Employer and Employee
One of the interesting bits from Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum is in paragraph twenty where the good pontiff decides …
Author Archives: Omar F. A. Gutierrez
How “No Nukes” Must a Catholic Be?
The call from the Church for nuclear disarmament is certainly solid. However, it is equally clear that this is not to be unilateral disarmament.
Christ the King Has My Vote
I say that on the Solemnity of Christ the King every year, we get together with friends and family, roast something meaty and grand, and read what the Church has to say about the common good, the universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, participation and solidarity.
The Day Mother Teresa Put a Communist In His Place
There is a story that I heard a couple of days ago that I find just so thrillingly wonderful I …
When a Good Man Passes
And I will always remember that when a good man like him passes away a different sort of miracle makes itself present.
Pope St. Leo the Great on God’s Generosity and Ours
The following is one of the best explanations of a central principle of the social doctrine I’ve ever read. The principle is the Universal Destination of Goods.
Help Wanted: Someone to Translate What the Vatican Says
All of that said, while I think I can and ought to agree with the PCJP concerning the one world authority thing, I’m not really sure why it was that they felt it necessary to repeat this point. They only managed to confuse the American Catholic in the pew who hears – yet again – that the Vatican wants a one world order.
The Little Soul of St. Martin de Porres
St. Martin de Porres should also remind us of the same stuff that St. Thérèse of Lisieux does, which is that love is best lived when we are smallest.
It’s the Culture Stupid, and It’s Killing Us.
It isn’t financial bankruptcy; it’s cultural bankruptcy. This line from Mayor Chuck Reed of San Jose, California hits a point …
The Bishops Needed to Say It
I think Socrates had a rule, and I believe it went something like this: One can never write anything that …
Out of Darkness, Light: St. Francis Borgia
From out of one of the worst Papacies in the history of the Church comes today’s great saint, without whom …
The Bishops are Guilty of Being Honest: The USCCB and Faithful Citizenship
The following may be a bit of tough talk. I have noted with some interest the responses of many to …
The Irritable Saint and the King of Love: St. Vincent de Paul
What Mother Teresa saw, and what drove St. Vincent de Paul, was Christ in the poor. These two were not social experimenters.
Moral Accountability
Just after the inauguration for President Barack Obama, Robert George and several of his friends started a website called Moral Accountability. They wanted to show the Catholics and Evangelicals who voted for Obama that there are consequences to their actions.
Community Organizers Are Not Evil and Other Interesting Revelations
Let me share two revelations I received recently by way of listening. The first is that community organizers are not the Devil. The second is another reason why the liberal Catholic thing is dying.