Commentary by Joe Hargrave

How John Locke Influenced Catholic Social Teaching
Locke and Leo XIII craft basic political arguments based on same assumptions.

Man vs. Nature?
A tendency to view human beings as a chief threat to the environment.

Catholics and the Tea Party Movement
The fight against moral corruption as a matter of preserving liberty.

Catholic Anti-Americanism
Is America incompatible with the Catholic Church?

Reform of the Reform
A development that all Catholics should be eager to participate in.

Forgive Us Our Isms
Almost everyone is guilty of something.

Practical Distributism - Looking at the CRA
A challenge to overcome the "market-plus-State" model.

A New Conservatism
Low priority assigned to moral issues may end up working to our advantage.

Why Catholics Should be Communitarians
True human freedom may yet flourish.

Abortion and the Consumer Society
Abortion will go away when the majority of Americans wants it to go away.

Catholic Social Teaching and the Welfare State
Distributism in the Aristotelian and Catholic tradition is the answer...

The Case for the Workers' Cooperative
The Church calls us to build a culture of life and serve the common good.