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COMMENTARY:
Faithful Citizenship and the Formed Conscience
Sadly, there are too many politicians who are professed Catholics and yet stand publicly for political and policy positions which are directly at odds with the teaching of the Church and the Natural Law.
It is an election year for citizens of the United States. The next President will appoint at least two Justices to the United States Supreme Court, at a time when America is rethinking the decision which legalized all abortions, Roe v Wade. The next President will also have to handle the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and an economy in crisis, leaving the poor, in all of their manifestations, the most vulnerable.
LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) - Every year the Bishops of the United Sates address the issues surrounding what they aptly call “faithful citizenship”.
In their most recent pronouncement on how Catholic Christians are to participate in the political process entitled “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility.”
This well written document can be found at www.usccb.org/faithfulcitizenship. There, one can also find helpful aides to assist both understanding its implications and helping others to apply its teaching.
[ read the entire article here ]
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In their most recent pronouncement on how Catholic Christians are to participate in the political process entitled “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility.”
This well written document can be found at www.usccb.org/faithfulcitizenship. There, one can also find helpful aides to assist both understanding its implications and helping others to apply its teaching.
[ read the entire article here ]
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[ 3:04 ] . . . . . Adoro Te Devote
'Click-on' the above > and take in the peaceful love
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Hammering Kids for Christ
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Controversial Catholic youth minister Justin Fatica is tough and bruised, but soft-hearted, and few dispute he has a knack for reaching troubled kids
by Greg Ruehlmann
Photos courtesy of HBO and Allison Redlich
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The following article was done in partnership with the National Catholic Reporter (NCR), an independent news-weekly founded in 1964. It is the cover story for their April 4th issue.
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The crowd is larger than usual today, and the reason for this is a young man named Justin Fatica, who stands by the door, bellowing in a baritone that nearly drowns out the rest of the room. Only 29, Fatica has already staked a claim as the most intensely passionate — and most intensely debated — Catholic youth minister in America. [ read entire article here ]
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Economics As Science: A Catholic Defense of the Free Market
| by Thomas E. Woods Jr. |
| 4/29/08 |
Put forth a robust defense of the free market as the most morally and materially satisfying economic system and you invite all manner of invective and accusation. What are you, some kind of dissenter?
Not so fast. Although the documents of modern Catholic social teaching normally begin with Rerum Novarum (1891), students should instead start with Pope Leo XIII's Quod Apostolici Muneris(1878), an encyclical entirely devoted to socialism, in order to understand that socialism and the free market are not being described as equally objectionable. For while socialism is per se condemned, the market is criticized only for alleged abuses. [ read entire article here ]
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