The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-04-06, Page 16Page 4—Crossroads—April 6, 1983
The ongoing debate be-
tween the Catholic Bishops
and our federal politicians
over what is Caesar's and
what isn't, is hampered by
each sides' unwillingness to
face some basic truths. One
such truth is that if you
translate the spirtual values
of the Christian church,
particularly those derived
from the New Testament,
into political values, they are
more nearly socialist than
anything else. And so if the
Bishop's economic argu-
ments had a Marxist flavor,
that was only to be expected.
Another truth, perhaps, is
that if the Christian church
continues to make that
translation, continues to tell
Caesar that he's not running
things in a Christian way,
more and more church -goers
are likely to be alienated.
This country is traditionally
less than a quarter NDP, and
the more the church takes
sides in matters conceived to
be temporal, the more
church -going Conservatives
and to a lesser extent,
Liberals, tend to get fed up
with what the church stands
for. The admonition by five
Roman Catholic Liberal
MPs to the Bishops is only
partly political, as I see it. As
Roman Catholics, they are
also vi7orried about what is
best for the church itself. Its
difficult to establish a pre-
cise point at which the Chris-
tian church in this country
began to change. Let's say
for argument's sake, that it
was about 25 years ago. The
church began to perceive
that it was becoming irrele-
vant to much of its congrega-
tion, particularly its young-
est members. Some younger
Protestant ministers began
to court the young, speaking
to them in a vernacular (as
they perceived it) and
dressing and behaving in
that youthful vernacular as
well. In so doing, they be-
came not sympathetic
figures, but slightly ridicu-
lous. The next substantive
step in the pursuit of rele-
vance, was a more active in-
tervention in politics. It was
remote, at first, the Cali-
fornia grape growers for
example, and then it got
closer to home: Canadian
corporations in South
Africa; the peace move-
ment. In political terms,
issues that, not surprisingly
given the dictums of the New
Testament, are left of
centre. And so it isn't just
Liberal politcians who feel
the church might be better
off if it returned to a more
traditional role: teaching
Christian ethics but leaving
the political applications of
those ethics to the individual.
But was that ever the
church's traditional role,
and does that suggestion
really address the problem?
It seems to me that thegmore
socialist that governments
become in a Christian
society, the more the role of
the church is diminished.
The real problem may be not
that the churches are
messing with what is
Caesar's, but that Caesar, be
developing a moral con-
science, is increasingly
messing with what was the
church's.
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