Millennial writer Brian Keaney has a new article at The Whole Life Democrat on the Democratic Party’s need to “bring back the big tent.” He writes: Today my party has a 30 vote deficit in the House, and it doesn’t look like we will be taking it back anytime soon. This is attributable to any… Read More Brian Keaney in The Whole Life Democrat
Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR on patriotism and the World Cup. He writes: Lincoln and King clearly had a deep, mature love of country. In the face of slavery and segregation, more cynical men would have laughed off the nation’s proclaimed ideals of “liberty and justice for all.” They, however, called… Read More Mike Jordan Laskey: Love and pride for your country should go deeper than the World Cup
Pope Francis: “How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Virtue and Economic Life by Morning’s Minion: “This really exposes the incompatibility between Catholicism and libertarianism at a deep anthropological level. For libertarians, self-interest is a virtue, as it leads to more effective and efficient outcomes. But for Catholics, service is always the starting point.” Nothing… Read More Around the Web
Millennial writer Dan DiLeo has a new article at Political Theology Today, in which he explains that “the ideology of the Tea Party movement is generally inconsistent with—and very often directly opposes—the seminal conciliar document on Catholic theological ethics.” He writes: The Tea Party movement’s understandings of and firm commitments to radical individualism, negative rights,… Read More Daniel DiLeo on the Tea Party vs. Gaudium et spes
Pope Francis: “There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.”
Millennial editor Robert Christian has a new article in OnFaith that highlights the incompatibility of libertarianism and Catholicism. He writes: The closer you compare libertarianism and Catholicism, the more their differences stand out. The Church stands for a living wage, but libertarians oppose raising the minimum wage (which is nowhere near a living wage). The… Read More The Catholic Faith or Libertarianism: Pick One
