Protecting democracy is critical this year and beyond. But as Catholics we should use the power of the vote to promote the common good, rather than to protect our own interests.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Why Catholics should resist NIMBYism
Housing is an extension of people and of the family, and we can’t ignore the need for more housing simply because we don’t want our neighborhoods to change.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic universities need a new kind of affirmative action—for students aligned with their mission
The Supreme Court has limited the consideration of race in admissions, but Catholic schools may still pursue diversity by selecting students likely to advance social justice after they graduate.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Cardinal Bernardin’s ‘Consistent Ethic of Life’ still divides Catholics 40 years later
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.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
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.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
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.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
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?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
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.”
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
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.