According to the idiosyncratic twentieth-century French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, “Order is the first need of all.” She wrote this line while enumerating the needs of the human soul, and defined order as “a texture of social relationships such that no one is compelled to violate imperative obligations in order to carry out other… Read More Conservatives Must Increase Economic Security Not Undermine It
Check out these recent articles from around the web: A Year Later, the Pope Benedict Most People Forget by John Gehring: “The Benedict legacy often forgotten today amid the understandable euphoria over Pope Francis is a significant contribution to the Church’s social justice tradition.” Pope Emeritus Benedict by Michael Sean Winters: “Benedict’s pontificate was seminal… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Attacks on religion, liberty by Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett: “It is both ironic and tragic that in this season of universal goodwill the Christian communities of the ancient Biblical lands should find themselves in grave danger. Let us stand in solidarity with them… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Elite Politics by RR Reno: “Thus our current political culture, which is dominated by upper-middle-class concerns even as various political figures protest otherwise. On the Left we have a wide range of views about economic issues, but primary candidates can’t deviate from the dictates of Emily’s… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pot and Jackpots by Ross Douthat: “There are significant differences in the ways gambling and pot have won America….But both have been made possible by the same trend in American attitudes: the rise of a live-and-let-live social libertarianism, the weakening influence of both religious conservatism and… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Subsidiarity and Libertarian “Small Government” by James Baresel, The Distributist Review “Subsidarity is suspicious of centralized big business even more than it is suspicious of centralized big government. Subsidiarity would, in fact, prefer an expansion of government to the expansion of big business.” All Good Things… Read More Around the Web
It is not unusual to hear Catholic political commentators say that the Church is above politics, that its teachings transcend the labels and descriptions that define our politics. In articles, commentaries and discussions, a person will inevitably encounter this caveat. Whether on torture, the HHS mandate or immigration, these figures contend they are merely applying… Read More Why it’s OK to be a Liberal Catholic or Conservative Catholic
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