Check out these recent articles from around the web: 7 Questions: keeping college students Catholic by Michael J. O’Loughlin: “Katie Diller: Young adults are filled with passion and they are thirsty to live radically. Atheism can seem radical to students who might be shrugging off a flavorless experience of growing up Catholic. We have to… Read More Around the Web
This week, there has been a seemingly endless stream of deeply flawed articles and statements on Syria from Catholic scholars, journalists, and leaders whose knowledge of Syria is extremely limited. Most have employed “just war pacifism,” in which just war theory is supposedly applied but inevitably leads to a pacifist position of non-intervention (or, occasionally,… Read More American Catholics need to get serious about Syria
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Can savage capitalism be humanized? Taking up the challenge of Pope Francis by Michael Stafford, ABC Religion and Ethics: “If we do not make the moral and ethical case against savage capitalism, no one will. If we do not put forward an alternative vision of an… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Faith is Never Blind: One Corrective Reminder from Lumen Fidei by Ramon Luzarraga, Catholic Moral Theology: “Primary in an authentic Christian understanding of faith is that it is never blind.” Pope Francis: address to CELAM leadership: “Do we promote opportunities and possibilities to manifest God’s mercy?… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Paul Ryan Focusing More on Hurting the Poor by Jonathan Chait “It’s one thing to tailor policy to encourage people to work. It’s another to create a new punishment for people who can’t find jobs. And given the baseline reality of mass unemployment for low-skilled workers,… Read More Around the Web 6/30/13
Rand Paul’s understanding of the role of government starkly contrasts with the role envisioned in Catholic teaching. It is no surprise then when he breaks from the Church’s position on a wide array of issues, particularly those affecting the poor and the most vulnerable. What may be more surprising is his rejection of the Catholic… Read More Rand Paul vs. Catholic Universalism
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