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The Challenge of Applying Catholic Social Teaching, by James Kalb – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Challenge of Applying Catholic Social Teaching, by James Kalb

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Planes, Just war. Image: Kyle Fritz. Unsplash.com

By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, June 18, 2026

James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism (ISI Books, 2008), Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It (Angelico Press, 2013), and, most recently, The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church (Angelico Press, 2023).

It’s evident that Christianity has social and political aspects. But how does that work in a fallen, complicated, and dangerous world?

Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe.

He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, or fixed place of residence. He recommended the same to others and commented on the narrowness of the way that leads to life. And he called Satan “the prince of this world.”

It seems clear that Christianity isn’t primarily social or political, and it’s not surprising that clergy and religious are normally expected to refrain from marital, economic, and political involvements. Notwithstanding the universal call to holiness, there haven’t been many Catholics canonized for the way they carried on such things. …

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The Challenge of Applying Catholic Social Teaching, by James Kalb

From Augustine to Auschwitz: Why Just War Still Matters, by Edward Pentin

The Aching Heart of a Father, by Kevin Wells

By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, June 18, 2026

It’s evident that Christianity has social and political aspects. But how does that work in a fallen, complicated, and dangerous world?

Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe.

He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, or fixed place of residence. He recommended the same to others and commented on the narrowness of the way that leads to life. And he called Satan “the prince of this world.”

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