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Are we really serious when we ask God to deliver us from war? - William L. Portier

Perhaps 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. Email This Article

Back to School on Catholic Social Teaching - Clint W. Green

In 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. Email This Article

Basic Principles Behind Social Doctrine - Zenit

Catholic 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. Email This Article

Better Off Dead? What’s Wrong with Wrongful Birth Lawsuits - Jay Webber

In 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. Email This Article

Capital Punishment and the Just Society - Fr. James Williams, L.C.

In the case of abortion, contraception, or women’s ordination, for example, lines are clearly drawn between theologians loyal to the Magisteriurn and those who dissent from Church teaching. Regarding capital punishment, on the other hand, such black and white categories do not exist. Email This Article

Catholicism & Capital Punishment - Avery Cardinal Dulles

After 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." Email This Article

Christianity Without Salvation - Joseph Loconte

Within 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. Email This Article

Christianity's Indispensable Social Teaching - Cardinal George Pell

Christianity is not a private lifestyle choice, although some in society would like to confine it to this. Christian living and Christian values have public benefits and consequences, and people who are serious about their faith generally seek to live it out in an appropriate way in every part of life. The Church offers its social teaching to all Christians and people of goodwill as a series of reflections on the best way to advance the common good and defend important human values. Email This Article

Clear Thinking on Immigration - Andrew Yuengert

Amid the heated rhetoric and dubious claims made on both sides of the immigration debate — that any concerns about immigration are evidence of racism, that immigrants are ruining the economy — we should all take a deep breath and call to mind the following points: Email This Article

Compendium of Social Wisdom - Zenit

In spite of the limited media coverage of Monday's publication of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, the event was an important moment. The compendium gathers, for the first time in the Church's history, magisterial teachings on social issues. Email This Article

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