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Catholics and racism: from examination of conscience to examination of culture
… it comes to addressing a variety of social questions and often referred to as the church's "best-kept secret," began in 1891 with a papal encyclical about the plight of workers in Europe's …
St. Francis Univ Ethics Lecture
… of good will and good conscience can disagree, and disagree profoundly, as to which answer is best and, more importantly, which answers are even tolerable. That is my first point: American … long tradition of social teachings. Sometimes, this social teaching is called “the Church’s best kept secret.” It is time to let others in on the secret. In a word, the twin pillars of Catholic …
Vatican II priests still embrace council's model despite reversals
… liturgical reform and more. “Sometimes I think the Second Vatican Council is the church’s best-kept secret,” said Fr. David Pettingill, a retired priest of the San Francisco archdiocese …
Center works toward transformation
… Fr. James Hug A precursor to its database was the center’s Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret , by Edward DeBerri and Jesuit Fr. James Hug. First published in 1986, it has …
Religious men address issues of discipleship, service
… be doing in the social realm." At issue, he said, are "several unresolved questions about how best to serve the poor and to appeal to the powerful in order to implement the principles of … that will endear you to those sitting in the pews." Father Cassidy added, "It is true that the best kept secret of the church is its social teachings. The really sad thing is that we've kept it a …
Keeping the home fires burning
… Less frequently featured are the families of the deployed. Many quietly endure, making the best of a difficult and painful situation without their family member. The military has … hundred years, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas and its 95,000 members are the “church’s best kept secret,” according to executive director Peggy O’Brien. The oldest lay Catholic women’s …
Morning Briefing
… Dennis Coday … New website opens up Church's best kept secret … , bringing Catholic Social Teaching to life Opinion: … Losing faith in …
Foreign priests and the risk of plunder
… Kansas, population 1,500, where my 95-year-old grandmother is still going strong, isn’t the best place to spot cutting-edge trends -- we’re not talking about “Milan of the Great Plains.” In … Fans of the budding corpus of Catholic social teaching sometimes refer to it as the church’s “best-kept secret,” an indirect way of lamenting that recent Catholic teaching on the economy, war and …
2009: Out with the Old
… that virtually guarantee the outcome of the election. I know the districts in Connecticut best, and there is no way a Republican can win the first or third congressional districts in that … need much of an imagination when watching these horrific shows however, in which emotions best kept private are, instead, made the central part of the show’s plot. The banality of evil is …
'Putting flesh on God's activity in the world'
… Great Bend, while the farm is 13 miles west of town in nearby Rush County. “Some say we’re the best-kept secret in central Kansas,” said Dominican Sr. Renee Dreiling, Heartland Spirituality Center …
A gut check for American Catholicism
… authority," thus goes to show that Catholic social teaching may indeed be the church's "best-kept secret." Nobody familiar with it should have been surprised.) Crepaldi did point to one …
Preview of an encyclical
… reprises 'dictatorship of relativism' speech … Economic encyclical expands on church's 'best-kept secret' … A key to reading Benedict's social encyclical … Typing "Caritas in Veritate" …
In preview of new encyclical, Benedict reprises 'dictatorship of relativism' speech
… analysis from John Allen on the new encyclical, see: … Economic encyclical expands on church's 'best-kept secret' … .] In a passage evocative of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s famous “dictatorship …