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After the bishops adopt the economic pastoral, probably next year, it will become a teaching document in schools and churches for 53 million U.S. Catholics. They will be free to argue with programs advocated by the statement, but not with its goal of fostering economic rights and human dignity. "In our view," the draft declares, "there can be no legitimate disagreement on the basic moral objective...
...bishops in a struggle for the soul of the U.S. church on this issue. Two weeks ago, the group, whose 31 members include former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and J. Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace & Co., put out its own letter on economics. Said the 119-page document: "Poverty is not primarily a problem for the state. It is a personal and a community problem which each of us and all our appropriate associations, not only the state, ought to address...
...critics argue that the bishops' letter fails to acknowledge the power of American capitalism to create jobs and paths out of poverty. Instead, they contend, the prelates call for Government solutions that already have been tried and found wanting. Said Novak: "In a document that's supposed to be antistatist, it's amazing how many passages are from a statist framework." Adds Simon: "What we need is a larger pie, not a redistribution of the existing one. We threw a trillion dollars at poverty, and we have more poverty now than ever before...
...University of America and an outspoken social activist, helped shape the group's position on labor. Staff Member Thomas Quigley, a lay specialist in Latin American affairs, played a role in the international section of the letter. Insiders say, however, that no single person was responsible for the document's overall tone or content...
...underprivileged, and the degree to which we haven't made progress in raising their living standards is enormously troubling." Observed Joseph Pichler, a Catholic who is president of Dillon Cos., a major grocery and retail store operator: "There's much to agree on in the document, particularly when they speak of the dignity of man and the dignity of work. But their policy recommendations, I predict, are going to be widely ignored. They're bad economics...