Bishops’ document provides information and formation
Here is my piece in The Catholic Voice on the U.S. Bishop’s Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.
Category Archives: Social Doctrine
The Unprecedented Rule
Some people have been asking how it is they talk about this HHS mandate rule to friends and family who are not Catholic. Well, here’s a way to do it that can resonate with everyone.
The Prickly Question of a Just Wage
Just wage is a right, but not for everyone or at all times. Neither is it necessarily to be enforced by the State. There is much to learn about the just wage.
A Primer On the HHS Rule, What You Need to Know.
What the Obama Administrations Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has done is an attack, which is why Catholics need to be well-informed about what is going on so that they can tell their neighbors about it. So, here are the facts.
Waiting for Justice in Education
I’ve said it on this blog before and I’ll say it again, education is a social justice issue, and it is increasingly becoming one of the more important issues for us to consider.
On Solidarity and The Libertarian Mistake
Do the libertarians escape the accusation that they ignore solidarity? Nope. Ignoring the good the state does and banking on the good intentions of individual institutions is not solidarity.
Employer and Employee
One of the interesting bits from Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum is in paragraph twenty where the good pontiff decides …
Prayer should be at foundation of election decisions
Here is my piece in The Catholic Voice on prayer and voting.
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.
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.
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 …
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.