Consumerism is deadly to a culture. It leads us to “shut out others” (Pope St. Paul VI) and “is a virus that tarnishes faith at its root”. (Pope Francis)
Culture Articles
Cultural Appropriation and Catholic Social Teaching
The difference between appreciating another culture and appropriating it is often defined by relationships of power where the dominant culture ‘tramples’ on the minority.
What is a Wholesome Culture?
Catholic social teaching makes a strong case that the culture in the United States is NOT wholesome.
Catholic social teaching makes a strong case that the culture in the United States is NOT wholesome.
Genuine freedom is not simply the ability to do whatever you want; it is the ability to choose the good.
“[P]olitics and economy cannot be reduced to mere technical know-how bereft of ideals and unconcerned with the transcendent dimension of man…” (Pope Francis, 10)
“Man remains above all a being who seeks the truth and strives to live in that truth…From this…the culture of a nation derives its character.” (Pope St. John Paul II, 51)
"By its very nature, pornography denies the genuine meaning of human sexuality". (Pope St. John Paul II, 2)
Social justice is what results when “associations or individuals…obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation.”
