Marge
This past June 20th marked my 42nd consecutive year working with homeless and at-risk teenagers and young adults. This is not what I ever thought I would be doing with my life. I was a finance major in college. I...
Tagged: Catholic Social Teaching
The Technocratic Temptation
(All quotes from Laudate Deum unless otherwise noted; numbers in brackets refer to paragraph numbers.) Laudate Deum, the Pope’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, conveys a sense of urgency. Humanity is on the wrong course, and time is running out. Pope Francis...
Pope Francis’s urgent plea on behalf of planet Earth
Reflecting on the worsening climate change crisis in the eight years since he wrote his environmental encyclical letter Laudato Si’ — concerning the urgent importance of caring for our common earth-home — Pope Francis laments, “I have realized that our...
Fratelli Tutti Workshop – Now Open!
Registration is now open for the Fratelli Tutti Workshop! This is a five-part live workshop that will be held virtually on Oct 24, Oct 31, Nov 7, Nov 14, and Nov 21 at 7:30-9:00pm (EST). Register Here! Do you want to understand...
The Moral Right to Immigrate
As the US Catholic Bishops have repeatedly emphasized in response to questions concerning immigration, there are two relevant moral principles indicated in number 2241 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), both of which must be carried out, and...
Card. O’Malley on the Challenge of Migration
Pope Francis spoke at a meeting with people attending an international conference on offering education and training for migrants and refugees in September. During this meeting, he observed that “Catholic institutions of higher learning are called to educate their own...
Interview with Gloria Purvis – Can a Catholic be Woke?
I first heard of Gloria Purvis in the summer of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. Around that time, Sam Rocha interviewed her for an excellent article in Church Life Journal titled, The Gift of Blackness to the Church. The...
Podcast – John Médaille and A Catholic Critique of Capitalism
In late 2016, after an election year that left me feeling very disillusioned with American politics and alienated from the conservative pro-life circles I had been actively involved in, I began earnestly reading about Catholic Social Teaching. As a part...
Catholic Social Teaching: Subsidiarity
(Listen on Apple | Google | Spotify) Paul Fahey and Dominic DeSouza talk about the third principle of Catholic Social Teaching: Subsidiarity. This principle is rooted in human freedom and participation, it is concerned with empowering people to be agents...
Interview with Tony Annett – A More Just Economy
Back in January, I read a new book titled, Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy by the economist, Tony Annett. Just two chapters in and I was hooked. Those first chapters were the most comprehensive, yet accessible, survey...
A Catholic View of Economics
Today’s late-night post is a podcast appearance by Catholic writer and economist Tony Annett, whose book Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy (Georgetown University Press, 2022) seeks to address economic inequality and injustice by applying the...
Ten Takeaways from Fratelli Tutti
It’s been two years since Pope Francis released Fratelli Tutti, his remarkable encyclical on fraternity and social friendship. When Laudato Si’ came out in 2015, I wrote “Ten Quick Takeaways” for Commonweal magazine. Now I’ve decided to do the same thing for Fratelli Tutti. Why two years late?...
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