Last Sunday I wrapped up my lengthy series of essays on social justice, the right order of human social life, with my final reflections on the common good, ‘living well together’. In sum I sought to show how the ten commandments trace for us a view of the common good in terms of a shared life of virtue, rooted in a shared life of worship and contemplation of God, the highest truth, the origin of all reality, and also the supreme common good. We all have in common our dependence upon him......

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