Our friend Tito Edwards has a new project that you might be interested in. I will let Tito tell you what he is up to.
I have assembled twelve bright, engaging, thoughtful, and faithful Catholics to blog on American politics from a Catholic perspective. This new blog is called American Catholic.
We hope to share our Catholic faith in the public square of politics and culture for the betterment of the common good.
I am personally contacting you all about this new development. Yes, there are some Catholic blogs/websites that cater to politics, but what separates us from them is the proficiency of our posts with fidelity to Catholic teaching. We hope (I want) to make a major impact in the public discussion of politics not only in the Catholic blogosphere, but in the Political blogosphere as well. We have answered the call from the Second Vatican Council to positively engage the world with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Show Tito and his colleagues your support in their new endeavor, visit American Catholic.
October 7, 2008 at 1:31 am
Not to be confused with this web site:
http://americancatholic.org/
October 7, 2008 at 2:48 pm
It's a great idea, and I wish them well, with one caveat.
This has the potential to be either a revolutionary idea, or one more really bad one. Most gropus who attempt to introduce Catholic values into the electoral conversation, are little more than lackeys for one political party or another. This election year is certainly no exception, and such attempts are usually obvious at first glance. In order for this to succeed, the contributors must go completely out of their way, to avoid so much as the appearance of partisan allegiance.
One reading of "Challenges of Justice, Peace-Making & Those People’s Endless Conflicts," and I'm just not sure. First of all, I can barely follow it. Second, to the degree that I can, it suggests that the USA is obliged to be the world's policeman. Assuming the world could use one, is that included in a soldier's pledge to defend the Constitution of the United States? Are pre-emptive measures in achieving that end ever justified? How has that worked out so far?
Oh, and one more thing. Have we figured out how we're going to pay for it yet?
October 7, 2008 at 3:19 pm
“Most gropus who attempt to introduce Catholic values…”
That should read “Most groups…”
October 16, 2008 at 8:57 am
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