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Killing for the Telephone Company

William T Cavanaugh urges Christians to resist the idolatry of treating the state as the solution to any social ill, and to embrace radical forms of political pluralism that privilege local communities…
29/09/2023
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The story in which we find ourselves

Alan Roxburgh explores what it means to be God’s people in the uncertainty of a change of era…
06/04/2023
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The Dignity of Labour

Jon Cruddas argues that the dignity of labour must be at the heart of a renewed politics of the common good, and therefore calls for UBI should be resisted.…
17/05/2021
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Social Justice and Evangelisation

Social doctrine is integral to evangelisation, a crucial part of the Church’s teaching…
26/05/2023
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Rethinking ‘Bias to the Poor’

On its 40th anniversary, a reappraisal of David Sheppard’s Bias to the Poor and its influence on the English Church…
05/04/2023
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A Synod for the World

A new formation for the new era, based around the Holy Spirit and the relationship between church, people and place…
13/02/2022
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A new formation, for a new era

A new formation for the new era, based around the Holy Spirit and the relationship between church, people and place…
21/11/2021
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The assault on humanity

Edward Hadas examines the non-medical effects of anti-Covid-19 lockdown policies through the lens of six of the key principles of Catholic Social Teaching…
12/12/2020
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The Common Good & the Metaphysics of Citizenship

“Common Good” was popularised by TH Green, an English philosopher, political radical and reformer, before it was introduced in Catholic Social Teaching.…
09/04/2022
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Covid and the Technocratic Paradigm

When technical thinking is allowed too much power, it slips into an anti-human technocratic paradigm – and this undermines the common good.…
18/11/2021

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