Father Barron on The Financial Crisis
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at
5:56 pm
Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture.
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I work as a personal trainer for a well-to-do family. I train the parents in the morning, the children in the afternoon, see to it that their meals are healthful and oriented to their fitness goals. I live in a guest home on the premises. They provide my food. Am I living off the fruits of their labor?
All you have to do is interview a worker laboring in a field. Ask him if a parish priest works, then ask him how a parish priest earns his keep. He should also be able to realize the differences in how both earn wages. Financial remuneration makes for great boardroom fodder, but the fact of the matter is a parish priest is comparable to the bottom fifteen teams in any professional sports league, paid to do nothing off the labor of others.
Nice, and yes, you are living off the fruits of what they have squeezed out of someone else’s surplus. Very Simple. Picking strawberries never made anybody rich. Enjoy your setup it sounds sweet. I just ask that people admit how they got what they have, that’s all.
Ah…so only physical work is real work, huh? That cuts out a pretty large swath of professions, don’t you think?
Ah…so, I’m not working either, huh? By the way, I was simply giving you a for instance example – although I do know of trainers who have such jobs. Their employers pay them realizing that they render a job worthy of remuneration. I teach people how to sing. I suppose that’s not a “job” either, though. May I ask how you earn your living, Elvismilk?
I make $1600 doing nothing, have no medical insurance, my kid is ending 3rd grade, my wife has never worked, we live in the house I grew up in, my dad, wife and I keep an eye on my mother who is not doing to well, we cut her hair and I do her toes, and I have been trying to write a masterpiece like Don Quixote for seven years, oh yeah I have had ten jobs in the last ten years.
Well likewise in the theology/ atheism discussion you have to have definitions of what you are talking about. Physical work I call work, wearing a tie that’s a paper pusher, and usually the job has a nice title ignoring the fact they don’t work. Kind of like a teacher who can’t do so they teach, someone who doesn’t want to work paper pushes. And yes it cuts out a large number or professions/no workers.
Elvismilk, you’re simply playing fast and loose with the lexicon since no dictionary supports such a limited notion of work. Thank God there are “paper pushers” out there to pilot planes, pull cavities and teach our children how to read and write. While I have nothing but respect for field laborers, my world view prevents me from seeing them (and others like them) as the only true workers on the planet. And thank God for the work of Cervantes. Keep up the good work on your masterpiece!
Lexicon?, sounds like a windmill for Don Q., thanks for the intellectual feedback. But I never said pilots, and dentists pulling cavities are paper pushers , but the fact is they both have a staff of. Reading and writing can be taught by parents, heck the first years of a child’s life take place in the home, and quess what?, they pick up language pretty well. Thanks for the masterpiece encouragement, Cervantes was another subtle atheist.
No. You’re working to earn your keep. Nothing in the world wrong with that.
My you sound ignorant.
And your standard is what? Someone attached to the Republicans maybe? LOL I never knew ignorance made a sound. Maybe that’s why the south was brought to the north’s attention in the 1800′s, it kept making a sound.
Capitalist economics contributes to the exploitation of the poor and weak. It is not “good”.
No useful professions.
How is a pilot or a dentist a paper pusher? Thats WORK. He was most likely reffering to money lenders or investors. People who simply manipulate capital.
Elvismilk; you have a lot of self love for yourself it sounds like. You love what you have and do but hate others. Most of the Land the Catholic Church has; was given to them by people who could afford land. How sad it is when a person who loves earthly things more than God. Would you rather loose your soul to gain the entire world or raise it up again in heaven? All I can say is that you have a a lot of pride, hate, anger, self-love of yourself but hate towards the Church. How sad.
Detachment…a significant word…
I spend my money on books.
So what on earth are we to make of the recent SCOTUS ruling in the Citizens United vs. FEC case, wherein the Court found that money=free speech, which is protected by the First Amendment, so that is why corporations can now blow billions on campaign advertising and the law backs this up?
Why would a CATHOLIC priest give usurers a free ride? People are spending their money on usurious interest rates. Why have you sold your soul to the Republican party?
This is much more “faith centric” of an answer Fr. Barron. This relinquishes the sword of your intellect and is faith stirring. You are getting warmer on this one.
Everyone please watch Deliver Us From Evil by Amy Berg for the truth about catholic church and its priests, bishops, and cardinals.
freemarket systems have been enormously successful in providing the necessary goods and services, as well as encouraging human innovation.they are fundamentally based upon self interest , which is a good thing . But we need to regulate it for the public good. I don’t believe the apocalyptic Christians were too interested in economic or political systems though. Poor people were going to inherit the earth. Look what happened to Ananias and Sapphira when they held back some insurance..lol
Thw world is good. I thought Christians believed that the world is bad! pLEASE EXPLAIN FR BARRON..
all due to greed ….