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Articles by Michael D. Greaney

About Michael D. Greaney

Michael D. Greaney is Director of Research for the interfaith Center for Economic and Social Justice in Arlington, Virginia. A CPA, he has a BBA from the University of Notre Dame and MBA from the University of Evansville, Indiana. He has written many books and articles on social justice issues and history. Most recently with Dawn K. Brohawn he co-authored The Greater Reset: Reclaiming Personal Sovereignty Under Natural Law (2022) from TAN Books.

“The Children of Disobedience”: America and the Second Great Awakening

October 29, 2022 Michael D. Greaney 17

Progressives and forward-looking elites pride themselves on being or becoming “woke.” In common with other advocates of supposedly new and improved products and ideas, however, contempt for anything other than their own opinions often leads […]

Is Rerum Novarum a Socialist Manifesto?

September 25, 2022 Michael D. Greaney 26

Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum, while not the first social encyclical, was still a revolutionary document, albeit within the bounds of natural law and the Magisterium. Previous social encyclicals, beginning with Mirari Vos […]

The road to Rerum Novarum and the evolution of Catholic social teaching

August 24, 2022 Michael D. Greaney 8

From the pontificate of Gregory XVI down to the present day, there has been an ongoing crisis precipitated by the advent of the “New Things” (rerum novarum) of socialism and modernism. Since 1832 and the […]

The story of the first social encyclical

July 19, 2022 Michael D. Greaney 24

In 1832, responding to drastic social, political, and economic changes spreading chaos throughout society, Pope Gregory XVI issued Mirari Vos, “On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism” — the first social encyclical. Previous encyclicals (letters by popes […]