Justice University

No, really, this is about the Just Third Way.   Back in the early twentieth century, Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson published a satirical novel (that many people have mistaken for some kind of prophecy), lambasting the “new things” of socialism, modernism, and the New Age from a “Catholic” point of view.   Despite the overtly religious nature of the novel, however, it delivers a universal message about the dangers of shifting away from the human person to the abstraction of “humanity”:

One of the things that we discovered early on in the Global Justice Movement is that there are a lot of definitions of “social justice” floating around.   A frequent problem, then, is that we often get into arguments with people who insist that social justice means one thing, when we clearly mean something completely different. . . .

Oh, no!   Not another Catholic video podcast!   You’re right, it’s not . . . at least, not very much.   You’ll notice the clever way we inserted a discussion of how Catholic social teaching and the economic justice principles of Louis Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler come together in the Just Third Way of Economic Personalism. . . . Besides, we wrote the foreword and it's almost wholly Just Third Way:

Yet again it looks as if we’re not only getting explicitly religious here, but we’re picking on Pope Francis.   Neither assumption would be correct, however.   The fact is that Pope Francis’s recent encyclical contained some statements regarding private property that appear to be at variance with the natural law, and we want to make certain His Holiness gets a chance to explain them.   Then we can pick on him. . . .