Sensibility is the Definition of Life (G. K. Chesterton)
“Social justice” has taken on the status of an ideology in our culture. Adherence to this ideology allows us to commit (or participate in) any number of attrocities while remaining untroubled by our consciences.
Hope brings divine perspective to every event, act, word, thought of our lives. Hope purifies our every act, word, thought.
In the 2012 presidential election cycle one of the parties (need I name names?) continues to accuse the other of waging a war on women. However, there is a real war on women under way in our country, a war of many years duration and whose primary tools are lies and propaganda. “The current propaganda has been just as lethal to women and children in the US as anything that goes on in any country in Asia or Africa or Latin America. Any man (or woman) who encourages a woman to think that access to sterilization and abortion will make her equal to men, has rejected her womanhood, and therefore has rejected her as a real person.” (Sr. Anne Marie Walsh, SOLT)
Now I would like to write about an issue of prudential judgment. However, I believe the argument in favor of Romney in this case is just as clear, if not as imperative. If you care seriously about living authentic Catholic social teaching and social justice in the United States of America then you must vote for Mitt Romney.
The principle of gratuitousness lies at the heart of all understanding of man’s relationship with man and hence must underlie all discussion of the manner in which we create and execute those institutions and ideas that give form to man’s interconnectedness with man: families, communities, economic systems, systems of governance.