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The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives May 13, 2012 18:05
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Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage May 13, 2012 18:05
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Movie Review: Money as Debt May 8, 2012 11:05
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The Outline of Sanity May 7, 2012 15:05
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Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism April 29, 2012 19:04
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Recent Articles
Navigating the Republican Milieu Part II
Looking over various debates, I can’t help but come to the conclusion that the candidates being offered to us do not offer any real solutions. In this installment: presidential hopefuls Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich.
HHS Mandate: Morality and the Common Good
The questions to ask are not whether social services limit personal freedom. The questions to ask are, rather, whether they are in accord with Catholic teaching and benefit society.
Navigating the Republican Milieu, Part I
One cannot accomplish one’s goals by ignoring pressing issues that underpin or even cause the main fault at issue. To consistently “support the lesser of two evils” is to encourage the status quo.
We’re All Traditionalists Now
What liberals have awoken to, and what many orthodox Catholics thinkers, unfortunately, have not, is that the Enlightenment is over. Liberalism has finally recognized and accepted the contingent, particularist, historically and culturally conditioned, non-necessary, non-self-evident, and eminently debatable character of its first principles.
Practical Distributism: The Home Mortgage
Considering that home mortgages are a large part of our financial world, and that this is the largest expense for the average family that manages to buy a home, how could we apply Distributism to a large loan for non-productive property like a home?
Obama’s Contraception Coverage
The primary impact from this perspective is, of course, the fact that the decision, with an almost experimental deliberateness, pits the loyalty of Catholics to the Church against their loyalty to the state. It is the pitting of two institutions, both of which claim obedience and loyalty, against each other.
The Beast in His Natural Habitat
Since their discovery in America during the middle of the nineteenth century, dinosaurs have brought big prices and even bigger crowds. They’re like locally-grown attractions pulled right from the layers of the earth itself.
State Capitalism
The era of Reaganomics left central governments in huge debts and with much more centralized power over economic and political freedom. Hayek claimed Keynesian policy as a road to serfdom, but the irony is that under the pretext of carrying out Hayek’s ideas we have boarded the plane to serfdom.
Distributism and the Labor Market Divide
Distributism would promote the idea that everyone willing to work is entitled to a living for himself and his family, but that to seek to increase one’s income without measure is to follow the maxims of the Devil.
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