Depressingly, 40 years since Cardinal Bernardin first proposed the consistent ethic of life, the ethic remains mired in the same senseless, polarized partisanship that Bernardin proposed the ethic to overcome.
Catholic Social Teaching
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Podcast: How a Southern Protestant learned to love Catholic social teaching
This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley welcome Lee C. Camp, host of the “No Small Endeavor” podcast, about growing up with anti-Catholic biases—and how studying at Notre Dame changed his perspective.
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Pope Francis wants the synod to be a political community—but one based on faith, not interest
Most modern constitutional states today describe themselves as republics. Such republics sound as though they have a lot in common with Catholic social teaching. They do.
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The lay woman bringing Catholic social teaching to the heart of the Vatican
Emilce Cuda, the highest ranking lay woman working in the Vatican, joins “Jesuitical” to explain how “el pueblo”—ordinary, working class people—are at the forefront of a burgeoning synodal church.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As the U.A.W. strike expands, Catholics are asking: Where’s the modern-day labor priest?
Where’s the modern-day Catholic labor priest?
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U.S. bishops’ Labor Day message: It is pro-life to support working families
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee said the nation has “urgent work” to do to really show a “radical solidarity with working families.”
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50 years later, Gustavo Gutierrez’s ‘A Theology of Liberation’ remains prophetic.
Gustavo Gutiérrez’s ‘A Theology of Liberation’ was first published in English 50 years ago. That first edition served as a primary introduction to a new way of doing theology and becoming church with the poor and insignificant.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Activists are calling it Hot Labor Summer. Catholics should welcome it.
Catholic social teaching is clear on the best tool to promote a just wage: organized labor.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Remembering a priest who put Pope Francis and the Good Samaritan’s economics into action
Whether we think “they should get jobs” or “the government should take care of them,” too often we regard the poor dispassionately. The story of the good Samaritan is a better place to start.
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Love, Sex and Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day synthesized seemingly contradictory values with insight and nuance. Perhaps the most perplexing of her beliefs were those on sexuality and romantic love.