Our country needs more effective, humane, and justly enforced anti-drug policies. But legalizing the drugs that ruin people’s lives is not the answer. Pope Francis delivered precisely this message last Friday: Let me state this in the clearest terms possible: the problem of drug use is not solved with drugs! Drug addiction is an evil,… Read More Pope Francis: Don’t Legalize Marijuana and Other Drugs
Burns Strider, a Washington political strategist, paraphrasing The Godfather said it well: they turned down an offer they shouldn’t have refused. Today Pope Francis announced during a pastoral trip to Calabria in southern Italy that the Mafia had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. He said they are guilty of the “adoration of evil and contempt… Read More Pope Francis: Mafia is excommunicated
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
The centerpiece of the recent Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism conference was Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga’s keynote address, which was followed by an excellent, thoughtful response by Bishop Blase Cupich. The Cardinal was introduced by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who described Pope Francis’ commitment to workers and their families while movingly recounting how… Read More The Catholic Case against Libertarianism (Part II): Cardinal Rodriguez and Bishop Cupich
Faith in Public Life’s John Gehring recently interviewed Joseph Fiorenza, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and a former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Gehring asked a superb set of questions, and the Archbishop responded with equally excellent answers. Here are some of the highlights of the Archbishop’s responses: The Pope… Read More Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza on Poverty, Structural Sin, Nuns, and a Broader Pro-Life Agenda
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
A week ago I was privileged to attend my youngest brother’s high school graduation. That day and the days surrounding it were filled with joy. My wife and I had surreptitiously made our way from Boston to Cleveland in order to surprise Owen for the occasion. On the morning of graduation, he opened up his… Read More Graduation Day and Pentecost
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