The USCC's Case of "Progressivism"

Under the title "For Whom Does USCC Speak on Healthcare?" we find a lengthy essay, with pertinent questions.

...The “progressive” cause is manifest in the “health care reform” debate. That the USCCB’s domestic policy agenda is progressive and supportive of a magnified and expansive role of centralized government is becoming increasingly apparent, wherein true progressive form the means is the end.

There appears to be a lack of accountability for the policies advanced and legislation supported and the groups funded by the USCCB domestic policy staff. Little has changed since the USCCB through its funding apparatus the CCHD was for many years the benefactor of ACORN and several other Alinsky-type organizations all in the cause of “progress.” While the CCHD ended its long-term funding of ACORN, having misused millions of parishioners’ dollars for radical political organizing, it did so not out of a sense of shame for what it was funding, but rather because it was concerned with the revelations surrounding embezzlement of funds.

It's accompanied by the usual jabberwocky:

Director of Domestic Social Development, Kathy Sailes, assures continuity of the ideologically “progressive” agenda, which is in most ways quite different than the evangelium or pastoral agenda. ...Or, in an ideologically revealing moment of candor, Ms. Sailes captures the heart of the religious left dogma that the political is the spiritual: “And I have felt the sacredness of life at those moments, those sacred moments, when the political was transcended into the spiritual.”

To which the sober observer can only riposte "WTF?"

Well, there will be no rational answer from Ms. Sailes, so we'll move along.

Freedom is messy and sometimes unpredictable. Nonetheless, a continuum of Church teachings from Rerrum Novarum to Deus Caritas Est establishes that true, salvific charity is not something which can be farmed out to government agencies because of our impatience with the adventure of God’s greatest gift to us, freedom.

Precisely why Socialism and Communism (formally defined) is antithetical to Catholicism.

The big questions:

Catholics are entitled to answers. By what authority does the USCCB domestic policy staff fund causes or lobby for legislation which is adverse to many Catholics, ideologically, morally, and politically? By what authority does the USCCB domestic policy staff fund emotional “activism” using the vulnerabilities of less fortunate people to stoke claims and demands on government bypassing the disciplines of process and ordered liberty? By what authority does the USCCB domestic policy staff mask political ideology as a theology and then represent it as authentically Catholic? By what authority does the USCCB domestic policy staff claim as its sovereign and theological position “sacred moments, when the political was transcended into the spiritual” such that “faith becomes the servant of power?”

None, actually. Fuzzy-headed little USCC staffers have arrogated authority unto themselves for decades, although it is fair to say that the late Cdl. Bernardin's political values are accurately reflected by the pronouncements of these gnomes.

Bernardin---Chicago--Alinsky--Ryan--FDR---

USCC staffers are attempting to immanentize the Eschaton because they view that activity as "progress."

Those little chipmunks should consult the history of actual Catholic Bishops vis-a-vis the "progressives," who have always been, and always will be, anti-human.