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Showing posts with label Catholic social teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic social teaching. Show all posts
Friday, May 18, 2018

The Vatican — Considerations for an Ethical Discernment Regarding Some Aspects of the Present Economic-Financial System

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The latest in Catholic social teaching.  Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical letter Rerum novarum*, which advocated economic distributis...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Nathan Schneider — How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics

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Weekend reading. No one can accept the precepts of neoliberalism and consider themselves Christian,” he wrote in his days as Cardinal Jo...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

Cindy Wooden — About that hammer-and-sickle crucifix presented to Pope Francis in Bolivia

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When Bolivian President Evo Morales gave Pope Francis a crucifix atop a hammer and sickle, eyebrows were raised, including the pope’s.   ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Edward Martin And Mateo Pimentel — The Inadequacies of Liberalism: The Centrality of Socio-Economic rights for Marxism and the Catholic Social Justice Tradition

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Weekend reading. Counterpunch The Inadequacies of Liberalism – The Centrality of Socio-Economic rights for Marxism and the Catholic Social J...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Paul B. Farrell — Pope Francis’s new ‘Climate Change Encyclical’ sneak preview

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8 talking points GOP Congress, Big Oil, Wall Street don’t want to hear MarketWatch Opinion: Pope Francis’s new ‘Climate Change Encyclical’...
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

James Mackenzie — Pope Francis attacks ‘throw-away’ economic globalization

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Pope Francis launched a fresh attack on economic injustice on Saturday, condemning the “throw-away culture” of globalization and calling fo...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Susan Rakoczy — The best kept secret of the Catholic Church—its social teachings

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Papal encyclicals and letters on social justice and social teaching began with Rerum Novarum (1891) . The Latin term rerum novarum, litera...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

OAN — Pope calls for more market regulation, denies he is Marxist: paper

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Pope Francis has called for more regulation of financial markets and rejected suggestions that his criticisms of unbridled capitalism smack...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Patrick J. Deneen — Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up?

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If the pope would only shut up about economics and talk only about sex. The American Conservative Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Robert Costa — Ryan Shrugged

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In a comment on another post beowulf pointed out that Paul Ryan began as a Jack Kemp Republican, and now he is confirming that this is, in...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand, and Thomas Aquinas = Exploding Heads

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Following up on Paul Ryan's recent repudiation of Ayn Rand and embrace of Thomas Aquinas, Mike Kimel point us to a couple of arguments ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Under Catholic pressure Paul Ryan backs away from Rand, Objectivism

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Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), when faced with a letter of condemnation by 90 Catholic faculty members at Georgetown University, has abru...
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"If Paul Ryan Knew What Poverty Was, He Wouldn't Be Giving This Speech"

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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House budget committee, knew some Catholics were spoiling for a fight with him Thursday when he wa...
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