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Current Issues: Social Justice: LINKS_PAGE

Articles:

The Lord hears the cry of the poor - Douglas McManaman

This 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 new huddled masses - Father Raymond J. de Souza

If there were a law assigning certain jobs by race, it could not be more effectively enforced. Read more...

The Old Affection - Peggy Noonan

Go deeper. Read more...

The Ricochets of Liberalism - Hadley Arkes

Those 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. Beabout

Past 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 DeMarco

There 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 DeMarco

The 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...

Toward a Moral Economic Life - Zenit

The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church dedicates a special chapter to look at economic activity in general. Like other chapters, it starts with an overview of some biblical principles. Read more...

Welfare and Charity: Lessons from Victorian England - Gertrude Himmelfarb

The word "welfare" is ambiguous. Read more...

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