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Around the Web (Part 1)
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Jesus and the Bullied by Brian Pinter: “Jesus, by his own example and preaching, empowers us to move beyond being bystanders, to embrace and shield,...
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Around the Web (Part 2)
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Compassion Gap by Nicholas Kristof: “There is an income gap in America, but just as important is a compassion gap. Plenty of successful people...
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Paul Ryan is Still Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan’s latest makeover is designed to fix his plutocratic image and rehabilitate his future political prospects. It is designed to counter claims that Republicans are indifferent to poverty and...
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Why Tea Party Catholicism Is a No Go
Is Tea Party Catholicism dead as a legitimate political stance within the Catholic Church? That’s what Pope Francis’ close Honduran cardinal-advisor Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga is arguing. During his...
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Quote of the Day
Professor Charles Clark: “Free-market fundamentalism…is really an enabling myth for the 1 percent…. It is both tragic and farcical when this myth is confused with Catholic social teaching and presented...
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Key Thoughts from “Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case against...
Last week, the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies, where I am a graduate fellow, held one of the most important conferences of the year on Catholic Social Teaching. Panelists and...
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Solidarity, Imago Dei, and the Catholic Case against Libertarianism
As prepared for delivery at “Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case against Libertarianism” (with minor edits). Updated with video. As I began preparing for today, I went back and reread some of the...
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The Catholic Faith or Libertarianism: Pick One
Millennial editor Robert Christian has a new article in OnFaith that highlights the incompatibility of libertarianism and Catholicism. He writes: The closer you compare libertarianism and Catholicism,...
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Daniel DiLeo on the Tea Party vs. Gaudium et spes
Millennial writer Dan DiLeo has a new article at Political Theology Today, in which he explains that “the ideology of the Tea Party movement is generally inconsistent with—and very often directly...
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The Catholic Case against Libertarianism: Steve Schneck and Mark Shields
At the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies conference on libertarianism earlier this month, IPR Director Steve Schneck addressed the topic of libertarianism and politics, moving beyond...
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Paul Ryan: Good for Republicans, Bad for America
Millennial writer John McCarthy has a new article at NCR. He writes: His past leadership should give us a clear picture of what we can expect from a Speaker Ryan: doubling down on the failed notion...
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