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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Conservative Catholic Take on Social Justice

I ran across this blurb from an apparently conservative Catholic who was commenting on the Social Justice Teachings of the church. One of the things the author writes is:

To me that means that "social justice" as now understood is a denial of human dignity and a guarantee of tyranny and degradation. It means that men, families and communities don't make their lives, they get made for them by a central authority.
To be quite honest, I was completely unaware (and somewhat shocked, to tell the truth) that there is a strain of conservative Catholicism which interprets the Social Justice teachings of the Catholic Church in this way.

How does one respond to this?

posted by Huck at 10:39 PM