Catholic Social Teaching
From The Journal at Catholic Paradigm.
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Nineteen Years And No Vaccine: What The Church Says About Medicine The Poor Cannot Buy
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said something Tuesday that should have been the headline. Speaking to WHO’s Emergency Committee about the epidemic now killing…
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Everyone Is A Supplier Now: What The Church Says When A War Runs Out Of Civilians
The Russian embassy in London published a statement on Monday calling Britain an “accomplice and co-perpetrator” of Ukraine’s attacks and warning that…
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No Time Schedule: What The Church Says When A War Stops Being An Emergency
Two sentences from Monday belong next to each other. The first is what the United States and Iran signed on June 18:…
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The Force Of Law, Or The Law Of Force: What The Church Says About The Promise America Made To Korea In 1953
Two sentences, written seventy-three years apart, are worth setting side by side this morning. The first is from Article III of the…
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When The Roof Came Down During Mass: What Charity Owes And What Justice Owes On Flores
It was 5:58 on Saturday morning in Sikka regency, and the students at St. Peter Major Seminary were at Mass. Then the…
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Five Feet Of Water In All Of Our Homes: What Catholic Teaching Says Indiana Is Owed
The White River at Anderson crested Friday morning around 24.9 feet, a foot higher than anyone has measured it there since 1913.…
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Two Hundred Days Without A Port: Catholic Teaching On The Sailor’s Right To Rest
Somewhere on the USS Abraham Lincoln, at some hour this summer, a sailor standing watch noticed a shipmate at the rail doing…
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The Grain Is Not Collateral: Catholic Teaching And The Two Terminals At Novorossiysk
Ukraine hit four Russian warships in Novorossiysk harbor early Wednesday morning. In the same operation it also stopped two grain terminals, and…
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The Order Of The Rescue: Catholic Teaching And The Villages Colombia Could Not Reach
San José del Palmar sits in the Chocó, a green and mountainous department on Colombia’s Pacific side that most Colombians have never…
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The Bill For Fifty Years: Catholic Teaching On Reparations, Blockades, And What Peace Actually Costs
Two governments spent Monday billing each other for their dead. Tehran says the Strait of Hormuz stays shut until Washington pays war…