealth
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is accumulated in the hands of the manufacturers, and the
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number of poor and discontented has increased from day to day,
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swelling the ranks of socialism. The employers, striving to make
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larger profits, in many cases, do not treat their work
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people according to the maxims of the Gospel. They reduce
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their wages to a scanty pittance, patta and ce pittance,
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the market value of labor being so low, they require
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them to work for a lengthened period. They heed not
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the bodily health to those whom they employ, and even
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destroy their sense of religious religion immorality. These and other
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evils naturally have the effect of rendering the workmen irreligious
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and discontent discontented. Factory hands employed constantly in working machinery
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are apt to lose their mental vigor and independence. They
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perform their texts mechanically and are easily beguiled and misled.
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The exhaustion produced by long hours of labor disinclines them
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to raise their hearts to God. Thus they neglect their prayers.
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The wretched state of their homes where several families live
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crowded together on account of poverty caused by the low
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rate of wages, adds to their moral degradation. You may say, well, government,
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look what government in America with these people out of poverty.
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Well look what the socialist and communists and our government
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are doing to flood the country with low wage illegal
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immigrant labor who will live in exact poverty as father
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Spiago just described, and to increase lawlessness at the heart
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of it. They're always trying to destroy. You can call
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it Western society, you can call it christiandom, you can
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call it just Christian society. Christian I mean Christianity in general,
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but especially the Catholic Church. And yeah, I mean, why
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else do you let crime run rampant on your streets.
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You're trying to destroy something. You know. Tim Walls loved
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when his major cities were on fire, you know, to
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b olem riots. He said, he loved smelling the burning
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tires out the window. They want to destroy the entire
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system and put in a demand system, a communist, socialist,
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fascist system to deal control, you know, like the old
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saw by the who meet the new boss, same as
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the old boss. All they want to do is replace
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the factory owners of the early nineteen hundreds, the Rockefellers
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and Carnegie and all that with them as bureaucrats. They're
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still going to make everybody poor and in far worse
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condition because we won't have the family and religion or
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property that we can pass on or enjoy, grow food on,
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live on. I mean you know that Klaus schwas, You
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will own nothing and like it? No, what if you
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don't want to not? What if you don't like it?
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He's not giving you the choice, right? What if you
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know me, I grew up on a farm, if I
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won the lottery tomorrow or sold a ton of books
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or something. First thing I do buy acreage, have a
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farm in their system. That's not an option. You can
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be a tenant on that farm, but you'll make no
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profits from your labor. You'll work as hard as you can,
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work yourself to death. The guy besides you will do nothing,
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and you paid the same amount. Meanwhile, because they don't
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have market equity, market efficiency, I guess just to say
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most of the food's going to rot. There's no incentive
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for well anyway, Okay, I'm not going to get into
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an economics talk. We'll get back to this, but remember communism, socialism, progressivism, Nazism, liberalism,
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liberal democrats, social democrats, leftists, whatever you would call it,
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are inherently opposed to Catholicism, to Christianity in general, and
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to human nature because human nature was designed by God
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and their system is designed by Satan. All right, so
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um Moreover, the sight of the rich man's greed or
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money on the one hand, and his extravagant expenditure and
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love of luxury on the other, excites envy of the
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poor man and arouses in him the desires satisfy his
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idea of happiness at the cost of the capitalists. Thus
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God punishes the rich in the way they have sinned.
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The socialist is the scourge, wherewith he chastises them. In
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the present day, the Christian faith is more and more
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undermined by irreligious press, by godless associations, notably the Freemasons.
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Freemasons have been very much behind communism all along, and
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don't ever fall into this. It's rich versus poor ideology
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that the communists promote. Just look at who are the
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most powerful, wealthy people in the world. George Soros, Glaus Schwab.
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Look at how Joe Biden went to government, never worked
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a private sector job in his life on a very
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modest salary, and ends up with millions, and they just
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they just can't figure out how all this money came
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to them. For the Chinese for a noll apparent reason. Uh.
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Nancy Pelosi, one of the richest actually mafia families in
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the country, became a socialist Democrat. Uh. We could go
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on down that list. The Kennedys, uh left, I mean
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Ted Kennedy was actually, according to the Venona documents, a
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Soviet agent. So yeah, John Carey, these are very very
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very well wealthy people, very very very wealthy people. Gosh,
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we go down some of the I mean the Rock
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of Uh, you know, Rockefellers have always been mining this stuff.
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We'd get into the what's that wealthy Jewish family from France,
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that Rothchilds, that was the name I was trying to
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come up with. Always been very behind left wing socialist politics. Wow.
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I mean yeah, I mean literally those titans of industry
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that were causing all that inequality were also the ones
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funding the communists and socialists. So anyway, and still are
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to this day. I mean, look at the money behind
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I mean, go the Tides Foundation. Look at who was
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funding Acorn before it was dissolved. Yeah, big time. So anyway,
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in the present day, the Christian faith is more and
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more undermined by irreligious press, by godless associations, notably the Freemasons.
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And you know, all of our presence except maybe two
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have been members of the Masonic Order. Uh don't know,
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don't ever forget that. And in some lands, by anti
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Christian legislation, witnessed the exclusion of religious auction from schools.
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What wonder if the belief in God in the future
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and a future life grows from him, the divine commandments
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are unheeded and the people craving for happiness in this
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life seek to wrest His wealth from their richer neighbor.
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In other words, if you don't believe in God, why
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shouldn't he steals from somebody. If the dangers wherewithin socialism
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threatens us are to be averted, the condition of the
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laboring class must be ameliorated, The rich must be liberal
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towards the poor, and religion must gain her place in
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the hearts of people. See that's the ultimate answer. Course
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of measures will do no more good to socialists than
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random blows will correct a naughty child. If anything is
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to be done for him, it must be done through kindness.
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Above all, the employer must deal with his work people
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according to the principle of Christianity injustice. Cutler is right
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when he says, if for one day we all act
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in conformity with the teaching of the Gospel, all social
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evils would be at once swept away. The employer must
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pay his men properly. That is their way. Just must
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be sufficient to support a Christian family suitably to their station,
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provided their thrifty industries and virtues. The position of the
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workmen must be secured. He must not be treated as chattel.
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Only to be employed. As long as a good profit
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is to be made out of him, and the workman
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pays taxes, he is entitled to the privilege of the franchise.
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In other words, the workman pays taxes, he should be
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able to vote. I would go so far as says,
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unless one pays taxes or as a landowner, one should
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not be able to vote. But that's just me. That's
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just what our founding fathers thought. You know, who were
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they to say anything? They only wrote the Declaration of
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Independence in the Constitution. As the workman pays, yeah, opportunities
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of improving his mind should be afforded him by the
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institutions of libraries, evening classes, information of working men's clubs,
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which the Holy Father strongly advocates. Once such was the
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Knights of Columbus. It was one of the reasons it
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was founded that and to provide insurance for Catholics, like
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the Masons Moose lodges and such were providing for their members.
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Legislation must also, I think odd Fellows is one Masons
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and Oddfellows. I think we're the two big ones back
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in the early nineteen hundreds. Legislation must also interfere with
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to prevent the undue growth of the proletariat through the
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absorption of lesser industries by the manufacturers. That means actually
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be against monopolies. It's a really good position to have.
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It was once a Catholic position, and now no one
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ever talks about it except Donald Trump, you know. And
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the accumulation of capital in the hands of a few plutocrats.
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The rich ought, as the Apostle says, to give easily
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and communicate to others. One Timothy six eighteen. Now more
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than ever, the rich are bound to give alms, otherwise
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they will be righteously judged. But religion affords the most
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effectual means of combating socialism. Social democracy is too often
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nothing but the absence of religious belief. Its chief dogma
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is the non existence of God and of a future life.
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Chief commandment is the gratification of the senses. Moreover, religion
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alone can give to the poor of the spirit of
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contentment so essential to their happiness. Some of the socialistic
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theories could not possibly realize, while others might indeed be
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carried out, but they would be attended by fatal consequences.
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Now again, remember this is before the bulls of the resolution.
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We would soon see exactly what it leads to. Two
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hundred million deaths of the people that are supposed to
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be cared for by that socialistic government, not including the
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enemies or all the abortions or etc. But deaths of
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their own citizens at the hands of the government. They're
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revolting in favor of the universal equality which socialists proposed
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to bring about is an utterly impracticable idea, especially in
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regard to property. For if the state apportioned to everyone,
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the exact amount required for his livelihood, one more probable
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than that one would spend it all, and another put
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a little bit by save a bit. Thus an inequality
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immediately arise, and to enforce the surrender of a man's
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savings would be sheer tyranny. The same endless variety which
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we see in nature exists among mankind. Differences of age,
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of sex, of health, of physical power, and mental endowments,
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and above all character and manners cannot be effaced. And
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from these differences of position and possessions are inseparable. Just
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as in an army, all the soldiers cannot be officers,
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and nor all privates, so all members of society cannot
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stand at the same level. Some must manage the business
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of the state or occupy themselves in military affairs, and
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they must naturally hold a higher rank than other members
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of the state, because they work more exclusively for the
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common will or well being. The happiness of socialist dreams
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is not attainable upon earth. Whatever the exertions that may
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be made to ameliorate the lot of man here below,
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none can succeed in eliminating from its suffering sickness and death.
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So are in suffering of the portions of mankind. A
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life of peace and enjoyment is not for this world.
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True happiness is to be found. True happiness is not
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to be found in sensual pleasures, but in God. While
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the whole world lasts crime by some poverty cannot be
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banished from it. Our Lord says the poor, you will
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have with you always John twelve eight. And in regard
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to the proposed absorption of individual property by the state,
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this could not be accomplished without serious disservices, for who
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would be willing to surrender his property without a struggle
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and were community of goods Once introduced, tranquility would not
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be obtained. The oppressed minority would, out of revenge, commit
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fearful outrageous Besides, laborious and industrious individuals would not be
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content and they would gain nothing by their industry. Thus,
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the working classes would lose instead of gaining. Socialistic theories
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could only be realized if men were like the lower animals,
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the destitute of the love of liberty, liberty and the
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desire for improvement. Socialism would cast a blight upon culture
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and destroy all stimulus, all motives for exercise of invented genius.
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If you would exert themselves to make progress and aim
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at perfection. If they knew their achievements would bring them
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no reward, the socialistic republic would all be slaves. Very true,
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don't believe me. Visit your local housing products projects, your
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local housing projects. No man would exert himself to do
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better than another if he knew all was provided for him.
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There would be a premium upon slothfulness and negligence. Experience
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has shown that evils brought upon mankind by the examples
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of communities which had all their goods in common, and
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which have been noted for their crimes and have come
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to an ignominious end. But although the dreams of the
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socialists are mere fantasies of the brain, yet they wouldn't
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be for long. Like much else that is undesirable, they
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are not without a certain use. As a hurricane tears
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down what is rotten and crazy. So socialism points out
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the weak points in social structure and compares our rulers
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institute needful reforms. Well, it didn't work so well that way.
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Attention has been drawn pre eminently to the exportion of
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labor by the capitalists, and the claims that the poor
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have brought tends to notice. Yet the harms done by
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socialists is far greater than any possible good it may
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directly or indirectly produce. All who endeavor, by unlawful means
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to deprive their neighbor of his personal property live in
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a state of mortal sin. That's the big thing behind
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thou shalt not steal. Okay, the mere fact of coveting
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what belongs to another is a sin. That's why covetousness
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and theft and adultery all go hand in hand. The
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mere fact of covening what belongs to another is a sin.
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We know that all sin brings others in their train,
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and this is no exemption to this rule. Saint Paul says,
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the inordinate desire of money is the root of all
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evils Fir Timothy six ' ten. And the utterances of
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socialists that they're gathering prove the truth of these words.
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Their speeches are often abound with virulent attacks upon all
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in authority, on the pope, on priests and civil magistrates.
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Some go so far as to assert that perjury in
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a court of law is permissible if it furthers their
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own interests. That's actually one of the tenets of communism
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and socialism. I mean, that's Mark said it, and they
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all pretty much go in for that. As far as
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I know, we know the crimes of which anarchists have
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been guilty dynamite outrages and assassinations. At this point they
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were setting off a lot of bombs and shooting people.
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That's what led up to the revolutions. Let them not
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be said in behalf of their principles a socialists that
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the early Christians had all things in common for the
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voluntary sharing of goods is quite different to what the
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socialists proposed to in force the fundamental principle of Christian charity,
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which church is alms given. Is this alms giving is
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this brother, what is mine is thine? Whereas the socialist says, brother,
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what is thine is mine. In other words, charities when
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you share what you have. Socialism is when you force
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someone to give you what they have at the point
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of a gun. It's the only difference between robbery is
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an individual with a gun as opposed to the state
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taking through taxation or confiscation. But in the end the
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enforcement manner, the enforcement is always carried through at the
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point of a gun. Don't believe me, try not to
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pay your taxes. Someone's going to come to your house
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and arrest you. If you resist arrest, what's going to happen?
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A gun again. A socialist point to religious orders where
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all properties of the community, they say, what is possible
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for them is possible for the state of the future.
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There is, however, no one knowledge analogy between the two.
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For voluntary property and obedience form the basis of religious
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life while in the state of the futures, while in
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the state of the future sensual gratifications are to be encouraged.
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There is, however, no analogy between the two. For voluntary
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poverty obedience form the basis of religious life, while in
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the state of futural sensual gratifications are to be encouraged
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and enjoyed. That is a tongue twister and a half.
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For some reason, I don't know why I'm stumbling over this,
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but what they're saying is the religious give up their belongings.
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They become willingly impoverished, looking forward to a future reward
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in heaven. Whereas in the state, all one has, or
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in the view of the socialist, all one has as
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essentual gratifications of this life. And I think we're going
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to work. I'm going to wrap it up there since
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I am getting so tongue tied, and that actually does
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conclude the Ten Commandments in this section. We will begin
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on what a lot, what the Commandments mean for us,
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what they require of us in our next podcast with
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the Works of Mercy, and this follows naturally onto this
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subject we discussed today. It falls very naturally in here,
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but it really does relate to the whole body of
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the Ten Commands. So y'all remember the words of Saint
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Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't worry, and I will
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talk to you next time.