by admin | Jul 6, 2018 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, From the Tiber to the James, Immigration, Living the faith, mercy, News, Respect for life
People often wonder why the Catholic Church cares so much about refugees. There are several compelling answers. First, as people forced from their homelands by persecution, refugees (and migrants generally) are among the populations the Bible and Catholic social...
by admin | May 18, 2018 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Economic justice, Environment, Faithful citizenship, From the Tiber to the James
Cardinal Turkson insisted that if we treat creation responsibly, we can trust it to support the entire human family.
by admin | May 3, 2018 | Catholic social teaching, criminal justice, Death Penalty, From the Tiber to the James, Living the faith, Respect for life
Justice shall be the band around his waist, and faithfulness a belt upon his hips. Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat. ~ Isaiah 11:5–6 Imagine picking up the phone and hearing the unthinkable, the nightmare...
by admin | Aug 2, 2017 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, health care, Living the faith, Respect for life
“Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism …We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive.”
by admin | Jun 6, 2017 | Catholic social teaching, Economic justice, Faithful citizenship, From the Tiber to the James, Immigration, Living the faith, mercy, Norfolk, Respect for life
By Kevin Mauer, Associate Director The TSA agent who ushered me through security was a middle-aged woman, remarkably loquacious for 5:00 a.m. She was quick to note the lobbyist ID poking out of my wallet and asked whom I lobbied for. I was proud to answer, “The...
by admin | May 17, 2017 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, From the Tiber to the James, Living the faith
By Kevin Mauer, Associate Director There’s a saying that no one is converted by the Catechism. I don’t know about that, but I do know it’s not a stretch to say that I was reverted by the Compendium of Social Doctrine. I recommend it to any person of good will, but...
