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by bcadmin | Sep 25, 2022 | American, Capitalism, Features, Fr. Edward McGlynn, Henry George, History, liberalism, modernism, News, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, Social Doctrine, socialism | 0 |
Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum, while not the first social encyclical, was still a revolutionary document, albeit within the bounds of natural law and the Magisterium. Previous social encyclicals, beginning with Mirari Vos […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Capitalism, Catholic social teaching, distributism, Economics, Edward McGlynn, Essay, Features, G.K. Chesterton, Gregory XVI, Henry George, Hilaire Belloc, History, Mirari Vos, modernism, Mortimer Adler, News, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, socialism, Vatican I, Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci | 0 |
From the pontificate of Gregory XVI down to the present day, there has been an ongoing crisis precipitated by the advent of the “New Things” (rerum novarum) of socialism and modernism. Since 1832 and the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2021 | Dorothy L Sayers, From the Archives, Leo XIII, News, Rerum Novarum, Top Story, Work | 0 |
Describing her as “a distinguished Anglican writer,” the Catholic Herald asked the mystery novelist and playwright Dorothy Sayers to contribute to a forum on the fiftieth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum. A note at the end warned readers that the article had been taken over the telephone and might include “deviations from Miss
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 20, 2021 | Cardinal Tommaso Zigliara, Catholic social teaching, Laudato Si' Week, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum | 0 |
Every papacy is a collective enterprise. It’s the pontiff who gets the credit or the blame, but often their finest moments depend heavily on the labor of others who fade into the woodwork when the moment passes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2021 | Catholic social teaching, Centesimus Annus, News, Pope St John Paul ll, Pope St. John Paul II, Rerum Novarum, Top Story | 0 |
Like the sabbath, the economy is at the service of the human person, not vice versa. Thus, the measure of a moral economy is the development of the full human person.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Catholic social teaching, Laborem Exercens, News, Rerum Novarum, Subsidiarity, The Dispatch, Work | 0 |
Michael J. Naughton’s Getting Work Right might be viewed as a treatise on the divided life, which puts our working lives into conflict with whatever there might be of our contemplative lives. Naughton says that […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Alasdair MacIntyre, Aristotle, Catholic social thought, Essay, Features, Jacques Maritain, News, Plato, Polis, Pope Leo XIII, republic, Rerum Novarum, Thomism | 0 |
Since the ancient Greeks, there have generally been two opposing impulses for political thought. The first is summed up in Plato’s Republic, the second in Aristotle’s polis. The republic is large and relies on the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | 2020 election, Benedict XVI, Centessimus Annus, Donald J. Trump, Featured, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Nancy Pelosi, News, Politics, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
“We are a working-class party now. That’s the future.” — Senator Josh Hawley I’ve held off on writing a post-election column, hoping against hope that the votes would be counted quickly and fairly. I suppose that was naïve. At this rate—and regardless of who “wins” in the end—half of the American people will feel cheated […]
by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Featured, News, Politics, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Pope Leo XIII, born 210 years ago this year, is perhaps best known for his Marianism. He was one of the Church’s greatest promoters of the Holy Rosary, and was the first pontiff to embrace the title of Mediatrix for Our Lady. Yet Leo was one of the great thinkers of the modern age, having […]
by bcadmin | May 22, 2020 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Robert J. McElroy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Environment Ecology, Laudato Si, News, Rerum Novarum, US bishops, USCCB | 0 |
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the world into turmoil, but Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical on care for creation can guide individuals to reassess life’s priorities in response, a trio of prelates agreed during an online roundtable discussion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 1, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured, News, Politics, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XII, Rerum Novarum, St. Joseph, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Each year on May 1, the Catholic faithful celebrate the feast day of Saint Joseph the Worker. This feast day, instituted by Pope Pius XII in 1955, was meant to provide downtrodden laborers with a spiritual patron, as well as an alternative to the communist labor agitation that was prevalent at the time. The Catholic […]
by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, labor movement, News, Rerum Novarum, worker priests | 0 |
A prevailing culture of profit over people” creates “a culture that quantifies work and robs it of its humanity and its inherent dignity,” said Father Clete Kiley in his homily for a Workers’ Memorial Day Mass sponsored and livestreamed April 28 by the Catholic Labor Network.
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