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Home: Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Love and the law: true love demands justice - Father Raymond J. de SouzaWhat does the law have to do with love? Are they not antithetical? Read more... Moral Clarity in a Time of War - George WeigelTo suggest that the just war tradition is obsolete is to suggest that politics — the organization of human life into purposeful political communities — is obsolete. What we must do, in this generation, is to retrieve and develop the just war tradition to take account of the new political and technological realities of the twenty-first century. September 11, what has followed, and what lies ahead, have demonstrated just how urgent that task is. Read more... Moralism and judgment - Barbara KayNational Addictions Awareness Week begins today (Nov. 18-24). Everybody -- informed or otherwise -- has an opinion on addiction and how to treat it, so the subject never fails to generate animated public debate. Read more... Mother Teresa’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech - Mother TeresaThe poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things. The other day one of them came to thank and said: You people who have vowed chastity you are the best people to teach us family planning. Because it is nothing more than self-control out of love for each other. And I think they said a beautiful sentence. And these are people who maybe have nothing to eat, maybe they have not a home where to live, but they are great people. The poor are very wonderful people. Read more... Not Whether to Help the Poor, But How - Father Robert A. SiricoThe debate over the application of the core teachings of the Christian faith began when Jesus was presented with a Roman coin containing Caesar’s image. Read more... Oil and the Poor - Charles ColsonAccording to a recent Reuters report, a leading Senate Democrat "would consider supporting opening up new areas for offshore oil and gas drilling." Read more... Only Part of the Story - Russell ShawThe conventional wisdom operative in American Catholic social justice circles neglects the role of virtue. Read more... Opening trade morally benefits all people - Rev. Robert SiricoDuring the past decade, the Catholic Church has emerged as one of the strongest advocates of free trade. But a system that opens up trade opportunities also needs to be ordered by a moral law. “There is no such thing as a genuinely free economy unless it is grounded in the reality of objective morality,” Fr. Sirico says. “The Vatican clearly understands this.” Read more... Opposition to the Death Penalty - Ralph McInernyWhen I gingerly introduced the subject of Hell, those who had spontaneously rejected capital punishment and then had some second thoughts about life imprisonment when looked at in itself and not as an alternative to the death penalty seemed inclined toward a creative interpretation of eternal punishment. Read more... Paying the piper - Father George W. RutlerTo “pay the piper” originally meant just footing the bill, as the Earl of Chesterfield used it when writing to his son. Read more... Philanthropy and Its Enemies - Naomi Schaefer RileyActivists want to redistribute foundation wealth based on racial quotas. Read more... Physicians, Patients, Human Rights, and Referrals: A Principled Approach to Respecting the Rights of - Iain T. BensonA Submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on the matter of the protection of conscience. Read more... Pre-emption, Just War, and the Defense of World Order - George WeigelPapal biographer George Weigel spent part of his career studying Catholic international relations theory, the just-war tradition and the pursuit of peace in its classic Catholic sense of "public order." Here from Zenit is George Weigel on "Getting ‘Just-War’ Straight" and "Pre-emption, Just War, and the Defense of World Order". Read more... Principled Giving in Times of Crisis - Karen WoodsA core principle of effective compassion holds that the best type of assistance is that which puts those most affected by disaster back on their feet and in charge of their destinies in the shortest period of time. All good charity is local. Read more... Principled Immigration - Mary Ann GlendonNot for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples. Read more... Principles of Catholic Social Teaching and Health Care Reform - Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann & Bishop Robert W. FinnWe cannot be passive concerning health care policy in our country. Read more... Putting the "care" back in health care - Carl AndersonFor months debate has raged in the United States over the proposed health care overhaul. Several contentious issues have emerged including the proposal's cost, the level of government control it would create, and most notably, coverage of abortion. Read more... Putting Work in Perspective - ZenitMany still keep alive the spiritual message of Christmas in their families, but the end of holidays, and a return to work for many, should not mean forgetting about religion. The recently published Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church dedicates a chapter to human work, and seeks to explain its deeper meaning. Read more... Reactionary Liberalism and Catholic Social Doctrine - George WeigelA review of the basics of Catholic social doctrine is needed. Read more... Real Social Justice - Ryan MessmoreThis week marks the birthday of a man most folks have never heard of, although he coined one of today’s most ubiquitous phrases: Social Justice. Read more... Religious Liberty vs. Civil Unions - Richard A. EpsteinWhy is Illinois preventing the Catholic Church from doing charitable work? Read more... Renewing the Mission of Catholic Charities - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.We're here today – or anyway, we should be here today – because we believe in Jesus Christ. Everything in Catholic social ministry begins and ends with Jesus Christ. If it doesn't, it isn't Catholic. Read more... Rising Up From Flanders Fields - Father Raymond J. de SouzaEurope is old enough to have learned some important lessons in thinking about war and peace. But Europe also needs to recover the North American sense that evil can be fought, that it is shameful to appease aggressors and that wars can be won with pride and decency. Both are necessary elements in the Christian moral tradition on war and peace. Read more... Seven years later … - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe long, violent terror war in the Islamic world -- which killed hundreds of thousands in Algeria alone in the 1990s -- took on global dimensions on Sept. 11, 2001. Read more... Shakedown: How Catholics Are Getting Ripped Off in the Name of Justice - Francis X. MaierFrancis X. Maier says that greedy lawyers and anti-Catholic politicians are taking advantage of the sex-abuse crisis to fleece the Church. Read more... Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 22:53:15
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