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June 2019

June 17, 2019

A Blank Check for Waging War

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is going on the theory that the Authorization for Use...

June 10, 2019

Bernie Sanders Tacks Distributist

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s plan to establish worker ownership in United States corporations is still...

May 2019

May 10, 2019

Catholic Teaching and Taxes

Senate Democrats in Illinois have “approved legislation for a state graduated income tax, a top...

December 2018

December 18, 2018

Overturning the Repealed

Here’s a trivia question for you. Has a statutory provision ever been successfully challenged on...

November 2018

November 11, 2018

Better Than Minimum Wage

Larry Kudlow, the “White House’s top economic adviser said” the other day “that he opposes...

October 2018

October 07, 2018

What’s Wrong With Socialism? (Part 6)

In setting forth his objections to Socialism in Quadragesimo anno [1], Pope Pius XI touched...

September 2018

September 14, 2018

What’s Wrong with Socialism? (Part 5)

In the last offering in this series [1], your humble servant related how by 1931...

September 02, 2018

If He Did It

I hope you’re sitting down, because I have some earth shattering news about the pope....

August 2018

August 22, 2018

That’s Not Subsidiarity

With the convictions of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen topping the news, it may have...

August 15, 2018

Christian Democracy Radio: Priestly Predators and Other Issues

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August 14, 2018

Politics Is the Religion of the Devil

Sometimes your humble servant says that politics is the religion of Satan. That’s hyperbole, of...

August 11, 2018

What’s Wrong with Socialism? (Part 4)

When Pope Pius XI wrote his encyclical Quadragesimo anno [1] in 1931, forty years after...

August 07, 2018

What’s Wrong with Socialism? (Part 3)

In the last offering in this series [1] your humble servant promised to explore Pope...

August 03, 2018

The New Teaching on Capital Punishment Isn’t so New

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the new Section 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church:...

August 01, 2018

Christian Democracy Radio: What Am I Doing?

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July 2018

July 29, 2018

Christian Democracy Radio: Interview with Dr. Sebastian Mahfood

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July 21, 2018

What’s Wrong with Socialism? (Part 2)

When Pope Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum [1] in 1891, the world had seen the...

July 20, 2018

What’s Wrong with Socialism? (Part One)

“Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time...

July 18, 2018

Interview with Solidarity Hall Publisher Elias Crim

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July 14, 2018

Public Sector Unions in Catholic Social Teaching

Your humble servant has lately been posting in these pages [1] [2] [3] about right-to-work...

July 07, 2018

It’s Not Always Bad

The U.S. Supreme Court has been spending a lot of time on Free Speech cases...

July 06, 2018

Hurting Labor Unions Is Wrong

In a recent post, The U.S. Is Not a Catholic Country [1], your humble servant...

July 04, 2018

Another Installment of Christian Democracy Radio–With Julia Smucker, Who Is Smarter Than You

https://www.spreaker.com/user/wcatradio/wcat-radio-christian-democracy-070318?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=user%3A10471680&utm_term=episode_title The icon of St. Joseph the Worker is by Daniel Nichols. Listen to...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

After Roe v. Wade Is Overturned

With Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring at the end of July [1], and...

June 29, 2018

The U.S. Is Not a Catholic Country

Applying ourselves to the study of Catholic social doctrine, it is not long before we...

June 23, 2018

What Now?

President Trump has ordered reversal of the policy that resulted in the separation of children...

June 20, 2018

We’re Responsible for What We’re Happy About

As NBC News reports, “President Donald Trump, under mounting political pressure from angry members of...

June 16, 2018

Yes, Healthcare Is a Right

They’re still at it. Another court challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is taking...

June 14, 2018

Free Speech Cake Baking

In 1942 the West Virginia State Board of Education ordered that all teachers and pupils...

June 09, 2018

Assurance If Not an Advance

At the Second Vatican Council we were told, “This Vatican Council declares that the human...