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A Liberationist Pope

February 7, 2014 by Dr. Michel Therrien, STD

Read carefully: We should see in this critique (by Pope Francis), not an embrace of socialism, or a condemnation of the market economy, but a call to adopt a different ethic for the marketplace. Pope Francis is a Jesuit, a prelate from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Magazine Tagged With: American Enterprise Institute, Caritas in Veritate, Catholic Social Teaching, Evangelii Gaudium, financial speculation, free market, globalization, idolatry of money, laissez faire capitalism, marxism, morality, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Paul VI, Rerum Novarum, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, the New Evangelization, trickle-down economics, welfare

The Social Teaching of John Paul II

January 15, 2014 by Dr. John C. Caiazza, PhD

John Paul wanted to move forward the Council’s openness and announcement of Christian hope to the postmodern world, but ... he saw that the excesses brought about by the Council were having destructive effects and acted to preserve the C … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Magazine Tagged With: Adam Smith, capitalism, Catholic Social Teaching, Centesimus Annus, communism, Edmund Husserl, free market, Fukuyama, Heidegger, Joseph Gremillon, Karl Marx, laborem Exercens, Max Scheler, Milton Friedman, Morris West, Mother Teresa, natural law, Phenomenology, Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI, Popularum Progressio, pre-industrial nations, Rerum Novarum, socialism, solidarity, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, Soviet Union, St. Edith Stein, St. John XXIII, The End of History, The Wealth of Nations

The Ethics of Water

October 22, 2013 by Christopher Meehan

Some 13 percent of the world’s population does not have access to improved water (about 910 million people).     Water access efforts (USAID.GOV) For most Americans, few things are more easily taken for granted than the water tap. The abi … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Magazine Tagged With: Catholic Social Teaching, Christina Z. Peppard, David Gushee, Elena Lopez-Gunn, ethics, Lucia De Stefano, Michael Guebert, Nature Conservancy, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Pope John Paul II, Ramon Llamas, Sandra Postel, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, water

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