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Agreeing & Disagreeing With Lester Thurow

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John C. Cort

Optimism of the Will

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John C. Cort

European Journal of an American Christian Socialist

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John C. Cort

Medjugorje: True or False?

Christ and Neighbor

John C. Cort

An Apostle of Black Fatherhood

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John C. Cort

If Not Communism or Capitalism, What?

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John C. Cort

Any ef­ficient democracy must operate on the princi­ple of subsidiarity, and this holds true in the economic as well as the political sphere.

The Gospel & Co-operatives

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John C. Cort

Abortion & Hell-Fire

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John C. Cort

Shame and Pride in Being "an American"

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John C. Cort

Report from the Holy land

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John C. Cort

Those Sad & Innocent Eyes

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John C. Cort

The Piper Must be Paid — and Other Bad News

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John C. Cort

You can’t go on forever piling up budget deficits, corporate indebtedness, trade deficits, Third World debt. We are living in a fool’s paradise.

Consensus: The Romantic's "Robert's"

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John C. Cort

The popular consensus method, like so much of modern life and culture, has its roots in 18th-century romanticism, and in Rousseau.

The Death of a "Catholic Atheist"

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John C. Cort

Michael Harrington was an eloquent, attractive leader and lucid thinker. Even those who disagreed with him found it almost impossible not to love him.

Behind the Tempting Grape

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Leonardo Boff, Harvey Cox & Liberation Theology

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John C.Cort

Two Kinds of Christian Radicalism in Nicaragua

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John C. Cort

An Odd Couple: Galbraith & Waugh

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John C. Cort

Although Waugh's opinions on almost every subject, including religion, appalled him, Galbraith could not stop himself from loving Waugh's style.

Corporate Worship, Christian Community & Social Action

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John C. Cort

Good congregational singing and good homilies are important to the quality of the church service. Protestants are way ahead of Catholics on these.

Democracy in the Catholic Church

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John C. Cort

Abortion & Last Month's Election

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John C. Cort

Fathers, Mothers, and Children

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John C. Cort

Shame on You, Harvard!

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John C. Cort

The Rich & the Miserable

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John C. Cort

Cafeteria Catholicism & the Pope's Encyclical

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John C. Cort

John Paul II's encyclical repeatedly stresses the fact that "the Church's social doctrine adopts a critical attitude towards both liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism."

Feeling Good About Greed?

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John C. Cort

Democracy in the Church & the Lay Apostolate

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John C. Cort

Homosexuality Again

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John C. Cort

A Religious Revival?

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John C. Cort

The Triumph of Lust

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John C. Cort

The Redistribution of Wealth: A Christian Imperative

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John C. Cort

Did Novak Intimidate the Bishops?

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John C. Cort

Neither Karl Marx Nor Adam Smith

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John C. Cort

The Sins of the Right & the Left

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John C. Cort

In decades past there was a reluctance on the part of Latin American Christians committed to “a preferential option for the poor" to criticize the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union & Gorki’s God

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John C. Cort

A people, such as the Russians, who have produced and who still honor writers like Gorki, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy deserve to be regarded with respect.

The Weak Shame the Strong

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The events of the Philippine Revolution of 1986 show that nonviolence, powered by prayer, can work and should be given every opportunity to work.

Base Communities

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A Critique of the Second Draft

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John C. Cort

The people of the USA are unwilling to make the right to a job a top priority and to get up the money to pay for it, even though they can easily afford to do so.

The Arrogance of the Columnist

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John C. Cort

There’s something about writing a column that leads to arrogance. The temptation is strong and few resist it.

Bad Things & Good People Revisited

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John C. Cort

Vertical religion and horizontal religion are parts of an integral whole. You go up by going sideways, and you go best sideways by focusing upward.

Billy Graham to the Rescue?

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I fantasize that some contemporary Nathan the Prophet might chat with the President, not about sins like adultery and murder but about social sins. I’m afraid a Catholic bishop would not be right for the part.

On Homosexuality

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John C. Cort

If churches change their stand on homosexuality, then they should also change their stand on premarital sex and extramarital sex, also known as adultery.

Bad Things & Good People

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Many cannot bring themselves to believe in Hell, which Christ tells us repeatedly (40 times) is an essential part of his religion.

The Rough Edges of Socialism

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John C. Cort

Contemporary socialism of the democratic, Western European form hasn’t yet eliminated all its sharp edges.

Is a Union Good or Bad?

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John C. Cort

Unionism is sim­ply the principle that human beings working to­gether may derive benefits from banding together in an organization, on the basis that “in union there is strength.”

Physician, Heal Thyself

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John C. Cort

A curious schizophrenia afflicts the corporate body of American Cath­olic institutions when it comes to the question of how to deal with a trade union.

Nicaragua & Neighborliness

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John C. Cort

The U.S. could have weaned Nicaragua away from the Soviets by the exercise of a little good neighborliness and the avoidance of a large amount of international immorality.

The Truth About the A.C.T.U.

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John C. Cort

The resistance of American workers to communist domination of their trade unions was based on something far more solid than anti-communist hysteria.

Did the Bishops Strike Out in Pawtucket?

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John C. Cort

A real difficulty with the bishops’ pastoral letter on the U.S. economy is the ignorance and apathy of both laity and clergy.

The Vatican & Liberation Theology

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John C. Cort

Liberation theologians, Catholic and Protestant but mostly Catholic, have been a major factor in struggling against poverty in Latin America.

Toward a More Christian Economy

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John C. Cort

America is ripe to accept the Christian-Catholic view of work and economics, once it fully learns to understand and appreciate it.

Beyond the Reefs of Roast Beef

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John C. Cort

Among the industrial nations of the West, only the U.S. has had no democratic socialist par­ty of national significance, nor a party to speak for the labor move­ment.

Drop the Creed?

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John C. Cort

I believe that there is room for the faithful doubters in the Catholic Church, but only so long as they can transcend their doubts and accept the Creed.

The Seamless Garment

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John C. Cort

How can good-hearted people, whose hearts bleed for peace and for poor people, not feel the excruciating pain of the child who is de­stroyed in the womb?

Considering the Lilies of the Field

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John C. Cort

Jesus promises that if we are anxious about others first, then we need not be anxious about ourselves, for all these things will be added unto us.

The Complete Samaritan

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John C. Cort

Justice is an essential ingredient of love; love is not complete unless — to switch the metaphor — it is built on a foundation for social justice.

The Relevance of Riches & Poverty

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John C. Cort

The question remains for us, how do we obey the precept, the commandment to share our superfluous goods with the poor?

A Turning Point in History

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John C. Cort

Back in the 1920s Pope Pius XI said, “The great scandal of the nineteenth century was that the Church lost the working class.”