June 13, 2013 – Catechism 2437 – 2442

My version of the Catechism has certain words italicized to gift emphasis.  As I was reading this, I was thinking about our nation and what we should be considered.  Most would label us a “rich nation”.  That means we are to do what we can to help those nations that are considered “third world” in their poverty and development.  And we do.  Countless millions leave our government to support such nations.  But, are we really a “rich nation” in any real sense.  Paragraph 2437 says “on the one side there are those nations possessing and developing the means of growth and, on the other, those accumulating debts”.  A country that is incurring 1 trillion dollars a year in debt is not a growing or rich nation, it is on the “other side”.  It makes you wonder if we should be helping other nations that are “third world” or how far about “third world” are we.  Where are we in the grand scheme of things as a nation.  I don’t think we can be incurring the debt we have and still think of ourselves as “the world power”.  Where is that power coming from.  It is smoke and mirrors because it has not real foundation.  I think a nation in our situation should really stop looking to the problems of the world and focus more on the problems in themselves.

Plus, there is really no benefit to the world for such a nation that has no moral basis to be spreading that “theology” to the rest of the world.  We really have enough problems to take care of on our own.