RCST Is Inadequate

As it does not even give a proper exposition of all the Natural Law precepts relevant to political life. It is still easily appropriated by those who would abuse authority because of these lacunae.

Pope Francis told members of popular movements that Catholic social teaching has useful principles to help people of any faith improve the world. https://t.co/Im35fVYwyT

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) October 16, 2021

Latins Who Know Nothing About Political Limits

or bearing responsibility for their advocacy.

"We’re in a moment of history when displaced people need our help more than ever. More than 80 million people have been forced to flee their homes, the highest levels in recent history" https://t.co/zEoAuWsTu1

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) September 21, 2021

Imperial Benevolence

No thanks.

As it should be - what a lovely sight https://t.co/STCYAym2am

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) August 26, 2021

“It is not acceptable for a wealthy country to frame immigration policy exclusively in terms of ‘what benefits us.’ The wealth of the world has been given to the whole human race, and we owe the needy a share in it.”
—@sancrucensis https://t.co/2VTXA56bDC

— Plough Quarterly (@Plough) August 26, 2021

No Sense of Priorities

An Irish bishop is urging the Republic of Ireland to do more for refugees from Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover of the country.
https://t.co/vdgPS7yjiG

— Crux (@Crux) August 23, 2021

When You See Things from the Narrow Perspective of RC Social Teaching

Solidarity and subsidiarity: https://t.co/zXeES8mbuG

— Tradistae (@tradistae) June 25, 2021

Divini Illius Magistri and RC Social Teaching Are Wrong on This Point

Peter Kwasniewski:

First, the encyclical asserts and defends throughout the fundamental, inviolable right of parents to educate their own children (31ff.) and of the Church to educate the whole of mankind, especially those who are already her children by grace (15ff.). This right belongs naturally to the parents and supernaturally to the Church, and only by parental or ecclesiastical permission to the State or its officials.

One can understand this as an attempt to respond to the state and its abuse of power but taken as an absolute, it is wrong. The community (or the tribe) also has a right to educate the young, especially the males, and while parents are the primary teachers, they are not the only teachers, and there is no "delegation" of the exercise of this right to others -- they are exercising their own responsibility towards the young. The customs or laws that order behavior in a community or tribe, especially behavior towards others, are not determined by the family alone, but by the community (or its representatives), and parents aren't the only one with the authority to admonish or correct the young if the young fail to observe these laws. (Whether other adults have the authority to punish children or if this is delegated is a question worthy of attention.)

If there is someone in the tribe who is unqualified to teach, then he should not be teaching, but this is true of parents as well, and even more so. To accept a theologoumenon from a pope as if it is a part of Divine Tradition is a mistake but ultramontanist Latins, despite their intellectual manuevering on the "limits of infallibility" and "different levels of authority" still suffer from a slavishly uncritical attachment to papal opinions.

But He Won't Repudiate Feminism

The family is the harmonious union of the differences between man and woman, capable of opening themselves to life and to others. Let us #PrayTogether for families so that they might remain united throughout these difficult times and lend a hand to those in need. #DayofFamilies

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) May 15, 2021

Meanwhile...

This morning, #PopeFrancis met with John Kerry, Special Climate Envoy for the US Biden administration.

The private audience follows Kerry’s keynote address at a high-level Vatican conference on Friday, May 15, on the theme “Dreaming of a Better Restart.” https://t.co/D9WsGTqryC pic.twitter.com/UMOqI1tvjV

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) May 15, 2021

Taken Down... for Re-Editing?

In case you missed it, here’s the video of the panel with me and Dan Burns on “Catholics and the Political Common Good" at @UofDallas excellent conference on America, Liberalism, and Catholicism. Watch, and share! https://t.co/nSQ4X9cIUu via @YouTube

— Professor Pecknold (@ccpecknold) April 17, 2021

[Roman] Catholic Social Teaching Collection

Friends, this “Catholic Social Teaching Collection” aims to bring the both/and of the Church’s social teaching into sharp relief.

Its purpose is to reveal its metaphysical heart—namely, God.

Get your copy: https://t.co/9wjsQKyZmG pic.twitter.com/N90aRhjLer

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) March 25, 2021

All Statists are "Platonic"

even if they are clerics or Catholic "intellectuals."

Friends, in the political arena, the option for a Platonic rather than an Aristotelian framework has dangerous implications. Any political program that subordinates the individual to collective categories and ideals is dangerous.

Read my latest article: https://t.co/ZRv4SKJ97y

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) March 16, 2021

As if the US Government Cares about Reds

It will however subsidize blues and weaponized immigration.

"If any government can support the family in a robust manner, it is ours.”@gjpappin’s @AmerCompass debut. https://t.co/SoRPoVQ97D

— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) February 25, 2021

A More Humane Wage Slavery

Is Pope Francis Sympathetic to the Universal Basic Income Concept? | National Catholic Register https://t.co/p4GYi1gKDc @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) February 17, 2021

The Consequences of Bad Canon Law and Ecclesiology

The distortion of apostolic activity.

"When the Church speaks against violations of human rights, it is articulating her faith in the public square. From womb to tomb, humans have rights. Proclaiming that is more than prophetic. It is our existential identity,” Cardinal Bo told @PillarCatholic https://t.co/rMM7Y0inDJ

— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) February 11, 2021

"Universal Teacher" or Something

Cardinal Turkson said the Vatican doesn’t discuss salvation “in any group” because they’re multifaith. “It’s not to throw religion at them” but rather “takes the form of the Church’s social teaching... The objective isn’t to provoke everyone to conversion” https://t.co/X2zI8XvpfZ

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) February 10, 2021

Journalists Have to Earn a Living

No, because neither actually governs on its basis. Divided and conquered. https://t.co/es2RH3lt0e

— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) February 6, 2021

Great @FrancisXRocca essay, featuring John Carr, @Vermeullarmine, David Hollenbach, @McCormickProf @GibsonWrites @gehringdc @Peter_Wehner @MJGerson,
Yuval Levin, Bishop McElroy, & more
(& for more on the “common language” of CST, follow @GUcstpubliclife)https://t.co/fEREt6p4gV

— Kim Daniels (@KDaniels8) February 6, 2021

Sadly Cluless about Politike

Over the last many decades, the U.S. has accepted more refugees each year than the rest of the world combined. I am glad to see that US will be returning the refugee cap to its historic levels. This is a good decision. https://t.co/GoXg7bb3t9

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) February 5, 2021

Biden vows to allow more refugees into the United States https://t.co/zjOL9DQbwr via @CNBC @hannahmiao_

— FAIR (@FAIRImmigration) February 5, 2021

Meanwhile...

The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine https://t.co/2oBlALHGsk

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) February 5, 2021

Speaking Beyond His Competence

Democracy is the only light? Not at all.

Peace is possible. Peace is the only way. Democracy is the only light to that path. pic.twitter.com/kh1UYp24rq

— Cardinal Charles Bo (@CardinalMaungBo) February 3, 2021

We Can Guess What Their Position on Migration Is

Lat Am church weaves ‘seamless garment’ on COVID, abortion and migration, by @inesanma https://t.co/KojGeaeae8

— Crux (@Crux) February 1, 2021

And Now He Has Visited the Border, He Knows Better?

It didn't do anything for his understanding of the Natural Law or moral theology.

When Bishop Mark Seitz arrived to El Paso in 2013 he realized that most people don’t understand life on the United States-Mexico Border. Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Seitz acknowledges that he didn’t either.https://t.co/D4LoOi7koZ

— Crux (@Crux) January 30, 2021

Salazar's Portugal

https://t.co/DfyCJER5jb

If ‘integration from within’ is really possible, then what went wrong in Portugal?

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) January 22, 2021