Friday, February 21, 2003

The Mormons have, as politely as I could put it, wacky theology. But the way they do some things interest me. I love the very American way they do things in their denomination. Specifically, the young Mormons will work for a couple of years as missionaries, and they do REAL missionary work, converting people and assisting with their needs. There are professionals who teach the missionaries and work with them. Also, I understand the mormon organization gives business loans to Mormons so they can start their own businesses. There might be individual Catholic groups that do this, but what about the “official” Church, such as the bishops or Vatican? I admire the Mormons way of assisting one another, which I also see among Jehovah Witnesses. Catholics don’t seem to be too interested in assisting other Catholics, particularly with things such as business loans, or mortgages. But isn’t this a modern way of “loving one another” as the early Christians? They took exceptionally good care of their own, especially widows and orphans. If the 1 billion Catholics really treated each other as a family, assisting one another with practical concerns, wouldn’t that put a huge dent in the poverty population of the world.

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