Politics
Political Problems, Religious Problems, and the Search For Ultimate Meaning
This is from a Rod Dreher’s review of the new book, From Fire By Water by Sohrab Ahmari. I forget who it was who said that all political problems are, at bottom, religious problems. The reason for that is that they have to do with ultimate meaning — specifically, how to construct a social order […]
Cheerleaders for Jesus
We will never find salvation in a political party and we should be apologists and uncritical cheerleaders for no one but Jesus Christ. —from the blog post Trump and Hilary, models of fallen human nature by Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble
The Only Answers Are at the Foot of the Cross
I believe without doubt that this nation, as well as the rest of the world, is under satanic assault. Time was, Old Scratch hid himself behind the lie that he didn’t exist, that the devil and all his works were dark fairy tells used to scare adult children. The devil hid and worked entirely through […]
The Right to Life Cannot Be Contextualized
For Catholics, no political or social issue stands in isolation. But neither are all pressing issues equal in foundational importance or gravity. The right to life undergirds all other rights and all genuine social progress. It cannot be set aside or contextualized in the name of other “rights” or priorities without prostituting the whole idea […]
St. John Paul II and Democracy
John Paul II, whose teaching about the free and virtuous society in Centesimus Annus remains the pinnacle of Catholic social teaching on the democratic experiment… That is why St. John Paul taught that “democracy” can never be reduced to mere “majority rule.” + That is why John Paul also insisted that, of the three interlocking parts […]
Democracy and The Divine Origin of Man
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. —from What I Saw in America by G.K. […]
Politics in Religion
It was Jesus Christ who suffered under Pontius Pilate; it was not Pontius Pilate who suffered under Jesus Christ. The grave danger today is not religion in politics but politics in religion. —from Characters of the Passion by Venerable Fulton Sheen —I have not read the book above but came across the quote in the […]
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