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Oct 2020
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 just following up on my reflections on the Lord’s Day, which was the conclusion of a series I wrote on creation. During the course of the past year I have written about social justice focusing on the Lord’s Day and marriage and family, as the two pillars of social justice. For the most part I have not......
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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 11, 2020
The Universal Destination of Goods and Private Property (Part II)
Last Sunday I introduced the topic of the relation between human work and both property and the environment. This involves the “dominion” that God gave to man over the physical creation. This dominion that is...
September 04, 2020
Man’s Dominion over creation: The universal destination of goods and private property
For some time now I have been writing about social justice, seen through the eyes of faith, built around the pillars of the right worship of God, through the Mass, on the Lord’s Day, and...
August 28, 2020
The gradations of human dignity: the degradation of vice and the elevation of virtue and grace
Last Sunday I began writing about the dignity of the human person, how it is equal, how it is unequal, how it can never be lost, and in what way it can be diminished or...
August 21, 2020
The fundamental dignity of the human person
I have spent some time writing about the place and dignity of work in the realm of social justice, that is in a just social order. Even without considering the remuneration that people receive for...
August 14, 2020
The greatest of privileges: Married parents, the Catholic faith, Divine grace
Last Sunday I commented that privilege of birth (and lack thereof) involves an extraordinary coincidence of countless accidents; each one of us, individually and impersonally, from the perspective of all created causality, is most improbable....