The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church is the only real, living, alternative to a world of unreality.
In the heavenly city, darkness and night are dispelled by the constant radiance of God. Our earthly cities have made a parody of this.
The meaning of identity is the question that now roils societies.
One is either of a people who forget or a people who remember.
I have been patronizing my dishwasher. I have been subsidizing its efforts.
Well, the pope has spoken. And the Church has lost its ever-loving mind.
Sovereignty is not merely a bad political ideal; it is simply, in the end, impossible.
We live in a disillusioned political age, one where old liberal arguments no longer have hold. Conservatism has moved into a right-wing politics which no longer sees the value of Christianity. Lost in an ostensibly equal mass, individuals have experienced a loss of identity. New developments in technology, and especially AI, present an existential threat to human agency. In our time (2025) and place (America), we need the social doctrine of the Church.
In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the latest New Polity magazine, Issue 6.1, and specifically the translation of Alberto Methol Ferré's striking essay "The Church, People Among the Peoples." Is the Church a visible people, or a people among the peoples? How does the Church overcome oppositions, universal-particular?
We strive to make as much of our content as possible free and easy to share. We hope you’re telling your friends about us. But you can help even more by donating to support the makers, writers, and thinkers that we work with to produce this excellent content.
Thank you in advance.
The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church is the only real, living, alternative to a world of unreality.