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Home: Current Issues: Social Justice Current Issues: Social JusticeArticles:ObamaCare and Religious Freedom - Archbishop Timothy M. DolanHow about some respect for Catholics and others who object to treating pregnancy as a disease? New Read more... The End of Charity - Theodore DalrympleThat judgments in the past were harsh or unfeeling is, alas, the case. But that is a reason for refining our judgment, not for refraining from exercising it at all. New Read more... "Seeing God in Others" - Jean VanierSomewhere this cry of, "Do you want to be my friend?" touched me. I began visiting asylums, hospitals, different institutions, families, and I discovered an immense world of pain which I never, never could have imagined. Read more... 'Love Carefully' - Jennifer Roback MorseLast year, the chief United Nations researchers on AIDS publicly admitted that the U.N. has consistently over-estimated the size of the AIDS epidemic. Read more... A Christian Vision of the Environment - ZenitThe new Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church dedicates an entire chapter to environmental issues, in recognition of the subject's increasing importance. Read more... A Critical Review of Some Best Selling Textbooks in Catholic Social Teaching - Stephen SharkeyAs college-level courses on Catholic Social Teaching become more widespread, it is important to explore the contents of the CST textbooks that students are likely to encounter. Are the ideology and pedagogy of these textbooks doctrinally faithful and respectful of the Church’s teaching authority? Read more... A Critical Review of Some Best Selling Textbooks in Catholic Social Teaching - Stephen SharkeyAs college-level courses on Catholic Social Teaching become more widespread, it is important to explore the contents of the CST textbooks that students are likely to encounter. Are the ideology and pedagogy of these textbooks doctrinally faithful and respectful of the Church’s teaching authority? Read more... A Lost Dialogue - Robert RoyalS: My young friend, Glaucon, how good to meet you here. How are your studies coming? Are you learning things that elevate the soul, which you might share with me? Read more... A Principled Charity - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.The basis of Catholic social doctrine is quite straightforward. Read more... A Thread for Weaving Joy - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.The great French Jesuit Henri de Lubac once wrote, "Suffering is the thread from which the stuff of joy is woven. Never will the optimist know joy." Those seem like strange words, especially for Americans. Read more... Admissions of Failure - Charles ColsonCorrections in crisis and what needs to be done about it. Read more... Amnesty’s Fall - The EditorsAmnesty International has fallen a long, long way from the high perch it once occupied. Read more... An Immigration Debate Primer - George WeigelIt's hard to imagine a more depressing spectacle in contemporary American public life than the immigration reform "debate." Read more... Are we really serious when we ask God to deliver us from war? - William L. PortierPerhaps our present disjunction between just-war and pacifist approaches to this issue reflects uncritically the sort of extrinsicist theology of nature and grace characteristic of the modern period. Read more... As We Forgive - Frederica Mathewes-GreenWhat touched me about As We Forgive was the unexpected beauty of forgiveness, the victory of love over evil, the bursting of light into darkness. Read more... Back to School on Catholic Social Teaching - Clint W. GreenIn towns across America, students returned to school last week. Many returned to government schools, others to charter or private schools, and some 2.4 million entered the halls of Catholic schools. Read more... Basic Principles Behind Social Doctrine - ZenitCatholic social teaching often mentions the importance of the human person, or concepts such as the common good, but without going into much detail as to what they mean. Read more... Better Off Dead? What’s Wrong with Wrongful Birth Lawsuits - Jay WebberIn my favorite movie, George Bailey falls under the terrible illusion that everyone around him would be better off if he had never even been born. To show him how tragically misguided he is, his guardian angel Clarence shows him what the world would be like without him, and — I don’t think I’m ruining the ending for anyone — George realizes that his really has been a wonderful life. In 2002, a plaintiff’s attorney might get to George quicker than an angel. Read more... Building better things, living better lives - Father Raymond J. de SouzaMy path to the priesthood went through the study of economics, so the past week I've spent at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences is about as pleasant a task as I could imagine. Read more... Campaign 2008: Jaw, Jaw, War, War - George WeigelWinston Churchill, master of eloquent bellicosity, is also remembered for saying that "'Jaw, jaw' is better than 'war, war.'" Read more... Capital Punishment and the Just Society - Father Thomas D. Williams, LCFew issues today arouse such moral passion as capital punishment. Read more... Care of vulnerable people - Jean VanierThank you for the opportunity to reflect with you on the care of vulnerable people. Read more... Catholicism & Capital Punishment - Avery Cardinal DullesAfter providing a survey of the complex question of capital punishment Cardinal Dulles writes that: "The Pope and the bishops, using their prudential judgment, have concluded that in contemporary society, at least in countries like our own, the death penalty ought not to be invoked, because, on balance, it does more harm than good." Read more... Catholics, Health Care and the Senate's bad bill - Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.Catholics and other persons of good will concerned about the foundations of human dignity should oppose it. Read more... Christianity Without Salvation - Joseph LoconteWithin a few years of its publication in 1907, Christianity and the Social Crisis swept through America's Protestant churches like a nor'easter, selling more than 50,000 copies to ministers and laypeople alike. Read more... Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 22:53:15
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