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Home: Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Ending the 'Slavocracy' - Anthony B. BradleySlavery is alive and well today. Recent estimates put the number of people in bondage at 27 million worldwide. The abolition of modern-day slavery is an urgent matter; in the words of Pope John Paul II, slavery “constitutes a shocking offence against human dignity and a grave violation of fundamental human rights.” Read more... Forgotten Treasures: The Counterrevolutionary Lion - Peter A. KwasniewskiPrior to the pontificate of Leo XIII, the Catholic Church in the nineteenth century was under siege and on the defensive. Read more... From religious roots, the birth of social conscience - Father Raymond J. de SouzaTwo centuries ago tomorrow, the British Parliament passed An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Read more... Go Around the Generals - Anne ApplebaumThe case for intervention in Burma. Read more... Good Wars - Darrell ColeThe most noteworthy aspect of the moral approach to warfare in Aquinas and Calvin is that it teaches that a failure to engage in a just war is a failure of virtue, a failure to act well. Read more... Government Cannot Love - Deal HudsonIn the midst of Valentine’s Day sentiment, it’s refreshing to hear someone who speaks plainly about love. At a White House briefing on February 6, Jim Towey, the new Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, said something that ought to be heard — “government cannot love. Read more... Guidelines for Nations to Get Along - ZenitThe Church's interest in the relations between nations stems from the universality of God's action in the world. Thus starts the chapter of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church dedicated to international matters. Read more... How to Think About Globalization - Michael CaseySoon after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the “Economist” published an editorial examining "the roots of hatred" underlying it. Many reasons for why people might hate the United States were considered. Read more... Human Rights for All - Mary Ann GlendonThe parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that speak to economic and social justice are almost completely ignored today; even by the major human rights organizations. It seems to me that the most pressing task for friends of human rights today is to re-unite the two halves of the divided soul of the human rights project — its commitment to personal freedom and its sense of one human family for which we all bear a common responsibility. Read more... Is It Always Sinful To Wage War? - St. Thomas AquinasFrom his Summa Theologica St. Thomas Aquinas responds to objections to the idea of a just war and explains under what conditions war is justified. Read more... Pages Updated On: 19-Aug-2008 - 00:06:19
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