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Book Reviews – May 2025

April 30, 2025 by Book Reviews Leave a Comment

The Family as Basic Social Unit: Living Out Catholic Social Teaching. By Kevin Schemenauer. Reviewed by Rev. Ryan Connors. (skip to review) A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought. Ed. by Juan R. Velez. Reviewed by Rev. Martin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Catholic Social Teaching, Christology, family, George Cardinal Pell, John Henry Cardinal Newman, Rule of St. Benedict, St. Benedict, theologians

On the Empathy of God

October 24, 2024 by Fr. Kenneth G. Davis, OFM Conv.

Catholic doctrine can empirically establish the doctrine of original sin. Every day news reports on humanity’s inclination to evil. However, that same empirical evidence also necessarily lends reason to every atheist’s most powerful arg … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Catholic Social Teaching, redemptive suffering, solidarity, subsidiarity, theodicy

Questions Answered – March 2024

February 23, 2024 by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP

The Church’s Teaching on Labor Question: There has been much talk of people in the USA educated in socialism. Does this fit into Catholic teaching, for example, ppm the issue of wealth? Answer: The question of the theology of work is c … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Questions Answered Tagged With: Catholic Social Teaching, economics, laissez faire capitalism, marxism, Rerum Novarum, social justice, universal destination of goods

Immigration and Solidarity

January 26, 2024 by Bishop Robert Brennan

Over the past year-and-a-half, over 100,000 migrants and asylum-seekers have arrived in New York City. Like many municipalities around the United States, especially those close to the southern border, our city has struggled to provide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bishop's Corner Tagged With: aid to the poor, Catholic Social Teaching, immigration, Pope John Paul II, solidarity

Socialism: A Bad Penny

June 24, 2022 by Rev. Thomas G. Morrow

A May 2019 Gallup poll found that 43% of Americans think socialism would be a good thing in the U.S. 51% think it would be bad. Those numbers are up from 25% and 40%, respectively, in 1942, according to a Roper poll. However, it seems that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: aid to the poor, capitalism, Catholic Social Teaching, Michael Novak, Rerum Novarum, social justice, socialism

Reconsidering Religious Liberty

How to Read Dignitatis Humanae

September 24, 2021 by Dr. Joshua Madden

Two years ago Pope Francis made a visit to the United Arab Emirates where he spoke at an interreligious meeting, offering several comments on fraternity, peacemaking, and religious liberty. At the outset of his message, he spoke of the need … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Catholic Social Teaching, Dignitatis Humanae, documents of Vatican II, misreadings of Vatican II, modern culture, religious liberty

Book Reviews – April 2020

April 4, 2020 by Book Reviews

Equality and Non-discrimination: Catholic Roots, Current Challenges By Jane F. Adolphe, Robert L. Fastiggi, and Michael A. Vacca. Reviewed by Christopher Siuzdak. (skip to review) Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy: An Introduction … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Bible study, biology, Catholic Social Teaching, celibacy, celibacy of Jesus, civil law, discernment, ethics, moral theology, natural law, politics, priestly celibacy, religious liberty, Scripture, Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, St. Ignatius of Loyola, theology of women, vocation

Thou Shall Not Steal

The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of Goods

January 26, 2020 by Dominic David Nalpon

The seventh commandment in the Decalogue, “You shall not steal,” is expounded upon in the Catechism in the following excerpt: [The seventh commandment] commands justice and charity in the care of earthly goods and the fruits of men's lab … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Aristotle, Catholic Social Teaching, ethics, moral theology, social justice, Ten Commandments

The Intentional Killing of an Innocent Human Being Is the Worst Sin!

September 4, 2019 by Fr. Irby C. Nichols

Life is the first right, on which all the others are based, and which cannot be recuperated once it is lost. – St. John Paul II. This essay is intended to help pro-life apologists address the issue of abortion in parishes, homes, and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: abortion, Catholic Social Teaching, human dignity, moral law, pro-life, St. Frances Cabrini

Book Reviews – July 2019

July 26, 2019 by Book Reviews

A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching By Kevin E. McKenna. Reviewed by Christopher Siuzdak. (skip to review) The Abolition of Women: How Radical Feminism Is Betraying Women By Fiorella Nash. Reviewed by Marcus Benedict Peter. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: abortion, Catholic Social Teaching, culture of life, history, masculinity and femininity, pastoral issues, pro-life

Book Reviews – May 2019

May 19, 2019 by Book Reviews

The Vatican in the Family of Nations: Diplomatic Actions of the Holy See at the UN and Other International Organizations in Geneva By Silvano M. Tomasi. Reviewed by Christopher Siuzdak. (skip to review) The Papacy: What the Pope Does … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Bible study, Biblical scholarship, Catholic Social Teaching, chastity, culture of life, economics, fatherhood, globalization, Gospel of Luke, immigration, masculinity and femininity, moral theology, morality, papacy, papal primacy, pastoral issues, politics, Scripture, sex, sexuality, the family

Book Reviews – January 2019

January 17, 2019 by Book Reviews

A Bloody Habit: A Novel By Eleanor Bourg Nicholson. Reviewed by Fr. John Patrick Cush. (skip to review) Was the Reformation a Mistake?: Why Catholic Doctrine Is Not Unbiblical By Matthew Levering and Kevin J. Vanhoozer. Reviewed by Dr. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: American Catholic history, apologetics, Catholic Social Teaching, culture, Ecumenism, formation of conscience, history, literature, pastoral issues, religious life, the Reformation, Thomas Merton

Alexis de Tocqueville, Subsidiarity, and Clericalism

October 29, 2018 by Fr. Charles Klamut

One of my proudest accomplishments in college was reading Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1830s masterpiece on what really made “democracy” work here, after so many near-misses or never-starts in history. The book was assigned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Catholic Social Teaching, clericalism, parish life, pastoral issues, subsidiarity

Early Winter Reading

December 1, 2016 by Book Reviews

With God in America: The Spiritual Legacy of an Unlikely Jesuit. Compiled and edited by John M. DeJak and Marc Lindeijer, S.J. (Chicago: Loyola Press, 2016) 253 pages; $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-8294-4454-4. Reviewed by Patrick M. Laurence. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Biblical scholarship, Catholic Social Teaching, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, Roman Missal, Scripture, The Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

A Recurring Problem at Georgetown University

May 14, 2016 by David Vincent Meconi

As a member of the Society of Jesus, it was embarrassing. As a member of the Society of Jesus, it was distressing, to say the least. It was right there in all the papers: life had become cheap—very cheap—happening at one of the first ins … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Catholic Social Teaching, Georgetown University, Planned Parenthood, scandal
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