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Home: Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Keeping Faith With Labor: Can Unions and Churches Maintain Their Longtime Friendship? - Kathryn Jean LopezFor much of America's history, labor unions have enjoyed support from religious leaders and their followers. But those ties show signs of unraveling, as unions embrace the radical Left and oppose the priorities of church leaders. Email This Article Moral Clarity in a Time of War - George WeigelTo suggest that the just war tradition is obsolete is to suggest that politics — the organization of human life into purposeful political communities — is obsolete.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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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.” Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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". Email This Article 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. Email This Article Principled Immigration - Mary Ann GlendonNot for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article Pages Updated On: 09-Jul-2008 - 22:30:14
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