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June 2015

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on Catholic Triumphalism

Believers themselves must constantly feel challenged to live in a way consonant with their faith...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Need to Use, not Worship, the Intellect

It cannot be maintained that empirical science provides a complete explanation of life, the interplay...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on Screwtape’s Use of Fashions to Stampede Us

In an age in which the super-rich are plundering the poor and impoverishing the Middle...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on Libertarian Social Darwinism vs. Lazarus

What happens with politics? Let us keep in mind the principle of subsidiarity, which grants...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Core Problem of Post-Christian Capitalism

...severed from all moral constraints beyond the profit motive: The principle of the maximization of...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on Fasting and Self-Denial

In any event, if in some cases sustainable development were to involve new forms of...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Fact that the Law (Political and Economic)…

...was made for man, not man for the law: Politics must not be subject to...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Hunter in the Bush

Whenever pro-aborts get all mystical and foggy and start gassing on about "Who even knows...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Common Sense Fact that a Global Political Authority…

... will be necessary to deal with lawless transnational corporations. He is, of course, in...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Hope that Peter Has a Louder Voice Than the 1%

We know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels – especially...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on Generation Narcissus

We can no longer speak of sustainable development apart from intergenerational solidarity. Once we start...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

In the present condition of global society, where injustices abound and growing numbers of people...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Common Good

Underlying the principle of the common good is respect for the human person as such,...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Hidden Link Between Caitlyn Jenner, Planned Parenthood and Monsanto

It is enough to recognize that our body itself establishes us in a direct relationship...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on George Bailey’s Building and Loan vs. Mr. Potter

Lack of housing is a grave problem in many parts of the world, both in...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on the Blessedness of the Poor That is Hidden from the Wise

An admirable creativity and generosity is shown by persons and groups who respond to environmental...

June 24, 2015

Laudato Si on Lady Gaga, Walmart, and McDonalds as Global Cultural Kudzu

Many intensive forms of environmental exploitation and degradation not only exhaust the resources which provide...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on Francis Saying, “No. Seriously Dudes: I Believe Human Life is Precious”

On the other hand, it is troubling that, when some ecological movements defend the integrity...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on Why the Church is Not Robin Hood

It turns out that alms for the poor are "provisional". The real goal is that...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on the Culture of Disposability

The secret connection between Walmart, blood diamonds, Thai child sex slavery, Chinese sweatshops, faith in...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on Abortion

Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on the Connection of All to All

Neglecting to monitor the harm done to nature and the environmental impact of our decisions...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on the De-Thingification and Re-Sacralization of Nature and People

Modern anthropocentrism has paradoxically ended up prizing technical thought over reality, since “the technological mind...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on The Hunger Games and Zombie Apocalypses

There is also the fact that people no longer seem to believe in a happy...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on the Catholic Faith’s Capraesque Cockeyed Optimism

Catholics insist upon free will, even when every Communist and Capitalist in the world tells...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on the Cult of Power

Technology tends to absorb everything into its ironclad logic, and those who are surrounded with...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on the Gun Cult

We have to accept that technological products are not neutral, for they create a framework...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on the Difference Between Cooperating with the Creator…

...and raping creation: Men and women have constantly intervened in nature, but for a long...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si on the Goodness of Science and Technology

Humanity has entered a new era in which our technical prowess has brought us to...

June 23, 2015

Laudato Si’s Deadly Challenge to the Entire Libertarian Mindset

The principle of the subordination of private property to the universal destination of goods, and...

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