Plus, when the financial system collapses because of the pandemic, cash in hand will be the only means to purchase things in the very short term (before the value of the Federal Reserve note's intrinsic value is finally realized - ZERO), as all digital holdings of money, 401Ks, SS benefits, stocks, derivatives, debit cards, credit, etc. will be wiped out, which is the plan. If you don't physically hold it, you don't own it. Americans are about to learn this reality in a very painful way. But cash in hand will only be useful for a very limited time. The best hedge against the coming collapse and reset is physically owning gold, silver & other precious metals, and owning land and the title to your home, car(s), and assets/capital. Don't be in debt.

Maybe if We Catholics stop buying things we don’t need, it would be a start.  Many Christians need to stop buying star buck coffee too.  It won’t be easy but we need to try.  

And is CASH some kind of panacea?

Hardly.

Truth be told, there is no such thing as the U.S. dollar available as "cash."   The only form of currency put out by the U.S. Government (and this applies to just about any government) is in the form of coinage (i.e., coins made by the U.S. Mint which is operated and controlled directly by the U.S. Treasury).  Try walking around with $100 in $1 coins and see how easy it is to transact business.

Otherwise, what is generally referred to as "cash" is in fact simply Federal Reserve Notes.  Don't believe me, take a look at any of your bills.  So, even if you're transacting on a 100% "cash" basis, you're still part and parcel to the overall system of which you complain as you are in fact simply trading in Federal Reserve Notes, put out by the Federal Reserve, a private bank with very little government oversight.

If you haven't already done so, the docuмentary "The Money Masters" is must-see-tv: 

While it may be a good indication that an advertiser is Catholic, there is no guarantee that whoever advertises in a parish bulletin is Catholic, let alone even Christian.  Oftentimes the bulletins are provided free to a parish, wherein the printer is the one responsible for obtaining the advertisements (and this is what pays for the bulletins).  My guess is that said company does not care all too much about who is advertising in the pages, and by all means, does not inquire whether the advertiser is Catholic or not.

There is some nuance involved for sure, and I was trying to be concise.  Some parishes print their own bulletins and have parishioner advertising on the back.  I’m pretty sure this is what the CMRI chapel in Spokane does.  A parish in my area has their bulletin printing and paper donated by a local print shop and only parishioners are allowed to advertise in it.

There are businesses which provide parishes free bulletins (printing and paper, they often also provide bulleting layout software, a clip art library, etc.) in exchange for selling advertising on the back cover.  Catholic Printery, Paulist Press, and LPi are some I am aware of, these are all Catholic owned.  A number of years ago I had a small sideline business selling advertising specialties and I ran an ad in my at the time parish bulletin.  While I didn’t need to be a parishioner or even a Catholic to advertise I did agree that there was nothing about my product or service that was incompatible with Catholic teaching.  Some bulletin printers require or allow the pastor to approve each ad in his bulletin.  It would be easy enough to call the parish or chapel office, or the phone number on the back of the bulletin, about any concerns or questions.

My reply was primarily in response to Reply #2 in which the poster seemed to imply that if one believed they could find local Christian owned businesses to trade with, they must be living “in a Naive bubble, where slogans replace living in our Badly Fallen World”.  I apologize if I am misconstruing what poster #2 in this thread meant.

I hope my doctor will accept two crates of carrots and 20 dressed hens in payment for that colonoscopy I had last month!

Seriously though, he who steals my identity gets what he deserves, very little!