The Public Order and the Sacred Order : Contemporary Issues, Catholic Social Thought, and the Western and American Traditions.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART I: FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES -- CHAPTER 1: WHAT A SOUND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS INDICATES ARE THE PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD POLITICAL ORDER -- CHAPTER 2: PAPAL TEACHINGS ON THE FAMILY, THE STATE, AND THE SOCIAL QUESTION: A SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 3: THE NATURE OF A GOOD POLITICAL ORDER: REFLECTIONS OF GREAT THINKERS -- CHAPTER 4: THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF AND CONDITIONS FOR A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: THE VIEWS OF AMERICA'S FOUNDING ERA AND THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT -- PART II: CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS: ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE -- A. HUMAN LIFE ISSUES AND FAMILY ISSUES -- CHAPTER 5: THE LAW AND HISTORY OF ABORTION: THE U.S. SUPREME COURT REFUTED -- CHAPTER 6: NATURAL LAW, JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY, AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE ABORTION CULTURE -- CHAPTER 7: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: WHY IT IS NOT A DESIRABLE TACTIC FOR THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT -- CHAPTER 8: THE DEADLY PROBLEM OF THE LIVING WILL -- CHAPTER 9: A GRAVE THREAT TO THE FAMILY: AMERICAN LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY ON CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT -- B. CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS -- CHAPTER 10: OTHER SUPREME COURT AND THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE: THE LIKELY INFLUENCE OF SECULAR HUMANIST THOUGHT -- CHAPTER 11: SEPARATIONISM, ACCOMMODATIONISM, AND CHURCH-STATE ADJUDICATION IN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- CHAPTER 12: VATICAN II IN THE AMERICAN SECULAR PRESS: THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTING ON DIGNITATIS HUMANAE -- CHAPTER 13: PRESERVING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE CATHOLIC CONFESSIONAL STATE: A THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS -- C. ECONOMICS -- CHAPTER 14: MICHAEL NOVAK, CENTESIMUS ANNUS, AND PAPAL SOCIAL THOUGHT -- CHAPTER 15: CENTESIMUS ANNUS, THE CONTINUITY OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING, AND THE POSSIBILITIES AND PROBLEMS OF THE "THIRD WAY -- CHAPTER 16: SOLIDARISM, THE STATE, AND ECONOMIC LIFE: COMPARING PESCHIAN THOUGHT AND THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SITUATION -- D. EDUCATION.

CHAPTER 17: HIGHER EDUCATION IN A "DEMOCRACY OF WORTH": A PERSPECTIVE AND SOME PROPOSALS FOR RESTORATION -- CHAPTER 18: EDUCATION, TRUTH, AND THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY -- CHAPTER 19: CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING, THE INTEGRITY OF ACADEMIC LIFE, AND THE STRUCTURING OF THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY -- CHAPTER 20: A VISION AND CURRICULUM FOR A CATHOLIC LAW SCHOOL -- CHAPTER 21: A "TRADITIONAL INNOVATIVE" APPROACH TO CATHOLIC GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: A CATHOLIC TUTORIAL STUDY INSTITUTE -- CHAPTER 22: REFLECTIONS ON PRE-COLLEGE EDUCATION: FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE NEEDED -- CHAPTER 23: ADVICE TO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES AND EDUCATORS -- E. FREE SPEECH, PORNOGRAPHY, AND CENSORSHIP -- CHAPTER 24: THE REASONABLENESS AND REASONABLE APPLICATION OF CENSORSHIP AND THE RESTRAINT OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION -- F. HEALTH CARE -- CHAPTER 25: CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING AND HEALTH CARE -- CHAPTER 26: PARENTAL RIGHTS IN MINOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE DECISIONS -- G. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, FOREIGN POLICY, AND THE MILITARY -- CHAPTER 27: TOWARD A CATHOLIC-REALIST FRAMEWORK FOR INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL LIFE -- CHAPTER 28: A CATHOLIC-REALIST APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL LIFE: APPLICATION TO SELECTED CURRENT QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 29: BRIAN MITCHELL'S WOMEN IN THE MILITARY: TELLING THE TRUTH THAT NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR -- H. LAW AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION -- CHAPTER 30: RIGHTS, LIBERTIES, THE COMMON GOOD, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN LAW IN RECENT DECADES: HAS THE LEGAL PROFESSION FAILED IN ITS ETHICAL OBLIGATION TO IMPROVE THE LEGAL SYSTEM? -- I. LIBERALISM AND CONSERVATISM -- CHAPTER 31: THE NATURE OF LIBERALISM AND CONSERVATISM, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO AMERICAN CATHOLICS -- CHAPTER 32: THE RIGHTFUL ROLES OF GOVERNMENT: AMERICAN LIBERALISM AND CONSERVATISM COMPARED TO CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING.

CHAPTER 33: ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY: AMERICAN LIBERALISM AND CONSERVATISM COMPARED TO CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING -- CHAPTER 34: THE OLD LIBERALISM VERSUS THE NEW LIBERALISM: THE ISSUE OF COMMUNISM -- J. THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE THERAPEUTIC STATE -- CHAPTER 35: WHAT THE CATHOLIC FINDS WRONG WITH SECULAR SOCIAL SCIENCE -- CHAPTER 36: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL RELIGION AND THE THERAPEUTIC STATE -- PART III: REFLECTIONS ON THE RESTORATION OF CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA -- A. THE ROLE AND POWERS OF GOVERNMENT IN RESTORING AMERICAN POLITICS AND CULTURE -- CHAPTER 37: ABORTION AND NATIONAL POLICYMAKING: REFLECTIONS ON THE CONGRESS REVERSING THE RULE OF ROE V. WADE AND DOE V. BOLTON -- CHAPTER 38: THE NEW RECOURSE TO EXECUTIVE POWER: WEAPON OF THE CULTURE WARS -- CHAPTER 39: CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION, UNENUMERATED RIGHTS, AND THE NATURAL LAW -- B. PRINCIPLES FOR RESTORING SOUND CITIZENSHIP AND STATESMANSHIP -- CHAPTER 40: ABORTION, STATESMANSHIP, AND AMERICAN POLITICAL RELIGION -- CHAPTER 41: POPE LEO XIII AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON CITIZENSHIP AND STATESMANSHIP -- C. STRENGTHENING CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA -- CHAPTER 42: REJUVENATING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA: A PRELUDE TO REJUVENATING AMERICAN CULTURE -- CHAPTER 43: A "CIVILIZATION OF LOVE": BEGINNING WITH AND INCLUDING CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS -- D. THE REBUILDING OF AMERICAN POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS -- CHAPTER 44: THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY: SOME CONTEMPORARY APPLICATIONS -- CHAPTER 45: THOUGHTS ON BASIC QUESTIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND POLITICAL LIFE -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Quadragesimo Anno (On Reconstruction of the Social Order) -- 2: Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year) -- 3: Libertas Praestantissimum (On the Nature of Human Liberty) Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, June 20, 1888.

4: Aristotle, The Politics -- 5: Cicero, De re Publica -- 6: George Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States -- 7: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America -- 8: Robert R. Reilly, "The Truths They Held: The Christian and Natural Law Background to the American Constitution" -- 9: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) -- 10: Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973) -- 11: Abraham Lincoln, "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions" -- 12: Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925) -- 13: U.N. General Assembly, Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 14: Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947) -- 15: Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972) -- 16: Paul Kurtz and Edwin H. Wilson, Humanist Manifesto II -- 17: Dignitatis Humanae (Declaration on Religious Liberty) -- 18: Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957) -- 19: Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) -- 20: Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 78 (The Judiciary Department) -- 21: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address -- 22: Sen. Jesse Helms, Speech in the U.S. Senate -- 23: Orestes A. Brownson, "The Higher Law" -- About the Author.

This book evaluates a range of contemporary social and political questions in light of Catholic social teaching, philosophy, great political thinkers, and America's founding tradition. It is a strong and focused defense of traditional Catholic approaches to the questions of our time, and the vast array of material covered makes this book an invaluable reference for anyone interested in contemporary politics.

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