Is it contrary to the principle of subsidiarity for a school principal to ban homemade lunches, my colleague Jana Bennett asks? Should there be a national ban on incandescent lightbulbs? These questions are not earth-shaking....
Read MoreI tell my students that there is…and it is a working presumption in my classroom when we talk about structural sin and catholic social teaching. But Carrie Lukas of the Wall Street Journal has written an article that has...
Read MoreI’m fond of telling my students that pretty much anything should be considered a “moral theology” question. (They don’t often believe me.) Consider the news headlines about the ban on homemade lunches. My...
Read MoreThere is an interesting debate over at First Things between Joe Carter and David Bentley Hart on the legitimacy of the death penalty. For both Carter and Hart, the sticking point concerns how Scripture should be read and applied...
Read MoreHow’s this for strange bed-fellows? Dutch (mostly far-left) non-human animal rights supporters are teaming with the far-right ‘Freedom Party’ (which continues to be driven by worries about the considerable...
Read MoreIn 2008, Bishop Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, released a list of “Seven Social Sins,” including three economic social sins: excessive wealth, creating poverty, and contributing to the widening gap...
Read MoreApril 10, 2011 Fifth Sunday of Lent Ezekiel 37:12-14; Psalm 130:1-8; Romans 8:8-11; John 11:1-45 In the Introduction to our book, After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice, Mark Allman and I start with...
Read MoreA shocking story appeared on the front page of the New York Times yesterday regarding a small-town Kentucky woman, beloved by neighbors, with a dark past. Issabell Basic, previously known as Azra Basic, was charged in 1993 for...
Read MoreEconomists and others have consistently been warning that the housing crisis (and cascading effects on the rest of the “economic recovery”) is far from over. In particular, L. Randall Wray at Huffington Post has...
Read MoreThe goal of Catholic social teaching on the economy is to provide us with a set of principles, a set of tools that each individual and family can use to make concrete, practical decisions. How do we live as fully human persons,...
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