Politics

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - There are, to be sure, passages in the document that will grate on the raw sensibilities of faithful Catholics who have felt the lash of Vatican rhetoric over the course of the past decade. Particularly on the issue of immigration—which American secular reporters quickly chose for their headline stories, Dilexi Te misses some crucial distinctions... Yes, both the Old Testament and the New warn believers that they, and the societies in which they live, will be judged on their treatment of strangers in need. But this apostolic exhortation, like so many recent Vatican pronouncements, makes short shrift of a society’s legitimate right to protect its own culture and enforce its own laws.

By Jeffrey Mirus, Catholic Culture - the Christian understanding of the human person has long since disappeared from the dominant cultures of our world today. The result is that no significant political, economic, or social barriers any longer stand in the way of the long series of cultural shifts in favor of ever-deeper human depravities—evil done in the name of good—which is both the ancient and the modern hallmark of diabolical influence. ...