Tag: Liberalism

  • We Are Family: On Fraternal Liberalism

    In Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI makes a surprising claim about integral human development: “The development of peoples depends, above all, on a recognition that the human race is a single family.” What are we to make of this claim? It is neither a policy prescription nor a partisan

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  • The False God of Capitalist Liberalism in Catholic Social Thought

    The 2021 Benedictine College Evangelization conference topic, “Destroyer of the Gods: Christianity vs. the Idols of Secularism,” called for papers to identify the various ways “in which Christians relate to the ‘idols’ of contemporary secular culture.” Catholic social doctrine has identified the ideologies of socialism and capitalism, respectively, as major

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