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From the Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame, guess what? More trends

More trends for my research: Trends in U.S. Roman Catholic attitudes, beliefs, behavior

The busy Christian’s guide to Catholic social teaching. The title says it all.

Now, some Catholic Trends.

30 Small Business Trends

How many of us Catholics know about, much less support this? The NCCB official Legislative Program is a wide-ranging program of public policy positions that all Catholics should at least read and consider. Noone forces us to toe the line (few of us would anyway), they just ask us to understand where the Church is coming from. I give them that much. Actually, I agree with just about everything there anyway, especially the social justice agenda. Problem is in setting the priorities — Which of these issues do we tackle first? Most people go for the Pro-Life stuff (which I admit is important) but I tend to favor the social justice as a first priority. The proplems addressed by social justice solutions are usually a major root cause to many of the social ills Pro-Lifers fight against. Think Maslow’s needs and that pyramid hierarchy — we need to provide the bottom of the pyramid first.

But that may just be me.

Here is an excellent review of some work by Wendell Berry, one of my favorite poets and philosophers. Good stuff.