Tag: solidarity
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Why So Much Outrage? Thinking About My Discipleship
Bloomberg had an excellent piece by science journalist Faye Flam titled It's an Outrage! See? Look How Outraged I Am! Her lead is "Science is starting to shed some light on the curiously continuous cycle of moral outrages." Expressions of collective outrage are not particularly new, but it does seem to me that the frequency…
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Subsidiarity: Turning solidarity into social justice
Crux Now: Subsidiarity: Turning solidarity into social justice … Yet despite these unfortunate attempts at redefinition, progressive Catholics who value Catholic social teaching should reexamine subsidiarity, as it is a principle that they can and should embrace. Subsidiarity is an essential component of Church teaching. The catechism states that under subsidiarity, "a community of a…
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Is the Default Position Shifting to Subsidiarity?
Catholic Culture: Is the Default Position Shifting to Subsidiarity? Not so long ago, most ecclesiastical officials and Catholic academicians emphasized solidarity as a political ideal. Owing to a common misunderstanding of both government and solidarity, that emphasis was almost always at the expense of subsidiarity. In recent years, however, the tide in favor of subsidiarity…
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John Chrysostom on Trade
From Justo Gonzalez's Faith and Wealth: A History of Early Christian Ideas on the Origin, Significance, and use of Money. Chrysostom’s theology is built on the presupposition of a greater continuity between creation and redemption than much later theology, especially Western, had. Thus mercy and mutual service are the mark of both being human and…
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Big Sort: Lifestyle
(Link to Part 8) In the early twentieth century, sociologist Emil Durkheim described traditional culture as “mechanical solidarity.” Like pieces of a machine, the parts were interchangeable. Everyone did similar work, shared similar values, and lived in stable, relatively isolated communities. Bill Bishop draws on the image of the Borg from Star Trek: The Next…