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Home: Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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 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... 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... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [>>] Pages Updated On: 18-Nov-2009 - 14:41:30
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