Sentences with phrase «catholic social thought»

In particular a strong affinity is expressed by many of the authors with Catholic Social Thought (/ Teaching)(CST) about which more later.

The clear principles of Catholic social thought and the rationally accessible ¯ and highly persuasive ¯ lines of argument from natural - law philosophy provide better grounds for discussion of how to order our lives together.

Suppose that it is true that the philosophy of the liberal society is inferior to, say, Catholic social thought on these two points.

Maciej Zieba, OP, Hittinger himself, and others gave lectures on Catholic social thought to two dozen senior undergraduate and graduate students from America and Eastern Europe.

Catholic social thought?

But it does seem that a debate — between those who interpret Christian social thought in a social - democratic idiom and those whose idiom is that of the Austrian School of economics — would go a long way toward establishing a richer vision of Catholic social thought.

With the entry into the vice-presidential contest of Ryan, a Catholic and the architect of recent Republican budget proposals, Americans are turning their attention to Catholic social thought, weighing what bishops and nuns have to say about his proposals for lower taxes and cuts in entitlement programs.

In order to convince the confused and alienated masses, we must be able to demonstrate that Catholic social thought treads the middle path between theocracy — the ambition of strict Islamist ideology — where the spiritual authorities simply subsume the powers of the State, and the atheist secularist agenda, which eventually leads to the State assuming God - like powers, yet without the compassion and respect for human freedom that is characteristic of the true God of Love.

If the Political Responsibility statement is in fact merely a recapitulation of Catholic social thought, then where is the emphasis on subsidiarity, that «fundamental principle of social philosophy» (Quadraesimo Anno), which expresses the Church's (not the Republicans») own sense of the inadequacy of state interventions?

Nell - Breuning, often called the «Nestor» of Catholic social thought, drafted the early versions of this encyclical.

From the outset, German Catholic social theorists and activists played a prominent role in addressing the social question, shaping what we now know as the Catholic social thought tradition.

I am sorry to say this after Thomas Martin Cothran's expressed nervousness about my comparisons of Catholic social thought and the social thought of the American founders: The Americans» persistent emphasis on human sinfulness seems to me more in touch with human experience than does papal social thought since 1891.

To bring this theme into Catholic social thought, moreover, would not make the latter less Catholic but more so.

That move is less characteristic of Catholic social thought than of the habits of biblical fundamentalists.

So I don't doubt that Yale Law School has taken notice of the Catholic tradition of legal and social teaching, the tradition that five sitting justices have explicitly acknowledged as important in their own thinking» even to the point of reading Pope Benedict XVI, giving a seminar on Catholic social thought, and (imagine!)

Just last semester, a seminar was offered on Catholic social thought.

Catholic social thought's conception of human rights is similar to the secular world's.

More and more often on Catholic campuses, left - wing Catholics are hiding their own ideological preferences behind the mantra «Catholic social thought.»

Three of the terms used most frequently in Catholic social thought» and now, more generally, in much secular discourse» are social justice, the common good, and personal (or individual) liberty.

On April 3 — 4, the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago held its sixth annual conference on economics and Catholic social thought.

The story covers a wide spectrum of subjects, including church structure, secular political history, Catholic social thought, and public policy.

And it wasn't the vision presented by Ryan (the ex-Randian and new Catholic Social Thought guy).

It is as if Benedict is bringing back into play the long - neglected lessons of St. Augustine to Catholic Social Thought — re-presenting, as it were, The City of God — that is, the City of that caritas which the Divine Persons gratuitously pour into the human heart, that it might cast the burning desire for human unity into the kindling of hundreds of millions of parched hearts.

I'm an interested non-Catholic observer of Catholic social thought.

Now our most learned among popes has published the fullest and most theological account of Catholic Social Thought, from its starting place right in the bosom of the Communion of Persons that furnishes us our experience of God — and also of our own nature.

As a Catholic professor of corporate law, I have a deep and abiding interest in what Catholic Social Thought has to say about the economy and economic regulation.

Not exact matches

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

I have a great respect for the Roman Catholic tradition in political and social thought, and believe that some of the most interesting and «provocative» contemporary commentators depend very heavily on that tradition.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

I don't know, but I'll risk a guess that the editors thought it worth a momentary suspension of their liberal propensities to have someone take on with gusto, which Laurent certainly does, those terrible Catholic neoconservatives who construe Catholic social doctrine in a way supportive of a market economy and liberal polity.

And, when she describes that change, what she ends up describing is what already more - or-less exists, namely: mainline christianity, embracing the reformed and the catholic, the scientific and the traditional, which has been doing (never perfectly, to be sure) the sort of deep thinking, social justice, and disciplined prayer that she talks about continually while the evangelicals were breaking off to do their own thing (the thing she seems to want them to stop doing) throughout the twentieth century.

To listen to them, you would think that the Catholic social ethic has four main emphatic tenets and five great silences.

The centre's director, Stephen Bullivant, said that the centre would «bring the riches of the Catholic tradition of social thought, the riches of Catholic teaching on faith and reason, into the national conversation.»

Traditional Catholic thinking about international relations was based on an older understanding of and appreciation for individual political communities as the loci within which a social order embodying justice in all its aspects might be established and maintained, thereby securing peace as the tranquillity of that just order.

During the 1970s and 80s, many thought that the theology of liberation would strengthen the Catholic Church through the grassroot movement of the CEBs, and that the CEBs, in turn, would raise the consciousness of the popular classes, bringing about serious social change.

Don't you think harming children for life is a little more serious than Nouns being too involved with social justice!!?? Behaviors like these continue to make the Catholic Church look bad.

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

Michael Novak identifies certain affinities between Catholic social teaching and the «original American» tradition of political thought, and he argues that Catholic intellectual resources should be put in the service of the classically American strand of liberalism.

Do you think reclaiming a broader, more political understanding of Catholic social teaching is part of the cure for this disease?

Nor has European Catholic social teaching shown much awareness of great social writings in Latin America, such as that of Bartolomé de Las Casas, the progenitor of human rights thinking in the Americas, predating Locke and the North Americans.

Most people think it is only the catholic church that has this problem but it isnt it is an epidemic in all social orginizations.

There's no application of Catholic social doctrine to help us think in a disciplined way about how to respond to environmental threats, or how to reform global capitalism.

At the same time, the editors stayed alert to positive signs in Catholic theology and social thought, even as they answered a fearful Yes when they asked, «Can Catholicism Win America?»

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

«I think he was so direct in draping himself in the mantle of Catholic social teaching,» Campbell said.

Thirdly, I think there is a lot to be learned from Catholic Social Teaching, and Labour needs to ensure that it appeals to people who are not public sector workers.

I liked his intellectualism, his Jesuit method of thinking, and his Catholic social liberalism.

Being a Catholic MP I don't think it's difficult at all [to reconcile politics with religion] because it's one thing that underpins social justice, the sense that there is no real charity without justice, that our only proper place in the world is to help others.

This mother had previously enrolled her children in Catholic school, but thought that they didn't learn enough «social skills» there, so she sent them back to public school in the county.