Columns

Sex, wokeness, and social justice

July 8, 2023 James Kalb 71

America and the whole Western world have just completed “Pride Month,” a string of observances celebrating all things LGBTQ. The message was that these things are normal and beneficial, a matter of choice and identity, […]

The Dispatch

Pacem in Terris after 60 years

April 19, 2023 George Weigel 12

On April 11, 1963, John XXIII issued the encyclical Pacem in Terris, a powerful call for a world in which there were neither victims nor executioners that cemented the pontiff’s reputation as “Good Pope John.”  […]

Features

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 Dispatch

Why we need a distribution of power

January 5, 2021 Bishop Robert Barron 19

A crucially important feature of Catholic social teaching, but one frequently underemphasized or misunderstood, is a clear animus against the concentration of power within a society. This perilous agglomeration can happen economically, politically, or culturally. […]