Article ‘This Economy Kills’ The economic ideology favored by people like Arthur Brooks is utterly incompatible with Catholic social teaching; it is a rock of shipwreck. By Anthony Annett June 5, 2017 Economy Ethics Social Justice Poverty Pope Francis
Feature The War against Just War Few ideas have struck me as more wrong-headed than the belief that an essential step in converting people to nonviolence is the renunciation of just-war theory By Peter Steinfels June 5, 2017 War and Peace Ethics Social Justice
Feature Just War? Just-war teaching has distracted Catholics from learning and practicing strategic nonviolence. At times it has excused them from even trying By Gerald W. Schlabach May 31, 2017 U.S. Catholicism War and Peace Ethics Domestic Affairs Social Justice
Article I Don’t Feel Your Pain Paul Bloom’s book rejects the assumption that empathy is either a strong motivator of moral goodness or a proper guide to moral decision making By Stephen J. Pope May 30, 2017 Social Justice Books Ethics
Article Dorothy Day’s ‘Second Conversion’? Who was Fr. John J. Hugo and how might a study of Hugo shed light on the “public theology” that holds sway in American Catholic theology today? By Patrick Jordan May 30, 2017 Books U.S. Catholicism Social Justice
Article LGBT Catholics & the Francis Papacy How the church can do a better job reaching out to and learning from gay Catholics By John Gehring May 22, 2017 Sexuality Bishops Social Justice Theology Pope Francis