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We're here today or anyway, we should be here today because we believe in Jesus Christ. Everything in Catholic social ministry begins and ends with Jesus Christ. If it doesn't, it isn't Catholic.
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.
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.
True compassion isnt enabling drug users with "safe-injection" sites. Its treating them as individuals with the power to change their lives.
Several 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.
A 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."
Ed West meets the woman known as the Mother Teresa of Cairo for her work with the citys garbage people.
This week marks the birthday of a man most folks have never heard of, although he coined one of todays most ubiquitous phrases: Social Justice.