Reactionary Liberalism and Catholic Social Doctrine
A review of the basics of Catholic social doctrine is needed.
A review of the basics of Catholic social doctrine is needed.
The debate over the application of the core teachings of the Christian faith began when Jesus was presented with a Roman coin containing Caesars image.
We have so far been affected by sentimentality and a lack of realism that only undue severity moves or appalls us, rarely the opposite.
The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales, announcing the intended restoration of the Friday Fast, or, as it is commonly called, meatless Fridays.
The story of my conversion is the story of four men: Pope John Paul II, my father (albeit, an unwitting guide), C. S. Lewis, and Malcolm Muggeridge. It is the story of the Church's decision to publish a comprehensive Catechism of the Christian faith, and of a priest willing to go beyond the requirements of his office to fetch one lost sheep out of the wilderness. It is the story of faithful Catholics who prayed. And above all, first, last, and always, it is the same old story that it always is a story of God's grace and forgiveness and love. Deo gratias.
From "thinly disguised totalitarianism" to the "dictatorship of relativism," John Paul II and Benedict XVI are of one mind on the threats to the free society.
The fear of death is universal and quite natural. In fact, Chesterton calls the fear of death common sense, a coarse and pitiless common sense.
If teenagers do not enter their adult years already convinced of the reality of Objective Truth, knowable by human reason, they will be increasingly enslaved by the idea that there is no common universal truth.
Without the Roman Catholic Church, there would be no western civilisation.