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To: NYer

The title makes me suspicious; "voting for the common good". Like "Campaign for human development", it's too abstract. I hate "pc" sounding titles on anything.


12 posted on 09/30/2006 7:04:25 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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To: NewCenturions
The title makes me suspicious; "voting for the common good". Like "Campaign for human development", it's too abstract. I hate "pc" sounding titles on anything.

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Agreed. You may find this interesting, then:

About Us

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is a non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the fullness of the Catholic Social Tradition in the public square. Founded in 2004, our goal is to provide information to Catholics about Church social teaching as it relates to public participation in our society, and to advance the prophetic voice of the Catholic social tradition.

From its earliest inception, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good has served as an 'open-source' organization. As such, it works to build and support the Catholic social justice movement through communication, grassroots outreach and coordination. Catholics in Alliance is a resource for Catholics inspired by our faith's core teachings about justice, human life and dignity, peace, poverty and the common good.

Our Vision

We envision a society shaped by the values of justice, human dignity and the common good, where faithful American Catholics can embrace the fullness of the Church's social justice teachings when participating in democratic society.

As Catholics, we inherit a rich Catholic social tradition whose inspiration reaches well beyond our own faith community. The papal Encyclicals and letters that make up this tradition are based on Jesus' call to love one's neighbor and serve the least among us, and the Hebrew Scriptures' prophetic commitment to justice and righteousness.

Our Catholic tradition calls us to participate actively in public life in the service of human dignity, social justice and the common good. These teachings – to put community before self, principle before profit, and the public interest before political expediency – are central to our Catholic tradition. Catholics in Alliance is committed to creating the necessary conditions for a culture of life – a culture that reverences the life and dignity of the human person over greed and materialism, and over the politics of division.

The site:

http://thecatholicalliance.org/new/about-us/

13 posted on 09/30/2006 7:23:37 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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