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Lgbt Ministry And Catholic Social Teaching, Kenneth R. Overberg S.J.
Lgbt Ministry And Catholic Social Teaching, Kenneth R. Overberg S.J.
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Key themes of Catholic Social Teaching offer support, encouragement, and direction for those involved in LGBTQ+ ministry. Confronting discrimination and fostering dialogue and respect contribute not only to justice and human dignity but also to a culture of life.
Corrective Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Legacy Of Slavery And Jim Crow, David B. Lyons
Corrective Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Legacy Of Slavery And Jim Crow, David B. Lyons
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Chattel slavery was a brutally cruel, repressive, and exploitative system of racial subjugation. When it was abolished, the former slaveholders owed the freedmen compensation for the terrible wrongs of enslavement. Ex-slaves sought reparations, especially in the form of land, but few received any sort of recompense. The wrongs they suffered were never repaired.
No one alive today can be held accountable for the wrongs of chattel slavery, and those who might now be called upon to pay reparations were not even born until many decades after slavery ended. For some scholars, the lack of accountable parties makes current reparations claims …
Haymarket: Whose Name The Few Still Say With Tears, A Dramatization In Eleven Scenes, Michael E. Tigar
Haymarket: Whose Name The Few Still Say With Tears, A Dramatization In Eleven Scenes, Michael E. Tigar
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The Nature Of The Contract Argument, David B. Lyons
The Nature Of The Contract Argument, David B. Lyons
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As truth is the first virtue of belief, so justice is of social institutions. That is John Rawls's view, and it seems true, at any rate, of the law. Official acts, laws, and legal arrangements generally are characterized as just or unjust, while other moral categories are much less frequently invoked. Justice seems inseparable from good law. It is therefore striking and important that justice has recently been regarded by prominent legal theorists as rationally disreputable--as, in Kelsen's words, "an irrational idea." Many divergent conceptions of social justice have been propounded, and it is held that there is no rational …
On Formal Justice, David B. Lyons
On Formal Justice, David B. Lyons
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A number of legal and political theorists have suggested that public officials who fail to act within the law that they administer act unjustly. This does not mean that injustice is always likely to be done merely because it often happens to be done when officials depart from the law. Some writers have held that injustice is done whenever an official fails to act within the law, regardless of the circumstances. I shall call this type of view "formal justice."