"The current economic crisis is merely the symptom of a much deeper spiritual and cultural crisis"

I'm going to piggy back quickly on the free Obama phones in Cleveland post by linking to this piece that I believe firmly speaks directly to it:

Western secularism underlies the worldwide economic crisis and challenges the future of Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church told Canada's bishops.

"The current economic crisis is merely the symptom of a much deeper spiritual and cultural crisis," Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk told the annual plenary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Sept. 25. "As Western society rejects old moral structures and values, it finds that its moral GPS has no fixed and stationary points of reference."

Archbishop Shevchuk said the church must find "new courage" to proclaim the truth of the Gospel to contemporary society to provide "an anchor and compass."

"We live in societies where virtue and goodness are frequently a veneer for religious intolerance, personal gratification and moral decay," he said. "Secularism would like us to be closed in a little box of Sunday worship."

The former Soviet Union used that approach to religion, he said. 

"Separation of church and state has become separation of faith values from society, yet our mission is to preach the word of God to all and to be a constant sign of God's loving presence through social ministry," he said. "Let us not be afraid of the totalitarianism of political correctness and speak the truth regardless of whom we might offend, whether it is on same-sex marriage or on the genocide of abortion."

Or the corruption of leveraging the poor to keep power as Obama and those who share in his ideology are doing.

It's moral bankruptcy and someone ought to say it.

Comments

[Mancombe Wood]

Absolutely true. Realistically, it is doubtful any global changes can at this point be brought about, but we can still act locally and form communities around these highest of values, and perhaps one day some dent may be made on the global scale. Never cease seeking and sticking to the truth, and remember, the cost of truth is blood.