This Weapon Shot Down Catholic "Infallibility": What Will "The Thinking Housewife" Do Now?!?

This weapon shot down Catholic "infallibility."

Dear Thinking Housewife,

I'm happy to see that you're becoming more critical of nations' entire econcomic systems rather than focusing on "the banking system" which gives voice to your fixation with anti-Semitism or, if you prefer, your fixation with Jewry's essential diabolism. (Notably, the authors of 25 of the New Testaments 27 books were all practicing Jews as was Jesus himself. Indeed at the very end of his life, Yeshua was in Jerusalem to celebrate The Passover.)

Belloc is more right than wrong - and where he is wrong he simply could not have anticipated the "information economy" which allows the outsourcing of certain manual occupations by replacing them with more intellectual occupations - like yours and mine with all the digital-cyber gear that makes them possible: "If a nation does not provide its people, in their generality and in their individuality, with work that can sustain a man and his family at levels acceptable within the context of the national culture, men will not work and the nation will not prosper."

The historical record of "the American nation" is indisputable: liberal government has supervised the creation of far more prosperous jobs than conservative governments. The ruling paradigm for the liberal/conservative divide as it relates to prosperous job creation is readily observable in the different economic ethics of Walmart and Costco (which is one of very few American companies that does not hedge its cynical political bets by "playing both sides" but instead contributes exclusively to the Democratic Party.

The Facts Are In: The Republican Party Is Terrible For Prosperity But Unparalled At Catastrophe

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-facts-are-in-republican-party-is.html

An even more pointed analysis of America's upcoming conservative-plutocratic economic collapse is provided in the following video interview in which Chris Hedges talks with U. of Massachusetts' Economics Professor Emeritus, Richard Wolff.

The Coming Collapse Of The American Economic System: Chris Hedges Interviews Richard Wolff

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-coming-collapse-of-american_8.html

I realize your doctrinaire commitment to infallible Catholicism makes you question every contradictory political or religious position. Even so, I'm confident that one day, the  main thrust of your essentially fault-finding mindset will cause you to question core Catholic positions themselves, starting with: "Since all global institutions are powerful enough to fall under Acton's Dictum, why should I suppose that the Papacy itself is not involved in the kind of corruption predictabley wrought by its own "absolute" power?" 

In 1870, along with his mentor Döllinger, Acton opposed the moves to promulgate the doctrine of papal infallibility in the First Vatican Council, travelling to Rome to lobby against it, ultimately unsuccessfully.^[13] Unlike Döllinger Acton did not become an Old Catholic, and continued attending Mass regularly; he received the last rites on his deathbed.^[14] The Catholic Church did not try to force his hand. It was in this context that, in a letter he wrote to scholar and ecclesiastic Mandell Creighton, dated April 1887, Acton made his most famous pronouncement:

But if we might discuss this point until we found that we nearly agreed, and if we do agree thoroughly about the impropriety of Carlylese denunciations and Pharisaism in history, I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means. You would hang a man of no position like Ravaillac; but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the gaoler to murder Mary, and William III of England ordered his Scots minister to extirpate a clan. Here are the greatest names coupled with the greatest crimes; you would spare those criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice, still more, still higher for the sake of historical science.^[4]

When the inevitable corruption of Acton's dictum takes deep root, where will  corruptio optimi pessima take you then? 

Presumably to a clearer understanding of proto-Nazi Pope Paul IV. 
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/pope-paul-iv-1476-1559-proto-nazi.html

I very much look forward to your reply concerning to my (updated) post concerning the following "infallible" conciliar teaching.

Pope Innocent III Condemned Archery At The Second Lateran Council, 1139 A.D.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/pope-innocent-iii-condemned-archery-at.html

Thanks.

Pax vobiscum

Alan

Compendium Of "Pax" Posts On "The Thinking Housewife," Laura Wood

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/compendium-of-pax-posts-on-thinking.html

"Why The Catholic Church Must Change: A Necessary Conversation"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-catholic-church-must-change.html