The Unprecedented Rule
Some people have been asking how it is they talk about this HHS mandate rule to friends and family who are not Catholic. Well, here’s a way to do it that can resonate with everyone.
Some people have been asking how it is they talk about this HHS mandate rule to friends and family who are not Catholic. Well, here’s a way to do it that can resonate with everyone.
Just wage is a right, but not for everyone or at all times. Neither is it necessarily to be enforced by the State. There is much to learn about the just wage.
The remedy to Barack Obama is not the Republican Party, or the Tea Party, or the Constitution Party or any party. It is the realization that we are sinners in need of a savior who has already so wonderfully revealed his Mercy that we can do nothing else but to respond with a joyous yes.
What the Obama Administrations Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has done is an attack, which is why Catholics need to be well-informed about what is going on so that they can tell their neighbors about it. So, here are the facts.
Let us pray to St. Anthony for the courage to resist the devil with the fervor of a follower of Christ and for the grace to display that same courage as we remind our political leaders about their obligations to justice, the poor, and their own eternal souls.
I’ve said it on this blog before and I’ll say it again, education is a social justice issue, and it is increasingly becoming one of the more important issues for us to consider.
Do the libertarians escape the accusation that they ignore solidarity? Nope. Ignoring the good the state does and banking on the good intentions of individual institutions is not solidarity.
One of the interesting bits from Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum is in paragraph twenty where the good pontiff decides …
Here is my piece in The Catholic Voice on prayer and voting.
The call from the Church for nuclear disarmament is certainly solid. However, it is equally clear that this is not to be unilateral disarmament.
I say that on the Solemnity of Christ the King every year, we get together with friends and family, roast something meaty and grand, and read what the Church has to say about the common good, the universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, participation and solidarity.
There is a story that I heard a couple of days ago that I find just so thrillingly wonderful I …
And I will always remember that when a good man like him passes away a different sort of miracle makes itself present.
The following is one of the best explanations of a central principle of the social doctrine I’ve ever read. The principle is the Universal Destination of Goods.
All of that said, while I think I can and ought to agree with the PCJP concerning the one world authority thing, I’m not really sure why it was that they felt it necessary to repeat this point. They only managed to confuse the American Catholic in the pew who hears – yet again – that the Vatican wants a one world order.