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Home: Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... Sin and expiation - Fr. Raymond De SouzaThis week’s sexual abuse settlement in L.A. is a welcome development. Read more... Slow Down and Absorb - Peggy NoonanOpen borders? Mass deportations? How about some common sense instead? Read more... Social Doctrine's Role in the Church - ZenitThe last section of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church explains the pastoral and ecclesial dimensions of the teaching in this area. Read more... Social Justice is a complex concept - Father Robert SiricoA column by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, a Catholic writer for the Washington Post, makes the claim that "Catholic social justice demands a redistribution of wealth." Read more... Something of the Glory of God Shines on Your Face - Pat GohnIf we lined up all the major issues of Catholic social teaching and compared them to the Himalayas, the "dignity of the human person" would be Mount Everest – the most magnificent and tallest peak dwarfing the rest. Read more... Spreading human misery - Barbara KayTrue compassion isn’t enabling drug users with "safe-injection" sites. It’s treating them as individuals with the power to change their lives. Read more... Stopping the International Criminal Court - Mary Jo AndersonAll indications are that the newly established ICC poses a serious threat to both American sovereignty and religious liberty. Written originally for Crisis magazine, this article includes an addendum - written by the author especially for CERC - which makes note of a number of important developments that have occurred since the original date of publication. Read more... Subsidiarity: A Primer - Brad MinerSubsidiarity: A term (the Latin subsidium for aid, help) from Roman Catholic social philosophy which expresses the view that, whenever practicable, decisions ought to be made by those most affected by the decisions. Read more... The Abiding Significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Christopher O. TollefsenAugust, 2010 marked the sixty-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Read more... The Capitalist Parable - Father James V. Schall, S.J.The capitalist parable, as I call it, when spelled out, deals with God's ways with us. Read more... The Church's Just War Theory - Part 2 - Fr. William SaundersWhile the criteria for waging a just war are reasonable, our modern methods of warfare complicate their application, especially in the areas of proportionality, discrimination, and due proportion. 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. Read more... The Eyes Have It - Peggy NoonanIn the post-privacy era, we all know too much about one another. Read more... The Great Both/And of Catholic Social Teaching - Father Robert BarronPaul Ryan, a devout Catholic, has claimed the social doctrine of the Church as the principal inspiration for his policies. Read more... The Human Face and the Way of Peace - Donald DeMarcoDuring his homily at St. Peter’s Basilica for the World Day of Peace and the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God—New Year’s Day—Pope Benedict XVI offered the world a most thought-provoking reflection on peace. The Holy Father developed the point that peace begins when we look upon the face of another person. Read more... The Importance of the Family - ZenitThe newly published Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church dedicates one of its first chapters to the institution of the family, described as "the vital cell of society." Read more... The kind of people we're becoming, and what we can do about it - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.The real choice in accepting or rejecting a child with special needs is between love and unlove; between courage and cowardice; between trust and fear. That's the choice we face when it happens in our personal experience. And that's the choice we face as a society in deciding which human lives we will treat as valuable, and which we will not. Read more... The Lord hears the cry of the poor - Douglas McManamanThis month the Holy Father prays that international attention towards the poorer countries may give rise to more concrete help, in particular to relieve them of the crushing burden of foreign debt. Read more... The Many Moral Questions in Health-care Reform - George WeigelThe defense of the inalienable right-to-life is not the only moral principle involved in the health-care debate. Read more... Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 07 2013 - 22:30:47
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