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April 2020

April 21, 2020

Masquerading as a Social Justice Warrior

One pattern I've noted from people who use the unborn as human shields for making...

March 2020

March 02, 2020

Almsgiving Monday: St. John Chrysostom: Komminniss

“I am often reproached for continually attacking the rich. Yes, because the rich are continually...

January 2020

January 16, 2020

A Conversation with a Libertarian Observed

Here's some of a conversation that happened in my comboxes recently, illustrating what I believe...

August 2019

August 09, 2019

The last installment of my series on Catholic Social Teaching: Solidarity, Part 2

Last time, in this space, we noted that the Church speaks of solidarity as both...

August 08, 2019

Part 6 of my series on Catholic Social Teaching: Solidarity, Part 1

The great Roman playwright Terence said, “I am a man. Nothing human is alien to...

August 07, 2019

Part 5 of my series on Catholic Social Teaching: Subsidiarity, Part 2

As we saw last time, the principle of subsidiarity means that, as a general rule,...

August 06, 2019

Part 4 of my series on Catholic Social Teaching: Subsidiarity, Part 1

Following the dignity of the human person and the common good, we turn to the...

August 05, 2019

Part 3 of my series on Catholic Social Teaching: The Common Good, Part 2

Last time, in this space, we mentioned that, while the Church condemns atheistic communism for,...

August 02, 2019

Part 2 of the Catholic Social Teaching Series: The Common Good, Part 1

Last time, in this space, we looked at the first pillar of Catholic social teaching:...

August 01, 2019

I thought it might be a good idea to do a little refresher on Catholic Social Doctrine

So here is Part 1 of a seven part series outlining the Four Pillars of...

July 2019

July 01, 2019

Pius XI, Komminnissist

Here's some emphatically non-Libertarian stuff from Casti Connubii: 120. If, however, for this purpose, private...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

My series on Catholic Social Teaching

Back in 2016, I wrote a series of pieces on Catholic Social Teaching for the...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

Leo XIII and Tom the Dancing Bug

Let the working man and the employer make free agreements, and in particular let them...

January 02, 2018

Bp. McElroy speaks with perfect orthodoxy

Here: "President Trump was the candidate of disruption. He was the disrupter, he said. Well...

October 2017

October 09, 2017

The Gospel Approach to the Goods of this World

vs. the American Social Darwinist Approach: If the totality of your grasp of Catholic Social...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Bp. Robert Barron on the pro-life/social justice split in the Church

In an interview with my friend Kevin Birnbaum at Northwest Catholic, he calls it a...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met…

the rest of your money belongs to the poor. - Pope Leo XIII If your...

June 06, 2017

Dear Hivemind

Help me out here. Aside from pelvic stuff and a super-distorted view of subsidiarity read...

December 2016

December 09, 2016

Hey Western Washington! I’m coming your way!

I will be at St. Paul's parish (10001 – 57th Ave S., Seattle) to discuss...

December 08, 2016

“I’m voting for Trump because he is the lesser of two evils”

If you ever said this, then do be aware that you incurred a moral obligation...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

The Dumbest Schism in the Church…

...is the schism between prolife and social justice Catholics. Your pope is modeling for us...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Hey Everett! I’m speaking at St. Mary Magdalen parish tomorrow!

October 05, 2016

Scott Eric Alt speaks the truth, as is his custom

Social Justice is also a non-negotiable, according to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the...

October 05, 2016

A two part interview with Bishop Joseph Tyson of Yakima

...on immigration and Catholic social teaching:

July 2016

July 06, 2016

A perceptive essay by Tony Annett

in Commonweal. Here's a snippet: Neither party, then, offers a compelling vision of human well-being....

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Over at the Register…

I finish up my series on the basic principles of Catholic Social Teaching with the...

June 27, 2016

A reader wonders what a “living wage” is

A living wage fulfills four criteria: Families in general seem to be living at...

June 25, 2016

Rebecca Bratten Weiss has her head screwed on straight

She sez: Subsidiarity =/= nationalism or isolationism. Also, unless you regularly support your local farmers,...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

James: Applied Theology

A reader writes: There have been two families of note that have come our way...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

A reader asks about Catholic Social Teaching Resources

He writes: I was hoping that you could recommend a quality and qualitative book on...

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