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