Justice University

Okay, we know exactly what you’re thinking.   What is this Catholic monarchic conspiracy video doing on the Just Third Way blog?   Well . . . everything, actually.   You see, it turns out that what Pope Pius XI called “the Reign of Christ the King didn’t really have anything to do with establishing monarchy, and is a natural law concept, not really religious, per se.   It seems that Pius XI was countering the socialist idea of heaven here on earth with a somewhat different notion. . . .

Yes, we realize that it’s so much easier to tell others what they’re doing wrong and demand that they do it right, but face it.   Do you think people really want to do things wrong?   Maybe it’s just that nobody bothered to tell them there’s a right way . . . our Just Third Way. . . .

Back in 1984, two representatives of the Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) testified before the Lay Commission on the Economy that attempted to advise the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on the draft of their pastoral on the economy.   Remarkably, not one word of what was said made its way into the final document. . . .

  From the Just Third Way perspective (i.e., natural law in the Aristotelian-Thomist tradition), as a religious event, the Second Vatican Council is of no relevance.   As an application of natural law principles to counter the “new things” of socialism, modernism, and esotericism, however, it is of great importance . . . especially given the way (in our opinion) it was diverted and used to advance the very things it was intended to counter.

As a follow-up to the previous video podcast on “the Act of Social Justice,” this week we bring you “Economic Justice for All.”   Note that although this podcast has the same title as the U.S. Bishops’ pastoral on the economy, it takes a slightly different — as well as more effective and respectful of human dignity — direction.