The Use and Abuse of Subsidiarity
Today’s post is a guest post by Matt Hoberg. The extreme impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on...
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What should the proper locus of sanctuary be?
Gary Slater’s article “From Strangers to Neighbors: Toward an Ethics of Sanctuary...
Read MorePoison Water: Catholic Social Teaching & Flint, Michigan
Over at Millennial Journal, I have written a 2 part blog addressing the water crisis in Flint Michigan. In Part 1: The Poisoning of Flint: How It Happened, I outlined some key points: The poisoning of the population of Flint,...
Read MoreEdward Snowden and Catholic Social Teaching
On this blog and in Catholic moral discourse more generally, there have been a considerable number of critiques of libertarian principles on the basis that they directly conflict with Catholic social doctrine. I have been...
Read MoreTurning SNAP into Block Grants Would Violate Subsidiarity
To many of our readers, I realize I may appear to be obsessed with subsidiarity and food stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/SNAP). In the last year, I have written about a dozen blogs focused on poverty, with many...
Read MoreFaithful Citizenship Friday- Krugman’s Confidence Fairy and the Role of the State
Anyone who has had even periodic exposure to the editorial pages of American newspapers or the expert panels of Sunday-morning news shows has probably heard Paul Krugman speak about the government’s proper role amid...
Read MoreRep. Paul Ryan or Msgr. John Ryan?
Rep. Paul Ryan recently claimed that his GOP budget proposal is consistent with Catholic social teaching. In response, more than 60 Catholic theologians, philosophers, ethicists, sisters, and priests (some of whom are regular...
Read MoreThe Affordable Care Act and Abortion Funding: the Other Shoe Finally Drops
A recent piece at National Review Online by Dorinda Borlee, Nicholas Nikas and Mark Rienzi brings into the light a very alarming new wrinkle associated with the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable...
Read MoreSubsidiarity is a Two-Sided Coin
As a Catholic moral theologian, I must confess that the principle of subsidiarity is perhaps one of the most crucial and most misunderstood in Catholic social teaching. According to the principle of subsidiarity, decisions...
Read MoreHow to Do Subsidiarity?
Many discussions about Catholic social justice use the term “subsidiarity” as code for “libertarian individualism” – it is as if “solidarity” just looks too imposing, and we need something to balance it out. So we use...
Read MoreDebt/Deficit or Jobs? The Real Economic Threat to the Common Good
What is underlying the obsession with the national debt as THE economic problem? Over at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Charles Clark , Professor of Economics at St. John’s University examines the false...
Read MoreYa Can’t Have One Without the Other: Subsidiarity Again
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....
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