Earlier this week, Republican candidate, Scott Brown, won a special election in Massachusetts, USA, supposedly a Democrat stronghold — which is going to change history.

Soon he will be voting, along with fellow Republican Senators, against President Obama’s proposed Health Care Plan.

If the Democrat candidate had won, Obama would have had the numbers to pass the new legislation without debate.

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The Obama Health Plan is controversial:

(1) Feared by many as “socialistic”, it will, for the first time ever in the USA, provide universal health cover.

At present over 60 million Americans lack adequate health insurance. The old are covered by Medicare. The very poor are covered by Medicaid. Those working for big corporations are covered by their boss.

The rest, the working poor, have no cover. They cannot afford to get sick. It’s a brutal system, needing to be fixed.

(2)But there is a snag. The legislation in its present form cannot be supported by anyone who respects human life.

Amongst all the nice reforms are tucked away provisions that will give the abortion industry its greatest-ever boost.

Do politicians ever act on principle? Do they not invariably do whatever it takes, however perverse, to maintain themselves in perk-harvesting situations?

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To create a better world, we must get politicians and government out of healthcare (also out of education and welfare).

Back in medieval Europe, health, education and welfare workers were all religious brothers, priests and nuns.

Unpaid: their life consisted of saying their prayers, tilling the soil to feed themselves — the rest being free for healing, teaching, helping . . . .

Celibate: they didn’t have to divide their time between God’s work and any family ties . . . .

TODAY THE CHURCH MUST SEEK AGAIN TO CREATE A NEW SOCIETY INSIDE — AND IN COMPETITION WITH — THE PRESENT DISINTEGRATING, ANTI-GOD, “MULTI-CULTURAL” SHAMBOLIC SHELL.

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It is to this understanding of what God wants for human society that Mother Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first “saint”, committed her life. She refused always to accept even a cent of government money. She preferred to beg.

It will happen again — as soon as young people start seeing religious orders as an alternative lifestyle — different, unconventional, out-of-the-ordinary, unique, selfless — a full-time sharing of the divine life of God.

That’s not the message they’re getting at present.