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Home: Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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 Eyes Have It - Peggy NoonanIn the post-privacy era, we all know too much about one another. 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... The new huddled masses - Father Raymond J. de SouzaIf there were a law assigning certain jobs by race, it could not be more effectively enforced. Read more... The Old Affection - Peggy NoonanGo deeper. Read more... The Poverty of Social Justice - Robert RoyalSeveral years ago, the editor of a Catholic encyclopedia asked me the write a dozen or so entries on Catholic social teaching, including one on social justice. I read into the literature. But I found that social justice, if it can be said to exist at all, is a pretty threadbare idea. Read more... The Ricochets of Liberalism - Hadley ArkesThose vexing hearings over Robert Bork, for his nomination to the Supreme Court, back in 1987, left enduring marks. Read more... The Role of Christian Anthropology in Welfare Reform - Gregory R. BeaboutPast articulations of social policy have tended to ignore basic truths about the human person, leading to negative, long-term consequences for those in need. The rehabilitation of the proper exercise of human freedom is both the foundation and the goal of the future of welfare reform. Read more... The Role of Human Sympathy in the Work of Social Justice Part I - Donald DeMarcoThere was once a young man whose parents, in an attempt to improve the family's finances, purchased a large house that was to be used as a school for young ladies. Read more... The Role of Human Sympathy in the Work of Social Justice Part II - Donald DeMarco"Recommend to your children virtue," Beethoven advised, "that alone can make them happy, not gold." The fact that he had no children of his own does not detract from the legitimacy of these words. Let us consider one man who lived by the spirit of this maxim, Sir Francis Burdett. Read more... The Virtue of Social Justice - Donald DeMarcoThe expression “social justice” has been particularly well marketed. Everyone, it seems, is a champion of social justice. Groups may disagree with each other on nearly every moral issue but, when it comes to social justice, they all stand up and salute. Read more... Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 22:53:15
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