Two trends converged in Arkansas: reinforcing a stigma about receiving public assistance and using inefficient bureaucratic procedures to drive recipients off these assistance programs.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Yes, democratic socialism is compatible with Catholic social teaching
Democratic socialism, this year’s political buzz phrase, follows the Catholic social teaching principle of people over profit. Its penchant for big solutions at the national level may not fit C.S.T. as neatly.
Posted inFaith, News
U.N. declaration on human rights must extend to unborn, says speaker
Robert George, a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, suggested in a Sept. 20 talk that although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights doesn’t mention this, its demand for respect for human dignity should even extend to the unborn.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The church does diplomacy
A. Alexander Stummvoll’s new book is crucially important because until now, religion has been “the missing dimension in statecraft.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic Social Teaching goes beyond analyzing poverty. It calls us to action.
The Gospel calls on all of us to get past “analysis paralysis,” where direct action is always put off in favor of more research and discernment.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Paul Hanly Furfey, the revolutionary priest
A much-needed biography of Paul Hanly Furfey (1896-1992): priest, sociologist and urban revolutionary theorist.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
The Editors: The unborn and the condemned have the same right to life
The unborn and the condemned have the same right to life, and all citizens, especially Catholics, have a duty to defend that right.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The church should rid its supply chains of links to modern slavery, says former Vatican ambassador
Forty million worldwide are believed to be caught in a trap of forced labor, including many millions who work in manufacturing, assembly, agriculture and food services.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
A Libertarian Case for the Common Good
Economic freedom can be morally, not just materially, empowering.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Sister Helen Prejean’s ‘happy day’ as Pope Francis revises teaching on the death penalty
“The huge thing,” she said, is the recognition by the church of “the inviolable dignity even of guilty people who have done terrible crimes.”