Tony Magliano (CR, March 24) cherry-picks the social doctrine of the church to suit his political ideology. Taking to task only the Tea Party and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for its budget cuts, he reserves for himself the definition of fairness with respect to the “universal destination of goods.” He uses disparity of wealth as a singular proof of unfairness, failing to note that with his definition we might even count the Catholic Church as seriously flawed in its practice of what it preaches.




