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  • As a Catholic and as a moderator of https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/Catholic, I think this is a good move by the bishops. The Catholic Church is not defined by modern political divisions. We have priests walking with immigrants to court to discourage ICE from kidnapping immigrants, we have prayer groups outside most abortion clinics, we have protestors at every execution (capital punishment), we are told by our bishops to care for the poor, both personally and through the government we elect, and we are told that the right to life is a fundamental issue. We oppose the legal recognition of same-gender marriage and the acceptance of gender as a self-imposed construct. My bishop has helped promote legislation targeting payday lenders and other usurers while also doing the same in opposition to assisted suicide. We are a mixed bag. We are on both sides of the aisle. And both parties really want to gain our vote. If we self-declare an allegiance to either party, that harms our position. We risk becoming like the partisans on both sides who, as we often see, change their views to fit what’s convenient for the political party.








  • Newsmax is a biased source. They are only unreliable when that bias gets in their way or when they report on a topic they know nothing about. For example, they are actually good about reporting the uninteresting parts of military operations and conduct because they have a lot of reporters who are former military. Once their military reporting approaches a popular topic, then the bias kicks-in. Newsmax also has a lot more people familiar with liturgical issues within the Catholic Church. When reporting on religion, they are a good source, until it hits on one of those issues that tries to force religion to fit in a left-right framework. Here, where they talk about internal politics concerning the Latin Mass, Newsmax is actually a good source for information.


  • am looking for missed interest payments in the immediate future

    US debt is in US dollars and the US can print as many as they like. Not making an interest payment would be a political decision, not an economic decision, and has nothing to do with the level of debt or rate of interest. All historic cases of hyperinflation involved countries whose debt was denominated in a foreign currency. The US will have inflation but it will not have hyperinflation.

    Also, there will be no “BRICs currency” as they have nothing in common aside from a vague sense of alienation from the US-built world economic system. Infighting will break apart anything they try before it gets off the ground. These countries are more suspicious of each other than they are of the United States. As such, they have brief periods of limited cooperation followed by nothing or something worse than nothing.