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Dec 2020
In my essay series on social justice, I began writing about the role of government in establishing and maintaining social justice. My point, so far, has been that just government needs to be rooted in truth about God, man, and the purpose and destiny of human life, that the weak human reason is insufficient to establish this truth, which must therefore be made firm by some sort of diviner authority, manifested in a verbal revelation. For reason to recognize this revelation it will need to be able to recognize that the revelation......
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November 27, 2020
The basics of human experience and divine revelation
Last week, starting from the need for truth to serve as the foundation for just government, I went on to elaborate the need for some form of divine revelation to manifest that truth and make...
November 13, 2020
Truth the Foundation of Just Government
In my treatment of social justice, after discussing religion, marriage, and work, I have finally turned my attention to the role of the government. Over the past two Sundays I argued that the protection of...
October 30, 2020
The Problem with Rights (Part I)
Once again, I have been writing about the theme of social justice as the right ordering of human society. I began with the centrality of right religion, the religion of the Mass, passed on to...
October 23, 2020
The Upcoming Elections
Last November I began writing on the subject of social justice, which I defined as the right order of society. When I did so I had neither politics nor the election in mind. I was...
October 16, 2020
Science cannot get us out of the mess we made
Last Sunday, in my treatment of the relation between work and the environment, I moved from the theoretical to the very contemporary issue of climate-change. This was to show the inadequacy of the environmental movement...
October 09, 2020
The problem of climate change – not what you think
Last Sunday I wrote about the light and the dark in the ‘progress’ that the industrial revolution has brought us. I would say the balance came out rather on the dark side. This led me...
October 02, 2020
Industrial Revolution: Light and Darkness
I have lived in the Scranton, Pennsylvania area, in which the scars left by coalmining are still visible. I have lived in Steubenville, Ohio, which has not recovered from the pollution of the steel industry....
September 25, 2020
Work and the Care of the Earth
Last Sunday I used the example of homesteading in the settlement of the American west to illustrate how land is appropriated to families through use and development, which involves work. I made the further points...
September 18, 2020
The Universal Destination of Goods and Private Property (Part III)
I have been writing about the universal destination of the goods of the earth and private property, which emerges through the appropriation of the earth through human work. While God intended the earth to serve...